Aramco CEO warns 1 billion barrels lost will slow oil market recovery
Saudi energy giant posts 25% jump in quarterly profit even as Hormuz blockade chokes global oil supplies Aramco’s…
How Bangladesh’s premium consumer market lost its shine
Retailers selling premium and imported products describe the same picture: weakening footfall, unsold stock piling up, and customers…
Newsquawk Week in Focus: US Inflation and Retail Sales, Chinese inflation, Trump-Xi meet
Sat: Chinese TradeMon: Chinese Inflation (Apr), Norwegian Inflation (Apr)Tue: BoJ SOO (Apr), IEA STEO (May), EU Informal Meeting…
Saudi economy delivering for new and old friends alike
RIYADH: As Saudi Arabia’s economy continues to grow, the Kingdom is seeking to strike the balance between maintaining…
India’s farms dodged the Hormuz crisis, but its budget didn’t
The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels on 17 April 2026 came as a great…
The bond vigilantes are back, and a Starmer coup would cost us all
Today I want to start by taking you a long way away — in fact, all the way…
Iran war is draining world’s oil buffer at an unprecedented pace
The world has burned through oil inventories at a record speed as the Iran war throttles flows from…
£40,000 being knocked off mortgages for thousands of UK households
67 per cent of home buyers are using this method to try to become mortgage-free by 40, analysis…
Russian debt defaults are surging as Putin hides in bunkers fixated on war instead of the economy
The Russian economy is now shrinking, and businesses are having more trouble keeping up with debt payments, representing…
Rising Gas Prices and April CPI Seen Adding Pressure on US Household Budgets
A fresh batch of consumer price data in the coming week is likely to affirm Americans’ growing frustration…
China’s AI drive seen widening wealth gap, testing ‘common prosperity’ push
China wants artificial intelligence to become a new engine of growth, powering everything from factory upgrades to scientific…
Explaining the K-Shaped Economy: What’s Behind the Divide?
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Thu Pham, Beck Pierce, and Maxim L. Pinkovskiy In our companion post, we used a new…