Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said the Venezuela oil agreement is a first step to spur further development.

BOC Governor Macklem said the central bank sees limited evidence that price pressures are broadening.

In Cairo on Sept. 2, China's President Xi held talks with Egyptian President Sisi. Xi outlined five priorities: deepen mutual political support and sustain high-level exchanges; advance mutually beneficial cooperation and align development strategies to unlock projects in infrastructure, power, agriculture and telecommunications and expand new cooperation in green energy, electric vehicles, aerospace, digital economy and modern agricultural technology; broaden people-to-people exchanges in culture, education, science, health and sports to increase travel and ties; strengthen security cooperation to combat transnational crime, deepen anti-corruption cooperation and support each other’s counter‑terrorism efforts; and step up multilateral coordination at the UN and BRICS, advance China–Arab and China–Africa cooperation, and oppose unilateralism.