Markets, companies and the global economy, decoded.
On a visit to Auckland, India's prime minister pitched New Zealand capital on a bigger stake in Indian growth as the two countries moved to deepen trade and diplomatic ties.
At a Mumbai summit, WhatsApp unveiled a Meta-built AI agent that lets companies automate customer chats and sales, part of a broader enterprise push into India's vast messaging market.
Investors sold off Union Bank of India stock even as the lender reported higher global business and deposit growth, with analysts pointing to a slowdown in loan expansion as the trigger.
After pouring hundreds of billions into chips, data centres, and power, investors are finally asking the unglamorous question: when does any of this earn a return?
A coordinated pause from three major central banks signals that the era of aggressive tightening may finally be ending — but nobody is declaring victory.
The drive to make supply chains resilient rather than merely cheap is reshaping global trade. It is also showing up, slowly, in prices.
Private credit has grown from a niche into a force that rivals the banks. Regulators are starting to ask what happens when the next downturn tests a market they cannot see.
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