Nigeria Energy Pricing: Dangote Petroleum Refinery cut diesel (AGO) ex-depot price by N200/litre to N1,600 after fresh imported fuel arrivals, intensifying competition across the downstream supply chain. Ghana Fixed Income: Ghana’s bond market saw GH¢288.12m traded across 133 deals, led by Sell/Buy Back activity and DDEP bonds, with longer-dated GOG paper trading at notable discounts. Canada Financial Stability: The Bank of Canada said the system is resilient but warned vulnerabilities are rising, including risks from hedge-fund activity in government debt markets and basis trades. Wall Street Tech Concentration: Lazard flagged that today’s tech-stock concentration is driving a return gap versus value stocks that’s “three times” the pre–dot-com-bubble divergence, urging caution on bubble claims. Crypto/Markets Watch: DTCC is moving tokenized assets to Stellar as part of its multi-chain push; meanwhile, US prosecutors charged a Google engineer over alleged Polymarket insider trading profits of $1.2m. AI Finance Tools: Ortec Finance says machine learning is reshaping strategic asset allocation via scenario-based portfolio optimisation. Trade & Policy: Canada’s PM Mark Carney urged a new US partnership ahead of USMCA review, while Africa’s finance leaders pushed for faster digital finance infrastructure to boost cross-border payments and trade finance.