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Palladium Is the Only Precious Metal That Did Not Set a Record in January. That Is the Whole Story

Gold, silver and platinum all peaked in the same fortnight in January. Palladium's record is still from March 2022 and it is not going to be beaten, because the engine it was bought for is being discontinued.

Aug 18, 2026

AI-Hardware Exporters Are Living in a Different 2026 Economy

The IMF and UNCTAD describe a widening split: economies tied to chips and AI infrastructure are gaining momentum while many energy importers absorb the war shock.

Aug 2, 2026

Indonesian Stocks Plunge Nearly 12 Percent, the Worst Day Since 1998, After MSCI Floats a Downgrade to Standalone Status

The Jakarta Composite halted for 30 minutes and closed at 5,185 as MSCI opened a consultation that could drop Indonesia below frontier markets, with passive outflows of billions at stake.

Oct 16, 2026

The Chip Market's August Update Will Test a $1.5 Trillion Forecast

WSTS is due to publish its second-quarter forecast update on August 3 after raising the 2026 semiconductor outlook. AI demand is strong, but concentration is the central risk.

Aug 2, 2026

Electricity Demand Is Becoming the Market Behind Every Other Market

The IEA expects global electricity use to grow 3.6% in 2026 and 3.8% in 2027. Cooling, industry, EVs and data centers are turning power capacity into an economic constraint.

Aug 2, 2026

Silver Went to $121 and Came Most of the Way Back. The Shortage That Did It Has Not Gone Away

Silver set a record just under $122 an ounce in late January, then lost close to half of it. The London squeeze behind the spike has eased rather than ended, and the metal is still up almost 74 per cent on the year.

Aug 18, 2026

Amazon Stock Slides After Hours Despite AWS Growing 39% as Free Cash Flow Turns to a $42 Billion Outflow

Record profit and the fastest cloud growth in almost five years were not enough, as a $77.3 billion quarter of spending and an earnings miss sent Amazon shares sharply lower in extended trading.

Oct 29, 2026

Nasdaq Jumps 1.05% as SpaceX and Super Micro Revive the AI Trade While Netflix and AT&T Slide

Tech led Wall Street higher on Wednesday after SpaceX posted its first public-company profit and Super Micro lifted its forecast, with Tesla and Meta still to report after the bell.

Oct 22, 2026

Crypto's Market Makers Are Quietly Becoming Regulated Brokers

A leading crypto market maker registered a US broker-dealer arm and a very large custodian moved towards institutional staking. Neither made headlines. Both change who is allowed to participate.

Aug 7, 2026

Oil Below $100 Still Leaves Central Banks With a Difficult Week

Energy prices have eased from their sharpest fears, but the Fed, Bank of England and Bank of Japan still face inflation signals pulling against softer growth.

Jul 28, 2026

The UK's New Crypto Timetable Gives Firms a Preparation Window

The FCA has outlined a future authorization window and tailored rules for crypto firms, shifting attention from policy debate to operational readiness.

Jul 28, 2026

Dow Sheds More Than 600 Points as Brent Passes $116 and Houthi Attacks Rattle Wall Street

Oil, not chips, drove Friday's selloff: the Dow fell 1.2 percent and most sectors slid while the Nasdaq barely moved. Energy shares hit a record ahead of a Fed meeting and big-tech earnings.

Oct 24, 2026

Wall Street Rebounds as AI Stocks Recover, With the Nasdaq Up 1.1% and the 10-Year Yield Above 5.15%

Chip and AI shares clawed back part of last week's rout on Monday while most other stocks slipped, and Europe fell after the weekend's unrest in France.

Oct 20, 2026

The Gulf Lost Up to a Quarter of Its Luxury Shoppers. The Brands Responded by Moving Further Upmarket

Bain puts the shrinkage in the Gulf's luxury customer base at 15 to 25 per cent in early 2026 while the Americas surged. The industry's answer to losing aspirational buyers has been to stop trying to keep them.

