Boeing forecasts global fleet nearly doubles by 2044; emerging markets drive growth

Fed to hold rates amid Trump pressure, tariff uncertainty, monitoring jobs, inflation

Middle East war, US protests amplify investor unease, market volatility.

Oil prices soared and stocks sank Friday after Israel launched strikes on Iran, prompting retaliation from Tehran and stoking fears of a full-blown war.

Oil market participants have switched to dreading a shortage in fuel from focusing on impending oversupply in just two days this week.

US gold futures settled 1.5 percent higher at $3,452.80

US consumer sentiment rose in June despite Mideast turmoil and economic concerns

Major indices spent the entire session in the red as investors shunned risk ahead of the weekend

Nippon's acquisition of US Steel was held up by former president Joe Biden, who blocked it in his last weeks in the White House on national security grounds.

Oil prices soared by more than 8% to $75 a barrel on Friday on the news

The dollar continued to lose market share as the world’s dominant currency last year but mostly smaller rivals and gold benefited rather than the euro, an ECB report showed on Wednesday.

Myanmar’s economy is set to shrink 2.5 percent in the 2025/26 financial year, largely as a result of March’s devastating magnitude-7.7 earthquake, the World Bank said on Thursday.

Shares of planemaker Boeing fell 8 percent in premarket US trading on Thursday after an Air India aircraft with 242 people crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

Vietnam is ready to further open its market and offer additional incentives for US exports, and hopes for corresponding steps from the US side, Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyễn Hồng Diên told Senator Roger Marshall at their meeting in Washington DC on June 11 (local time).

Asian shares fell as Trump renewed tariff threats and Mideast tensions grew.

US consumer inflation edged up in May as Trump tariffs ripple; Fed eyes impact

Vietnam has sought to enlist major US garment companies including Gap and Levi Strauss as it tries to head off President Donald Trump’s threatened 46 percent trade tariff.

Shares in Zara owner Inditex fell Wednesday after the world’s biggest fashion retailer posted disappointing first quarter sales as concerns mount over US President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Top officials from the United States and China said Tuesday that they had agreed on a “framework” to move forward on trade, following two days of high-level talks in London to resolve tensions.

The chief adviser takes part in a talk at Chatham House, an independent think-tank based in London,