"We will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any branded or patented pharmaceutical product"

As ChatGPT nears its third birthday, at least one in 10 retail investors is using a chatbot to pick stocks, fuelling a boom in the robo-advisory market, but even fans say it is a high-risk strategy that cannot replace traditional advisors just yet.

Thapanee Kiatphaibool, governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), said the Thai baht has appreciated by 7.24 percent since the beginning of the year, rising from 34.23 to the US dollar in January 2025 to 31.75 in September.

The United States expects to finalise trade deals with more Southeast Asian countries in the coming months, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said during a meeting with regional counterparts on Wednesday.

A report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) warns that recent changes in US tariff policy have had a significant impact on Asean economies, with total exports to the US projected to fall by as much as 9.7 percent. The heaviest losses are expected for export-driven economies such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

US President Donald Trump hailed on Friday a call with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, claiming a deal to sell blockbuster app TikTok could be a “formality” and saying he would visit China, which gave a more cautious assessment of their talks.

The drive is part of the most ambitious effort to expand US maritime influence since the 1970s

Old-fashioned barter is on the rise in Russia's foreign trade for the first time since the 1990s

US consumer inflation rose last month to its highest level since January, government data showed Thursday, although analysts believe that this will not deter the central bank from an interest rate cut next week.

Group of Seven nations’ finance ministers discussed in a call on Friday further sanctions on Russia and possible tariffs on countries that they consider “enabling” its war in Ukraine, as the US called on its allies to impose tariffs on purchasers of Russian oil.

Trump also said he would be speaking with Modi "in the upcoming weeks," and Modi in response said he was "looking forward" to it.

Trump has spent his first seven months in office building up massive tariff increases to reorder the global trading system

Japan pledged Friday to invest $68 billion in India during a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tokyo, as the two countries agreed to deepen security ties.

Nvidia and artificial intelligence are practically synonymous. Its class-leading chips are essential: the more efficiently they can crunch bits, the better or cheaper models from the likes of OpenAI or Anthropic can run.

Exporters hit by tariffs would receive financial assistance and be encouraged to diversify to markets such as China, Latin America and the Middle East

However, disputes between banks and fintechs have fueled doubts about the future of open banking.

Southeast Asia's second-largest economy is heavily reliant on international trade

The current round of negotiations for the proposed bilateral trade agreement is now likely to be deferred to another date

Oil prices closed down nearly $1 on Friday as traders awaited talks between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, which could lead to an easing of the sanctions imposed on Moscow over the war in Ukraine.

US retail sales rose moderately in July, according to data released Friday, as markets monitor tariffs that do not so far appear to have significantly battered consumers.