Aug 18, 2026

Meta Reports $64.6 Billion Revenue and Negative Free Cash Flow, and Plans a New Class of Non-Voting Shares

Sales jumped 26 percent, but a $9.9 billion legal charge, $34.9 billion of quarterly spending and a Class C stock plan explain why the shares sold off by about 7 percent on Thursday.

Oct 23, 2026

Nasdaq Falls 2.6% and Chip Stocks Plunge as Brent Oil Jumps to $113 and Treasury Yields Slide

Heavy AI spending doubts and talk of fresh strikes on Iran sent the Nasdaq to its worst day since June on Thursday, while the Dow held flat and bond yields dropped below 5 percent.

Oct 23, 2026

Treasury Yields Hit a 24-Year High, Waller Says More Fed Rises Are Coming, and the 30-Year Auction Clears at 5.618%

Two bond auctions in two days drew buyers at levels not seen for decades, yet the Fed's Christopher Waller says more rate rises are likely and oil kept the inflation worry alive.

Oct 9, 2026

Costco Closed Fiscal 2026 With $9.2 Billion in Profit as Membership Fees and Online Sales Kept Climbing

Fourth quarter net sales rose 11.2 percent to $93.9 billion and digitally-enabled sales grew almost 20 percent, with results lifted further by a one-time benefit from tariff refunds the company says it partly passed on to members.

Sep 27, 2026

Three Soft Data Prints in One Week Cut the Odds of a September Rate Hike From Fifty to Thirty One

Note the direction. Markets are not arguing about how fast the Federal Reserve cuts. They are pricing the probability that it raises, and gold has just had its best month since January.

Aug 21, 2026

Robert Hall and Michael Woodford Win the Nobel Prize in Economics for Models That Steady Economies

Two American economists who modelled how households and firms form expectations took the 2026 economics Nobel, as central banks face an energy shock and a debate over how much to say.

Oct 12, 2026

Silver Sinks Below $50 for the First Time Since November 2025 as the Gold-Silver Ratio Climbs Past 79

A 5.8 percent drop took silver to $49.34 an ounce by mid-morning in New York, nearly twice gold's fall, as industrial demand worries and thin positioning turned a rate scare into a rout.

Oct 30, 2026

The Gulf's Restaurant Scene Is Reinventing Itself in 2026

After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.

May 19, 2026

UPS Beats Third-Quarter Estimates and Raises Its 2026 Outlook, With Shares Rising About 5%

Revenue of $22.9 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.69 topped forecasts, but fourth-quarter US volume is set to fall as UPS keeps trading parcels for profit, and supply chain profit dropped sharply.

Oct 27, 2026

Wall Street Week Ahead: A Fed Decision on Wednesday, Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon Report, and Oil Near $117

After a Friday slide led by the Dow, investors face a Fed meeting priced for a hold, three Big Tech reports, GDP and PCE data, and central bank decisions in Frankfurt and Tokyo.

Oct 26, 2026

Boeing Narrows Its Quarterly Loss to $116 Million but Pushes Its 737 Rate 47 Target Into Next Year

Revenue rose 4 percent to $24.2 billion and the backlog hit a record, yet the planemaker admitted the 737 line will not stabilise at 47 jets a month this year and its shares sank.

Oct 28, 2026

Starbucks Says It Is Not Buying Chipotle, Ending a Four-Day Takeover Story and Costing Chipotle About 4 Percent

A one-line denial from the coffee chain on Monday undid the premium that an FT report put on Chipotle shares, and it left both companies facing the same question about growth and traffic.

Oct 13, 2026

Dubai's Visitor Rewards Bet Turns Residents Into Tourism Ambassadors

A new incentive campaign asks Dubai residents to bring friends and family to the city, revealing how destinations compete when regional uncertainty weighs on travel.

Jul 24, 2026

Kingdom Holding's Profit Slips, and the Reasons Are Instructive

Weaker dividend income, higher operating costs and a bigger tax line pushed the Saudi investment house lower in the first half. Each of those pressures applies well beyond one company.

Aug 7, 2026

Apple Posts a $114.5 Billion September Quarter, Up 12%, but Guides Margins Down to 45% to 46%

John Ternus's first earnings report as chief executive brought record iPhone and Services numbers and a $479 billion fiscal year, with a December margin forecast below the 47.9 percent just reported.

