BusinessBringing private credit into an ETF wrapper forces daily liquidity, transparent pricing, and structural compromises that change the asset class's character.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessMoving private credit up the rating ladder competes directly with public investment-grade issuance and creates funding paths that bypass the corporate bond market entirely.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessThe completion of the export pipeline ends a decade of stranded production and gives Argentina its first real claim on the global LNG market — with everything that implies for capital flows.
By Sarah Chen · 4 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessThe plant closure breaks a postwar labor settlement that defined German industrial policy. The economic logic was visible for years; the political will to act was not.
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessPulling ESPN out of the cable bundle and into a standalone streaming product moves wholesale-affiliate revenue into retail subscription revenue — and inverts every assumption sports rights deals were built on.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessVietnam built its export base on being the destination for the China-plus-one trade. A direct tariff threat now forces multinationals to plan a China-plus-two, and the math is different.
By Theo Bodden · 4 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessBy restricting raw-ore exports and forcing refining onshore, Indonesia is capturing margin that Chinese downstream producers had relied on — with consequences for global battery cost curves.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessFalling debt-to-GDP while running modest primary deficits is mathematically possible only if nominal growth and weighted interest cost stay in a specific relationship — and Italy has quietly engineered that.
By Lina Brennan · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessThe scheme stabilized the lira by transferring exchange-rate risk to the state. Unwinding it tests whether the rate-led orthodoxy can sustain stability on its own.
By Marcus Penniford · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessThe miner's public review of where to list its shares puts a number on the cost of London's discounted valuation multiples for diversified resource companies.
By Sarah Chen · 3 min read · June 16, 2026
BusinessThe reinsurance industry's loss prints are the cleanest data we have on whether climate models are catching up to reality. Munich Re's quarter says the gap is closing, but not yet closed.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 4 min read · June 15, 2026
BusinessThe infrastructure fund's expansion into electricity generation for hyperscale data centers reflects a calculation that compute capacity is constrained by power, not chips.
By Theo Bodden · 3 min read · June 15, 2026
BusinessFewer public companies means fewer paths from private capital to retail wealth. The trend is now structural, and the consequences for capital formation are easy to underestimate.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 4 min read · June 15, 2026
BusinessThe shift channels a meaningful share of liquid-equity exposure into domestic GREs and project entities, tightening the link between PIF performance and Vision 2030 execution.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 3 min read · June 15, 2026
BusinessTrimming the duty on stock transactions is fiscally minor, but the willingness to cut a tax that signals revenue priorities tells you what Beijing tolerates for the city's markets.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 3 min read · June 15, 2026
BusinessWhen a market's annual IPO league table is led by one offshore-oil deal, the revival headline is doing more work than the underlying activity supports.
By Lina Brennan · 4 min read · June 15, 2026
BusinessThe national oil company's bond-market access is no longer a function of its operating performance. It is a function of how Mexico's sovereign trades, and that ties two very different risk profiles together.
By Marcus Penniford · 4 min read · June 14, 2026
BusinessResisting the political call to cut while inflation drifts higher is the kind of central-bank choice that defines whether an emerging-market regime survives the cycle.
By Sarah Chen · 4 min read · June 14, 2026