On the 6th (local time), more than 10 members of Iran’s delegation to the 2026 U.S.-Canada-Mexico World Cup—including administrative staff and Iranian Football Federation officials—were denied U.S. visas. The White House said a day earlier that all Iran national team players had been granted visas.

Strong U.S. employment data boosted Fed rate-hike expectations and pressured gold, which erased its year-to-date gains. In the U.S. session, spot gold fell about 3.5% and broke below $4320/oz. U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar both rose. A tight labor market leaves Fed officials room to tighten further, while Middle East tensions lifted energy prices. Rising rates typically weigh on non-yielding precious metals.

Sources say tech investor Sriram Krishnan, the architect of the Trump administration’s pro-industry AI policy, plans to leave the White House at month-end to found an external organization aimed at influencing technology policy. Krishnan helped design the administration’s AI Action Plan, which proposed easing regulation of new technologies and accelerating a nationwide data-center buildout, and he assisted in drafting an executive order to limit state-level AI regulation. But advanced models such as Anthropic’s Mythos have shown the ability to find software security vulnerabilities, raising senior government concerns about cyberattack risk and prompting some officials to reassess the administration’s deregulatory course.