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**Dubai stocks are set for their best quarter in a year, surging 11% in April-June as a US-Iran truce eases the war premium that had battered the market.** The Dubai Financial Mark...
**Brazil’s power grid faces a new and unpredictable test as millions of rooftop solar panels, largely beyond operator control, complicate stability during the World Cup.** When Bra...
Suez SA and partners won a €2 billion ($2.3 billion) water-services contract in Oman, the French firm’s largest deal in the Middle East. The companies will help Oman’s water utilit...
**Ares Management and New World Development have slashed prices by up to 57% on office units in Hong Kong's Cheung Sha Wan district, signaling deepening distress in the city's non-...
**Japan is launching its most ambitious economic-security push in years under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, driven by a surge in Chinese espionage, chip smuggling, and drug traffi...
**Japan's prediction market startups are bypassing strict anti-gambling laws by using loyalty points and gift card rewards instead of cash.** Platforms like Miraima, which has amas...
**Private credit giants are quietly buying up billions in consumer debt from Buy Now, Pay Later firms, creating a risky new link between two opaque corners of finance.** Blue Owl, ...
**Three of the largest foreign banks in Indonesia have repatriated $640 million in earnings since 2024, exceeding their combined profits, as President Prabowo Subianto's state-cent...
**China’s Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang forcefully defended the nation’s role as a stabilizer of global supply chains, particularly during the Strait of Hormuz crisis, rejecting Weste...
**China’s youth unemployment rate edged down to 15.6% in May from 16.3% in April, but remains above last year’s 14.9% as economic strains persist.** The modest improvement offers l...
**China has added 10 US firms to its export control list and restricted 46 others from government procurement**, retaliating against Washington’s recent expansion of a military bla...
**Chinese exporters and shipping firms remain deeply wary of resuming normal trade with Iran despite a temporary US-Iran ceasefire, as uncertainty over the deal’s durability and en...