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Global bond and currency investors are debating if it’s time to dust off last year’s ‘Sell America’ trade after a flurry of economic-policy decisions out of Washington over the past two weeks.

Gold touches seven-week high on Strait of Hormuz reopening hopes Reuters

China’s main steel-industry group called for greater use of yuan-denominated index pricing in the iron ore market, saying such a shift would better reflect supply and demand in the top user of the commodity.

Iran said it had reached an agreement with Oman on a proposed route for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a potential step toward a reopening of the critical waterway for energy supplies. Bloomberg's Abeer Abu Omar has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)

The Failed Iran war should spur a long-overdue withdrawal.

And where Trump went wrong.

Getting a company to implement recommended changes is a contact sport that only humans can play

The group’s shares have quadrupled, but it has yet to prove itself a serious manufacturing competitor to Taiwan’s TSMC

Nigel Farage has spent the summer arguing with a trashcan. For a time it seemed that the hard-right populist’s attempt to distract from a sleaze scandal by calling an unnecessary special election in his English seaside constituency of Clacton would become a national joke.

Extent of ties revealed as scrutiny grows of US tech company’s contract to build new data platform