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The global AI and data center boom will need acceleration of renewable energy rollout to avoid plunging millions of people into energy poverty as power bills jump, the founder of China’s major wind turbine maker Envision told the Financial Times.  “For this AI revolution, lots of people may end up with energy poverty,” Envision’s founder and chief executive officer Lei Zhang told FT.  The growing electricity demand from AI infrastructure and data centers is changing the narrative of the need of renewables. Clean…

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The tone of U.S. economic data has a Goldilocks feel, a strategist says.

Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

MUFG’s Head of Research Derek Halpenny notes that EUR/USD has fully reversed its late-January rally, dropping about 2.5% back toward its opening 2026 level.

Gold (XAU/USD) gains momentum on Friday after trading largely flat on the previous day, as ongoing tensions between the United States (US) and Iran lift demand for safe-haven assets.

TD Securities’ Global Strategy Team highlights upcoming US data, expecting December core PCE to rise 0.25% month-on-month and headline PCE 0.27%, leaving annual rates at 2.9% and 2.8%.

Hungary is releasing oil from its strategic petroleum reserves to ensure supply after Russian crude flows via the Druzhba pipeline stopped at the end of last month. The Hungarian government will release 250,000 tons of crude oil from the country’s strategic reserves, with domestic oil company MOL having priority access to the commodity, according to a government decree published in the official gazette. At the end of January, Druzhba, the pipeline that carries Russian crude to refineries in Hungary and Slovakia, was damaged in what Ukraine…

The United States (US) Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will publish the first preliminary estimate of the fourth-quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at 13:30 GMT.

EUR/JPY trades around 182.75 on Friday at the time of writing, up 0.13% on the day, supported by stronger-than-expected activity data from the Eurozone and a slightly softer Japanese Yen (JPY) following cooling inflation figures.

Three engineers are accused of stealing sensitive mobile processor and cryptography files from Google and two other companies.

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On Friday, the European Central Bank (ECB) released its indicator of the Euro area’s Negotiated Wage Rates data for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2025.

National Bank of Canada’s (NBC) Economics and Strategy team slightly lowers its 2026 Canadian GDP forecast to 1.1% and highlights a sharp drop in potential GDP to 0.6% due to demographic recalibration.

Societe Generale economists Reo Sakida and Jin Kenzaki review latest Japan inflation data, noting Headline at 1.5%, Core at 2.0% and Core-core at 2.6%.

Silver prices (XAG/USD) rose on Friday, according to FXStreet data. Silver trades at $81.07 per troy ounce, up 3.39% from the $78.41 it cost on Thursday.

According to Danske Research Team, the Dollar is consolidating recent gains, helped by higher Oil prices and renewed US–Iran tensions.

The Indian Rupee (INR) holds its early gap down against the US Dollar (USD) during afternoon trading hours in India on Friday.