Caroline Hepker

Speaking to Bloomberg, India's chief economic advisor, Ananta Nagaswaran, hailed the boost to Indian markets and the economy.

That was India's chief economic advisor, Ananta Nagaswaran.

At 18%, India's tariff is now lower than most Southeast Asian countries.

The UK's Metropolitan Police says that it's reviewing reports that Peter Mandelson committed misconduct in public office following the latest release of Epstein files.

Documents appear to show that the former UK ambassador to the US leaked sensitive government information to the convicted sex offender while serving as a minister in Gordon Brown's Labour government.

With more, here's Bloomberg's Chris Pitt.

France's parliament has adopted a budget for 2026 after the Prime Minister survived two no-confidence votes.

The new legislation has smaller spending cuts and tax increases than earlier proposals, meaning that the deficit for the year will be larger than initially planned.

But the concessions mean that Prime Minister Sébastien Le Corneau has avoided the fate of his predecessors, who were both forced to resign by the National Assembly in disagreements over austerity measures.

The French budget adoption is expected to bring more political calm as opposition parties shift their focus to municipal elections in March and then the French presidential vote in 2027.

And those are a few of our top stories for you this morning.

Right, let's get to the markets right now.

So, after a volatile three days in gold markets, we actually see spot bullion prices up this morning by 3.5%.

India's Sensex, after the trade agreement between Modi and Trump, up 3% this morning.

And Barney Group seeing some relief.

South Korean stocks also hitting a record high on Tuesday.

Samsung Electronics,

having the biggest gain as much as 11%, the biggest gain since 2009.

RBA down in Australia, the central bank there, raised interest rates.

So some disparate stories to think about, but really important as we look at stock futures for Europe, which are reasonably positive, up about three-tenths of 1%, and we have a softer US dollar on the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, weak at about two-tenths of 1%, Stephen.