China has told Washington it will drop this month’s leaders’ meeting if new weapons sales to Taiwan are approved, putting the main channel for trade and technology bargaining at risk.
United States Central Command puts the tally at 100 vessels rerouted over 60 days and says no ship has passed without permission, turning a wartime measure into a standing cost on Gulf trade.
The chief executive called the present an ill-advised moment to go public, tying the delay to alignment work rather than to market conditions.
Iranian state media and a British navy-affiliated monitor both report a fresh attack inside the Gulf’s main oil chokepoint, with the accounts diverging on timing, casualties and blame.
The European Central Bank president signalled that energy-driven inflation is not fading quickly, days after the bank raised rates for the second time since the Iran war began.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the payments need congressional approval, contradicting the administration’s claim that it can send them on its own.
Futures markets have all but settled the Wednesday decision; the open question is how many increases follow, and Chair Kevin Warsh has said little to guide the answer.
The strategist put a level on it: crude above 120 dollars would drain liquidity, in a week when stocks rose on the prospect of a Federal Reserve rate rise.
South Korea’s industry minister returned from New York without a signature, but the first project under the tariff settlement is set to be announced this week.
Futures positioning flipped bullish on the yen for the first time since February, days before a Bank of Japan meeting markets expect to deliver another increase.
Xi Jinping used the summit’s final day to propose a wider bloc, an open-source AI community and a larger role for emerging economies.
The token’s supply has passed $2.4 billion as Ripple aims it at company cash management rather than trading.
A day after the largest labs asked for a slower pace, the president dismissed the warnings and restated that the United States must outpace Beijing.
The bank’s commodities team raised its outlook on the view that markets are pricing a prolonged conflict, even as the International Energy Agency points to demand destruction.
Rate-setters meet on Thursday after a bond sell-off that has already pushed UK borrowing costs sharply higher.
Gulf diplomats and Iranian officials meet in Oman on a temporary shipping lane through the strait, and the United States is not at the table.
Accounts from several outlets describe a faction that fired on shipping in defiance of Iran’s president and its Revolutionary Guard chief.
The president denied plans to withdraw from the North American trade pact even as tariffs on Canadian goods stay in place.
A procedural vote on Tuesday will show whether the market-structure bill dividing SEC and CFTC authority can clear the Senate.
The lab says it spent eight months tracking and disrupting state-linked misuse of its models.
The cabinet officer closest to the oil market is warning that the chokepoint premium will not come off soon.
The Netherlands and France have moved bullion home or to London, and Spain is weighing the same question.
The president’s public request ties a Ukrainian war aim directly to the price of refined fuel.
Wartime industrial powers are being considered for an oil-refining system that reporting describes as maxed out.