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U.S. custody giant State Street is expanding in Oman through a deal with Jadwa Investment, supporting Muscat's bid for Emerging Market status.

Six governments object as Ghana ties gold royalties directly to soaring bullion prices globally. When six governments—among them the US, China, the UK, Canada, and Australia—formally protest a single country’s tax policy, it’s worth asking what…

The US launches a $40 billion rescue for Argentina to support Javier Milei’s reforms as the peso plunges and political tensions rise.

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Bitcoin has soared to close to $100,000. However, buying an asset that’s run up 47% over the past month is generally a bad idea. Right now, Bitcoin is at the shoeshine-boy-is-buying point of the mania… But, as Kim Iskyan writes today, short-term

When things get really bad, escaping to the Grand Canyon is not enough. You need cash, passports, food, and all the right investments. Kim Iskyan explores Plan Z.

In a massive political upset, a neo-Marxist political outsider won September’s presidential election in Sri Lanka. The victory of Anura Kumara—widely known by his initials, AKD—and his People’s Liberation Front (JVP) represents a complete defeat for…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s biggest semiconductor chip maker, broke ground in early August on its first facility in Europe, an $11 billion fabrication plant in Dresden, Germany. TSMC holds a 70% stake in the venture,…

Global banking aced 2023 despite the drama of bank failures. The banking industry emerged triumphant in 2023, a year that had threatened to be catastrophic. Rapid industry intervention averted the nightmare scenario of a contagion-driven financial…

Central and Eastern European banks work to regain their footing after a challenging year. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 threw the business and investment environment of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) into turmoil—while, like the…

China's population is falling while India's is rising and this change has vast implications for the global economy. It’s official. By the middle of this year, according to a new report from the United Nations Population Fund, India will have more…

Foxconn’s shift toward US production is also in line with the US government’s broader efforts to develop a supply chain that is more resilient and less reliant on other markets. Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that is the world’s largest…

Sri Lanka’s perfect storm of economic disaster started with the Covid-19 pandemic and years of government nepotism, corruption, and economic mismanagement ultimately led to a $50 billion default on foreign loans. After months of negotiations, Sri…

Adapt—or risk being left behind. The dynamism of Africa’s banking sector owes much to the continent’s continued strong economic growth, which the International Monetary Fund puts at 3.8% this year, ahead of the predicted global rate of 2.9%. And the…

Regional banks spur growth in new product offerings. One of the essential themes in coming months will be a “resurgent focus on business resiliency and rise of regionalization, coupled with a reconfiguration in Asia,” according to Rachel Chew, group…

. Editor’s Note: We’re turning this week’s issue of Something You Don’t Know over to Porter & Co. publisher Kim Iskyan, for a boots-on-the-ground report from the Middle Eastern country of Qatar – which is at the crossroads of the global fossil fuels…

While it took just 11 years for the latest billion people to be added to the Earth’s population, population growth is slowing down. If it has felt more crowded on planet Earth lately, you’d be right. The world’s population recently hit 8 billion…

The Kremlin is moving in on the holdings of foreign energy companies as the war in Ukraine drags on. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of multinational companies abruptly pulled out of the country—temporarily, they hoped. And as the…

My grandmother liked my company, but she also wanted me to haul her suitcases through the Indonesian dust. About 30 years ago, my "oma" joined a group tour with a few dozen other elderly Dutch people to visit the Southeast Asian country. At the time,…