Brent trades above $107 a barrel as 10-year Treasury yield hits 5.2%

Elliott Management calls on Northern Star Resources to hold talks with South Africa’s Gold Fields

Geopolitical phase change

Investor protections are good for the market as a whole and must be defended

Central American country’s bonds perform better than many investors expected despite crisis that threatened to hamstring its economy

The sector’s huge capital needs are forcing companies and countries to rethink how they borrow money

Regulators plan to further limit audit requirement imposed under Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Wealthy individuals follow pension funds and institutional investors into NAV lending

Indonesia is trying to boost liquidity by allowing shares to trade at a tiny fraction of a US cent

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

As freight rates soar, vessel prices are being determined by how quickly a ship can be delivered to buyers

The nature of the AI boom and the size of valuations make the contrast between ambition and income more striking

Competition for cargoes could intensify in coming months as EU gas stores are at record lows

‘Too early to call the bottom’ but redemption requests from retail investors fall

Dozens of mining concessions deepen Beijing’s strategic foothold as it tussles with US for influence in Central America

FT analysis shows that institutional investors are being blamed for soaring costs

Overseas purchases of US equities topped $940bn in the year to July, coinciding with strong gains in the S&P 500

UK fintech is also in discussions with private equity about selling a significant stake in the business

Purchase would follow private equity owners’ decision to shelve planned listing of Dutch operator due to market instability

The same people are gnashing the same teeth and making the same arguments