Rainfall fell below average last week across most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa-growing regions, with Daloa recording 3.6 mm, 26.1 mm under the norm. Farmers said the dry conditions could threaten the development of small pods to be harvested next year during the September-to-February main crop. They warned the situation could become alarming if the dry spell lasts until mid-October, according to Reuters. Weekly temperatures ranged from 25.6 to 29.7 degrees Celsius.

U.S. stock index futures climbed on Monday, with Dow futures up about 0.7% and S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also higher. Oil fell to an 11-day low, with Brent at $101.2 a barrel, down 2.6%, and the WTI October contract at $97.80, down 2.5%. Investors are watching an upcoming meeting between U.S. and Chinese leaders while continuing to digest last week’s Federal Reserve rate hike.

Rothschild & Co said it is losing patience with the pace of the turnaround at Flutter’s FanDuel and cut its price target to $119 from $169. The firm said FanDuel has reduced guidance four straight times, most recently lowering its 2026 EBITDA midpoint forecast by 22%. It described 2026 as another “transitional year” and said the turnaround is likely to take longer than anticipated. Flutter shares are down 58% in 2026.

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has made its flagship open-source model, Kimi K3, available on Amazon Web Services’ Amazon Bedrock platform for building generative AI applications. The model is offered under revised commercial licensing terms that require payment if a hosting provider’s annual revenue exceeds US$20 million. AWS has said its AI business has surpassed a US$25 billion annual revenue run rate, putting the partnership in focus as a test of monetizing Chinese open models through third-party cloud platforms.

Ennis Inc. reported fiscal second-quarter net income of $9.4 million, or 37 cents per share. Revenue for the period was $102 million. The figures were part of a routine earnings release and did not include any information on performance versus expectations or forward guidance.

India’s Sensex and Nifty rose sharply at 2:11 pm, with the Sensex up 0.87% to 74,944 and the Nifty gaining 0.47% to 23,455. Brent crude fell 2.25% to $101.53 a barrel and WTI slid 2.19% to $98.10, easing pressure on India’s import costs.

US equity funds saw a fourth consecutive week of net outflows in the week ended September 18, with investors pulling $31.44 billion. The withdrawals were driven by rising oil prices, inflation concerns and expectations of further Federal Reserve rate hikes. Broad-market funds faced heavy redemptions, while sector funds attracted inflows and bond-fund inflows slowed.

Global mined copper supply faces a risk of falling in 2026. Chile, the largest copper-producing country, is expected to see output drop 6.5% in the first half of 2026, while Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo are projected to cut a combined 600,000 tonnes—nearly 2.5% of global supply. Copper prices have risen more than 45% over the past year as demand in China remains strong, with the Yangshan copper premium reaching its highest level since November 2022.