Four years into a sanctions regime designed to choke off the revenue funding Russia’s war in Ukraine, 2026 has produced an outcome few architects of that...
China’s economy has just delivered its weakest quarterly result since the depths of the pandemic recovery, and the number that matters most isn’t the headline growth...
Markets have a habit of treating a crisis as “priced in” the moment the headlines fade. That instinct may be badly wrong this time. According to...
Six months ago, the consensus on Wall Street was simple: the Federal Reserve would spend 2026 cutting rates toward neutral. That consensus is dead. Under new...
Gold reached an all-time peak near $5,600 an ounce in January 2026 before easing to an intra-year floor of $4,170, according to J.P. Morgan Global Research,...
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, sworn in on May 22, 2026, used his first appearance at the European Central Bank’s Sintra forum to tie the future...
Dubai recorded 296 home sales above $10 million in the first half of 2026 — a record $5.1 billion in ultra-prime transactions, according to Knight Frank...
The Bank of Canada held its policy rate at 2.25% on July 15, extending a pause that began after its final cut in October 2025, while...
UK inflation held at 2.8% in May 2026, unchanged from April, but the Bank of England’s own forward guidance tells a less reassuring story: Governor Andrew...
Russia’s GDP contracted 0.2% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, and full-year growth projections have been cut to just 0.4%, worse than 2025’s 1% expansion...