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In the autumn of 2025, three of Europe’s proudest industrial names—Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo—did something that would have seemed improbable a decade ago. They agreed to...
The row between Brussels and NATO headquarters is not a procedural squabble. It is a civilisational argument about who governs the security of a continent —...
Jakarta’s pivot to discounted Russian barrels is shrewd realpolitik. But it walks a razor-thin tightrope between Washington and Moscow — and lays bare the fragility of...
As missiles rain down on Gulf infrastructure and the Strait of Hormuz sits effectively closed to commercial traffic, the region’s sovereigns are doing what elite borrowers...
On February 15, 2026, Sam Altman posted two sentences to X that encapsulated a decade of Silicon Valley ambition in a single breath. OpenAI had acquired...
Brent crude slips to $94 as US-Iran deal hopes lift markets — but with Hormuz still choked and talks collapsing in Islamabad, energy markets may be...
A $30 billion economic dream collides with the sobering arithmetic of inflation, geopolitics, and over-optimism. In the final weeks of March, Ed Grose, the president of...
There is a peculiar kind of irony in Wall Street’s first quarter of 2026. American equity markets endured their worst opening three months since the mini-banking...
The Quiet Outperformer in a Noisy World While markets gyrate on every Federal Reserve whisper and geopolitical tremor from Taipei to Tehran, a quieter, more durable...
The global economy has repeatedly survived political dysfunction in recent years. But survival is not immunity. With war in the Persian Gulf, a fiscal powder keg...
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