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Macro · Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said US inflation remains too high and declined to signal what the central bank will do at…
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EU · Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Annual inflation in the euro area slowed to 2.8 percent in June, from 3.2 percent in May, according to Eurostat's flash estimate,…
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China · Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min read
China's factory activity improved slightly in June, with the official manufacturing purchasing managers' index rising to 50.3 from 50.0 in May, pointing…
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Global · Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers rose to an eight year high in the second quarter, according to the Bank of Japan's…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 1, 2026 · 4 min read
Gold ended the second quarter with its sharpest quarterly loss in 13 years, as a hawkish shift in US rate expectations outweighed…
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Macro · Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min read
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said UK inflation could rise to about 3.2 percent before easing, underlining the difficult balance facing…
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Global · Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Wall Street extended its rally on the final session of the first half, led again by technology shares, while European markets also…
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Energy & Commodities · Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Silver led a stronger session for metals on Tuesday, natural gas rebounded and crude oil eased, with US West Texas Intermediate settling…
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Global · Jun 30, 2026 · 5 min read
Global reserve managers are not abandoning the US dollar, but they are increasingly questioning how much additional dollar exposure they want to…
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Global · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Egyptian stocks led a mixed regional session on Tuesday, with the EGX 30 rebounding back above the 50,000 level, while Gulf markets…
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Macro · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 min read
The UK's external deficit narrowed sharply in the first quarter of 2026 as a jump in investment income outweighed a wider trade…
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Global · Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer inflation in Tokyo picked up in June, the fastest pace in three months, reinforcing expectations that the Bank of Japan will…
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Cheiron Energy, one of Egypt’s largest independent oil and gas producers, has raised about 550 million dollars from a consortium of Gulf and international banks to develop gas fields in Egypt and refinance existing debt, according to people familiar with the matter. The facility, arranged through its financing arm Cheiron Finance Limited, ranks among the…
Abu Dhabi’s national oil company is giving buyers of some of its crude a way to take delivery without sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Bloomberg report, an unusual adjustment to the way the oil is priced that underscores how the region’s main shipping chokepoint has moved to the centre of the…
The region’s first trading session since the escalation began ended with no rout, with orderly closes at every exchange that had published by evening. TASI closed 0.10 percent higher at 10,818.98 after a weaker morning stretch, per the session data, Boursa Kuwait’s All Share Index added 0.15 percent to 8,676.04, and the moves across Amman,…
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday, accusing the ChatGPT maker of misappropriating hardware trade secrets to jumpstart its push into consumer devices, in one of the highest-stakes legal fights yet between the technology industry’s incumbent giants and its dominant AI startup. The…
The coming week compresses the quarter’s biggest catalysts into four days: OPEC’s monthly report opens the week, the first full post-escalation US inflation reading lands Tuesday alongside five major American banks’ results, and Thursday brings the Bank of Korea’s rate decision, UK growth, US retail sales, and results from TSMC and Netflix. Monday brings OPEC’s…
Chinese officials have told Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek in recent weeks that they may soon receive permission to buy Nvidia H200 chips, The Information reported on Wednesday, in a story carried by both Reuters and Bloomberg, marking what would be Beijing’s side of the door opening after Washington cleared such sales earlier this year. Approvals…
Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song told lawmakers on Thursday that interest rates will need to rise, the clearest signal yet that Asia’s fourth-largest economy is turning toward tightening as war-driven energy costs push inflation further above target ahead of the central bank’s rate decision on Thursday 16 July. “I believe there needs to be…
Global oil supply rebounded by a sharp 4.1 million barrels a day to 98.8 million barrels a day in June as tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz partially resumed, the International Energy Agency said in its July Oil Market Report, offering the most detailed accounting yet of how the market is healing from one…
The People’s Bank of China said it will continue to apply an appropriately accommodative monetary policy and step up countercyclical and cross-cyclical adjustment, in the readout of its monetary policy committee’s second-quarter meeting, held on 4 July and published on 8 July and carried by the official Xinhua news agency. The committee pledged to keep…
French consumer price inflation slowed to 1.8 percent in June from 2.4 percent in May, the statistics office INSEE confirmed on Friday, matching its flash estimate. The EU-harmonised measure eased to 2.0 percent from 2.8 percent. On the month, consumer prices fell 0.3 percent, with the monthly CPI change revised down 0.1 point from the…