Agentic trading is a technology for investing through an artificial intelligence assistant that can analyze, research and execute buy/sell actions in an active account, where every transaction requires final user confirmation.

AI coding agents allow finance teams to build solutions without needing an engineering background, as they only need to define the logic and desired outputs, while the AI writes the code, tests it and connects it to relevant data sources.

US President Donald Trump paused the planned rollout of new tariffs on Canadian goods late Tuesday, after negotiations between both countries that went down to the wire.

US, Japanese, German and French borrowing costs are at their highest levels in years or decades as debt levels in developed countries look increasingly unsustainable.

From displacement to success, Maluku-born Richard Waery details how education and a scholarship opportunity opened numerous doors for him. His is a story of resilience and proof that one opportunity can change the course of a lifetime.

Moody's has published estimates that last summer's European heatwaves cost 43 billion euros (US$50 billion) in lost economic output while generating only about 500 million euros of insured payouts.

Bond yields climbed on Tuesday to their highest in decades, with oil prices rising for a third day, while stocks gave up early gains in Asian trade as a US-Iran truce expired and Tehran threatened to adopt a "fully offensive" military posture.

Iran called on the United States to accept defeat while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as "very evil" and told Americans to brace for continued high fuel prices as a result of the war.

Asian stocks rose on Friday, poised for their strongest week in two months as benign inflation data dented expectations of an imminent US rate hike, although faltering talks to end the war in the Middle East are likely to keep risk sentiment in check.