Every Magna Bureau story on finance: 42 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first.
NewsCopper smelter fees collapsed to historic lows. Western miners ship raw ore east because domestic smelters cannot afford to run.
NewsOne closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone…
NewsmBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.
NewsXi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.
NewsBrent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames.
NewsNine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure…
NewsTwenty million barrels a day through one strait. Spare capacity, shadow fleets, and war-risk insurance. A three-perspective investigation.
NewsWashington wants to export the dollar as stablecoin — a cross-agency push to fund deficits with token demand abroad. The plan to dollarize crypto.
NewsWater shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.
NewsFrance now pays more than Italy and Greece to borrow: the OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points for the first time since 2012, as debt nears 119% of GDP.
NewsThe dollar index hits an eight-week high and the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5% — unseen since 2007. Gold falls below $4,300. The Fed arithmetic, in full.
NewsJapan'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 near 157 and July's joint operation with W
NewsSuspected share-price manipulation triggered a liquidity crisis that forced regulators to liquidate 100+ investment funds. Asset freezes are being lifted, a ruling-party deputy chair resigned, and Erd
NewsThe American president rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for halting US strikes. Oil jumped 3%, Kuwait intercepted Iranian drones, and the mediator channel kept runni
NewsBrent 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; the tankers found another way.
NewsFed Governor Lisa Cook told economists in Oakland that rising oil prices and AI-driven price pressure are 'material risks' to the disinflation story — weeks after the Fed's first rate cut in three yea
NewsChina'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 tariffs and opened an AI incident channel. Th
NewsNicosia and Jerusalem aim to close the Aphrodite-Ishai compensation deal by end-October, while Chevron pushes engineering toward a final investment decision. A sliver of reservoir, a decade of diploma
NewsSeven 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 architecture, and whether spare capacity
NewsGross 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 — and a diplomatic one.
NewsTreasury Secretary Bessent says Tehran's last sanctioned crude deliveries will reach China within two weeks. Operation Economic Outcast has run since July 14 — and this is what the end of an oil empir
NewsLecornu 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 100 basis points. Paris is about to find
NewsCiti 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 second straight hike — if Washington let
NewsBOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsBrent punched through $107, the 10-year Treasury hit its highest since 2007, and October Fed-hike odds jumped past 70% — while Washington and Tehran…
NewsUS households now fund 6.8% of all consumer spending from stock-market wealth — twice the 2019 pace — as portfolios turn into paychecks.
NewsThe 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.1%, its highest since 2007, on a hot September PMI; markets now price another Fed hike in October at up to 73%.
NewsQatari mediators held separate talks with both sides on Monday; Iran's foreign minister expects Washington's answer by Tuesday night — while Middle East…
NewsBrent fell roughly 2.5% to $102.59 on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline returned to half flow and Trump rejected Tehran's seven-day ceasefire proposal — while Washington moved to loan 40 million barrels from a
NewsThe president torpedoed an Axios report that he would trade sanctions relief for nuclear concessions. Brent is up 14% this month — and Qatar's shuttle diplomacy just got harder.
NewsSpodumene fetched US$2,105 a tonne — up 92% in three months. The miner raised output guidance across iron ore, lithium and mining services, and the ASX battery boom is back.
NewsSeptember prices hit multiyear highs across the eurozone's big economies, all of it energy. Lagarde preaches a "measured response" — but markets are pricing four more hikes.
NewsThe Debt Management Office sold £4.25bn of ten-year gilts at an average yield of 5.383%, the highest auction rate since 1999. Demand held — but the price of the British state's debt keeps climbing.
NewsThe Federal Reserve's inspector general found no criminal misconduct in the $2.4 billion headquarters renovation — and Donald Trump demanded Jerome Powell's resignation anyway.
NewsProducers are expected to freeze November quotas at Sunday's meeting while Saudi Arabia pumps 3.5 million barrels a day through its desert pipeline, bypassing a shuttered Strait of Hormuz.
NewsThe USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the Middle East with 9,000 to 10,000 more troops, joining two carriers already in the region — as Donald Trump weighs resuming strikes on Iran after the m
NewsThe UNDP chief warns that rising energy costs, a record El Niño and multi-decade borrowing highs are pushing developing countries toward pandemic-era distress — just as the IMF and World Bank head to
NewsSouth Korea's president threatened unspecified retaliation against Ukraine over its public disclosure of two transferred North Korean prisoners of war — and accused Kyiv of cheering on war on the Kore
NewsAt $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France. As the 10-year OAT flirts with 5% and the spread over Germany hits crisis-era wides, the bond vigilantes are
NewsOn Beijing's orders, Chinese refiners have suspended all October fuel exports beyond Hong Kong and Macau. PetroChina is canceling cargoes, Asia's diesel squeeze is deepening, and the world is learning
NewsTreasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