Nov 2, 2026

Fashion Brands Spent Years Fighting Resale. Now They Want to Run It

Secondhand is a 393 billion dollar market and roughly a tenth of all money spent on clothing. Zara, H&M, Levi's and others are building their own platforms to capture a trade they used to ignore.

Aug 17, 2026

Nobody Can Agree How Big Modest Fashion Is, and That Is the Story

One widely cited figure puts the category at 86 billion dollars. Another puts it at 254 billion. The gap is not a rounding error, it is a disagreement about what modest fashion actually is.

Aug 16, 2026

Air Travel Is Still Growing, but the Post-Pandemic Surge Is Over

IATA expects passenger demand to grow only 2.1% in 2026 as conflict, inflation and weaker purchasing power weigh on travel. The market is normalizing unevenly.

Aug 1, 2026

Where Gold and Silver Go From Here, According to the People Paid to Forecast It

Every major bank cut its 2026 number after the Fed turned hawkish, yet most still see $5,000 gold in 2027. A dated, attributed tour of the published targets, the bull case and the bear case.

Oct 30, 2026

Sports

Europe Shuts Its Transfer Window on 1 September. Saudi Arabia Keeps Buying Until October

The Premier League, La Liga and Serie A close on 1 September. The Saudi Pro League stays open until 12 October. Those six weeks are the most important structural fact in this transfer market.

Aug 17, 2026

Latest Trends

Graduates Now Compete With the Software They Were Told to Learn

Nearly nine in ten of the class of 2026 fear automation will take the junior jobs, while most chief executives insist the opposite. The hiring data sits awkwardly between them.

Aug 4, 2026

Samsung's 107 Trillion Won Quarter Outearned Nvidia, and Its Shares Fell 2.4 Per Cent Anyway

Preliminary operating profit nearly nine times last year's could not lift Seoul's chip stocks, with US yields at 24-year highs and foreign investors selling Samsung for an eighth session.

Oct 8, 2026

US Economy Grew at a 3.4% Pace in the Third Quarter as AI Spending Lifted Business Investment

Growth beat forecasts and accelerated from 2.2 percent, while September inflation held at 3.6 percent, a pairing that keeps a December Fed hike in play.

Oct 29, 2026

Bitcoin Falls Below $80,000 Over the Weekend as $810 Million in Positions Are Liquidated Before the Fed

A thin-market selloff took bitcoin to $79,146, its weakest level in more than a month, and it now heads into the Fed meeting under its 50-day average with traders eyeing $78,000.

Oct 26, 2026

Nasdaq Falls 1.25% as the FT Puts OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Near $50 Billion, Not $70 Billion

A report that OpenAI's run-rate sales are about $20 billion below the figure investors had been quoting pulled chip and cloud stocks down, while bond yields and oil stayed high.

Oct 9, 2026

Intel Plunges After Hours as a Weak Fourth-Quarter Forecast Overshadows a 78% Jump in Data Centre Sales

Revenue rose 21% to $16.5 billion, yet Intel guided fourth-quarter profit to half the current level and said the PC downturn will last into mid-2027, sending shares down as much as 23%.

Oct 29, 2026

Four Deals in Five Days, and Not One of Them Was Large

Measurement, medical imaging, homebuilding and a presentation startup all changed hands in the first fortnight of August. The mid-market is moving while the giants wait on regulators.

Aug 15, 2026

The UAE Economy Is Slowing in 2026, Yet Its Engines Are Still Turning

A reduced growth forecast meets strong property activity, startup funding and recovering energy exports in the UAE's mixed July economic picture.

Jul 29, 2026

Gold Ends the Week at $3,875 and Silver Below $50: What the Charts Say Before Monday's Open

A 3 percent weekly fall for gold and nearly 9 percent for silver set up a week holding the US midterms on Tuesday and the October jobs report on Friday. The levels and calendar to watch.

