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...
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...
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh presided over a closely watched two-day policy meeting this week, with markets widely expecting the Federal Open Market Committee to hold...
Indonesia has taken its first concrete legislative step toward building a financial centre intended to compete with Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, as President Prabowo Subianto...
Gasoline shortages have begun appearing at filling stations in and around Moscow, a striking domestic symptom of strain in an economy the Kremlin has long held...
China’s leadership used its closely watched late-July Politburo meeting to strike a more supportive tone on the economy without committing to the kind of sweeping stimulus...