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📢 GMF special - AI and the Next Global Growth Divide, October 2026 lseg.group/3KFHrhe 🔗 The Reuters Global Markets Forum brings together a special series of interviews with economists, investors and technologists grappling with AI's real-world impact.
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White House has urged European Union to draw down diesel emergency inventories in bid to lower global prices- Sources to @Reuters
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⚡Reserve Bank of Australia hikes by 25 basis points to 4.60% in unanimous decision
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💰 Hong Kong lists 8 ETFs to tap Chinese demand for overseas assets The ETFs offering exposure to South Korean chipmakers, US tech firms and Malaysian large caps debuted in HK on Monday.
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China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips – The Information
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🛢️Goldman Sachs on U.S. diesel export ban: As long as storage capacity remained available, each week of ban would🔻avg. US retail prices by 25 cents/gallon, or under 4% from current $6.50/gallon. Once storage is full, each week to see $0.3/gallon ⬆️ on retail gasoline prices
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Each week of a ban would raise European wholesale diesel prices by $3/bbl, or just under 2% However, European SPR diesel releases might offset about half of the price increase
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💰U.S. and China have agreed to reduce tariffs on $30 billion of goods and launch a dialogue on AI - both countries said following President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington.
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The two sides agreed to hold a dialogue on AI's risks and benefits; next round of talks set for November; to set up a communication channel for AI-related incidents
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Tariff reductions would apply to US exports such as agricultural goods, wood and cosmetics, as well as U.S. imports including small appliances, toys, decorations
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🛢️WTI logged an 8% decline last week on concerns that U.S. may ban diesel exports to ease record prices which could curb US refining output
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=> U.S. refiners could cut their crude runs by as much as 12% if diesel exports are banned; key storage hubs likely to fill up within a month- analysts => WTI traded as much as $12.02/bbl under Brent futures on Thursday, their largest discount since May 6- LSEG data
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Trump rejected Iranian proposal to open Strait of Hormuz and end fighting
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Oil prices rise: Brent ⬆️ 2% at $106.45/bbl and WTI ⬆️ 1.3% at $93.60/bbl
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Brent🔻over 1% to $105.48/bbl WTI🔻nearly 2% at $92.82/bbl
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💴 Japanese FinMin Katayama says Trump voiced concern over weak yen in summit with Takaichi USD/JPY🔻0.3% at 158.42
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"In light of this meeting, Treasury Secretary (Scott) Bessent and I will continue to communicate closely on a range of matters, including foreign exchange." - Katayama
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"At the recent Japan-U.S. summit meeting, President Trump expressed concern about the yen's weakness. Takaichi told him, as a general principle, that an undervalued yen is problematic." - Katayama
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Asian bonds extend global selloff: - Japan's 10-year government bond yields ⬆️ 4 bps to 3.115%, the highest since 1996 - Australia's 10-year government bond yields ⬆️ 4 bps to 5.408%
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"Once risk-free rates sit above 5% in the world's largest economy, every asset on the planet has to justify its price against that. Equities, property, private credit, emerging market debt - nothing's immune." - Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group
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