Brussels, Frankfurt, London: policy, energy, and markets.
The 22-year-old EU-sanctioned product tanker Dakar, with no ice-class strengthening, is sailing the Northern Sea Route carrying gasoline-blending components taken from another tanker off South Korea, gCaptain reported Wednesday.
Seoul's presidential office on Wednesday dismissed a Ukrainian report that Russia imported petroleum products from South Korean ports, calling the accusation inappropriate and saying it is checking for export control issues.
Apollo Global Management submitted a non-binding bid for German gas giant Uniper in a sale that could value the company at around 10 billion euros, joining Equinor, EPH, a Brookfield-CPPIB consortium and an RWE-KKR partnership.
France suspended police use of stun grenades at student protests after a 15-year-old's hand was torn off by an anti-encirclement grenade Monday in Lens, near Lille.
The European Commission has disbursed €1.24 billion to Ukraine for drones, drone interceptors, drone ammunition and missiles manufactured by Ukrainian entities, the fifth defence payment under the €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan.
Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia invoked their Mecca Alliance for Defence for the first time on October 5, agreeing to rapidly deploy agreed forces to Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks on the kingdom.
Eurazeo moves into water efficiency, Searchlight eyes a Nordic credit manager, and UK pension capital keeps flowing into private markets.
Informa agreed to buy Clarion Events from Blackstone for an enterprise value of £2.24 billion in cash, alongside a formal review of separating its Taylor & Francis academic publishing business.
Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue Management and Blackstone, in what could be its last private round before a planned 2027 IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal's reporting.
Surge Battery's $9.81 billion lithium PFS, EQ Resources' record A$158.8 million quarterly revenue, Nuvau's cheaper Matagami restart, and new energy deals for remote mines.
AfD candidate Tobias Rausch was elected president of Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament on October 6 with 48 of 82 votes, the first time a far-right politician has held such a post in postwar Germany.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority accepted final undertakings in the Vandemoortele-Délifrance pastry case on October 6, fully determining the reference, and confirmed clearance of E.ON's acquisition of OVO Energy.
Actis-backed Rezolv Energy signed up to €561 million ($637 million) in green financing for its 1.3 GW Dama Solar project in western Romania, one of the largest solar financings in Central Europe this year.
Tencent agreed to a five-year lease worth about $7 billion for access to roughly 100,000 advanced AI chips in Oracle data centers across Southeast Asia, first reported by the Financial Times on October 1.
Energy Capital Partners closed a single-asset continuation vehicle with $834 million in commitments for Next Wave Energy Partners, giving ECP IV investors a full exit while ECP reinvests alongside new capital.
KKR agreed to acquire Gen II Fund Services, the private-capital fund administrator serving more than 275 managers representing over $2 trillion in assets, from Hg and General Atlantic for a $5.1 billion enterprise value.
The UK appointed six firms as joint lead managers for the pilot issuance of DIGIT, its first digitally native government bond, targeting issuance by the first quarter of 2027.
Russia's jet-powered Geran-5 drones have been systematically destroying Kyiv's data centers and internet exchange points since September 23, knocking about 100,000 households offline and silencing the internet-delivered air-raid alerts civilians rely on.
Governments, courts and companies are weighing restrictions on camera-equipped smart glasses amid privacy fears, Reuters reported Tuesday, from a planned Norwegian temporary ban in public places to court bans in England, Wales and New York.
OpenAI said Monday it will add its invisible textGrain watermark to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex for European users over the coming weeks, to comply with the EU AI Act's transparency rules that took effect August 2.
Google began fighting a mass consumer claim at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal on Tuesday, in which around 20 million consumers allege the company abused its dominance to charge excessive Play Store commissions, with damages of about 1 billion pounds.
Britain's Ofcom opened its first formal investigation into Meta under the Online Safety Act on Tuesday, examining whether the company carried out a sufficient risk assessment before launching the disappearing-content feature Instants on Instagram.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament on Oct 6 that EU gas prices have surged 140 percent and diesel has roughly doubled since late February, proposing a task force for joint fuel purchasing.
