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On 1 July 2026 in Asunción, the South American customs union unanimously agreed to open economic-partnership talks with Japan, signalling its first major post-EU pivot toward Asian markets and capping the transfer of the bloc’s rotating chair to Uruguay.
On 1 July 2026 Washington declined to join Ottawa and Mexico City in extending CUSMA to 2042, automatically shifting the pact to a regime of yearly reviews and pushing any comprehensive deal beyond the November mid-term elections.
On 30 June 2026 Brent crude closed near $72, capping a 21-22 % monthly plunge—the steepest quarterly fall since 2020—as traders unwound the Strait-of-Hormuz risk premium amid mixed signals on a U.S.–Iran meeting in Doha.
On 29 June 2026 Comcast said it will separate its media assets NBCUniversal and Sky into an independent public company within 12 months, reversing its 15-year-old content-distribution conglomerate strategy.
After exchanging drone and missile strikes that briefly slowed tanker traffic, Washington and Tehran on 29 June agreed to an immediate cease-fire and to restart negotiations in Qatar, lifting Brent back above $72.
On 29 June 2026 President Lee Jae Myung confirmed that Samsung and SK Hynix will build four new semiconductor fabs in South Korea’s southwest—an 800 trillion-won bet that shifts the nation’s chip epicenter beyond Seoul and anchors a wider AI-era industrial push.
President Lee Jae-myung publicly guaranteed a daily supply of 1 million tons of industrial water for Honam, defusing infrastructure doubts just days before Samsung and SK hynix are to detail a record ₩1,000 trillion semiconductor investment centered in the region.
On 29 Jun 2026 South Korea, Samsung and SK Hynix committed a record ₩911 trillion (US$590 bn) to build four new memory fabs and a packaging cluster, banking on the AI-driven shortage that is already forcing Apple, Microsoft and others to raise device prices.
Leaked “Group Target Picture 2030” shows VW will ask its supervisory board on 9 July 2026 to approve doubling earlier cuts—up to 100,000 job losses worldwide and the shutdown of four German assembly plants.
On 27 June 2026, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that any country imposing a digital services tax on U.S. tech firms will instantly face a blanket 100 % tariff on all goods entering the United States, nullifying existing trade deals.
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