Indonesia’s economy expanded 5.29% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, comfortably beating forecasts and extending a run of growth that has outpaced most consensus estimates...
The U.S. Senate passed a sweeping new sanctions bill on Friday, August 7, targeting Moscow’s energy revenues in what could become the most consequential piece of...
Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) delivered its second upward growth revision of 2026 on August 11, lifting the full-year GDP forecast to a range...
Ottawa’s trade negotiators are running out of runway. With President Donald Trump’s threatened 50% tariffs on a broad swath of Canadian exports set to take effect...
Russia’s economy entered 2026 in genuinely fragile shape. Growth is projected at just 0.4% for the year, worse than 2025’s 1% expansion, which itself narrowly avoided...
When the Trump administration’s tariff regime rattled export-dependent Asian economies in 2025, Malaysia’s finance ministry response stood out for its composure. “We didn’t panic,” the finance...
Singapore has spent the past two years becoming one of the primary beneficiaries of the global AI infrastructure buildout, alongside Taiwan’s semiconductor sector. The city-state’s role...
Dubai’s transformation from oil-adjacent trading post to global capital hub is no longer a talking point — it is a measurable trend. The emirate’s newly launched...
American payrolls contracted by 23,000 in July, a stunning miss against consensus expectations of an 80,000 gain, while the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% —...
The UK economy is sending genuinely mixed signals heading into autumn 2026, and the next six weeks will determine which signal wins out. Economists expect official...