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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,...

The price of gold rose by 27% in the first month of 2026 alone, after an advance of over 60% in 2025, and last week it traded at historical highs of over $5,500 per ounce, a context in which central bank gold reserves are worth much more than at...

No head of state should feel safe anymore, since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the arrest of Venezuela's president-and it actually happened.

Emerging markets appear poised to drive global economic growth this year, while many advanced countries are expected to underperform the global average, according to the World Economic Outlook report published in October 2025 by the International...

The US economy, at $30.6 trillion, is larger than that of China, Germany and Japan combined, with real US GDP set to grow by 2% this year, according to visualcapitalist.com, which notes that the world economy will reach $117 trillion this year....

The capital market in the Russian Federation ends 2025 in a state of collective frustration, with a mixture of dashed hopes, postponed promises and a reality that refuted almost all the optimistic scenarios built at the beginning of the year,...

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,...

The global cryptocurrency market cap is currently worth nearly $3 trillion, according to visualcapitalist.com, which ranks the world's largest cryptocurrencies in 2025, showing how value is distributed across major networks, stablecoins, and...

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 $1.3 billion initial public offering (IPO) of LG Electronics India Pvt, a unit of South Korean home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc., closed on October 9, becoming the most subscribed IPO in nearly two decades, Reuters reported, noting...

The last few days have been marked by the impending disaster and the cyclone Barbara, which crossed the Balkans. The authorities took measures, in advance, some of the population panicked, others ignored... the recommendations, there was also a...

The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling the growth in electricity demand, as data centers consume massive amounts of energy to train and run large language models.

The geopolitical and economic storm that is shaping up around the US dollar is taking on unexpected proportions after the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (ed. - Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - SCO), which took place...

Chinese investors are driving the country's stock markets to grow strongly in 2025, even as international investors have been discouraged by years of underperformance and persistent deflationary pressures, according to an analysis published...

The leaders of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met these days to lay the foundations of a multipolar world. At least that is what emerges from the text of the Declaration of the Tianjin Summit, a document in which...

The price of gold has soared over the past two and a half years, up 34% in the past twelve months, hitting new all-time highs, most recently in April 2025 at $3,500 per ounce, as central banks and investors seek safety amid economic uncertainty...

The total costs of the conflict in Ukraine so far are enormous, but so far they do not exceed 15% of the estimated value of the country's mineral resources, a value that experts estimate at $11.5 trillion.

In a world where what political leaders establish today is no longer valid on the same day, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are meeting tomorrow in Alaska, officially to establish a plan to end the conflict in Ukraine, a plan that, as the...

The vast and mysterious universe seems eternal to human perception. However, a new theoretical study recently published proposes a shorter timeline: just 10 billion years until the current expansion stops, and the universe will begin to contract....

For the first time in history, a sole chipmaker - Nvidia Corp. of the United States - is the most valuable company in the world. Its meteoric rise places it ahead of technology titans Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc., and even state-owned oil giant...

Bitcoin recently hit a new all-time high, surpassing $123,100 earlier this week, amid a surge in interest from institutional investors, who are accumulating in particular through Bitcoin spot ETFs, amid macroeconomic uncertainty and the prospect...

The European Parliament categorically opposes the dilution of the Cohesion Policy (CP) and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) into a common fund, as the European Commission would like, said yesterday MEP Siegfried Mureşan, chief negotiator for...

Although security and defense, along with competitiveness, will be the priorities of the European Union budget for the period 2028-2034, the European Parliament calls on the European Commission to maintain separate and clearly defined allocations...

US President Donald Trump recently warned that he could impose additional 10% tariffs on countries that align with BRICS, EFE reports.

The world is witnessing an unprecedented scandal at the highest political and economic level, between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. At the center of attention, as he wants, is the US president himself, whose mother claimed, in an interview in 1997,...

The S&P 500 index reached a new all-time high at the end of last week, after a spectacular recovery from the fall that began in February, triggered by Donald Trump's declarations regarding the imposition of tariffs in the United States of...

At a time of global instability, NATO leaders gathered yesterday at the Hague summit took a historic decision: all member states will allocate a minimum of 5% of GDP for defense and security by 2035, as stated in the final declaration of the NATO...

Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, has seen rapid growth in the last two months, reaching a new all-time high of around $111,950 in May, amid a combination of factors such as the suspension of trade tariffs announced by the...

Hungary has suddenly decided to increase its target for foreign currency bond issuance this year, as the government in Budapest seeks new funds to cover a growing budget deficit, Bloomberg reports, according to Agerpres.

Defense companies play a key role in shaping global security, supplying everything from fighter jets and missiles to advanced cyber systems, and in 2025, the valuations of major defense contractors rose to record highs amid ongoing armed...