The US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund's joint board approved new investments on Oct 2 covering a critical-minerals platform with BGV Group, distributed cogeneration, and debt for DTEK's 200 MW battery storage.
The US 10-year Treasury yield fell 3.8bp to 5.27 percent Tuesday, cooling from fresh 24-year highs, as traders cut October Fed-hike odds to about 22 percent from 51 percent a week earlier.
The US Treasury on Oct 2 designated Germany-based Saleem al-Zaq, a France-based charity controlled by Oualid Barika and his son, and a crypto-based transfer scheme under E.O. 13224, in a coordinated action with the FBI.
Silver set a fresh record near $62 an ounce Monday, closing at $61.46, up 2.5 percent, while gold held steady at $4,171.
A 40dB poll published Oct 6 puts the PP at 31.6 percent with PP plus Vox combined at 50 percent, and seat projections give the pair about 205 seats against the 176 needed for a majority.
Intercontinental Exchange began trading gold futures in London this week, adding silver, platinum and palladium contracts linked to the city's daily benchmark auctions and cleared through its European clearinghouse.
Greenland's government approved the mining and closure plans for Critical Metals' Tanbreez heavy rare earths project, valid through 2050.
The French 10-year OAT yield fell 14bp to 4.72 percent Tuesday, its biggest one-day drop since May, as falling energy prices and Marine Le Pen's raised pledge of 140 billion euros in spending cuts calmed fiscal fears.
Demonstrations were under way across France on Oct 6 following Monday's school shutdowns, with the interior ministry reporting about 90,000 participants in morning gatherings, while TotalEnergies refinery workers set a strike for Thursday.
Deutsche Bank's Daniel Ghali says peak silver scarcity is over and a surplus could emerge in 2027, even as he projects spot averaging $70 an ounce by the second quarter of 2027.
Banque de France governor François Villeroy de Galhau warned that France risks being strangled by interest rates as debt servicing costs climb, in comments reported by the Financial Times on October 5.
ECB chief economist Philip Lane said the energy supply shock remains the primary driver of euro area inflation, with September headline inflation at 3.8%, in a keynote speech in Frankfurt on October 5.
Pedro Sanchez called a snap general election for November 29 on Monday, after parliament rejected his government's emergency housing decrees last week.
Between 400 and 500 French high schools will be closed or partially closed on Monday as student protests over teacher shortages and crumbling schools enter a second week ahead of nationwide demonstrations Tuesday.
A vessel transiting the Strait of Hormuz was struck by an unknown projectile late Saturday, catching fire and forcing a crew evacuation, in the latest attack on commercial shipping in the corridor.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced Great British Grid, a publicly owned body inside Great British Energy with about £4 billion to invest in and compete for electricity transmission projects.
The U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund approved a critical minerals platform with BGV Group, equity for distributed power plants, and debt for DTEK's 200 MW battery network.
Schneider Electric agreed Monday to buy US industrial software maker PTC for $205 a share in cash, a $22.6 billion equity deal, the largest acquisition in Schneider's history.
Sainsbury's held talks with rival grocer Morrisons over a potential multibillion-pound merger between November 2025 and February 2026 before walking away, according to reports published Monday.
Mining equities bounced broadly on Monday as copper closed at $14,340 a tonne, its highest since May, on weak US jobs data that eased pressure on the Federal Reserve , with Freeport up about 4 percent pre-market, Teck 5.1 percent and Vale 2.3 percent.
Meta, TikTok and X are challenging UK regulator Ofcom in court over February information notices demanding detailed content-moderation metrics, in one of the first legal tests of the 2023 Online Safety Act.
A four-week trial opens October 7 in London's High Court in which families of two miners killed at Barrick's North Mara gold mine in Tanzania in 2019 are bringing claims against the London Bullion Market Association over its gold accreditation.
