BusinessThe 10,000-baht digital wallet delivered headline GDP support but underdelivered on private-consumption multipliers — the data has lessons for similar programs elsewhere.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · June 19, 2026
BusinessYield convergence — not capacity — is the real proof that advanced-node manufacturing can exist outside Hsinchu without a permanent cost penalty.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessGranting export licenses to Gulf sovereigns turns capex-rich petrostates into a structural counterweight to the US-China compute axis.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessBy taxing low-grade processed nickel exports, Jakarta is forcing battery makers to choose between Indonesian integration and American IRA eligibility.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessPositive free cash flow shows up before the supplier base catches up, leaving the recovery hostage to a small number of bottleneck vendors.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessIdku and Damietta are running at capacity again, and the geography of European gas supply is being redrawn through Cairo rather than through Berlin.
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessHanoi's KYC-friendly access regime moves a market that was offshore-only onshore and gives global EM funds a new venue at attractive yields.
By Marcus Penniford · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessCanberra's reserve-purchase program creates a price floor for lithium, rare earths and cobalt and pulls supply out of the spot market.
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessWith JPY no longer the FX safety valve it used to be, the Bank of Korea is being forced to defend the won on its own merits.
By Theo Bodden · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessLocal production neutralizes tariffs and turns the EV trade fight into a permanent industrial-policy negotiation rather than a temporary border dispute.
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessRouting real consumer inference through Maharashtra changes who pays for the next round of training and who reaches the next billion users.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessThirty-year gilts trading rich to peers is no longer about supply technicals — it is the term premium catching up with a debt path the cash markets have ignored.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessThe combined entity would have national scale and a state-coordinated exit path for the residual Tuscan ownership problem.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessEskom's transmission business goes to private concession holders and the structural cause of load-shedding gets a credible fix.
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessSustained primary-surplus delivery under a left-of-center government rewrites the political-risk premium that has constrained Brazilian assets for a decade.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessProgrammable treasury operations using regulated stablecoins are absorbing volume from wire and ACH faster than any prior fintech transition.
By Marcus Penniford · 2 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessPutting the Monterrey buildout on indefinite hold while accelerating humanoid capex changes the structure of the Tesla equity story.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · June 18, 2026
BusinessProducer cuts plus the slowdown in Australian greenfield projects mark the end of the oversupply phase that destroyed margins through 2024-2025.
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · June 18, 2026