PRE-MARKET TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE STOCKS NEWS: ASUS (2357 TT) partnered with Poesis on autonomous trading agents powered by NVIDIA technologies

Pre-market regional wraps of this kind rarely reprice anything on their own; the tradable content sits in the individual items, and the desk pattern is to separate the idiosyncratic from the thematic.

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PRE-MARKET TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE STOCKS NEWS: ASUS (2357 TT) partnered with Poesis on autonomous trading agents powered by NVIDIA technologies

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TAIWAN

ASUS (2357 TT) - Co. partnered with Poesis on autonomous trading agents powered by NVIDIA technologies and launched the Ascent QN10, an 80-TOPS AI mini PC powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite platform. (Windows Central)

Wiwynn (6669 TT) - Co. said US capacity is expected to account for about 20% of total production capacity next year after a new Texas production line enters volume production in Q2. (Taipei Times)

Tech Nasdaq 100 outperformed during US trade as markets reversed the post-FOMC moves amid a Fed credibility boost and lower oil prices.

Other News

Taiwan's central bank kept its policy rate unchanged at 2.00%, as expected (prev. 2.00%). Taiwan Central Bank Governor said there is still time to observe developments and that monetary policy has remained relatively tight since 2024, helping stabilise domestic prices and anchor inflation expectations.

SINGAPORE

Addvalue Technologies (ADDV SP) - Co. clarified shareholder concerns regarding financial transparency and strategic investor involvement surrounding the proposed Nasdaq spin-off listing of its wholly owned subsidiary Addvalue Solutions ahead of its Sep 24 EGM. (Business Times)

Banyan Group (BANY SP) - Co. entered a strategic partnership with Newmark Hotels & Reserves and acquired a majority stake in Newmark under a phased ownership structure leading to full ownership over time. (Business Times)

City Developments (CIT SP) - Co. will release the outcome of its strategic review before trading hours on Sep 28, after previously saying it was looking to revamp its strategy and better articulate its value to investors. (Business Times)

Multi-Chem (MCH SP) - Co. said its CEO, COO and two senior employees have been interviewed by Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. (Business Times)

Context

The ASUS item is of the routine AI-partnership genre, where announcements citing NVIDIA or edge-AI hardware have historically moved the named stock briefly and the supply-chain peer set only when the tie-up implies incremental silicon orders rather than marketing alignment. Wiwynn's US capacity disclosure is the more structurally relevant line, fitting the established pattern of Taiwanese ODMs localising server production for US hyperscaler customers, a sequence that has tended to support the AI-server basket over time rather than on the print. The central bank hold, delivered as expected with a 'still time to observe' framing, is the standard small-open-economy wait-and-see stance and historically anchors front-end rates without repricing the path unless the tone shifts. In Singapore, the items split cleanly: a governance flag on the CPIB interviews at Multi-Chem is the kind of headline that has tended to gap the stock until the scope is clarified, while the City Developments strategic-review outcome is a scheduled catalyst, the sort where outcome matters and the announcement date does not.

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