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Rothschild & Co. named Daiwa Securities Group Inc.’s former co-head of investment banking as vice-chair for Japan to strengthen its business in the country.

Saudi Aramco reports first-quarter earnings this week, marking the end of the reporting season for the world’s largest oil companies. Meanwhile, the dismal performance of US energy stocks may not be over, according to one technical indicator. Here are five notable charts to consider in global commodities.

Turkish opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu was pelted with stones at a rally, prompting him to abandon a campaign speech one week before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks another term in a general election.

Australia may record its first budget surplus in 15 years, bolstering the center-left government’s economic credentials as Treasurer Jim Chalmers moves to reinforce the central bank’s efforts to peg back inflation.

The selloff in US bank shares is threatening to push them below a technical threshold that could signal more pain ahead for the broader stock market.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said there are “simply no good options” for solving the debt limit stalemate in Washington other than Congress lifting the cap and cautioned that resorting to the 14th Amendment would provoke a constitutional crisis.

Newton Minow, the US Federal Communications Commission chairman who criticized television as a “vast wasteland’ in a 1961 speech that sparked a national debate on the quality of TV programming, has died. He was 97.

Saudi Arabia reported a deficit of 2.91 billion riyals ($770 million) in the first quarter of the year as the government increased spending on salaries and economic diversification projects.

The head of the Wagner mercenary group said he’d been promised sufficient ammunition by Russia’s military to continue a campaign in Bakhmut in Ukraine’s east, walking back a threat to abandon the battle.

Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger will step down months before early elections planned for Sept. 30 after his caretaker cabinet started to fall apart, he said Sunday in Bratislava.