The war in Iran has sent energy prices soaring, pushing Asian countries reliant on imported oil and gas to prioritise energy security. Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have exposed ...

India, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, is beginning to show signs of slowing down. The surge in energy prices ...

Pope Leo XIV signed the first papal encyclical regarding artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas, in May. Several ...

Italy’s banking sector is undergoing an unprecedented push toward mergers and acquisitions, with the country’s largest financial institutions convinced they must expand to escape being acquired, a ...

Investors use credit ratings to make well-informed assessments of a bank’s condition. Banks with fewer problematic loans and more stable profits are rated more favorably by top credit-rating agencies.

European equities completed the first half of 2026 with a powerful second-quarter (Q2) advance. The MSCI Europe Index, covering 397 large and mid-sized companies across 15 developed European markets, ...

The jump in oil prices after the outbreak of the Iran-US-Israel war in February and the surge in US and global spending on AI-related investment capex (capital expenditure) have rekindled financial ...

Every wealth hub ultimately rests on something the league tables never quite capture: the decision of an individual—and usually an entire family—to entrust their future to a particular city and a ...

On Chinese social media, the word neijuan—involution—has become shorthand for the grinding sense that everyone is racing harder but getting nowhere. State media officially refers to it as “rat ...

For the financial year ended March 2026, Japan’s three largest banking groups—Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) and Mizuho Financial Group—earned a combined ...