Every news article the Bureau published that day — 36 articles, newest first. Past editions never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
A State Council pledge, a record liquidity window, a tariff truce with Washington, and Vanke’s 8% leap — Beijing just told the world its 4.5–5% growth target is
EconomyJapan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency ne
EnergyQatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East…
PoliticsAt the Liverpool conference, John Healey pledged a 'new age of industrialisation' backed by £6 billion in shipyard contracts. With the November 26 budget loomin
EconomyThe Wall Street bank expects the central bank to start cutting on Oct 22 and take the policy rate to 35% by year-end — if September CPI lands near 2.2% monthly.
PoliticsSuspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds. Asset freezes are being lifted, a rul
TechTrump and six tech CEOs signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday — a one-page pledge of self-regulation the president called “morally…
GeopoliticsThe American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian dro
EnergyBrent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran…
InfrastructureGlobal carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to t
PoliticsIn its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is…
EconomyAustralia's central bank lifted its cash rate to 4.60% on Tuesday — the highest since 2011 — citing a broadening Middle East conflict and rising energy costs. U
EconomyRio Tinto and China's Baowu opened a $2 billion, 25-million-tonne iron ore mine at Paraburdoo this weekend. In a decade of decoupling talk, the ore that built m
EnergySeven producers keep October output flat ahead of the Oct 4 meeting — Saudi Arabia at 10.478 million barrels a day. But the real negotiation is the 2027 quota a
EnergyBrent rose for a second straight session past $105 while Gulf crude exports hit 12.8 million barrels a day, the highest since February. The diplomats talked; th
EnergyUnder Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The
EconomyEleven days after the CBN cut rates by 350 basis points to 23%, banks parked over 7 trillion naira at its overnight window. Private credit shrinks in real terms
PoliticsHis Majesty King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23…
GeopoliticsMexico will buy more US goods and cut its reliance on Asian suppliers ahead of the USMCA review, Sheinbaum said — with a record $102.6 billion bilateral surplus
EconomyThe peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanic
GeopoliticsBrazil's president promulgated the free-trade agreement with the EFTA states by decree on September 23. It takes effect October 1 for Brazil and Iceland, Novemb
EnergyGross sales from Leviathan, Tamar and Karish hit $1.46 billion in Q2, up 44% on the quarter. The Eastern Mediterranean's gas machine is now a fiscal pillar — an
EnergyTreasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since July 14 —
ResourcesThe president called oil palm a 'miracle crop' as Indonesia locks in the world's first B50 biodiesel mandate, ends diesel imports, and moves to monopolize palm
EconomyAbout 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay
EconomyFlash PMI hit its strongest since October 2025, institutes raised the 2026 forecast to 1.3%, and Merz cut fuel tax from October 1. Europe's engine is turning ov
PoliticsOn Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servant
PoliticsLecornu presents the 2027 budget bill this week with no majority behind it: deficit from 5.4% toward 5%, debt at 121.7% of GDP, and the OAT spread still above 1
EconomyCiti says Friday's jobs report and Wednesday's PCE won't decide the October 28–29 meeting; September's core CPI on Oct 14 will. Markets price a 64% chance of a
EconomyFed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks aft
EconomyKristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days. With growth revised up to 5% and Augu
EconomyThe September manufacturing PMI is expected at 50.1 — barely expansion, but expansion. With the State Council promising incremental stimulus and the data landin
GeopoliticsChina's cabinet pledged 'stronger counter-cyclical measures' Monday to defend its 4.5–5% growth target — as Washington and Beijing each cut $30 billion in tarif
PoliticsMid-September prices rose 4.47% — above every forecast — as the central bank cut 2026 growth to 1.8% and warned of a 90% chance of breaching the inflation ceili
EconomyDeputy Governor Dave Ramsden said Monday the policy rate 'may need to rise' as inflation expectations jumped to 4.5% — a 15-month high. Markets now price an 85%
EnergyNicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A
