The euro’s recent retreat against the dollar is revealing how quickly currency markets can change when energy prices, political uncertainty and interest-rate expectations move in the same direction. The European currency had approached $1.20 earlier in the year but had fallen to just below $1.14 by...

China's decision to reduce tariffs on a broad range of American agricultural products represents a limited step toward easing trade tensions, but the exclusion of American soybeans shows that the most commercially sensitive parts of the relationship remain unresolved. The announced reductions cover...

China's industrial sector is generating substantially more profit than a year ago, but the latest figures reveal a recovery that is increasingly dependent on particular industries rather than broad-based improvement. Industrial profits rose 15.7% in the first eight months of 2026, reaching about...

Middle Eastern oil exports are recovering, but the September rebound says as much about the region’s ability to reroute supplies as it does about a return to normal market conditions. Crude exports from major regional producers are on track to reach about 12.8 million barrels per day in September,...

Persistent rain in the western US Midwest has delayed the early soybean harvest, forcing processors to compete aggressively for limited supplies just as America's soybean crushing industry has expanded to meet rising demand. Plants are offering unusually high premiums for immediate deliveries,...

The latest deterioration in the United States-Canada trade dispute is less about the immediate absence of a deal than about how both countries are redefining the value of economic pressure. The administration of President Donald Trump has indicated that it sees little urgency in reaching an...

The Federal Reserve is confronting a problem that goes beyond the latest inflation reading: the risk that prolonged price pressures could change how Americans think about inflation itself. Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack has warned that persistently elevated inflation could...

Australia's decision to call the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic before a Senate inquiry marks a significant shift in the country's debate over artificial intelligence. The immediate trigger is an incident in which an OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an...

Australia’s housing downturn is becoming an economic problem beyond falling property values. The more consequential damage for many businesses is coming from a decline in transactions, because every completed home sale normally triggers a chain of spending on moving, furniture, repairs, legal work,...

The movement of cotton apparel from Vietnam into the United States through manufacturers linked to sanctioned Chinese textile company Esquel Group highlights a difficult weakness in modern trade enforcement: restricting a company is considerably easier than proving that its wider commercial network...

Artificial intelligence is moving deeper into the international security debate as the United Nations Security Council prepares to hear directly from executives of some of the world's leading AI companies. The meeting reflects growing concern that increasingly capable systems could become more...