India's equity market spent most of 2025 underperforming its emerging market peers, but the current picture is shifting. The Sensex nudged up about 100 points on Monday, May 18, with Nifty hovering above 23,600, while analysts are increasingly pointing toward a potential recovery in the second half
Japanese equity markets are having a rough week. The Nikkei 225 fell 0.97% to close at 60,816 on Monday, May 18, while the broader Topix Index shed the same to settle at 3,827, marking three straight sessions of losses for Japanese stocks. The selloff is tied directly
Shin Hyun Song was barely out of his inauguration ceremony as Bank of Korea Governor when the policy calculus he will spend his four year term navigating became clear. Rising oil prices from the Iran conflict are simultaneously pushing inflation higher and threatening to slow economic growth. He told markets
Argentina is expected to regain access to international capital markets in 2026. That is a sentence that would have seemed implausible just two years ago. Country risk ratings have fallen from 2,500 basis points in late 2023 to around 600 basis points by the end of 2025, a collapse
The results from England's local elections in early May 2026 landed like an economic signal as much as a political one. Reform UK made sweeping gains across former Labour strongholds, with voter frustration centered on three issues: the economy, immigration, and taxes. When a governing party loses ground
The European Central Bank kept its three key interest rates unchanged at its April 30 meeting, and the statement that followed made clear this was not a comfortable hold. The Governing Council acknowledged that upside risks to inflation and downside risks to growth have both intensified. In plain terms, Europe
Japan's economic story in 2026 is one of visible contrasts. Manufacturing and exports are providing meaningful support, with the country's industrial base benefiting from strong global demand for electronics and components. The Conference Board's LEI for Japan rose 0.7% in the most recent
Sub Saharan Africa is projected to grow at 4.3% in 2026 and 4.5% in 2027, according to the World Bank. Those are not bad numbers by global standards. The challenge is that they are not good enough given what the continent actually needs. By 2035, approximately 1.2
Brazil's Conference Board Leading Economic Indicator fell 1.2% in the most recent reading, one of the weaker scores among major economies tracked in the global dataset. It sits alongside declines in the Euro Area and China, signaling that the slowdown is not confined to any one region
Germany's retail sales fell 2.0% month on month and 2.0% year on year in the most recent reading, making it one of the worst performing consumer markets in the Eurozone in early 2026. For an economy that has long been considered the engine of European growth,