Goldman Sachs has issued a stark warning about mounting risks to global supply chains of rare earth elements and other critical minerals, emphasizing China’s overwhelming dominance in mining and refining operations while outlining substantial challenges facing nations attempting to establish independent supply chains. The investment banking giant’s analysis comes at a time of heightened geopolitical […]

Financial markets are experiencing a significant shift as the benchmark US 10-Year Treasury Yield has decisively fallen below the critical 4 percent threshold, settling around 3.96% on October 21, 2025. This substantial decline, marking a new 52-week low, unfolds amidst a complex global landscape where, contrary to expectations of universal movements, major economies are exhibiting […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a massive cloud infrastructure failure on Monday that cascaded across the globe, disrupting thousands of websites and applications and exposing the profound vulnerabilities inherent in the world’s increasingly centralized digital infrastructure. The outage, which originated from Amazon’s notorious US-EAST-1 data center in northern Virginia, affected everything from social media platforms […]

Indian exports to the United States have experienced a dramatic downturn, plummeting by 37.5 percent over a four-month period following the implementation of steep tariffs by the Washington administration. According to a comprehensive report released by the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI), this sharp decline represents one of the most significant trade disruptions in recent […]

Chicago wheat futures tumbled to their lowest levels in five years on Tuesday, as increasing exports from top shipper Russia raised concerns about abundant global supply that continues to weigh heavily on international grain markets. The most-active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) fell 0.6% to $4.93-3/4 a bushel at 0553 GMT […]

The United States federal government is beginning another week paralyzed by a political impasse, with no immediate resolution in sight as the shutdown extends into its third week. The gridlock in Washington has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers without paychecks, shuttered iconic government institutions, and raised mounting concerns about the cascading economic consequences […]

The Trump administration has executed an extraordinary $20 billion financial rescue package for Argentina, a move that critics across the political spectrum are characterizing as politically motivated rather than driven by legitimate economic necessity or clear American strategic interests. The bailout has ignited fierce debate about the appropriate use of taxpayer dollars, particularly given the […]

France’s political turmoil has entered a critical new phase as Sébastien Lecornu, the country’s fifth prime minister in less than two years, announced his resignation on Monday after a mere 27 days in office, leaving the eurozone’s second-largest economy without a functioning government and its mounting debt crisis unresolved. Lecornu’s abrupt departure came after he […]

BEIJING, October 8, 2025 — China’s economic trajectory has prompted the World Bank to significantly revise its growth projections upward, forecasting that the world’s second-largest economy will expand by 4.8 percent in 2025 and 4.2 percent in 2026, according to the institution’s latest East Asia and Pacific Economic Update released on Tuesday. The revised figures […]

Bitcoin achieved a historic milestone on Monday, reaching a new all-time record high as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization continued to benefit from robust institutional investor demand, evolving regulatory frameworks, and its deepening integration into mainstream financial systems. The digital asset’s remarkable ascent underscores its transformation from a fringe technology experiment into a […]