The United States has moved to significantly ease sanctions on Venezuela’s energy industry, granting wide-ranging authorizations that allow major international oil companies to operate, invest, and expand activities in the OPEC member state. The decision marks a calculated recalibration of policy,...

The European Central Bank has moved to permanently widen access to its euro liquidity backstop, transforming what was once a limited crisis-era tool into a standing global facility designed to underpin the international role of the single currency. By making euro repo lines broadly available to...

As lanterns rise and families prepare for the annual Spring Festival migration, China’s technology sector marks the holiday in a markedly different way than it did a year ago. Then, a relatively unknown startup jolted the domestic and global artificial intelligence landscape. Now, established...

U.S. banking regulators are edging closer to unveiling a revised framework that would reshape how the nation’s largest lenders measure risk and hold capital, signaling a recalibration rather than a retreat from global reform standards. Recent regulatory filings indicate that key agencies are...

Venezuela's oil production decreased by 210,000 barrels per day in January, reaching 780,000 barrels per day, compared to the previous month. However, the International Energy Agency's monthly report suggests that production is anticipated to rise following the U.S. decision to permit...

Across European capitals, a common refrain has taken hold: the European Union must act decisively if it is to compete with the scale, speed and strategic ambition of the United States and China. What was once a gradual debate about productivity and integration has evolved into a more urgent...

The European Investment Fund (EIF) along with the sovereign wealth funds from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have entered into an agreement to set up the Baltic Innovation Fund 3 (BIF 3), which will have a total amount of €225 million. The Estonian Ministry of Economy states that the EIF will...

Switzerland is planning to conduct a vote where citizens will decide on a plan to limit the nation's population to 10 million people. The government has announced that a vote on the initiative, which is backed by the influential right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), will occur in mid-June....

When small groups of Indian workers began arriving at Moscow’s airports in noticeably larger numbers, it reflected more than a routine expansion of migrant labour. It signaled a structural adjustment in Russia’s workforce strategy—one shaped by war, demographics and shifting regional migration...