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The Cost of Living Index, compiled by the online platform Numbeo, shows that Bermuda, the Cayman Islands (both autonomous territories of the United Kingdom) and Switzerland are the most expensive countries in the world, according to...

Company bankruptcy is no longer about bad luck or a bad cycle, but about the hard arithmetic of expensive debts, shows data published by the credit risk analysis company Coface in its January 2026 report "Corporate insolvencies expected to...

The global economic landscape has undergone a major transformation in the past four decades. While some countries have maintained their dominance, others have emerged from relative obscurity to become among the world's largest economies,...

In fact, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to Beijing these days, officially presented as a "reset” of economic relations between the United Kingdom and China, does not signal a return to globalization.

In the early days of 2026, US foreign policy under President Donald Trump has generated some of the most controversial and tense geopolitical developments in recent memory - from a military intervention in Venezuela to rhetoric about NATO ally...

From Amazon.com's massive cloud services business to Spotify's streaming audio subscriptions, digital exports totaled $4.8 trillion worldwide last year. What's more, they accounted for more than two-thirds of global services exports,...

Advanced countries tend to dominate the world's economic productivity rankings, but some emerging markets have also made major gains as they industrialize and integrate into global supply chains, according to an analysis by...

The world debt is so high that 23 countries borrow more than their GDP, and two countries owe more than double their annual economic output, according to visualcapitalist.com, which recalls that world debt reached $ 111 trillion in 2025,...

The Cost of Living Index, compiled by online platform Numbeo, shows that the Cayman Islands (a territory of the United Kingdom), Switzerland and Singapore are the most expensive countries in the world, a situation reflected in their developed...

The world's millionaire class continued to expand in 2025, and Switzerland remains the leader in per capita millionaires, according to the UBS Global Wealth report for the current year, cited by visualcapitalist.com.

BRICS countries now account for half of the world's population, with the group's economic weight growing.

The outlook for the world economy in 2026 is cautious, according to a report published this month by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which shows that the global expansion is slowing due to fragmentation and rising protectionism. There are...

King Charles III and Crown Prince William made a joint public appearance to express their support for the COP30 climate summit, which will take place in Brazil in a few weeks. The event comes at a difficult time for climate diplomacy, marked by...

Google has officially announced the global launch of its AI-powered search (AI Mode), an innovation that promises to change the way users interact with the search engine. The new feature is now available in over 200 countries and territories,...

The fate of the 48 Israeli hostages held in Gaza is at the center of decisive negotiations taking place these days in Egypt, two years after the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Israeli media. Hamas has announced that it...

The tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration are affecting all of America's major trading partners. But when it comes to trade with the US, what matters is not just the tariffs a country faces, but how it compares to its...

At a time when the balance of global power is being reconfigured and transatlantic alliances are seeking reconfirmation, US President Donald Trump's official visit to the UK has gone beyond the protocol framework and royal pomp of Windsor,...

Street protests have demonstrated, in the last two decades, that social networks are not only communication tools, but also true "virtual markets” where civic movements are born. From the "yellow vests” in France to...

The world's ten largest oil-consuming countries represented, in 2024, 61% of the global share. This percentage increases to 80% in the top 20 countries, given that total consumption had a moderate advance of 0.7% annually, according to...

Europe imported 9.3 million barrels of oil per day (b/d) in 2024, making the continent one of the largest oil importers in the world. As the continent reduces its dependence on Russian oil, imports from the US increased by 6% in 2024, according...

The International Center for Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes (ICSID), the so-called ICSID tribunal in Washington, attached to the World Bank, has in recent years become the preferred tool of fossil energy giants through which they block...