Market news: The White House held a meeting with Google (GOOG.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Thursday local time.

As of August 27, Iraq had cut its oil exports to 3.3 million barrels per day, according to a statement from the Iraqi Oil Ministry.

Teamsters: Teamsters workers are considering expanding their strike to other U.S. plants of Marathon Crude (MPC.N) as talks stall.

Egypt is looking to import liquefied natural gas to meet winter demand as its gas production falls sharply.

Hang Seng Index futures closed down 0.07% at 17,431 points in the night session, 13 points below the spot price.

US Department of Defense spokesman: The United States believes that there is little value in providing Ukraine with long-range ATACMS missiles.

Hedge Fund Billionaire John Paulson: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be privatized.

Hedge Fund Billionaire John Paulson: Fed Waited Too Long to Cut Rates.

According to Nikkei: Panasonic Holdings will produce core lithium-ion battery components for Subaru and Mazda, with an investment of approximately 550 billion yen.

According to Nikkei: Toyota will expand battery production at two subsidiaries, with a total investment expected to reach approximately 250 billion yen. Nissan plans to invest approximately 150 billion yen in the production of lithium iron phosphate batteries for automobiles, with the goal of starting supply in 2028.

Citigroup has initiated a 30-day upside catalyst watch on NIO (NIO.N).

In an interview with CNN, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Silsky said that the operation in the Kursk region is going smoothly and Russia has not made any progress in the Pokrovsk region in eastern Ukraine in six days.

Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary: US President Biden will not commute or pardon any sentence for his son Hunter.

Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary: The review process of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) on Nippon Steel and United States Steel (XN) is still ongoing.

According to the American political news website Politico: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the residence of a senior assistant to New York Mayor Eric Adams.

Private equity firms Vista Equity and Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) are in talks to acquire software company Smartsheet.

According to the Times of Israel: Israel says 36 terrorists have been killed since the start of a large-scale attack in the West Bank.

The Federal Reserve accepted a total of US$291.091 billion from 59 counterparties in fixed-rate reverse repurchase operations.

Paramount Universal (PARA.O) rose in the short term, up nearly 1%.

Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) co-founder Larry Ellison will take control of Paramount Universal (PARA.O) once the acquisition is completed, the filing showed.