Banks, markets, central banks, and the data driving the global economy.
A single compromised laptop is being blamed for what may be the largest crypto theft in history, with investigators already pointing toward North Korea and the hacker apparently using a lending platform to launder the stolen funds.
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Manus Costello says the worldwide race to build data centers is landing squarely in Standard Chartered's emerging-markets footprint, and he expects Asia to be one of the bank's strongest growth stories as a result.
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As Anthropic heads toward a Nasdaq listing with revenue up more than tenfold in a year, CFO Krishna Rao's biggest job isn't the balance sheet, it's making sure the company never runs short of the compute it depends on.
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At MarketSmart, we believe ‘momentum’ is the principal word when it comes to FOXT. Particularly, momentum with molybdenum, a critical metal with prices that have risen significantly in 2026, and whic…
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The investor who became famous for calling the 2008 housing crash has turned his skepticism into a short, personal list of life advice, and most of it is about staying free of the obligations that quietly lock people in place.
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Daiichi Life is setting aside 1% of its assets for gold, a modest-sounding number that still works out to billions of dollars, and a sign of how nervous Japan's insurance giants have become about the usual mix of stocks and bonds.
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Twenty-five years after coining the term that reshaped how the world talks about emerging markets, Jim O'Neill says the grouping only works because of India and China, and that Europe's complacency is part of the problem.
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A top U.S. Treasury official says Japan is on a positive inflation trajectory, a marked softening from the pressure Washington was applying just a month earlier over Prime Minister Takaichi's economic direction.
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Beijing is spending a bigger share of the national budget just to service old debt than at any point in over a decade, and the bill is projected to keep climbing well past 2030.
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Mark Cuban argues the layoffs everyone is blaming on artificial intelligence have a bigger, quieter cause: what it now costs an employer just to keep a worker insured.
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Between 2015 and 2025 the S&P 500 gained nearly three times what home prices did nationwide, a gap wide enough that renting and investing the difference now looks like the better bet in most of the country.
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Midterm election years have followed a remarkably consistent script for the stock market since 1950, a rough late summer stretch followed by a strong finish, and strategists say this year has stuck to the pattern so far.
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OpenAI is in early talks with investors over a funding round that could value the company at 1.2 trillion dollars or more, a jump that would upend the valuation gap with Anthropic just weeks after it opened.
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Fox Tungsten is fully cashed up for their ongoing drilling program, is in possession of a standout asset, and has considerable long-term value in a critical market. And make no mistake, folks – FOXT…
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The 10 year Treasury yield touched 5 percent this week for the first time on a sustained basis since 2007, arriving despite weeks of Treasury intervention meant to hold the line and reviving warnings about where the national debt is headed.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dared traders to bet against him on the yen and tripled a bond buyback to hold down borrowing costs. Days later the 10 year Treasury yield closed in on 5 percent anyway.
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A striking gap has opened on the private markets for AI stock. A realistic minimum stake in Anthropic now starts around 25 million dollars, while a position in OpenAI can be had for a fraction of that.
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Scott Bessent says America can simply grow its way past a 40 trillion dollar national debt. The economist who runs Penn's budget model calls the story fantastic, and says the underlying math points the opposite direction.
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Japan's rising bond yields and a shaky political mandate are putting pressure on a decades old pillar of cheap global financing, the yen carry trade, and unwinding it would not stay confined to Tokyo.
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Scott Bessent doubled the government's purchases of long dated Treasuries to calm a restless bond market, but economists who have watched this playbook before say the size of the check was never the variable that decided whether it would work.
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Long term borrowing costs in America, Britain and Japan have climbed to levels not seen in decades, and elected governments that once treated deficits as a distant worry are now being priced by markets that no longer take fiscal discipline on faith.
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Daron Acemoglu is the most cited economist of his generation, a Nobel laureate whose models reach into everything from ancient history to artificial intelligence. The strange thing is how often his dazzling machinery produces conclusions that fail to persuade.
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Cryptocurrency debit card provider faces mounting allegations of defrauding clients through hidden fees, frozen withdrawals, and deceptive review practices.
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A wave of spending on data centres is now propping up growth, markets and even the plans of finance ministers. If the artificial intelligence payoff arrives late, or fails to arrive at all, a great many people will discover how much they were quietly counting on it.
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The new Federal Reserve chair wanted to sound flexible and free the central bank from its old habits. Instead he unsettled investors, sent long term yields climbing, and may have made the very rate rise he hoped to avoid more likely.
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A rally that made Seoul briefly the world's sixth largest market has reversed with terrifying speed, wiping out gains in weeks and catching an army of leveraged small investors on the wrong side. The trigger came from China.
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Sponsored by MarketSmart Communications Inc. on Behalf of Fox Tungsten Ltd. Authored by Lemuel Daher. The tungsten market is at historic highs. Rotterdam APT pricing of tungst…
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Brussels once told the world it would never chase American laxity on bank capital. Wall Street's profit boom has quietly changed the conversation, and the Commission's new competitiveness plan shows how far the mood has shifted.
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The firm is developing algorithmic trading systems on a par with the tools investment banks use for high frequency and strategic trading, and in 2026 it has begun testing advanced AI models in live conditions.
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Washington is forcing Chinese firms out of the United States while quietly working to hold on to the very technology they brought. It is a tricky balance, keep the know-how, lose the owner.
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After months of strikes and stalemate, Iran and its adversaries have reached a thin agreement that halts the bombing and lets the oil flow again. It buys calm, but it settles almost nothing.
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In 1956 a botched war over the Suez Canal quietly ended Britain's reign as the world's banker. Ray Dalio thinks today's stalemate with Iran, set against a mountain of debt, could mark a similar turn for the United States.
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UPS spent a century as the gold standard of parcel delivery. Now a leaner, faster FedEx is catching up, and the company built on brown trucks is fighting to prove it can still set the pace.
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For years, cutting off Iran's oil sales was the heart of American pressure on Tehran. Easing those sanctions hands Iran a flow of money and a measure of legitimacy that years of squeezing were meant to deny it.
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European savers pour their wealth into American shares, funding the very companies inventing the next era. The returns are real, yet the continent risks becoming a customer of the future rather than its maker.
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Spending has carried the United States economy past one gloomy forecast after another. Beneath the resilient headline, though, a widening gap between richer and poorer households is testing how long the run can last.
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