Pakistan’s cotton sector delivered a headline-grabbing statistic this month: Sindh recorded a 67% surge in cotton output by July 31, offsetting a decline in Punjab tied...
Gold’s 2026 story has had two very different chapters. The metal notched an all-time high of $5,589 per ounce on January 28, 2026, according to Yahoo...
Travelers booking flights in 2026 aren’t imagining the price increases. US airfares are up 26.5% year-on-year as of June 2026, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Indonesia’s economic data in 2026 tells two contradictory stories depending on which indicator you look at. On one hand, investment realization — money actually deployed into...
While the Strait of Hormuz standoff has driven up costs for oil-importing economies worldwide, it has quietly handed Russia a financial lifeline. Russian oil export earnings...
China’s economy in 2026 is best understood not as a single growth trajectory but as two divergent ones running in parallel. Citi Research’s 2026 outlook describes...
Malaysia’s economy grew 5.4% in the first quarter of 2026, exceeding both the Department of Statistics Malaysia’s own advance estimate of 5.3% and Bloomberg’s median economist...
Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry’s advance estimate shows the economy grew 5.7% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2026, with manufacturing output supported by electronics...
Dubai is in the middle of building what is intended to become the world’s largest airport by capacity — a Dh128 billion ($34.8 billion) expansion of...
By the official scorecard, Pakistan’s economy had a good year. The Pakistan Economic Survey 2025-26 reports real GDP growth of 3.7%, easing inflation, improved foreign exchange...