Ithaca Energy agreed Sunday to buy Suncor's interests in three offshore eastern Canada oil projects for C$1.2 billion in cash plus up to C$350 million contingent on oil prices, its first deal outside the UK.
Gulf oil flows excluding Iran averaged 81 percent of pre-war levels in September at 19.2 million barrels a day, led by a Saudi rebound from 4.2 to 6.6 million b/d, with crude exports at 91 percent of pre-war even as refined-fuel shipments lagged at 60 percent.
The head of Germany's foreign intelligence service warned Monday that Germany risks being drawn into violent conflict with Russia as Moscow's shadow war of sabotage and espionage escalates.
The spread between French 10-year OATs and German Bunds closed Friday at 149.17 basis points, its widest since January 2012, after the €43 billion 2027 budget failed to restore investor confidence, and before this week's student unrest.
European defence startups are on track to raise a record $10.5 billion in 2026, according to a Dealroom forecast, after venture investment in the sector nearly tripled to $7.4 billion so far this year.
The European Commission ruled Monday that Poland's planned €26 million support for expanding MAN Trucks' factory in Niepołomice is incompatible with EU state aid rules, barring Warsaw from disbursing it.
The European Investment Bank and BNP Paribas signed an agreement to mobilise €700 million in guarantees for European electricity grid manufacturers, aiming to unlock up to €2.8 billion of real-economy investment.
The ECB publishes accounts of its September hike on Thursday as eurozone inflation reaccelerated to 3.8 percent, but markets give an October 29 follow-up just 12 percent odds against near 70 percent for December.
The UK government ordered a public interest probe of BT's acquisition of TalkTalk out of administration on Monday, a deal BT says carries about £400 million of cash costs, while the CMA's in-depth review of the nexfibre-Substantial fibre merger hit a provisional obstacle.
China opened an anti-dumping investigation into EU p-nitrotoluene on October 3, five days before trade commissioner Sefcovic arrives in Beijing for talks covering the €360 billion trade deficit and rare earth export controls.
European Lithium confirmed BMW has terminated its lithium supply agreement for the long-delayed Koralm project in Austria, with the advance payment already returned, three weeks before shareholders vote on the $835 million Critical Metals merger.
Tanzania has renewed Barrick Mining's special mining licences for the North Mara gold mine for a further 15 years, extending operating rights to 2041.
A Financial Times analysis argues that bond market turbulence means it is time for the ECB to put quantitative tightening on hold, as widening spreads tighten financial conditions without any rate move.
France's 10Y spread over Bunds hit 130-150bp after a 43bn euro austerity package unveiled October 1 failed to calm investors.
Euro area September flash HICP rose to 3.8% from 3.2%, beating the 3.6% forecast , the hottest reading since September 2023.
Base metals extended their correction into Friday, with copper slipping on the LME and aluminum at a two-month low, as high real yields and weak China demand signals weighed on industrial bets.
An INSA poll on October 3 put the AfD at 30%, CDU/CSU at 18%, Merz approval at 10%.
An INSA poll published October 3 put the AfD at 30 percent for the first time, with the CDU/CSU at a record-low 18 percent and Merz's approval at 10 percent.
Russia closed Kyiv's Southern Bridge and warned foreigners to leave the capital; Ukraine answered with strikes on Russian refineries and its first combat use of a domestic ballistic missile.
The 10-year Treasury touched its highest since 2002 mid-week before a +29K jobs print triggered a Friday flight to safety.
GFEX lithium carbonate closed September down 22%, an inventory and positioning washout, not a demand collapse.
The 2027 budget targets a 5% deficit with record €340B issuance; markets pushed the French-German spread to its widest since 2012.
Macron hunts a third prime minister this year while Merz posts the lowest approval ever recorded for a German chancellor.
The $4 billion final close, fund plus single-investor vehicles, beat its target on demand for customized, evergreen infra-credit exposure.
The BoE voted 9–0 to stop outright long-dated gilt sales and pause all active sales until April, consulting on handing operations to the DMO.