“Apple and Cook face one of their most challenging growth periods in the company’s history with weak iPhone sales in China being the ‘albatross around its neck’ showing no signs of abating over the next few quarters, a dynamic that will be an overhang on the stock for the next 6 to 9 months with the China trade talks adding to the agita for investors,” Wedbush Securities analysts Daniel Ives and Strecker Backe wrote in a research note.

Nestle, Golden Wing Mau Asia, Treasury Wine Estates, Toyota Motor, Michelin, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Cainiao Albatross, Sanofi, Takeda, and doTERRA were among the latest exhibitors to sign up for the expo, which is scheduled to take place at the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from Nov 5 to 10.

Autoflight Aviation Technology Co Ltd unveiled its newest large-sized cargo drone V400 "Albatross" at the 4th Drone World Congress in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, in September, and the model is expected to carry out its maiden flight by the end of this year.