US Central Command has options ready for renewed strikes if the White House authorises them, while Iranian officials threaten Israel, US forces and the undersea cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz.
The central bank, opposition leaders and leading economists have rejected the prime minister’s suggestion that cryptocurrency could protect Israel from possible international sanctions.
The North Korean leader paid tribute to Chinese Korean War dead and met senior Chinese officials in a one-day visit read in Seoul as a message to Washington ahead of Trump’s expected trip.
As Brazilians choose between Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, an investigation says two US State Department officials led an effort to return the right-wing family to power.
Russia has proposed a three-way meeting on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in China, drawing comparisons to Yalta from Ukrainian critics and leaving Beijing in an unusual position.
The Treasury Secretary’s claim of recovering supply sits alongside Brent prices between $112 and $117, which Goldman Sachs and other analysts attribute to Middle East tensions and a war-risk premium.
The former Bank of England chief economist called bank tax plans ‘penny wise, pound foolish’ days before the Budget, which will lift funding for affordable homes to more than £40bn.
Disclosed guarantees tie two of the largest AI companies to data-centre leases and neocloud capacity, as analysts estimate CoreWeave may need tens of billions more in financing.
Reported figures put Anthropic’s first-half sales far above an earlier $1.1 billion and its listing target at roughly double its latest private valuation, while the wider IPO market waits for its S-1.
The US military says more than 95% of ships now pass Hormuz safely, while shipping monitors and regional reports describe a strait that remains severely disrupted.
Democrats want the defence secretary to testify, and one senior House member wants subpoenas for Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk, over who ordered the limits on Ukraine’s satellite service.
The US president ruled out a Sunday attack while Qatar’s mediators began a US-coordinated effort in Tehran, and Iran said it shot down an American drone over Bandar Abbas.
Voting in Brazil’s presidential runoff was extended on Sunday in a knife-edge contest that will decide whether Latin America’s largest economy moves further to the right.
Malaysia’s prime minister says the SoftBank founder plans a $50 billion outlay on AI and data centres, a pledge that lands as SoftBank leans on bond markets to fund its OpenAI stake.
Canada’s central bank decides on Wednesday, the same day the Federal Reserve is expected to hold, in a week when the Fed, the ECB and the Bank of Japan are set for a hawkish pause.
The White House says talks with Canada have picked up, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in contact with Canadian counterparts all week, days after Trump eased some tariffs on Canadian goods.
The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee wants to tax data centres more heavily and strip them of federal tax breaks, as local governments move to pause or ban new facilities.
Junk-bond spreads have widened and issuers have pulled the most deals of the year, while SoftBank’s $11 billion high-yield sale at up to 9.75% shows the price of funding AI spending.
China has called on the US Treasury to stop its proposed restrictions on American investment in Chinese technology, which now reach into biotechnology, and has threatened to retaliate.
Meta’s board has rewritten the company’s capital structure in a deal tied to Mark Zuckerberg staying in California, just as the state’s voters decide on what supporters call the world’s first tax on billionaires.