👉 Global risk appetite strengthened on Friday
👉 Crypto, equities, and gold futures rose
👉 Oil prices fell, heading for their steepest weekly decline since June
👉 Traders are balancing easing U.S.-Japan trade tensions against cooling bitcoin demand and heavier hedging
👉 The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.5%, set for its fifth straight day of gains
👉 Japan's Nikkei-225 jumped 2.3% after the US agreed to end stacking on universal tariffs and cut car levies concurrently