President Vladimir Putin’s trip to China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit is being used by Moscow as a targeted push to arrest a slide in bilateral commerce and to convert high-level diplomatic warmth into tangible economic commitments. Russian officials have signalled that the...

India is forecast to increase purchases of Russian crude in September as refiners lock in discounted barrels offered amid logistic disruptions in Russia’s refining system. Traders and analysts working the region say preliminary purchase patterns point to a rise worth roughly 150,000–300,000 barrels...

Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, pushed back against market worries that the artificial intelligence investment surge may be ebbing, arguing on the company’s latest earnings call that the AI infrastructure wave remains in its early stages and will expand into a multi-trillion-dollar...

Britain’s ambition to reach net zero emissions by 2050 is being stalled not by a shortage of commitment but by a tangle of high industrial power bills, market mechanics that let gas set prices even when renewables supply most electricity, and policy choices that create perverse incentives for...

In 2025, US firms repurchased $1 trillion of their own shares in a record timeframe, according to MarketWatch, referencing specialists from Birinyi Associates. Birinyi, which examines the stock market, reported that the trillion-dollar threshold was surpassed on August 20. Throughout the year,...

International trader Vitol Group is set to conduct its initial shipment of Syrian oil following the lifting of Western sanctions, according to Bloomberg, which cites informed sources. As per the sources, the delivery is scheduled for Wednesday, and the oil will be dispatched to an oil refinery in...

China has stepped up a concerted drive to steer private industry toward older consumers, framing the so-called “silver economy” as a practical policy lever to address two intertwined problems: a rapidly ageing population that threatens long-term growth and rising strains on public finances and a...

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook moved on Tuesday to legally block President Donald Trump’s effort to remove her from the central bank’s governing board, setting up a constitutional confrontation that crystallizes months of public pressure from the White House on the Federal Reserve. Cook’s...

India is revamping its benchmark consumer price index to directly incorporate price data from leading e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and Flipkart. The move comes as part of a broader overhaul of inflation measurement, aimed at capturing the rapidly evolving consumption patterns of households...