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Ivory Coast Just Launched a $208 Billion National Development Plan. Here Is What That Means for Investors.
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Morocco Just Launched a National AI Strategy Worth $10 Billion. Casablanca Finance City Is How the Investment Gets In.
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Australia's Property Tax Rules Just Changed Permanently. Here Is What That Means for Property Investors.
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Copper Is 21% Higher Than a Year Ago. The Iran Deal Did Not Change the Structural Story.
Copper closed at $6.14 per pound on June 26, 2026, up 21.23% from a year earlier according to Trading Economics data. Over the past month, the price has softened 2.63% as hawkish Federal Reserve expectations, and a stronger US dollar created headwinds for dollar-priced commodities. But
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Gold Is 16% Below Its All-Time High Even After Months of War. Here Is Why Investors Are Reassessing.
Gold hit its all-time closing high in January 2026, rising sharply on expectations of Middle East escalation and safe haven demand. Then the Iran war actually started, the Strait of Hormuz closed, and gold did not break out. It failed to sustain momentum above $5,200 per ounce even
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Chile's Stock Market Hit an All Time High the Day a New President Took Office. Copper Explains Why.
Chile's IPSA stock index hit an all-time high of 11,721 points on the day President Jose Antonio Kast was inaugurated, a striking signal from markets about expectations for the country's new pro investment direction. Understanding why requires understanding copper, which still accounts for roughly
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Saudi Arabia Just Opened Its Stock Market to Everyone. $10 Billion Could Follow.
For decades, investing directly in Saudi Arabia's stock market was reserved for the world's largest financial institutions. As of February 1, 2026, that changed completely. The Capital Market Authority eliminated the Qualified Foreign Investor framework entirely, opening the Tadawul, Saudi Arabia's stock exchange, to
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Malaysia Has Become Southeast Asia's Fastest-Growing Private Equity Market. AI Is the Reason.
Malaysia recorded the strongest year-on-year increase in private equity deal value across all of Southeast Asia in 2025, reaching $5.3 billion according to Bain and Company's Southeast Asia Private Equity Report. That number would have seemed improbable five years ago, when Singapore dominated regional dealmaking
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Vietnam Just Got Upgraded to Emerging Market Status. Here Is What $6 Billion in New Investment Looks Like.
For nearly seven years, Vietnam sat on FTSE Russell's watchlist, tantalizingly close to emerging market status but unable to clear the final regulatory requirements. On April 7, 2026, FTSE Russell confirmed the upgrade. Starting September 21, Vietnamese equities will be included in FTSE's global index series
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In Latin America, You Can Now Buy a Fraction of a Building for $300. Here Is Why That Matters.
Property ownership in Latin America has historically been a privilege of the wealthy or the formally employed. A median home in São Paulo or Bogotá has become increasingly unaffordable for middle-income earners, and most retail investors have had no pathway into commercial real estate at all. A wave of
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European Renewable Energy Stocks Are Back. Nine Quarters of Outflows Reversed in One.
For most of 2022, 2023, and 2024, European investors were walking away from clean energy funds. Rising interest rates raised financing costs, squeezed profit margins, and slowed project timelines for a sector that depends heavily on debt to build. The average fund in Morningstar's Sector Equity Alternative Energy