China is accelerating the transformation of its digital yuan from a limited payment experiment into a wider financial infrastructure project that could influence domestic banking, government spending, cross-border trade and international currency flows. The latest measures by the People’s Bank of...

The United States dollar is regaining momentum in global financial markets as investors increasingly position for a prolonged period of elevated interest rates and tighter monetary policy amid persistent inflation risks. After spending months trapped within a relatively narrow trading range, the...

Global equity markets climbed to fresh highs as investors cautiously increased exposure to technology and growth-linked assets, even while geopolitical tensions surrounding the United States and Iran continued threatening energy markets and inflation expectations. The rally across Asian equities...

Samsung Electronics’ breakthrough agreement with its semiconductor workers is rapidly becoming one of the most consequential labour developments in South Korea in recent years, signalling a structural shift in the balance of power between major conglomerates and organised unions. What initially...

European Central Bank board member Isabel Schnabel has intensified expectations of a possible interest rate increase by arguing that persistent energy-driven inflation risks now require a stronger monetary response, even if geopolitical tensions involving Iran ease in the near future. Her remarks...

In January-April, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced a 6.8% rise in foreign-invested companies compared to the same timeframe last year, totaling more than 530,000. As per Xinhua, the total accumulated foreign direct investment surpassed $3.6 trillion. During the reporting period, more than...

The growing overlap between President Donald Trump’s expanding cryptocurrency business interests and financial networks used by Iran’s largest digital asset exchange has intensified scrutiny over how global crypto infrastructure operates across political, regulatory, and geopolitical fault lines....

Kevin Warsh enters the leadership of the U.S. Federal Reserve at a moment when the central bank is confronting one of the most difficult policy environments since the inflation shocks that followed the pandemic years. His arrival as Fed chair does not simply represent a change in personnel at the...

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin (ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Global Billionaires list with a net worth of $272.3 billion as of May 21, per Forbes Real-Time Billionaires), stated in a CNBC interview that income taxes ought to be abolished for the bottom half of Americans. Bezos...