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The headline numbers arrived on a Friday and didn’t leave. On May 16, 2026, the S&P 500 fell its sharpest single day since March as a...
On the morning of March 6, 2026, Sohail Ahmed pulled his motorcycle into a petrol station in Karachi and watched the meter tick past 3,200 rupees....
Pakistan’s salaried public servant is doing the same arithmetic every June. How much will the number on the payslip change — and will it actually matter?...
Pakistan is preparing its most consequential federal budget in years — one that must simultaneously satisfy the International Monetary Fund, relieve a battered middle class, and...
In October 2025, ASEAN finance ministers gathered in Kuala Lumpur and announced that negotiations for the bloc’s landmark Digital Economy Framework Agreement had reached “substantial conclusion”...
The numbers from Beijing’s statistics bureau tell one story. The street-level reality tells another. On 15 April 2026, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that GDP...
Home loans have become more expensive in North America and Europe despite central banks keeping rates on hold The war no one wanted is now costing...
Southeast Asia has minted 64 unicorns. It has built ride-hailing empires, mobile payment networks, and e-commerce platforms that reach hundreds of millions of consumers across one...
Pakistan has now signed 25 arrangements with the International Monetary Fund. Twenty-five. The first was in 1958, when Eisenhower was in the White House and Pakistan...
For most of the past two years, the dominant assumption in Washington’s corridors was that the Trump administration would keep its hands off frontier AI. The...
