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Roaring global growth is emerging
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 11/02/2026
» The chaotic newsflow, geopolitical shape-shifting and wild market swings of 2026 have clouded one basic signal: the global economy is racing forward.
Humanity's alignment problem
News, Antara Haldar, Published on 06/01/2026
» It's lunchtime on top of the world again. Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue released two weeks ago has revived the iconic Depression-era photograph of steelworkers casually lunching on a beam suspended over Manhattan. With the city rising beneath them, the image portrays risk as normalised, even glamourised.
Economy will pop with AI bubble
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 07/10/2025
» The old truism that the stock market is not the economy risks underplaying how much today's powerful investment trends could impact the prosperity and lives of the whole country.
Brexit's parallels with Trump's tariffs tell a tale
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 06/08/2025
» In figuring out why the US tariff shock hasn't sent the economy or financial world into a tailspin, Britain's exit from the European Union trade bloc provides something of a playbook -- and without a particularly happy ending.
S112 fit for purpose
News, Postbag, Published on 13/07/2025
» Re: "MPs take up amnesty proposals", (BP, July 10).
Why banks keep lowering their climate targets
News, Alastair Marsh, Published on 12/03/2025
» When Morgan Stanley moved the goalposts back on its climate targets in October, members of the industry's biggest climate alliance were caught off guard.
Three foreign crime suspects arrested on Koh Phangan
News, Supapong Chaolan and Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 20/12/2024
» SURAT THANI - Three foreigners have been arrested on Koh Phangan for selling and possessing illicit drugs, money laundering and running a business using a Thai national as a nominee.
Steep learning curves -- election heat for bonds
News, Mike Dolan, Published on 05/07/2024
» Some might wonder why it took so long, but the risk that this year's key elections exaggerate rather than rein in bloated public debt is finally seeing long-term sovereign bonds rear up.
All homes grow old and China will get used to it
News, Shuli Ren, Published on 01/06/2024
» Chinese love new apartment buildings, my real estate agent told me last year as I was looking to buy property in Hong Kong. Seeing herself as an investment adviser of sorts, she was breaking down my exit options, such as flipping it to a mainland investor a few years later.
An early look at the 2025 market
News, Javier Blas, Published on 12/01/2024
» The 2024 oil market is still in its infancy, but attention is already shifting to 2025. If the global economy is starting to abandon its oil addiction, as optimists contend, the first signs of the energy transition should emerge by next year. Spoiler alert: early indications are that the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel industry remains elusive.