Hedge funds are stepping up purchases of legal claims tied to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, after political opposition to the deals lost steam

Oil prices rose on Wednesday as the market weighed supply constraints from a storm heading for US oil-producing regions and attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia against increased supplies of Middle East crude.

Gold miner Perseus Mining sees strong merger and acquisition activity across the sector but expects dealmaking to remain difficult as companies struggle to agree on valuations amid volatile bullion prices, its chief executive said.

Welspun secures a $1.8 billion order to supply pipes from its US manufacturing facility, the largest single contract in the company’s history, strengthening its presence in the North American energy infrastructure market

Colombia partially resumed coffee exports through Buenaventura port, on the country’s the Pacific coast, after the earthquake, according to the Gustavo Gómez, head of the country’s coffee exporters association, Asoexport

Copper is pouring into the US at the fastest rate in at least 12 years as traders position ahead of President Donald Trump’s decision on tariffs on refined imports

#Southafrica: SA’s R18bn trade surplus surprised — but it may not stick

The South African rand strengthened in early trading on Monday, recovering some of last week's losses as a pause in hostilities between the United States and Iran triggered a sharp decline in oil prices and improved market sentiment.

#Japanese stocks and bonds set to rise as US-Iran conflict remains in a lull – oil prices fall

Some American experts believe #China may have found a way to produce millions of the advanced chips it needs to catch up in the race for AI supremacy.