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Nigeria's crude output averaged 1.53 million barrels per day in May 2026, edging above its 1.5 million bpd OPEC quota for the first time this year as tighter pipeline security curbed the theft that had crippled production.
Qatari and Pakistani mediators shuttled between US and Iranian delegations in Doha on July 1 and 2, 2026, reporting positive progress on Strait of Hormuz shipping and frozen assets while the harder nuclear question waited.
15 to 20 million mourners are expected along a 10-kilometer Tehran route on July 6, four months after Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint US-Israeli strike, in what officials call Iran's largest state funeral.
Bloomberg data published July 2 shows Asia Pacific M&A volume topped $750 billion in the first half of 2026, up 30 percent year on year, powered by Toyota's record $43 billion take-private buyout.
Ceara state is hosting more than US$37 billion of ByteDance investment for a wind-powered data center campus at Brazil's Pecem port, TikTok's largest computing hub outside China, with the first hall due online by late 2027.
Tokyo's currency defense has collapsed: the yen sits near 162 per dollar, its weakest mark since 1986, leaving the Bank of Japan's July 31 meeting as the market's last credible test.
1,560 per dollar was breached in overnight trading, driving the Korean won to its weakest level since March 2009 as foreign stock selling, Middle East tensions, and a resurgent US dollar batter South Korea's currency.
Beijing has resumed buying US soybeans and both governments are negotiating a tariff rollback to lock in the 2025 Trump-Xi truce, yet volumes still trail the 25-million-ton annual pledge by half.
74 missiles and 496 drones slammed Kyiv overnight on July 2, 2026, killing at least 25 people across every district of the capital, with the toll climbing toward 30 as rescuers dug through collapsed apartment blocks.
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Blackstone's sandwich chain heads to the NYSE at a targeted $12 billion valuation, with a prospectus detailing payments to the founder's relatives before public investors arrive.
Sam Altman pitches Trump officials on donating 5% of OpenAI equity to a citizen dividend fund, a move with heavy consequences for the company's eventual IPO.
The EU Court of Justice has rejected Google's last appeal against its 4.1 billion euro Android penalty, cementing a precedent that will shape platform enforcement for years.
