Markets, banking, fintech regulation, capital allocation and the financial impact of technology.
Japan's record-low cash ratio says more about the denominator than a nationwide turn to risk: valuation and other reconciliation effects generated 96% of the year's increase in equity and fund holdings.
August export value rose 19.3 percent while quantity increased 2.5 percent, confirming that pricing power still dominates a narrow hardware-volume surge.
A celebrated reserve crossover relies on price gains and inherited stocks. Remove the five largest old holders and the June 2026 comparison still favors Treasuries.
Two regulators are converging on one blind spot: the diversification mandate that made Australia's retirement system prudent pushed hundreds of billions into assets it cannot mark to market.
The Gulf's two biggest capital pools were treated as interchangeable. A widening Riyadh-Abu Dhabi rivalry has quietly turned that assumption into the year's most underpriced franchise risk.
The July Financial Stability Report puts AI-related debt financing on the systemic-risk map for the first time, even as the Bank concedes the outstanding stock is still small.
Super-long JGB yields near 4% are pulling Japanese capital back from Treasuries and gilts, and the rest of the world's bond markets are downstream.
First-quarter growth held at 5%, but by May retail sales were shrinking and property investment was down 16% — Wednesday's print is the first hard read on whether Beijing's stimulus is offsetting the drag.
On 8 July the Fed publishes the minutes of a meeting that happened before markets fully priced a 4-handle on inflation — the last detailed read of the committee's reaction function before the July blackout.
Two new IMF papers argue atomic settlement pushes systemic risk off banks and funds onto the software operators running the rails, while supervision stays pointed at the institutions leaving the scene.
The National Participation Growth Fund gives households a state-cushioned route into strategic industries, but the risk transfer is more precise than the sales pitch.
The April update of the World Economic Outlook trims projected 2026 expansion by half a percentage point, with emerging markets absorbing the deepest cuts as the post-tariff trade map continues to redraw itself.
The third cut of 2026 takes eurozone policy below US rates for the first time since the pandemic, reopening the divergence trade as the euro slides and capital rotates into dollar credit.
Friday's BOJ decision, larger than markets expected, has pushed the dollar-yen below 138, jolted JGB yields, and forced global macro funds to reprice a decade of cheap-yen funding.
A fresh wave of official-sector buying, tariff-driven inflation fears, and Middle East tensions drive spot gold to a record $3,412 per ounce — up more than 28% year-to-date.
A 25bp move brings the deposit facility to its lowest level since 2022 and signals that Frankfurt now sees the trade war as a bigger risk than sticky services inflation.
A widening Fed-BoJ rate gap and ¥2.3 trillion in weekly outflows have pushed the yen to a 40-year low, and Tokyo's next policy meeting on April 30 sets the stage for the hardest currency decision since 2024
The Fund's April World Economic Outlook marks its sharpest downward revision in four years, citing US tariffs and retaliatory measures as the primary drag on advanced and emerging economies alike
A record central-bank buying streak, combined with ETF inflows and a softer dollar, has pushed gold to fresh highs in April 2026 — and the composition of reserves on central bank balance sheets is shifting in ways that will outlast any single price cycle.
With U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hitting 145% and Beijing restricting rare earth exports, the global semiconductor supply chain is undergoing its most dramatic restructuring in decades.
