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A one day AI Growth Summit is taking place at STATION F in Paris on September 30, 2026, drawing founders, operators and investors to focus on how artificial intelligence is being shipped into products and businesses rather than on model architecture alone.
A visiting IMF team has begun formal review talks in Islamabad. Pakistan says it expects roughly $1.2 billion under two IMF facilities if the review concludes successfully, while the Fund is pressing for progress on sovereign wealth fund governance and procurement reforms.
The Reserve Bank of India has net sold Rs1 trillion of government debt so far in the current fiscal year, the largest annual net sale in more than a decade. The move is draining surplus rupee liquidity, pressuring government yields and increasing the likelihood of an interest rate rise at the upcoming policy meeting.
Bangladesh’s UN envoy reiterated Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s appeal for a concrete roadmap to ensure early, safe and dignified repatriation of more than 1.2 million Rohingya, warning that shrinking humanitarian funding and lack of political progress risk turning a protracted emergency into a generational crisis.
London’s BFI Southbank hosts Screen Summit 2026 today, gathering studio chiefs, distributors, streamers and independent producers to tackle financing gaps, inward investment and new commercial models for British film.
Amazon Web Services stages a Public Sector AI Symposium in Ottawa today, September 29, 2026, highlighting Canadian AI adoption in government, data sovereignty concerns, and the announcement of Canada recipients of the AWS Imagine Grant for nonprofits.
China’s central bank supplied hefty short term cash to markets on September 28 as quarter end and the week long National Day holiday approach, combining overnight, seven day and 14 day reverse repos to smooth money market strains even as net liquidity was modestly withdrawn after accounting for maturing facilities.
At the United Nations, Bangladesh outlined a five point plan to restart durable Rohingya repatriation while Myanmar says it has verified hundreds of thousands of refugees as former Rakhine residents, a development that could reopen negotiations but leaves key political and security obstacles unresolved.
The Union Cabinet approved a formal shift to composite caps for foreign investments, collapsing different foreign holding categories into a single sectoral ceiling. Officials and market participants say the move is intended to reduce regulatory friction and speed foreign capital flows into manufacturing, insurance and other strategic sectors.
Beijing is set to publish monthly industrial profit figures on September 28, 2026. Economists and investors will treat the release as a near‑term barometer of manufacturing momentum, corporate margins and the extent to which China’s struggling property sector is weighing on firms.
On September 27, 2026, the federal government unveiled a new multimillion dollar investment to accelerate clean hydrogen demonstration projects in Canada, with immediate pilots in Ontario and Alberta. Officials say the funding aims to cut industrial emissions, secure domestic supply chains for low carbon fuels, and build export capacity for hydrogen technology.
Pakistan Stock Exchange closed the week largely unchanged as elevated oil prices and an IMF review weighed on investor sentiment. The rupee held near 277 to the dollar while foreign exchange reserves showed modest improvement, underscoring fragile stability ahead of key fiscal milestones.
China unveiled a targeted package of fiscal backstops and local-government measures on September 27, 2026, aimed at stabilizing the struggling property sector and preventing further spillovers to growth and local finances.
The 51st Toronto International Film Festival returned to Toronto with a record slate of films, a strong showing of Canadian premieres and runaway red carpet fashion, even as the industry and audiences grappled with questions about artificial intelligence and cultural priorities.
Global markets are confronting a difficult combination of oil above $100 a barrel, rising government bond yields and tighter monetary policy, raising fresh concerns that economies could face persistent inflation alongside weaker growth.