🎙 Doomscroll.fm — Episode 1101.1: APEC’s Quiet Shift, Oil Stability, Minerals Race

Asia-Pacific leaders wrapped the APEC summit with a pledge for shared trade benefits and joint action on AI and demographics as China’s President Xi Jinping and South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung met in a show of regional unity. Oil prices held firm amid calming US rhetoric on Venezuela and ongoing concerns over supply, helping energy stocks stay resilient. Meanwhile the US and Australia advanced a multibillion-dollar minerals deal aimed at reducing China’s dominance in critical-material supply chains and signalling a broader industrial realignment.

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Asia-Pacific leaders wrapped the APEC summit with a pledge for shared trade benefits and joint action on AI and demographics as China’s President Xi Jinping and South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung met in a show of regional unity. Oil prices held firm amid calming US rhetoric on Venezuela and ongoing concerns over supply, helping energy stocks stay resilient. Meanwhile the US and Australia advanced a multibillion-dollar minerals deal aimed at reducing China’s dominance in critical-material supply chains and signalling a broader industrial realignment.

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Oil‑rich Gulf states are funneling historic finance into artificial intelligence ventures with major oil companies backing multibillion‑dollar bets to convert energy wealth into tech muscle. At the same time, Gulf stock markets ticked higher following a U.S. rate cut, solid local earnings and signs of a U.S.–China detente on trade, although investor caution remains. Together these trends show the Middle East shifting strategy, global trade tensions tempering, and markets reacting to both in real time.

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Oil‑rich Gulf states are funneling historic finance into artificial intelligence ventures with major oil companies backing multibillion‑dollar bets to convert energy wealth into tech muscle. At the same time, Gulf stock markets ticked higher following a U.S. rate cut, solid local earnings and signs of a U.S.–China detente on trade, although investor caution remains. Together these trends show the Middle East shifting strategy, global trade tensions tempering, and markets reacting to both in real time.

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Oil‑rich Gulf states are funneling historic finance into artificial intelligence ventures with major oil companies backing multibillion‑dollar bets to convert energy wealth into tech muscle. At the same time, Gulf stock markets ticked higher following a U.S. rate cut, solid local earnings and signs of a U.S.–China detente on trade, although investor caution remains. Together these trends show the Middle East shifting strategy, global trade tensions tempering, and markets reacting to both in real time.

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Oil‑rich Gulf states are funneling historic finance into artificial intelligence ventures with major oil companies backing multibillion‑dollar bets to convert energy wealth into tech muscle. At the same time, Gulf stock markets ticked higher following a U.S. rate cut, solid local earnings and signs of a U.S.–China detente on trade, although investor caution remains. Together these trends show the Middle East shifting strategy, global trade tensions tempering, and markets reacting to both in real time.

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Australia and the United States sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to boost rare earth production, a direct challenge to China’s grip on critical minerals and a signal that the next cold war runs on batteries. The IMF projected ASEAN economies to grow 4.3 percent this year, crediting steady trade recovery and surging tech investment. Markets shifted back to risk assets as oil steadied near 67 dollars and gold retreated, with investors betting the U.S.–China tariff freeze will hold through winter. The global mood feels less like optimism and more like denial in motion, humming along to the sound of supply chains being redrawn by hand.

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Australia and the United States sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to boost rare earth production, a direct challenge to China’s grip on critical minerals and a signal that the next cold war runs on batteries. The IMF projected ASEAN economies to grow 4.3 percent this year, crediting steady trade recovery and surging tech investment. Markets shifted back to risk assets as oil steadied near 67 dollars and gold retreated, with investors betting the U.S.–China tariff freeze will hold through winter. The global mood feels less like optimism and more like denial in motion, humming along to the sound of supply chains being redrawn by hand.

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Australia and the United States sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to boost rare earth production, a direct challenge to China’s grip on critical minerals and a signal that the next cold war runs on batteries. The IMF projected ASEAN economies to grow 4.3 percent this year, crediting steady trade recovery and surging tech investment. Markets shifted back to risk assets as oil steadied near 67 dollars and gold retreated, with investors betting the U.S.–China tariff freeze will hold through winter. The global mood feels less like optimism and more like denial in motion, humming along to the sound of supply chains being redrawn by hand.

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Australia and the United States sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to boost rare earth production, a direct challenge to China’s grip on critical minerals and a signal that the next cold war runs on batteries. The IMF projected ASEAN economies to grow 4.3 percent this year, crediting steady trade recovery and surging tech investment. Markets shifted back to risk assets as oil steadied near 67 dollars and gold retreated, with investors betting the U.S.–China tariff freeze will hold through winter. The global mood feels less like optimism and more like denial in motion, humming along to the sound of supply chains being redrawn by hand.

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