Brent crude futures retreated from a six-month high on Monday after Iranian officials and Qatari mediators held talks for a third day aimed at brokering an agreement to end US and Israeli military action against Iran. Ponmudi R, CEO of brokerage platform Enrich Money, said the discussions have raised hopes of a breakthrough that could ease supply concerns and improve the global energy outlook.

沙特民防部门表示，艾卜哈（Abha）和海米斯穆谢特（Khamis Mushait）地区的危险已经解除。

Brookfield has appointed KB Kookmin Bank as lead arranger on South Korea's largest syndicated loan to date: a 10.7 trillion-won (about $8.0bn) facility to finance NAVER's purchase of AI compute infrastructure, including GPUs. The loan is part of a broader 12.6 trillion-won financing package; the chips will be supplied to NAVER Cloud under long-term lease arrangements. The transaction, described as Korea's first large-scale GPU financing, underscores Asian banks and private credit funds expanding AI financing beyond data centre builds to cover compute hardware.