The Middle East conflict underscores vital issues in trade and trade finance. To strengthen global trade, three lessons must ...

Calling Europe’s performance through the Middle East shock merely “resilient” almost understates the case. In the spring, economists were braced for something closer to stagflation: weaker growth, ...

Democrats won majorities in both houses of the US Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives, during the November 3 midterm elections. Living costs and the US–Israeli war with Iran were ...

In October, Brazil’s incumbent centre-left president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, won a fourth term, surprising many investors. As public-debt … ...

Despite losing the first election round to opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, 80-year-old Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) staged a resounding comeback in the October 25 Brazilian runoff to secure a fourth ...

Figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on October 20 showed that sales of newly built residential properties fell 13.7 percent by value in January–September 2026 compared with ...

For Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 to succeed, every sector, especially banking, must contribute. To finance the programme, banks secure their own funding. With public-sector deposits insufficient, banks ...

According to the United Nations (UN), less than 17 percent of the $46 billion needed to meet global humanitarian needs in 2025 had been received by the end of June. The UN’s Office for the ...