Japan intervenes to defend yen and warns of further action over Golden WeekAxios:Trump received briefing on plans for possible military action against IranASEAN...

Axios reporter Barak Ravid:CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper and the chairman of the joint chiefs General Dan Caine briefed President Trump for 45 minutes t...

ASEAN economic ministers warn Middle East war threatens regional energy security and growth. Strait of Hormuz carries ~25% of global seaborne oil and LNG; over ...

Japan April manufacturing PMI 55.1 vs 51.6 in March, best since January 2022. Output fastest since Feb 2014 but driven by stockpiling. Supply delays worst in 15...

Australia April manufacturing PMI 51.3 vs 49.8 in March, but headline flatters. Input costs fastest in 4 years, supply delays worst since July 2022. Output, new...

ANZ-Roy Morgan NZ Consumer Confidence fell 11pts to 80.3 in April, a three-year low, down 20pts in two months. Inflation expectations jump to 6.6%. Personal fin...

China begins 5 days of holidays today, back on May 6. From Japan we get Tokyo area CPI for April. I'll have more to come on this separately. Yen traders will be...

Japan intervened in the FX market -- reportTrump: Iran is dying to make a deal with usUS initial jobless claims 189K vs 215K estimateUS Q1 advance GDP +2.0% vs ...

I don't know how seriously you can take these kinds of comments. Iran in very bad shapeReiterates that they obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilitiesIran cannot b...

This is a strange one:Al-Arabiya cites a Channel 12 report, which is an Israeli TV station but says that Israel is preparing to announce the failure of negotiat...

The S&P 500 has extended today's gain to 38 points, or 0.5%. It has been 13 points lower at the lows as the market digests five big earnings reports from la...

I often write that the industrial revolution was the biggest thing to happen in human history but we might be re-writing history right now.I want to underscore ...