‼️ 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called his meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng “successful” ahead of the Sept. 24 Trump–Xi summit, noting agreement to launch a U.S.–China AI dialogue with a proposed incident-notification mechanism, while USTR Jamieson Greer said the two sides have “operationalized” the U.S.–China Board of Trade to advance trade negotiations.
‼️ 🇮🇩 Rupiah rally loses steam: after a 1.5% August rally (SEA’s best), BNP Paribas sees 17,900/USD and HSBC 18,200 by year-end as higher oil and narrower rate spreads dent sentiment.
‼️ 🧠 Satya Nadella and Tim Cook to attend White House state dinner for Xi Jinping on Sept. 24, placing top tech leaders at the center of escalating U.S.-China AI tensions.
‼️ 🇰🇷 JPMorgan expects the Bank of Korea to raise rates in November and again in February and May next year, taking the benchmark rate to 3.75% in the current tightening cycle.
Alpha Binwani Capital: “Rising tariffs, fuel costs, and interest rates are compressing margins across autos, chemicals, and other industrial sectors as higher material, transport, and inventory-financing costs squeeze producers unable to fully pass through price increases; cash-rich, long-duration borrowers are far better insulated than smaller, highly leveraged peers who risk demand destruction if they push prices too far”
‼️ 🇮🇷 Qatar’s PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani told the Qatar Economic Forum in New York that Gulf states must act together to restore regional stability and help broker a US-Iran settlement, calling the conflict a “wake-up call” for collective responsibility.