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Temporary Gains, Lasting Biology: Why Weight and Metabolic Risks Rebound After Obesity Drugs End

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Capital Returns to the Margins as Global Banks Position for a Venezuelan Reopening

Washington’s Transactional Turn Puts Greenland at the Center of a New Arctic Power Play

Nobel Rules Affirmed: Peace Prize Is Immutable, Non-Transferable, Nobel Institute Explains After Machado’s Trump Comments

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Washington Shields Venezuelan Oil Funds to Shape a Controlled Economic Reset

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Washington Shields Venezuelan Oil Funds to Shape a Controlled Economic Reset

Washington Shields Venezuelan Oil Funds to Shape a Controlled Economic Reset

Markets

The decision by Donald Trump to block U.S. courts and private creditors from seizing Venezuelan oil revenues held in American accounts represents a deliberate assertion of executive authority over a highly contested financial space. Signed through an emergency executive order, the move reflects a broader U.S. strategy to manage Venezuela’s post-Maduro transition by centralising control over its...
Capital Returns to the Margins as Global Banks Position for a Venezuelan Reopening

Capital Returns to the Margins as Global Banks Position for a Venezuelan Reopening

Markets

As Washington cautiously reopens channels to Venezuela’s oil sector, international banks are reassessing a market long considered untouchable. The shift is not driven by optimism alone but by calculation. Venezuela’s gradual reintegration into global energy trade is creating narrowly defined financial entry points—trade settlement, project finance, restructuring—that favor banks with scale,...
GM’s EV Reckoning: How Strategic Retrenchment and Market Shifts Are Driving a $6 Billion Writedown

GM’s EV Reckoning: How Strategic Retrenchment and Market Shifts Are Driving a $6 Billion Writedown

Companies

General Motors’ decision to take a $6 billion writedown tied to its electric vehicle strategy marks a significant inflection point for one of the auto industry’s most ambitious EV adopters. Once positioned as a leader intent on rapidly transitioning away from internal combustion engines, the company is now recalibrating its pace and scale in response to softer demand, shifting policy signals, and...
Mega-Merger Calculus: How Rio Tinto’s Renewed Push for Glencore Reflects a Changing Mining Industry

Mega-Merger Calculus: How Rio Tinto’s Renewed Push for Glencore Reflects a Changing Mining Industry

Companies

Early-stage talks between Rio Tinto and Glencore have reopened the possibility of one of the most consequential mergers the global mining industry has ever contemplated. A transaction combining the two would create the world’s largest miner by market value, reshaping competitive dynamics across iron ore, copper, aluminium and other critical resources. While the discussions remain tentative, the...
AI-Driven Memory Shock Reshapes Samsung’s Earnings Trajectory

AI-Driven Memory Shock Reshapes Samsung’s Earnings Trajectory

Companies

Samsung Electronics’ forecast of a threefold jump in quarterly operating profit marks more than a cyclical rebound. It signals a structural shift in the global semiconductor market, where artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed memory chips from a commoditized input into a strategic bottleneck. The South Korean conglomerate’s projection of record earnings reflects how deeply AI workloads...
Temporary Gains, Lasting Biology: Why Weight and Metabolic Risks Rebound After Obesity Drugs End

Temporary Gains, Lasting Biology: Why Weight and Metabolic Risks Rebound After Obesity Drugs End

Markets

The rapid rise of modern obesity medications has reshaped expectations around weight loss, metabolic health, and long-term disease prevention. Drugs that suppress appetite or alter hormonal signaling have delivered results that were previously unattainable for many patients, producing double-digit percentage weight reductions and sharp improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose...
Global Manufacturing Splits at Year-End as Europe Falters and Asia Gains Momentum

Global Manufacturing Splits at Year-End as Europe Falters and Asia Gains Momentum

Markets

Global factory activity ended 2025 on sharply divergent paths, underscoring how uneven the post-pandemic industrial recovery has become. Across Europe, manufacturing slipped deeper into contraction, weighed down by weak demand, cautious investment, and persistent structural headwinds. In contrast, large parts of Asia closed the year with renewed momentum, buoyed by a rebound in export orders,...
Tesla’s Loss of EV Leadership to Baidu Reflects a Market Shift, Not a Momentary Stumble

Tesla’s Loss of EV Leadership to Baidu Reflects a Market Shift, Not a Momentary Stumble

Companies

For much of the past decade, Tesla symbolised the global electric vehicle revolution, setting the pace on technology, scale, and brand power. Its displacement as the world’s top EV seller by BYD marks more than a symbolic change at the top of the leaderboard. It signals a structural shift in the global EV market, shaped by intensifying competition, changing policy support, and diverging strategic...
U.S. Chip Controls Harden as Security Calculus Overrides Market Logic

U.S. Chip Controls Harden as Security Calculus Overrides Market Logic

Markets

The decision to block a small semiconductor-related acquisition marked another step in the steady tightening of U.S. controls over advanced technology assets. While the financial scale of the transaction was modest, the reasoning behind the intervention was expansive. The move reflected a view that semiconductor capabilities, even at the margins of the industry, now carry strategic weight far...
Energy Markets Reassess Supply Dynamics as Venezuela’s Oil Future Is Thrown Open

