When Donald Trump returned to the White House with a renewed “America First” mandate, the expectation across capitals was that China would be the primary economic casualty. Instead, a year into the presidency, a different dynamic has taken hold. The administration’s confrontational trade stance,...

China’s return to annual industrial profit growth in 2025 marks a significant inflection point after four years of contraction and stagnation. The modest 0.6% rise may appear limited in scale, but its importance lies in what it reveals about the evolving mechanics of the Chinese economy. After...

President Donald Trump has once again placed tariffs at the center of U.S. trade policy, announcing higher duties on South Korean imports while explicitly tying the move to delays inside Seoul’s legislative system. The decision reflects a familiar pattern in Trump’s economic diplomacy: using...

The lawsuit filed by Donald Trump against JPMorgan Chase and its chief executive Jamie Dimon is more than a personal grievance elevated into court. It represents a crystallisation of a deeper and increasingly adversarial relationship between Trump’s political project and the institutions that...

India and the European Union are moving toward a comprehensive trade and partnership framework that goes far beyond tariff adjustments, reshaping how both sides think about market access, industrial policy, and long-term strategic alignment. While early attention has focused on proposed reductions...

Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the oil and gas production and exploration sector is expected to keep falling in 2026, following a 17% decline in 2025, as reported by Rystad Energy analysts. In 2025, the total value of global upstream M&A deals reached $170 billion, with the...

Indian pharmaceutical companies have moved decisively into one of the most lucrative therapeutic categories of the decade, after receiving regulatory approval to manufacture and sell generic versions of semaglutide-based drugs used for obesity and diabetes. The approvals signal a structural shift...

Donald Trump’s decision to file a $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its longtime chief executive Jamie Dimon marks a pivotal moment in the growing conflict between political power and the modern banking system. At its core, the case is not simply about closed accounts. It is an attempt...

Silver’s surge beyond the $100-an-ounce mark represents one of the most extreme price dislocations the metal has experienced in decades, but the move is best understood not as a sudden transformation in end-use demand, but as the culmination of speculative behaviour feeding on long-standing market...