Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, and her Liberal Democratic Party secured a supermajority in the February elections, ...

Global energy prices have surged in response to the 2026 Iran War, fuelling concerns about widespread lingering inflation ...

During periods of low interest rates, deposits were regarded as the banking system’s most reliable asset, with customer funds stored in bank accounts. As monetary policy evolves and competition for ...

Batteries have advanced significantly, becoming a crucial component across a range of products, applications and industries. The revolution in battery technology will have far-reaching effects on the ...

Global growth is expected to remain remarkably resilient in 2026, even as the impacts of US tariffs continue to flow through. The worst fears of 2025 did not materialise. Not only did global trade ...

US bond markets have defied the expectations of many an investor and market analyst over the last 18 months. After a long period during which slowing inflation was assumed to naturally translate into ...

The prevailing global financial architecture has long been dominated by Western institutions and currencies, especially the US dollar. So, when the BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and ...

Surveying the technological landscape of early 2026, it should come as no surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is set to dominate the headlines for another year. Given the substantial ...

“Must we starve our children to pay our debts?” Julius Nyerere, former president of Tanzania, speaking in 1987. In June 2025, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported ...

AheadForm Technology, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid-robotics company, announced on October 14 that it had developed the Elf V1. According to reports, the new droid’s bionic skin ...

The global payment landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by new ideas, innovation and the race towards faster, more efficient and digitalised payments. Yet the move towards instant ...