US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Wednesday called for G20 major economies to refrain from coercive actions on food trade, tackle industrial overcapacity and re-examine the prevailing post-World War Two tariff system.

Factory activity across Asia expanded in September thanks to the global AI ‌boom, private surveys showed on Thursday, offering some relief to policymakers who are concerned about nagging cost pressures attributable to the US-Israeli war on Iran.

AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian government website, an AI research firm said on Wednesday.

Asian stocks were subdued on Thursday and global bonds remained under pressure after a brutal September as investors weighed a slower-than-expected rise in US inflation in August that lessens the probability of a rate hike later this month.

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.

The dollar held near a two-month high on Thursday, supported by an extended rise in US Treasury yields partly driven by concerns over persistent global price pressures ‌stemming from the Middle East war.

South Korea has been ordered to pay Elliott Investment Management about $48.49 million plus interest after an arbitration tribunal ruled the government's involvement in the 2015 merger of Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries ‌was causally linked to the US fund's losses, Seoul's Justice Ministry said on Thursday.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said on Wednesday that he expects the central bank to raise rates again depending ‌on how the economy performs, amid a very necessary effort to bring inflation back to target.

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.

US stocks gyrated on Wednesday, caught in the tug-of-war of mixed signals.

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.

The two US senators backing a permanent legislative ban on Chinese vehicles in the US will not seek approval until the Senate returns from recess in November, congressional aides said ‌Wednesday.

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.

Alphabet's Google on Wednesday announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model to anchor its Gemini 4 generation of models in a fresh bid ‌to catch up to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI in the AI race.

The US securities regulator on Wednesday charged Meyer Global Management and its CEO Owen Meyer over the private fund adviser's ‌schemes that allegedly took advantage of retail investors seeking exposure to SpaceX and other pre-IPO shares.

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

A US judge entered an order on Wednesday allowing Paramount to ‌close its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros , ending a months-long holdup, as the company named Mattel's Ynon Kreiz as co-CEO to help run the combined business.

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.