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Fuel prices diverge across West Africa over Iran war

Varying fiscal policies have left some countries’ fuel prices double the level of their neighbors’.

DR Congo and Angola sign new Lobito deal

The Lobito Corridor links mineral-rich DR Congo and Zambia to Angola’s Atlantic ports.

Economic ‘doom loop’ threatens Johannesburg, report says

The city is “living off a fiscal fiction,” said the Centre for Development and Enterprise think tank.

Wheat hit a three-year high, amid trade route disruptions

Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up attacks on a key transit route for a large share of global grain exports.

Markets eye Warsh's speech for interest rate insight

Traders are overwhelmingly betting that the Fed will raise rates at least once over the next year.

US eyes 'massive' stake in Venezuela's oil resources

The proposed deal would give Washington part ownership of fields containing 90 billion barrels’ worth of proven crude de...

Crude Calculations: Why the Iran War Hasn’t Yet Caused an Oil Shock

The Iran war has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in market history yet barely dented global growth after six...

‘We go big’: Jon Gray on how Blackstone places its AI bets

The $1.3 trillion firm is staying bullish but investing “through the lens that this may change.”

Warsh expected to skirt Fed independence at conference

The Federal Reserve chair’s critics hope he takes the opportunity to show his independence from the president.

A Great Rebalancing Is Coming

Who will bear the costs of a global trade adjustment?

WTO members adopt panel report regarding EU duties on fatty acid from Indonesia

At a meeting on 28 August of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), WTO members adopted a panel report regarding the Europea...

Madagascar launches safeguard investigation on self-adhesive labels, packaging and certain other printed items

On 28 August 2026, Madagascar notified the WTO’s Committee on Safeguards that it had initiated on 13 August 2026 a safeg...

Iran braces for unrest amid economic crisis

The threat of sanctions triggered panic buying for food and fuel this week, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb

After leading the Magnificent 7 over much of the last 16 months, the tech giant is on shakier footing.

Shein plots post-IPO comeback through dealmaking

Shein is pursuing what is internally described as a plan to become the “Amazon Web Services,” Bloomberg reported.

Trump’s trade war hands Democrats a campaign-trail gift

The president’s steep new tariffs on Canadian goods are uniting his often-split opponents in the swing state of Michigan...

Iran braces for economic unrest

The US campaign to inflict economic pain on Iran is squeezing the Iranian people, but is unlikely to move their leaders ...

Who’s Who in Brazil’s Historic Bank Master Fraud Case?

Who’s Who in Brazil’s Historic Bank Master Fraud Case? As authorities unravel the Bank Master scandal, more and more peo...

A Timeline of Brazil’s Bank Master Scandal

A Timeline of Brazil’s Bank Master Scandal As the Bank Master scandal continues to unfold, here is a play-by-play of the...

China’s Green Exports to Europe Are a Bright Spot Amid Trade Tensions 

Climate change and the Iran war are driving many European consumers to Chinese-made electric vehicles despite EU tariffs...

The Real Cost of the U.S.-Canada Trade Breakdown

Canada is the first U.S. ally to absorb tariff pain rather than settle. CFR’s Brad W. Setser explains what the breakdown...

China’s Tourism Industry Gains Momentum Thanks to Visa-Free Policies

China is poised to become a global powerhouse as both a source and destination for international tourism.

TotalEnergies Exits Arctic LNG 2 Project

The French energy company transferred its 10% stake in the project to a subsidiary of Novatek.

The donor-dependency trap in multilateral finance

A push to loosen earmarking has stalled for a decade and still doesn’t get at the root problem.

The Gulf faces uneven rebound from war downturn

As diplomats, schoolchildren, and executives trickle back into the region, inbound flight data for August paints a pictu...

LEAP returns to a changed Gulf after months-long delay

Chief executives including HUMAIN’s Tareq Amin, Cisco’s Chuck Robbins, and AMD’s Lisa Su are expected to speak.

Europe's warning for US gas exporters

Europe is facing a test of how much it has learned from half a decade of successive energy shocks — and US gas exporters...

Talk is cheap: Europe’s defence promise meets the EU budget

At July’s NATO summit in Ankara, European leaders accepted that they must carry more of their own defence. Turning that ...

Meeting of 22-23 July 2026

Rising US debt levels threaten to curtail domestic and foreign power

“Geopolitical power and fiscal capacity complement each other,” an analyst wrote in the Financial Times.

Global central bankers gather in Jackson Hole

US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has mostly remained silent on his plans for the department since his appointment in...

Senate Republican floats new tariffs on South Korea

Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is urging US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to consider imposing tariffs on South Korea...

Right-leaning US groups push chip curbs

“Dominance in the design and manufacture of advanced AI semiconductors is a national and economic security imperative fo...

Fed’s Warsh faces high stakes ahead of Jackson Hole conference

The Federal Reserve chair will have his biggest audience yet when he delivers the keynote speech at the Kansas City Fed’...

US eyes potential bans on Canadian imports

President Donald Trump has already pledged to hike tariffs on Canadian steel to 50%, beginning Jan. 1.

North Korea to supply luxury anti-aging cosmetics to Russia: records

A North Korean luxury skincare brand is set to ship its ginseng-based anti-aging creams to the Russian market, according...

Trump's war and tariffs are having a nasty effect on interest rates

Over the last month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has engaged in two controversial and rare interventions in financi...

China's workers worry over being replaced as they adapt to growing impact of AI on jobs

Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun's boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Tw...

Nvidia posts blowout quarter amid sustained chip demand

The chipmaking giant, widely considered a bellwether for the AI market, crushed analysts’ expectations with $96.2 billio...

Iran, Oman hammer out Hormuz revenue-sharing deal

Iran said it had reached a revenue-sharing deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, but disagreements reportedly remain b...