The chief executive of the company that sells the training hardware says artificial general intelligence has been reached, while the model itself triggered a security lockdown.
Seven core OPEC+ members left October quotas unchanged from September levels, the first pause after a run of monthly increases, while Wall Street forecasts for crude diverge sharply.
Markets price a 75% chance the Bank of Japan raises rates on 18 September, and the yen has recovered to its strongest level since late February.
China announced a capital injection into eight state-owned banks and insurers, reported variously as 360 billion yuan, $54 billion and $45 billion.
August employment came in at 162,000 against a forecast of 56,000, sharpening a debate inside the Federal Reserve that a hot CPI print later this week could settle.
The chief executive who sells the training hardware declared the race over days after OpenAI shipped its GPT-6 Astra model.
CENTCOM destroyed one tanker and disabled two others after Iranian missiles were fired at two US warships.
Markets fully price a quarter-point increase from the European Central Bank this week, with futures already leaning toward another move by December.
Shipping data show the fewest daily transits of the Strait of Hormuz since May, while Gulf exporters build alternative routes and US consumers absorb a rising fuel cost.
An Australian builder’s failure and a near-zero markdown on a US retail fund loan are testing an asset class that grew through a decade without a default cycle.
Washington and Tehran attacked each other’s vessels over the weekend, and Iran says it will declare a restricted maritime zone around the Strait of Hormuz within days.
The Ministry of Finance is leading a recapitalisation worth about 54 billion dollars across the country’s largest state lenders and insurers.
The canal’s administrator says daily transits could fall to 27 from the current reduced 32, while better-than-expected water levels have pushed a planned draft cut back again.
Seven core members held targets steady on Sunday as the war around Hormuz, not cartel policy, sets the supply picture.
Traders are pricing better than even odds of a US rate rise on 15 to 16 September while the Fed’s own officials disagree in public.
The August employment report came in near three times the consensus forecast and pushed market expectations toward a Fed rate rise.
A payroll print of 162,000 has revived rate-hike expectations, even as the Fed’s own officials pull in different directions ahead of the August CPI report.
The far-right Alternative for Germany took 44% in a state election, leaving it within reach of leading a German state government for the first time since the Second World War.
A sidechain of the Bitcoin network says $320 million was withdrawn in a hack, days after a Tether-backed Chilean exchange shut down over a custody shortfall.
The Treasury secretary says Iran has 30 million barrels left to sell and that crude falls once the conflict ends.
The Dutch central bank has moved 86 tonnes to London and France has brought its entire official holding home.
A second increase would take the deposit rate to 2.50 per cent and confirm the euro area as the most hawkish of the major central banks.
Beijing’s finance ministry will issue special treasury bonds to inject capital into eight state-owned financial institutions, with the headline figure reported at $54 billion.
Ursula von der Leyen announced a partnership package for Greenland in Nuuk on the same weekend the US president posted maps showing the American flag over Canada, Mexico and the island.
OpenAI’s newest model launch prompted Nvidia’s chief executive to declare that artificial general intelligence has arrived, and moved memory chip shares in Seoul.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner made their first wartime visit to the Ukrainian capital after meeting Vladimir Putin, reporting substantive progress but agreeing nothing.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says a restricted zone outside the Strait of Hormuz will be declared within days, after American strikes on three Iranian vessels.
Federal interest payments have reached $1.25 trillion a year, and the Treasury’s response in the bond market is being described as financial repression.
Japan’s currency reached its strongest level in seven months on Monday, driven by expectations of faster tightening and by open pressure from Washington on the yen’s valuation.
Indian refiners filled the gap on the eastern route into Europe as Russian and US flows fell away.
Ottawa’s retaliatory tariffs came into force overnight as President Trump told Bombardier it cannot sell in the United States unless it builds there.
Eurostat lifted its estimate of second-quarter euro-area growth just as the European Central Bank prepares a rate decision against three-year-high inflation.
Ilya Espino de Marotta took charge of the waterway on Monday as low water restricts transits and the fix for it remains five years out.
Retaliatory duties of up to 50 per cent land this week, and the first cheque is written by the Canadian importer.
The stablecoin issuer holds more than $122 billion in Treasury bills and wants a larger place in the government’s funding.
Abu Dhabi says its energy exports will not be held hostage by the Iran war and is constructing alternative trade and energy corridors.