Nov 1, 2026

Netflix Beats on Profit, Then Slides After Hours as It Trims Its Ad Forecast and Guides Lower

A record 34.6 percent operating margin and a $4.8 billion buyback were not enough: weaker fourth-quarter guidance and a lower ad target sent the stock down about 5 percent after the bell.

Oct 21, 2026

Serious Banks Are Forecasting Gold at $4,500 and at $6,000 for the Same December

Citi, Goldman, Deutsche, HSBC and Societe Generale have published year-end gold targets a third apart from one another. The spread is not sloppiness. It is an argument about what gold is for.

Aug 18, 2026

World Trade Is Breaking Records, but Prices Are Doing Too Much of the Work

Goods and services trade added about $2 trillion in the first half of 2026. Much of the rise reflects higher prices, leaving a more uneven volume story underneath.

Aug 2, 2026

Secondhand Fashion Has Become a Style Signal, Not a Compromise

Preowned clothing is moving into the center of fashion as shoppers pursue value, individuality and access while brands reconsider their resale strategies.

Jul 31, 2026

Bitcoin ETFs Lose $681 Million in a Week, the Worst Since June, as Traders Watch Wednesday's CPI Report

Spot funds ended a three-week inflow run, Fidelity and BlackRock led the withdrawals, and bitcoin still held in the low $80,000s while ether tested its own floor.

Oct 13, 2026

ESMA Tells Licensed Crypto Firms to Stop Serving Non-MiCA Stablecoins and Gives Them Three Months to Unwind

Europe's markets regulator has told exchanges and brokers to cut off tokens that skip MiCA's reserve and redemption rules. Old holdings must be cleared by 8 January 2027 at the latest.

Oct 9, 2026

Stablecoins Are Quietly Becoming a Bond-Market Variable

IMF research finds stablecoin demand shocks can lower short-term Treasury yields and spill into currencies, crypto and equities. Digital dollars now matter beyond crypto trading.

Aug 2, 2026

Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole Nearly $390 Million From the Bitget Exchange, the Largest Crypto Theft of the Year

Attackers compromised a backend system and manipulated transaction data to trick Bitget's own approval process into moving funds out of its hot wallets, pushing North Korea's 2026 crypto haul past a billion dollars.

Sep 26, 2026

Gold Drops 3% to $3,890 and Its Lowest Since October 2025 as Fed Hike Bets Harden and the Month's Loss Reaches 5.9%

Bullion lost the $4,000 line in London and kept sliding through the New York morning, pulled down by a hawkish Fed, hot inflation data, oil near $117 and a tech sell-off forcing liquidations.

Oct 30, 2026

Tesla Beats Profit Estimates on $28.05 Billion in Revenue, Then Slips After Hours

Adjusted earnings of 48 cents topped forecasts and free cash flow turned positive at $1.53 billion, but deliveries fell 2 percent and energy storage came in short of what analysts expected.

Oct 22, 2026

Thailand's Tourist Arrivals Are Down 4.1 Percent This Year While Its Hotels Keep Expanding

Thailand has had 24.4 million visitors to 17 October, and the government cut its 2026 goal to 33 million. Developers still plan 167 hotel projects and new airlines are returning.

Oct 30, 2026

Health

Retatrutide Is Not Approved in Any Country. It Is Also for Sale in Most of Them

Lilly does not expect to file for approval until the first quarter of 2027. Search the drug's name today and you can have a vial by the weekend. The gap between those two facts is where the harm happens.

Aug 20, 2026

The Thirty-Year Treasury Is at 5.32 Per Cent and the Federal Reserve Has Not Touched a Thing

Long government borrowing costs are at multi-decade highs across the United States, Germany, France and Japan. The cause is not central bank policy. It is the sheer volume of debt being issued, and some of it is paying for data centres.

Aug 18, 2026

The Gulf's Autumn Route Map Is Being Redrawn Toward Asia and Russia

Gulf Air returns to Kuala Lumpur on 29 September, Riyadh Air adds London and Dubai, Sharjah gets a Gatwick link, and flynas is flying to St Petersburg and Sochi behind a new visa arrangement.

Aug 17, 2026