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Trading Day: What war? Chip-led rally helps markets ignore on-again, off-again US-Iran truce Reuters

The yuan advanced after China’s central bank signaled its comfort with the currency’s strength by setting the daily reference rate below 6.80 per dollar for the first time since 2023.

Japan’s long-term bond yields fell and the yen strengthened after Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the government wants to encourage pension funds, including the Government Pension Investment Fund, to increase investment in domestic financial assets.

Copper was on track for its second straight weekly gain as investors looked past potential demand headwinds presented by the mid-week resurgence in fighting in the Middle East.

Some strategists see a boost to assets, while others were sceptical of a sustained rally, following Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama’s comments Friday encouraging pension funds, including the massive Government Pension Investment Fund, to increase investment in domestic financial assets. Here’s wha

Short dollar forward positions ballooned to $106.7 billion in May.

As betrayals go, South Africa turning its back on the African continent is particularly brutal. Between 1960 and 1994, when South Africa’s liberation movements were banned and leaders like Nelson Mandela were imprisoned by the apartheid government, other African countries established camps and schoo

In Knightsbridge’s Montpelier Square, property prices have tumbled from a decade ago as foreign buyers look elsewhere

The attorney-general nominee’s journey from a white-collar New York law firm to the centre of the administration

FRC is scrutinising allegations of financial misreporting at London landmark development