Chinese exports and imports soared in July, official data showed Friday, as the manufacturing powerhouse benefits from a global AI boom lifting overseas demand for its tech products.

Brent crude futures settled at $83.55 a barrel

The world's second-largest economy last year achieved a historic trade surplus of nearly $1.2 trillion

The world's largest economy lost 23,000 jobs in July

US President Donald Trump’s administration has refunded about $100 billion in tariffs since the Supreme Court struck down a wave of his duties this year, court filings show.

Gold rose for a fourth session on Thursday and touched its highest level in seven weeks, helped by a softer dollar, while market participants assessed the chances of the Strait of Hormuz reopening.

The government has given in-principle approval to directly procure eight cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to meet emergency domestic energy needs.

Australian high commissioner calls on Bangladesh’s commerce minister

Two cargoes each will be procured from four international companies: Blackcube International Ltd (UK), Global Fuel Supplies Pte Ltd (Australia), Plentitude Energy Sdn Bhd (Malaysia) and Maxwell International SPC (Oman)

For the single month of June 2026, exports from Bangladesh to the US were $763.57 million, up 5.74 percent compared with June last year

Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir today asked all relevant government agencies and stakeholders to submit written feedback on the draft "Gold Policy 2018 (Revised) 2026" by August 9

UPI, one of the world's largest real-time payments networks, processed 23.6 billion transactions worth 29.9 trillion rupees ($313.5 billion) in July

Brent crude futures fell 33 cents, or 0.42 percent, to $79.12 a barrel

The refunds went to importers that had paid the duties

US job openings dropped in June as vacancies in the healthcare and social assistance sector declined by the most in nearly a year, but an improvement in hiring and low layoffs suggested the labor market remained stable.

Gold rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday to a one-month high as hopes of a US-Iran peace deal tempered some inflation concerns, while investors awaited key US jobs data for clues on the Federal Reserve’s policy path.

The Indian rupee rose to its highest level in a month on Wednesday, buoyed by lower oil prices and a weaker dollar, while forward premiums dropped ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s policy decision.

The US trade deficit narrowed slightly in June, government data showed on Tuesday, with both imports and exports contracting over the month before.

India’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged on Wednesday as it waits to see whether volatile oil prices caused by the Iran war feed wider inflationary pressures.

The world is on the verge of another bout of food inflation as wars in Iran and Ukraine along ​with El Nino create a perfect storm of higher costs and lower crop yields, the chief economist of the ‌United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said.