China’s debt ratio dips as households cut borrowing and firms slash investment: report
China’s debt-to-GDP ratio fell in the second quarter for the first time since 2022, even as the government…
China retail May 2026: Market down -21.8%, Leapmotor breaks record, BYD down -37.2%, VW off -43.3% – Best Selling Cars Blog
Leapmotor breaks its volume record in May thanks to the new A10 crossover. Today we can share with…
West Africa moves to rewrite fuel pricing as Nigeria seeks regional benchmark for petroleum trade
Nigeria’s Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) said the proposal will be a central focus of…
‘Nigeria’s economy growing faster than population’ – Emir Sanusi on CBN reforms
The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has said the Nigerian economy is growing faster than its population…
Multiple wars drive up the price of diesel
Diesel fuel is in especially short supply right now — for factors geopolitical and otherwise — driving prices…
Average 30-year U.S. mortgage rate rises to highest level in a year
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the fourth consecutive week to its highest level in a…
Standing Still as Inflation Runs Hot
The Federal Reserve held its target range for the federal funds rate at 3.5 to 3.75 percent on…
‘St Vincent in fiscal, economic crisis with no clear path forward’
Ralph Gonsalves characterizes the current state of the country as being enveloped in a “fiscal and economic crisis”…
Shared beds, shrinking budgets: China’s young workers feel economic squeeze
Chinese sales agent Winnie Zeng has taken an unusual step to protect herself from an uncertain future: she…
Who will pay the price to keep NZ Super affordable?
Economists say two new Treasury papers make it clear there’s no easy fix to keep New Zealand’s pension…
Chinese manufacturing slows in July in first contraction in 5 months
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s factory activity unexpectedly slowed in July, the first such contraction in five months,…
One country holds an estimated twenty-four trillion dollars in mineral wealth beneath its soil — cobalt and copper, the very metals that power the phones and electric cars of the modern world — and it remains among the five poorest nations on Earth
The cobalt in a phone bought in Sydney or Seoul almost certainly came out of the ground in…