The European Union is set to introduce new reforms aimed at holding ecommerce platforms such as Temu, Shein, and Amazon Marketplace accountable for selling dangerous or illegal goods, especially those imported from
U.S. President Donald Trump has renewed his claim that he prevented a potential nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan, saying trade pressure and tariff threats forced both countries to halt hostilities during
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The world still has trade rules, but it increasingly lacks an enforcement mechanism that works fast enough to discipline temporary pressures before they harden into permanent structural outcomes that hobble the global
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Pakistan’s trade deficit with nine neighbouring countries widened sharply in the first half of fiscal year 2025–2026, underscoring mounting challenges in its regional trade balance, with Sri Lanka among the countries seeing
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China’s central bank continued to add to its gold reserves in January, extending its buying streak to a fifteenth consecutive month, according to data released by the People’s Bank of China, underscoring
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Alphabet, the technology conglomerate behind Google, announced fourth-quarter revenue of $113.8 billion on Wednesday, an 18 percent increase year-on-year and slightly above Wall Street expectations. Net income rose 30 percent to $34.5
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China’s state-owned aluminium giant Chalco and Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto have agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Brazil’s Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) in a transaction valued at US$886 million, marking
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A packed global election calendar in 2026 is emerging as a fresh source of volatility for financial markets already unsettled by abrupt shifts in US policy and rising geopolitical tension. From Japan
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BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink has joined US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine team as a “prosperity adviser,” marking a renewed effort by Washington to channel Western investment into the war-torn country. The
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OpenAI has reorganized its leadership and appointed a familiar executive to lead its push into the enterprise market, signaling a renewed urgency to regain ground against rivals that are steadily eating into
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by Durga Jamie Dimon’s conversation with The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes at the World Economic Forum in Davos was, in many ways, a warning shot fired across the bow of global
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