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Two contradictory forces are shaping the 2026 oil market simultaneously: a structural glut large enough to keep prices depressed for years, and a live geopolitical risk...
Russia’s federal budget deficit hit 4.58 trillion rubles — roughly $58.8 billion, or 1.9% of GDP — in the first quarter of 2026 alone, already surpassing...
Malaysia is quietly running one of the more consequential balancing acts in global industrial policy: negotiating rare earth technology, investment and offtake terms with Washington, Tokyo,...
Gulf sovereign wealth funds are having their busiest year on record. In the first half of 2026 alone, funds from Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha and beyond...
Pakistan’s finance minister spent the week of July 20 in Washington doing something Islamabad has rarely been able to do from a position of relative strength:...
On July 15, 2026, during a routine Chinese foreign ministry press briefing, spokesperson comments took on unusual significance for global energy and trade watchers: Beijing strongly...
Nvidia has begun shipping its advanced H200 AI chips to China under a reversed US export policy, but the volumes moving so far are, in the...
Global oil markets are unwinding one of the sharpest supply shocks in decades as tanker traffic resumes through the Strait of Hormuz following a US-Iran memorandum...
Malaysia posted its biggest trade surplus on record and second-quarter GDP growth of 5.8% in 2026, yet its stock market has stubbornly refused to rally —...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore nudged its exchange-rate-based policy stance slightly tighter in its July review, a modest but notable shift after the city-state’s economy grew...
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