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On 28 May 2026, the lower house approved a constitutional amendment cutting the legal workweek from 44 to 40 hours and forwarding the measure to the Senate, giving employers 14 months to adapt.
On 28 May 2026, the European Commission sanctioned Chinese e-commerce giant Temu with a €200 million fine for failing to assess and curb the flood of unsafe and illegal products on its EU marketplace under the Digital Services Act.
On 27 May 2026, leaked Iranian state-TV claims of an initial memorandum promising U.S. troop withdrawal and restored Hormuz shipping jolted markets, producing the steepest single-day crude price drop since the conflict began.
Between 26–27 May 2026, the Korea Exchange listed 18 new 2×/inverse single-stock funds on Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, drawing nearly ₩2 trn in first-day retail buying and prompting an immediate regulatory squeeze on marketing.
On 27 May 2026, 73.7 % of Samsung Electronics’ unionised workforce voted to accept a profit-sharing pact forged hours before an 18-day walk-out, granting chip employees a fixed 10.5 % slice of semiconductor operating profits.
On 25-26 May 2026, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dismissed Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko and installed veteran central-bank economist Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo to lead the government, signaling a pivot toward debt negotiation with the IMF amid a fiscal emergency.
On 26 May 2026 BP’s board unanimously dismissed Chair Albert Manifold with immediate effect after internal whistle-blower complaints about his governance and conduct, triggering a one-day share decline of roughly 4-5 %.
After Anthropic confined its Claude Mythos model to about 50 vetted users in April 2026, rival labs, regulators and employers quickly shifted toward ‘restricted-access yet compulsory-use’ policies for cutting-edge AI systems.
On 25 May 2026, oil’s war premium abruptly deflated when diplomatic signals from Washington and Tehran pushed Brent below $100 for the first time since February’s conflict-driven spike, triggering a 4-6 % intraday slide across benchmarks.
On 25 May 2026 state-run retailers raised pump prices by ₹2.61 (petrol) and ₹2.71 (diesel) per litre—the fourth hike in ten days—lifting Delhi petrol to ₹102.12 for the first time since May 2022.
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