Behind the lights and vast stadia hosting the 2026 World Cup across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, a giant economic engine will be in motion,…
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Just over a year ago, Mark Carney became prime minister of Canada amid an exceptional political and trade storm. Already a figure of international…
In 1896, US inventor and businessman Thomas Edison published a short science fiction story titled In the Deep of Time, in which he described advanced…
More than two months after the bombing began, the US-Israeli war against Iran has become an uneven stress test for world economies, presenting them…
The moment that US President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire on 8 April 2026, markets breathed a sigh of relief after a period of acute…
In a world that increasingly depends on natural resources beyond oil, Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has dealt a significant blow…
In a world where more than 95% of international data flows through unseen submarine cables, the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab are no longer…
As the global economic fallout from the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to mount, the conflict is creating the largest oil supply disruption in…
It was always thus that cheap oil was bad news for the big oil producers. Yet despite the falling global oil prices, the Gulf Cooperation Council…
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Israeli attacks make a mockery of Lebanon ceasefire
