The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady at 3.5%-3.75% on July 29, 2026, but the more consequential detail was the vote itself: 9-3, with...
Four major UK forecasters — the OBR, the Bank of England-adjacent IFS, NIESR, and RSM UK — are converging on a similar diagnosis for 2026: an...
Indonesia is pitching an estimated $121 billion in investment opportunities to build an integrated national EV battery ecosystem, with officials arguing the country is uniquely positioned...
Singapore’s family office count crossed 2,000 for the first time in 2025, with combined assets under management reaching $66.8 billion — a 43% jump year-on-year, according...
China’s home prices have now fallen for more than four and a half years — a household wealth shock comparable in scale to the 2008 U.S....
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:...