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Indonesian stocks plunge 11% as MSCI proposes emerging market downgrade

Euronews /

Also: Bloomberg Why Indonesia Risks Being Removed From MSCI’s Global Indexes, Financial Times MSCI warns it may cut Indonesia from main indices, The New York Times Indonesian Stocks Plunge as MSCI Threatens to Drop Market from Indexes, The Wall Street Journal Indonesian Stocks Dive as MSCI Weighs Downgrade to Standalone Market · see all

In other languages: Jornal de Negócios Bolsa da Indonésia teve a pior queda em 28 anos. Despromoção da MSCI explica tombo (pt), Expansión MSCI excluye a Indonesia de sus índices y desata un desplome del 11% (es), Cinco Días La Bolsa de Indonesia se desploma más del 10% ante el riesgo de exclusión del proveedor de índices MSCI (es), Handelsblatt Südostasien: MSCI droht Indonesien mit Index-Rauswurf – Börse verliert heftig (de) · see all

  1. Taiwan to Curb AI Chip Exports to China as Part of US Trade Deal

    Tom Giles / Bloomberg /

    Also: MercoPress The Falklands dispute threatens Argentina’s bid to join the trans-Pacific trade pact, Semafor Taipei restricts China chip sales to appease the US

    In other languages: Dagens industri Taiwan ska skärpa exportkontrollen av AI-chip (sv)

  2. Warsh Vows Price Stability as A.I. Delivers ‘Shock’ to Economy

    Patricia Cohen / The New York Times /

    Also: Bloomberg Fed's Warsh Says AI Will Change Monetary Policy Conduct, The National World Bank sets fivefold minerals goal as Fed chairman Warsh flags financial stability risks, Euronews Fed’s Warsh sees AI boosting productivity but gives no signal on next rate hike, Financial Times Dollar weakens as Fed’s Warsh declines to hint at October rate rise · see all

    In other languages: Le Figaro Essor de l’IA : «Le changement le plus déterminant» pour l'économie mondiale actuelle pour le patron de la Fed (fr), Le Temps Le patron de la Fed voit dans l'IA le «changement le plus déterminant» de sa vie pour l'économie mondiale (fr), Jornal de Negócios Presidente da Fed diz que IA vai mudar "fundamentalmente" o trabalho dos bancos centrais (pt), Handelsblatt US-Notenbank: Fed-Chef Warsh preist „enorme Investitionswelle“ bei KI und gibt Investoren neue Zuversicht (de) · see all

  3. Trump throws Putin another lifeline with diesel deal

    Iker Seisdedos García and Ignacio Fariza / El País /

    Also: The New York Times Why Trump Made a Diesel Deal With Putin

    In other languages: Het Financieele Dagblad Na Trumps dieseldeal en de Starlinkstoring lopen spanningen tussen VS en Oekraïne verder op (nl)

  4. Western open-weight models still can’t beat China

    Rina Chandran / Rest of World /

    Also: Sifted Are open-weight AI models safe?

    In other languages: Dagens industri Daniel Ek och Nvidias vd slår ett slag för öppna AI-modeller (sv)

  5. Houthi strikes expose Saudi Arabia's vulnerabilities

    Mohammed Sergie / Semafor /

  6. The data centre IPO debacle that sparked a market meltdown

    Financial Times /

    In other languages: Dagens Næringsliv Nscale-senter med forsinkelser, inkassokrav og manglende regnskap (no)

  7. AI infrastructure debt costs soar amid investor concerns

    Prashant Rao / Semafor /

    Also: The National Manus on Markets: AI cloud companies face a $8.5 trillion debt challenge

  8. Bank of Japan Must Ensure Underlying Inflation Doesn’t Go Above 2%, Ueda Says

    Peter Landers / The Wall Street Journal /

    Also: Bloomberg Ueda ‘Can’t Tolerate’ Underlying Inflation Further Over 2%

  9. Congo Basin deforestation nears Amazon levels

    Ruben Nyanguila / Semafor /

  10. China Warns EU Not to Underestimate Ability to Fight on Trade

    Foster Wong / Bloomberg /

  11. Zelenskyy warns 20M Ukrainians could flee to Europe if Russia wins war

    Sebastian Starcevic / POLITICO Europe /

  12. China Proposes Export Controls on AI Models, Chips and Agents

    Nectar Gan / Bloomberg /

    Also: The Wall Street Journal China Proposes Export Controls on AI Technologies

  13. Can Lufthansa’s TAP takeover challenge Air France-KLM in Africa?

    Salimata Koné / The Africa Report /

    In other languages: Jornal de Negócios Lufthansa dá pela TAP tanto quanto a Air France-KLM vale em bolsa (pt)

  14. India's forex reserves shed $60 billion in six weeks as RBI steps in to support rupee, one of Asia's worst-performing currencies this year

    The Economic Times /

  15. Uruguay signs a US$5.7 billion data centre investment with Spain’s Solaria

    MercoPress /

    Also: bne IntelliNews Spain’s Solaria to invest $5.7bn in Uruguay data centres

  16. Starlink spectrum deal piles Elon Musk’s plate ever higher

    Financial Times /

  17. Turkey and Morocco Lead Fuel Supplies to Russia as Seaborne Imports Fall 44%

    Kyiv Post /

  18. Hezbollah Tells the Lebanese Government It Wants Its Explosives Back

    Omar Abdel-Baqui / The Wall Street Journal /

  19. Millions of Ukrainians Could Flee Again This Winter: UN

    Kyiv Post /

  20. 800 million jobs at risk over 15 years? World Bank's Ajay Banga calls for global financing overhaul

    Mint /

  21. The once-obscure tech at the heart of the green energy trade war

    Financial Times /

  22. Ethiopia’s Abiy names new Tigray government, wants polls in six months

    Daily Maverick /

  23. The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax

    Dara Kerr / The Guardian /

  24. Romanian Institutions Bought Banned Russian Cybersecurity Software

    OCCRP /

Earlier today

  1. EU leaders’ summit descends into 3-hour argument over taxing car emissions

    Ben Makuch / POLITICO Europe /

  2. Anthropic Stands Alone as Rest of US IPO Market Slows to a Crawl

    Anthony Hughes and Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg /

  3. FirstFT: Healey signals tax raid on banks in UK Budget

    Financial Times /

  4. Ukraine Strikes Russian Refinery After Moscow Breaks Trump’s Energy Ceasefire

    Anastasiia Malenko / The Wall Street Journal /

  5. Unicredit cleared by ECB to take control of Commerzbank

    Euronews /