Energy Markets Reassess Supply Dynamics as Venezuela’s Oil Future Is Thrown Open

Markets

The U.S. strike that removed Venezuela’s long-standing leadership immediately shifted the conversation in global energy markets from politics to barrels, refineries, and fuel prices. For traders, refiners, and policymakers, the central issue is not the shock of military action itself but what it does to expectations around the world’s largest proven oil reserves and how quickly those reserves...
Shifting Rate Expectations and Fiscal Unease Reset the Dollar’s Trajectory at the Start of 2026

Shifting Rate Expectations and Fiscal Unease Reset the Dollar’s Trajectory at the Start of 2026

Markets

The U.S. dollar entered 2026 on noticeably softer footing, extending the implications of its steepest annual decline in nearly a decade. After losing close to a tenth of its value in 2025, the greenback began the new year under pressure from forces that go well beyond short-term market positioning. Narrowing interest rate differentials, growing concern about U.S. fiscal sustainability, and...
Tesla’s Delivery Slump Exposes Demand Strains as Incentives Fade and Rivals Crowd the Market

Tesla’s Delivery Slump Exposes Demand Strains as Incentives Fade and Rivals Crowd the Market

Companies

Tesla is heading toward another weak quarter for vehicle deliveries, underscoring how quickly the electric vehicle pioneer’s growth narrative is being tested by policy shifts and intensifying competition. Once buoyed by generous tax incentives and first-mover advantage, the company is now confronting a market where affordability matters more than brand cachet and where rivals are closing the gap...

World

Nobel Rules Affirmed: Peace Prize Is Immutable, Non-Transferable, Nobel Institute Explains After Machado’s Trump Comments

Nobel Rules Affirmed: Peace Prize Is Immutable, Non-Transferable, Nobel Institute Explains After Machado’s Trump Comments
The Nobel Peace Prize remains one of the world’s most prestigious accolades, symbolizing international acknowledgment of individuals or organisations whose efforts have significantly advanced peace,...

Washington’s Transactional Turn Puts Greenland at the Center of a New Arctic Power Play

Washington’s Transactional Turn Puts Greenland at the Center of a New Arctic Power Play
The idea of the United States reshaping its territorial footprint through direct financial inducements has moved from speculative rhetoric to internal policy debate. Within the Trump administration,...

Diplomacy at a Delicate Juncture as Washington Pushes Ukraine Talks Toward Compromise

Diplomacy at a Delicate Juncture as Washington Pushes Ukraine Talks Toward Compromise
The renewed push by Washington to broker an end to the war in Ukraine has entered a more delicate and politically charged phase, with U.S. President Donald Trump publicly signaling that negotiations...

Taiwan Rolls Out Universal Security Handbook as China’s Threat Deepens

Taiwan Rolls Out Universal Security Handbook as China’s Threat Deepens
Taiwan has launched an unprecedented nationwide campaign to distribute civil-defence handbooks to all households on the island, marking a significant escalation in its efforts to ready the population...

Wealthy Nations Retreat from Climate Leadership as COP30 Chief Warns of Fading Resolve

Wealthy Nations Retreat from Climate Leadership as COP30 Chief Warns of Fading Resolve
The opening of the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, has laid bare an uncomfortable truth for the global community: the industrialised world’s enthusiasm for tackling the climate emergency is...

People

Fiscal Signals and Social Engineering Shape China’s New Push to Reverse Demographic Decline

Fiscal Signals and Social Engineering Shape China’s New Push to Reverse Demographic Decline
China entered 2026 with a subtle but symbolically charged shift in its demographic policy toolkit: the removal of a long-standing tax exemption on contraceptive drugs and devices. By applying the...

Reagan’s Enduring Shadow: How an Old Conservative Ideal Still Defines and Challenges Trump’s Presidency

Reagan’s Enduring Shadow: How an Old Conservative Ideal Still Defines and Challenges Trump’s Presidency
A smiling portrait of Ronald Reagan, framed in gold, hangs behind the Resolute Desk — a silent observer of Donald Trump’s presidency. For Trump, the image is both inspiration and burden. While Reagan...

South Korean Workers Recount Ordeal After U.S. Immigration Raid on Hyundai Plant

South Korean Workers Recount Ordeal After U.S. Immigration Raid on Hyundai Plant
South Korean workers caught in the sweeping U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia have described in vivid detail the fear, humiliation, and uncertainty they endured. Their...

Federal Judge Likely to Stand Guard Over Fed’s Independence in Cook Dispute

Federal Judge Likely to Stand Guard Over Fed’s Independence in Cook Dispute
The legal and political battle over President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is moving into a Washington courtroom, where a federal judge is preparing to hear...

When Allies Turned Adversaries: The Dramatic Implosion of the Trump–Musk Alliance

When Allies Turned Adversaries: The Dramatic Implosion of the Trump–Musk Alliance
The alliance between former President Donald Trump and tech magnate Elon Musk—once hailed as an unlikely marriage of populist politics and Silicon Valley ambition—crumbled in a matter of days this...