Spot gold briefly fell below $4,550/oz, the weakest since Aug. 21.

The U.S. Treasury said it plans to suspend a UAE-based branch of an Egyptian bank from access to the U.S. financial system.

Russia's defence ministry said on the 27th its forces struck Ukrainian defence-industrial sites, logistics nodes, ports and vessels, destroying a tanker and two fuel storage tanks at Izmail port in Odesa region and seven military equipment warehouses. The ministry said the tanker was docked at Izmail and had been transporting fuel to Ukrainian forces; it also struck a Kyiv-region plant that makes ground reconnaissance-and-strike remote-controlled systems and a logistics site storing various UAVs.