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15.7%

The 5-day percentage gain in the Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 Index of mainland Chinese shares in U.S. dollar terms from Monday through Friday of last week. This was the benchmark’s strongest five-day return since December 2014 and the fifth-largest in its 22-year history. A set of stimulus measures last week intended to boost liquidity, relieve pressure on the country’s depressed property market, and promote stock buying drove the rally. The Chinese stock market has been in a bear market for over three years.

$3 billion

Year-to-date bookings categorized by IT consultancy and services provider Accenture (ACN) as “GenAI,” or related to helping its clients organize and prepare data for artificial intelligence workloads. Through the first three quarters of the year, ACN has converted $900 million of these GenAI bookings into revenue. Although a small percentage of the company’s revenue base, it is beginning to be seen by analysts as a meaningful growth driver amid a weak environment for traditional strategic consulting services.