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📢 GMF special - AI and the Next Global Growth Divide, October 2026
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The Reuters Global Markets Forum brings together a special series of interviews with economists, investors and technologists grappling with AI's real-world impact.
White House has urged European Union to draw down diesel emergency inventories in bid to lower global prices- Sources to @Reuters
💰 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.
🛢️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
💰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.
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
🛢️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
💴 Japanese FinMin Katayama says Trump voiced concern over weak yen in summit with Takaichi
USD/JPY🔻0.3% at 158.42
"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
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%



