Equities track higher despite soaring sovereign bond yields

As stock markets advance, so do bond yields, with the 10-year Treasury topping 5.3%, while investors continue to dump French paper, taking the spread with German bunds to its widest since the Eurozone debt crisis and the euro to a 17-month low. In the face of a looming debt spiral, former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane tells CNBC that governments must outline plans to curb spending. And, AI executives testify in New York and Sydney over safety fears and rogue agents, with OpenAI admitting that its actions and response to the Australian government hack were "not good enough".

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