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Traders of oil futures are a famously sunny bunch. On April 17th, after Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz “completely open,” the price of...
The Venetian convention hall in Las Vegas does not usually feel like a battlefield. But on April 22, 2026, when Thomas Kurian walked onto the Google...
A fourteen-day state of emergency on a nine-island atoll 4,000 kilometres from the nearest refinery is not a curiosity of geography. It is the first dispatch...
The US-Israel-Iran conflict has exposed a structural fault line beneath the Gulf’s gilded markets. What investors called safe havens are now ground zero for the most...
There is a particular kind of silence that follows the settlement of a long-overdue debt—not the silence of resolution, but of recalibration. When the State Bank...
The Bank’s landmark 2026 report is a significant intellectual evolution—but it is no blank cheque for state intervention. A careful reading reveals something more interesting, and...
By the time the votes are counted in November 2026, American democracy may have survived its most dangerous season — not because the election was stolen,...
The call came, as these things often do, without warning. A seasoned equity partner at one of the Big Four — two decades of late nights,...
On Thursday, April 24, 2026, two of the world’s most powerful technology companies delivered remarkably similar messages to their workforces, framed in the polished bureaucratic language...
Across 38 developed economies, the average tax wedge on wages climbed to 34.9 per cent in 2024 — its highest mark since 2017. Workers who survived...
