Every Magna Bureau story on money: 37 articles, investigations and analysis in one place.
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
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.
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…
NewsWashington wants to export the dollar as stablecoin — a cross-agency push to fund deficits with token demand abroad. The plan to dollarize crypto.
NewsChina's central bank pumps a trillion yuan a day into banks through Golden Week — its biggest liquidity backstop ever. Why Beijing is flooding the system.
NewsThe rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.
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.
NewsAt 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, three presidential proclamations took effect banning Canadian alcohol, dairy products and motorcycles — the first outright import prohibitions of the trade war, resting on a Dep
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
NewsAustralia'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. Unanimous, unsentimental, and very possib
NewsOn Tuesday, eight public-sector unions called a national strike — 150+ demonstrations in 91 departments — against the index-point freeze. 862,000 public servants earn below the minimum wage. The stree
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
NewsDeputy 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% chance of a November hike.
NewsThe 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. Energy prices, up 6%, are the swing ris
NewsEleven 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 while the naira holds at 1,328.
NewsThe 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 mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is lea
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
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
NewsKristalina 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 August canal income up 57%, Cairo is negotia
NewsMid-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 ceiling. The runoff now has a third candidate
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.
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%.
NewsA BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data centers for up to $25B — the biggest bet yet that AI's…
NewsParliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf drew the line on Tuesday — as a ship took fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Qatar called the war's toll…
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.
NewsAtlasIntel has Bolsonaro a tenth of a point ahead in a simulated runoff; BTG/Nexus has Lula ahead by two. The first round is Sunday — and 5,000 interviews say nobody knows.
NewsIran said Wednesday it had received the US reply to its seven-day Hormuz plan; Foreign Minister Araghchi laid it before President Pezeshkian at a cabinet meeting. The same day, the rial crossed 2.5 million to the dollar
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.
NewsTamer al-Hamayda, 42, died in a drone strike on a tent in al-Mawasi; Mashhour Yassin, 51, was shot dead by settlers in Yasuf — two killings in one day inside a 'ceasefire' that has killed 1,439 Palest
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
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
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.
NewsOn Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike. Two weeks earlier, Israeli settlers danced with Torah scrolls at a new synagogue in the
