Banks, markets, central banks, and the data driving the global economy.
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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