South Korea’s Samsung Group and SK Group are poised to announce as much as 2,000 trillion won ($1.3 trillion) of investments over the next decade as part of President Lee Jae Myung’s flagship industrial strategy, Korea Economic Daily reported Monday.

China, India, and Hong Kong have emerged as the only major stock markets worldwide where top companies account for a smaller share of market capitalization than a year ago, underscoring their lag in the global AI race.

Some animators believe AI will make films better. Others believe it will bring costs down.

RBC BlueBay Asset Management remains bullish on Japanese AI-related stocks, expecting the rally to extend into 2027, while trimming near-term risk ahead of a potential slowdown in July and August.

Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a US opioid crisis.

Oil rose after a report that the US and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, following a flare-up that saw a supertanker carrying Qatari crude hit near the Strait of Hormuz.

US equity-index futures climbed after reports that the US and Iran backed away from a fresh escalation that had threatened the fragile ceasefire underpinning peace talks.

The world’s biggest public investors plan to shift more capital into private and less liquid assets amid rising risks to their traditional bond-and-stock portfolios, according to an industry survey.

Wall Street banks are capitulating on bets for a stronger euro, as markets see the US outpacing Europe on interest-rate hikes for the rest of this year.

The three biggest foreign banks in Indonesia have shipped around $640 million of their earnings out of Southeast Asia’s largest economy since 2024 as they pare exposure amid President Prabowo Subianto’s increasingly state-focused economic policies.