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Putin will bring old guard loyalists and younger financial power brokers to meet Trump’s most trusted advisers

Japan’s economy grew faster than expected during the second quarter, with GDP growing 1% on an annualized basis, ahead of median consensus estimates at 0.4%, and marking its fifth consecutive quarter of growth, based on the figures released on Friday.

In the dynamic world of cryptocurrencies, 2025 brought new challenges and new controversies revolving around privacy, regulation, and decentralized technology's future.

Federal Reserve policymakers will be debating whether stubborn inflation or slower hiring is the bigger problem for the economy as they prepare for an annual conference in Jackson, Wyoming, next week and a crucial policy meeting in September

The FTSE 100 index closed up 12.01 points at 9,177.24.

I WANT to dispel a huge myth about the Wellbeing Economic Approach and that is that it involves de-growth ...

The dollar index (DXY00 ) is up +0.26% as the strong US PPI report sparked a pull-back in expectations for Fed rate cuts in the coming months. In addition, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly and St Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem today both threw cold water on the idea...

Zanzibar has long been an island of arrivals for traders, sailors, slaves and, more recently, waves of tourists. I arrived as a wedding guest and a reader of the Zanzibar born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, in search of the literary and emotional landscapes that shape his fiction. For a week, I…