Top Financial Stories Monday, September 12: Netflix Collaborates With Assassin''s Creed Maker, Gun Sales Could Soon Be Tracked Via Payment Processors, Xi Jinping To Meet Vladimir Putin In First Foreign Trip And More... Bloomberg Tesla, Nio Supplier CATL''s Chinese Rival Eyes $2B Hong Kong IPO Chinese battery maker CALB Co., a rival to companies like Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd. (CATL) and Warren Buffett -backed BYD Co. (OTC: BYDDF ), has started gauging investor demand for its $2 billion Hong Kong initial public offering. The Jiangsu-based lithium battery maker will analyze the demand for its shares from September 12 to September 22, per terms of the deal obtained by Bloomberg. Wall Street Journal Deere Invests Billions In Self-Driving Tractors, Smart Crop Sprayers After conquering the farm industry hardware, Deere Co (NYSE: DE ) aims to extend its dominance to software to boost the productivity of those machines and agriculture. Deere is rolling out self-driving tractors capable of plowing fields and sprayers that distinguish weeds from crops. Deere, which helped make satellite-guided tractors universal in the U.S. Farm Belt over the past two decades, invested billions of dollars in developing more innovative machines to boost farming productivity.