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For a country usually discussed in terms of what it owes the IMF, Pakistan spent much of 2026 doing something unusual: sitting at the center of...
There’s a number that keeps showing up in every conversation about Pakistan’s economy, and it keeps getting bigger: circular debt. As of early July 2026, the...
On June 29, a tanker called the Sierra pulled into the Indonesian port of Balikpapan carrying just under 770,000 barrels of Russian crude oil, worth roughly...
For months, the story of the global fuel market has been the Strait of Hormuz. Now there’s a second front, and it’s coming from a completely...
There’s a version of this story that writes itself: a shooting war breaks out between Israel, the US and Iran, oil markets seize up, the Strait...
The US labor force participation rate has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years outside of the Covid-19 pandemic period, a decline that is reshaping...
The ASEAN+3 region expanded 4.3% in 2025, outperforming expectations despite what regional economists describe as the most significant shift in global trade policy in decades, according...
The US administration has launched an investigation into 60 countries — including the European Union — to determine whether they are permitting imports of goods produced...
The US Treasury Department has moved aggressively against a sanctions-evasion network linking Russia and China, exposing a secret payment channel used to facilitate cross-border transactions for...
Singapore is launching a gold clearing system in a bid to establish itself as a regional hub for precious-metals trading, a move that positions the city-state...
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