The U.S. dollar entered 2026 on noticeably softer footing, extending the implications of its steepest annual decline in nearly a decade. After losing close to a tenth of its value in 2025, the greenback began the new year under pressure from forces that go well beyond short-term market positioning....

Australia is witnessing a modern revival of gold fever, not driven by pickaxes and mass migration, but by soaring prices, advanced technology, and a cultural rediscovery of the country’s historic goldfields. As bullion prices surge to record levels, a new generation of prospectors is fanning out...

SoftBank’s decision to acquire data center investment firm DigitalBridge for $4 billion marks a strategic turning point in how the Japanese conglomerate intends to participate in the artificial intelligence boom. After years defined by high-risk equity stakes and platform-centric investments, the...

The global payments industry is quietly re-engineering itself for a future in which humans are no longer the primary actors at the checkout screen. Instead, artificial intelligence agents—software systems capable of reasoning, searching, negotiating, and executing transactions—are expected to...

Europe’s economic future is increasingly being shaped by a tension that policymakers can no longer postpone. On one side lies the imperative to compete in artificial intelligence, a technology reshaping productivity, defence, healthcare, and industrial power. On the other stands the continent’s...

The video game industry entered 2025 carrying unresolved tensions from the pandemic boom years and exited it reshaped by consolidation, delayed blockbusters, and a fundamental rethink of how games are made, distributed, and monetised. What initially looked like a year of momentum instead became one...

India’s accelerating water crisis is emerging as a strategic risk for global beverage companies, reshaping how they invest, operate and engage with communities across the country. What appears on the surface as a localised struggle in arid regions such as Rajasthan is, in reality, part of a...

The surge in retail investing during 2025 has done more than fuel a strong market rally. It has fundamentally altered how price discovery, momentum, and even institutional strategy unfold on Wall Street. After a record year of inflows and trading activity, individual investors are no longer a...

As trade policy uncertainty drags on, a quiet financial workaround has taken hold among U.S. companies squeezed by tariffs. Rather than waiting years for courts to decide whether levies imposed under emergency powers will be refunded, some firms are choosing to monetize the possibility now—by...

Nvidia’s plan to resume shipments of its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China by mid-February reflects a carefully calibrated shift in global technology trade, shaped as much by geopolitics as by supply chains and market demand. The move, still contingent on regulatory approvals on both...

China’s battery industry is entering a new phase of expansion, driven not by electric vehicles alone but by a convergence of domestic power market reforms and an unprecedented global buildout of data centres. What once appeared to be a supplementary segment of the clean-energy transition—battery...