The global economy is operating in a state of suspended animation. Central banks have aggressively paused their tightening cycles, yet the anticipated soft landing remains stubbornly...
Pakistan’s current account surplus came in at $459 million in May 2026, the State Bank of Pakistan reported this week, reversing April’s $276 million deficit and...
On June 12, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb stood before the National Assembly and did something Pakistan’s textile exporters had wanted for two years: he cut the...
At 9:47 a.m. on March 18, 2026, the last of 8,168 inspection reports landed on a desk at the UAE Ministry of Economy and Tourism. Eighteen...
In the fluorescent-lit corridors of the Ministry of Finance in Islamabad, the arithmetic has long stopped making sense. Pakistan spends more than half its federal revenue...
The global economy entered 2026 balanced on a knife-edge of competing narratives. On one side sits a transformative artificial intelligence boom promising historic productivity gains; on...
On a Tuesday in late May, the S&P 500 closed at another record high, minting fresh paper wealth for the top decile of American households. Just...
A surprise downward revision from INSEE puts France in negative territory for the first quarter of 2026, as surging energy costs, a collapsing construction sector, and...
On the morning of March 6, 2026, Sohail Ahmed pulled his motorcycle into a petrol station in Karachi and watched the meter tick past 3,200 rupees....
Pakistan has now signed 25 arrangements with the International Monetary Fund. Twenty-five. The first was in 1958, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Pakistan...