BusinessThe two-year effort to unwind the multiple exchange rate system and clear the accumulated dollar demand backlog has concluded, and the naira is now finding a clean market-clearing price.
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · July 16, 2026
BusinessThe Swiss group posted a second consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth as Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels outpaced every meaningful luxury peer, deepening the split between hard luxury winners and soft luxury laggards.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · July 16, 2026
BusinessThe GLP-1 supply shortfall that defined 2023-2024 has closed, and the manufacturing capacity that closed it is now the source of the company's franchise durability.
By Sarah Chen · 1 min read · July 16, 2026
BusinessThe AI-native radio access network orchestration platform that Nokia built through the 2024-2025 investment cycle is now commercially deployed with tier-one carriers, and the franchise thesis has landed.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 1 min read · July 16, 2026
BusinessThe initial nearshoring wave delivered anchor OEM commitments. The second wave — tier-two component supplier investment — is now landing at scale in the Bajio corridor.
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · July 16, 2026
BusinessTwo years of orthodox policy have delivered a positive real rate, restored FX reserves, and re-normalized the lira as a trading currency rather than a one-way short.
By Marcus Penniford · 2 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe permitting simplification enacted after the 2023 protests has cleared two of the country's largest copper projects, and Peru is again the marginal source of global supply.
By Lina Brennan · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessTwo years after the fiscal framework was tightened, the long end of the gilt curve is trading at a term premium consistent with the pre-2022 regime, and the risk premium overhang has cleared.
By Theo Bodden · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe younger of the two Abu Dhabi sovereign funds has grown to structural parity through domestic industrial mandates, and the strategic division of labor is now more consolidated than it appears.
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe new dividend framework, negotiated over Lula's second term, has settled at a payout ratio materially above the market's worst-case, and the state's fiscal ask has been more restrained than expected.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe Netherlands has completed the alignment of its semiconductor export control regime with US policy, removing the operational ambiguity that had constrained ASML's China strategy.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe country's outsourcing sector has moved beyond voice into knowledge process outsourcing, and the wage premium is showing up in the household income numbers.
By Sarah Chen · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe framework that gave Codelco majority control of the Salar de Atacama has translated into higher realized royalties, and the market underestimated the take.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe Spanish regulator's revised network return framework has finally landed at levels that fund the required transmission and distribution build-out — and Iberdrola is the marginal deployer.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe country's back-end packaging build-out has finally moved from press release to purchase order, and hyperscaler-grade advanced packaging is now shipping from northern Vietnam.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 2 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessWarsaw's multi-year procurement pipeline has become the single largest European weapons order book, and volume discounts are showing up in every subsequent NATO contract.
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe latest round of the renewable procurement programme has cleared with strong participation and bankable tariffs, giving Eskom's unbundling reform its first market-tested validation.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 1 min read · July 2, 2026
BusinessThe unwind that convulsed markets in mid-2024 has now been fully absorbed, and Japanese life offices and pension funds are again the marginal buyer of overseas duration.
By Marcus Penniford · 1 min read · July 2, 2026