There’s a version of this story that writes itself: a shooting war breaks out between Israel, the US and Iran, oil markets seize up, the Strait...
The US Treasury Department has moved aggressively against a sanctions-evasion network linking Russia and China, exposing a secret payment channel used to facilitate cross-border transactions for...
Indonesia’s economy expanded 5.61% in the first quarter of 2026, its fastest pace in more than three years, driven by a surge in government spending and...
Singapore is launching a gold clearing system in a bid to establish itself as a regional hub for precious-metals trading, a move that positions the city-state...
Malaysia’s government has declared 2026 a year of “execution” and “discipline” as the Anwar Ibrahim administration races to deliver on the 13th Malaysia Plan (RMK13) ahead...
The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board has completed the third review of Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility and the second review of its Resilience and Sustainability Facility,...
The US Federal Reserve has quietly abandoned one of its most consequential communication tools. New Fed chair Kevin Warsh has told markets he no longer intends...
China has now recorded six consecutive quarters of falling prices, a deflationary cycle that Beijing’s traditional playbook of aggressive monetary easing and fiscal stimulus has so...
Semiconductor stocks that had roughly doubled during the second quarter of 2026 have started unwinding those gains fast, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index losing 6.7% in...
Economic policy in 2026 is being shaped less by parliaments than by the working papers, staff estimates, and forecasting models produced inside a small cluster of...