For years, the phrase “no-limits partnership” defined how Beijing and Moscow described their relationship. It’s still the phrase both governments use publicly. But look closely at...
On July 1, 2026, one of the most consequential deadlines in North American trade policy quietly passed without resolution. The mandatory review of the Canada-United States-Mexico...
For fifteen years, traders built entire careers around parsing Federal Reserve speeches for hints about where interest rates were headed next. That game is now effectively...
China’s exports have been the good-news story in an otherwise mixed economic picture. They’re not just holding up; through the first four months of 2026 they...
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...