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Shanmugam says Singapore hasn’t curbed fuel use despite the Middle East conflict. Here’s why that’s not complacency — it’s calculated small-state statecraft at its finest Introduction:...
There was a moment, somewhere in the fog of mid-2025, when the prevailing consensus on Wall Street and in the marble corridors of multilateral institutions was...
Oil prices dropped 1% after a WSJ report said Trump is willing to end the Iran military campaign even if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed....
China is helping the Revolutionary Guards profit from Iranian crude while Gulf petro-monarchies bleed. There is a perverse irony at the heart of the Third Gulf...
Government bonds are heading for one of their worst months in a decade. With Brent crude above $112, the ECB signalling it may hike despite stalling...
A landmark deal with TotalEnergies marks the first time Washington has paid a company not to build clean energy — and it may be the cheapest...
A Market in the Crossfire of Diplomacy’s Failure At precisely 12:35 pm on Thursday, the Pakistan Stock Exchange told a story in a single number. The...
The Iran conflict has turned frontier AI models into contested weapons of state — and the financial and human fallout is only beginning to register. In...
As Brent crude climbs above $85 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz trembles under the weight of geopolitical crisis, Southeast Asia’s largest economy is walking...
Bessent and He Lifeng meet at OECD Paris to review the Busan trade truce before Trump’s Beijing summit. Rare earths, Hormuz oil shock, and Section 301...