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Japan’s top three banks are expected to forecast their highest profits in years, driven by a pickup in client activities and subdued bad loan costs.

The number of migrants seeking to cross the southern US border has been “markedly down” during the past two days, bucking expectations of a surge after pandemic-era border rules expired, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

A meeting between President Joe Biden and Congressional leaders to discuss the US debt ceiling has been tentatively set for Tuesday, NBC Capitol Hill Correspondent Julie Tsirkin says in a tweet, citing ‘multiple people familiar” with the situation.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partners swapped incredulous messages, traded theories and fielded queries from puzzled clients after the revelation two weeks ago of its top lawyer’s ties with Jeffrey Epstein.

(Bloomberg) — French President Emmanuel Macron has invited about 200 global business leaders to Versailles on Monday, showcasing his foreign investment pulling power as he attempts to reboot his second term in office after a damaging battle over pension reform.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats retained control of the city-state of Bremen, ending a string of setbacks in regional elections for the German leader’s party.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in France for dinner with President Emmanuel Macron on a European trip to secure further commitments for aid in its war with Russia.

When Paetongtarn Shinawatra cast her ballot early on Sunday, the latest member of the influential Shinawatra family to join Thai politics exuded confidence in her Pheu Thai party securing a landslide win. By late evening, it became clear the reformist Move Forward party had outperformed it — the worst performance of her family-led party’s election bids.

President Joe Biden’s staff negotiations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office on a spending package that would avert a US default are serious and continuing, National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard said Sunday as she repeated calls for Congress to lift the debt limit.