Oil prices were nearly flat in early Asia trade on Thursday, following the previous day's gains and steep monthly rises, as investors assessed the outcome of US-Iran peace talks and the outlook for Middle East crude exports.

Bank of America's Merrill Lynch unit will pay $39 million to settle a class action claiming it paid brokerage customers near-zero interest ‌rates instead of market rates on idle cash in their retirement accounts.

The White House is considering regulatory relief that would expand sales of red-dyed diesel, a tax-exempt fuel typically used for farming, as prices surge following supply disruptions linked to the US conflict with Iran, Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and declining global inventories.

A Panamanian government commission on Wednesday recommended opening formal negotiations with First Quantum Minerals to set conditions to reopen the shuttered Cobre Panama mine, one of the world's largest open-pit copper deposits.

Micron Technology forecast quarterly revenue above estimates on Wednesday and said customers had increased commitments under its long-term supply agreements to $32 billion, signaling unabated demand for AI memory chips.

Nearly a third of Anthropic's IPO prospectus is devoted to a variety of risk factors.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on Wednesday said she is committed to bringing inflation down without harming the labor market in remarks that ‌only briefly touched on monetary policy and did not address the latest inflation data.

Synopsys , a maker of software used in designing computing chips, said on Wednesday that it has struck a deal to share revenue with OpenAI as the two develop an AI model for the chip ‌business.

The head of the US Transportation Department said on Wednesday that he wants to speed certification of new airplanes from Boeing and other manufacturers, citing competition concerns from China.

Alphabet's Google has asked an EU court to suspend EU regulators' order to open up its trove of search data to ‌OpenAI and rival search engines as it steps up its fight against landmark rules aimed at reining in the power of Big Tech.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday that a framework for coordinated action to combat excess steel capacity will be released at a Group of 20 trade ministers meeting this week, as countries seek to counter a flood of cheap Chinese production.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he does not currently see any safety concern stemming from a software ‌issue involving the Boeing 737 MAX fleet.

Ford CEO Jim Farley said a supplier issue that affected F-150 pickup-truck output in recent days has ‌been resolved, but the snag has impacted the company’s third-quarter wholesale numbers.

General Mills on Wednesday appointed Chief Operating Officer Dana McNabb as its CEO, leaning on an insider to steer the ‌company through a difficult environment of high inflation, low consumer spending and private labels eroding branded goods' market share.

Starbucks' strained relationship with its US union is facing fresh scrutiny from a shareholder proposal filed Friday by New York City's comptroller that has not previously been disclosed.

The Federal Trade Commission is conducting an industry-wide probe into Anthropic, OpenAI ‌and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers, a senior FTC official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Caterpillar said on Wednesday it plans to invest about $1 billion in North Carolina to expand manufacturing capacity for ‌its compact equipment business amid rising customer demand.

The US trade deficit in goods widened sharply in August amid a surge in imports, suggesting that trade ‌could remain a drag economic growth in the third quarter.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Wednesday raised its long-term revenue growth forecast for its networking business, driven by the AI boom and announced a $1.2 billion order to provide AMD server racks ‌to cloud firm Vultr.

BMW is holding a two-day capital markets event to brief investors about the premium carmaker's strategy, the first for new CEO Milan Nedeljkovic, who took over in May.