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

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).

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.

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

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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.

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But this framework will first need to be approved by leaders in Washington and Beijing

In its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects report, the bank lowered its forecasts for nearly 70% of all economies — including the US, China and Europe, as well as six emerging market regions — from the levels it projected just six months ago before US President Donald Trump took office.