Iran parliament speaker Ghalibaf said he will provide $12 bln to Iran's central bank to fund its global procurement of required goods at any price and in any currency. He called the arrangement feasible and said related procedures are underway.

GME energy and commodities data platform reports Oman crude's August official selling price calculated at $79.09/bbl, down $22.91 from $102/bbl in July.

Goldman Sachs analysts Timothy Moe and John Kwon say a 1 percentage-point increase in the combined weight of Samsung and SK Hynix in Korea’s benchmark equity index could prompt roughly $2 billion of foreign selling, citing US Investment Company Act diversification thresholds. GS warns that heavy inflows into leveraged ETFs, rising options activity and increased retail margin usage have created structural liquidity fragility that can produce daily price moves well beyond corporate fundamentals. Korea’s asset-management growth since last year has been driven mainly by investment returns rather than new inflows, increasing mechanical institutional exposures often tied to hedges; even a modest market pullback could therefore trigger cascades of forced selling.