台湾加权指数8月28日（周五）收盘上涨356.23点，涨幅0.77%，报46331.45点。

Foreign media reports and newly unsealed court filings and testimony show Rupert Murdoch has long sought to recombine Fox Corporation and News Corp and may pursue a future merger. In 2022 Murdoch, then chairman of both companies after splitting them less than 10 years earlier, drafted a letter to both boards saying the family trust would not "support any sale, merger or similar transaction involving parties other than the two companies." When a representative for his daughter Elisabeth questioned the plan, Murdoch allegedly texted: "If necessary, I'll push it through." A prior merger attempt failed amid investor opposition; June court proceedings indicate he may try again. At a hearing on whether to unseal testimony, Lachlan Murdoch's lawyer argued merger-related discussion should remain sealed or redacted because "this could still happen in the future and would open a new chapter."

France's finance minister said France's GDP data reflect the impact of a "bad summer", and harvests in some regions will be very difficult.