BusinessSwitzerland's policy rate is at the lower bound, inflation is sticky around target, and the franc's safe-haven function has compressed without forcing a return to negative rates.
By Theo Bodden · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessBYD, GAC and Great Wall now dominate Thai EV production. The Japanese ICE incumbents are reorganizing rather than retreating, but the regime has shifted.
By Theo Bodden · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessThree years into Şimşek's restoration of conventional policy, the external deficit has narrowed materially, reserves are rebuilt, and the lira is no longer the regional outlier.
By Theo Bodden · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessAfter two years of operational reform, loadshedding has effectively ended, EAF has crossed the threshold that unlocks growth, and the rand has responded.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessThe Tokyo bourse's three-year campaign against sub-book valuations has done the thing critics said it couldn't — re-rated the Prime market without forcing it.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessNovo Nordisk's contribution to Danish GDP, exports and tax revenue is large enough that DKK, Danish bond yields and the labour market now move with the franchise.
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessWith Carajás S11D at design capacity and Simandou's first ore approaching, the marginal high-cost producer has been displaced and the new equilibrium sits below seventy dollars.
By Lina Brennan · 1 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessMonthly inflation has run in low single digits for over a year, the parallel-official gap has closed, and the BCRA is rebuilding net reserves. It's no longer a programme — it's a regime.
By Marcus Penniford · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessThree major outsourced packaging players are building Vietnamese capacity simultaneously. The cluster is now the dominant non-China Asian packaging hub.
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessSmartphone and component exports have tripled in three years, yet the net-of-imported-input contribution to GDP is roughly a third of the gross number.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessAfter two years of orthodoxy, Brazilian real rates are the highest in the EM complex, inflation expectations have re-anchored, and the curve has bull-steepened.
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · July 1, 2026
BusinessAfter two years of cosmetic disclosures, KB, Shinhan, Hana and the life insurers are running the kind of capital returns the program was designed to force.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 2 min read · June 24, 2026
BusinessThe pre-funding requirement has been resolved, the foreign-room mechanism is finally working — only foreign ownership limits stand between Vietnam and EM status.
By Eleanor Bromley-Hawke · 2 min read · June 24, 2026
BusinessThe smelters are built, the ore is plentiful, but coal-fired captive power capacity has become the binding constraint on Sulawesi's HPAL and RKEF expansion.
By Lina Brennan · 2 min read · June 24, 2026
BusinessHeadline FDI numbers softened in 2025, but the share going to advanced manufacturing and electronics rose. The story has matured, not failed.
By Marcus Penniford · 2 min read · June 24, 2026
BusinessThe SQM-Codelco joint venture and the Maricunga tender process have moved beyond political theatre — actual incremental volumes are now ramping.
By Sarah Chen · 2 min read · June 24, 2026
BusinessQuellaveco's full ramp, Antamina's expansion and a quieter political backdrop have lifted Peruvian output past its prior peak — and the bulls are still under-positioned.
By Theo Bodden · 2 min read · June 24, 2026
BusinessRenewables, data centres, industrial reshoring and labour-market reform have produced a real productivity story that the EU's largest economies cannot match.
By Adaeze Okonkwo · 2 min read · June 24, 2026