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Tomás Rydell
Editor-at-Large
Watches markets, policy, and the places where money meets politics. Transatlantic perspective — raised in Stockholm, educated in New York, skeptical everywhere.
Articles by Tomás
- Iran-UAE Escalation Whipsaws Oil and Markets on Eve of Fed, ECB, BoJ Decisions
- Nvidia Extends AI Chip Sales Outlook to $1 Trillion+ Through 2027 at GTC 2026
- Nvidia Doubles Its AI-Chip Sales Outlook to $1 Trillion by 2027 at GTC 2026
- Hormuz Shutdown Forces Gulf Crude Reroutes and U.S. Waiver for Russian Barrels
- Trump Seeks One-Month Postponement of Late-March Beijing Summit With Xi
- UniCredit Files €35 B Mandatory Bid to Breach 30 % Ceiling at Commerzbank
- IEA Green-Lights Record 400 M-Barrel Strategic Release After Hormuz Shutdown
- Paris Talks Float US-China ‘Board of Trade’ and Bigger Farm Buys Ahead of March 31 Trump-Xi Summit
- Meta Weighs 20 % Workforce Cut to Fund $600 B AI Build-Out
- US Issues 30-Day Global Waiver for Stranded Russian Oil After Hormuz Closure
- U.S. Grants One-Month Waiver for Pre-March 12 Russian Oil Shipments
- Trump Threatens Repeat Bombing of Iran’s Kharg Island, Seeks Allied Warships for Hormuz
- US 30-Day Waiver Unlocks Stranded Russian Oil as Hormuz Remains Shut
- US Grants 30-Day Waiver Letting India Buy Stranded Russian Crude Amid Hormuz Crisis
- US Opens Section 301 Excess-Capacity Probe Against 16 Economies, China Pushes Back
- IEA Green-lights Record 400-Million-Barrel Stock Draw to Counter Strait of Hormuz Shutdown
- U.S. Issues 30-Day Global Waiver for Stranded Russian Oil Amid Hormuz Shutdown
- Iran Strikes Six Gulf Tankers; Iraq Shuts Basra Terminals, Oil Tops $100
- IEA Green-Lights Historic 400 Million-Barrel Reserve Release After Hormuz Blockade
- Hormuz Nearly Shut: Brent Rockets to $119 then Slides to $90 as World Scrambles for Oil Fix
- Trump Administration Opens Section 301 Excess-Capacity Probe Into 16 Economies After Court Nixes Tariff Program
- Oil Prices Nosedive After Trump Talks "Very Complete" Iran War
- 10 March 2026: Divergent Economic Prints and Trump-Induced Market Jolt
- India Imposes Emergency Curbs on Commercial LPG After Hormuz Blockade
- G7 Shelves Immediate Strategic Oil Release After Brent Spikes to $120
- Hormuz Blockade Forces Gulf Shut-ins, Sends Brent Back Above $100
- Oil Surges Past $110 as Hormuz Blocked and G7 Mulls Emergency Reserve Release
- Strait of Hormuz Blockade Triggers Gulf Output Cuts, Sends Regional Crudes Past $100
- 7 March 2026: Weather & War Trigger 2,000+ Flight Delays and 900 Cancellations Across Three Continents
- US Grants 30-Day Waiver for India to Take Stranded Russian Oil, Floats Wider ‘Unsanctioning’ Amid Hormuz Crisis
- UAE Flag Carriers Restart Limited Flights After Iran-Conflict Shutdown
- Putin Orders Review of Immediate Gas Cutoff to EU as Hormuz Crisis Spikes Prices
- Trade Court Orders Nationwide Refund of Unconstitutional IEEPA Tariffs
- US Issues 30-Day Waiver Allowing India to Lift Stranded Russian Crude Amid Hormuz Blockade
- Hormuz Bottleneck: Iranian Strikes Freeze Gulf Shipping, Send Oil & Gas Prices Vertical
- Putin Floats Pre-Emptive Cut-Off of Remaining Russian Gas to EU Amid Hormuz Shock
- States Sue to Block New Section 122 Tariffs as Trade Court Orders $130 B Refunds
- Putin Dangles Immediate Gas Cutoff to EU Ahead of 2027 Ban
- Qatar LNG Shutdown and Hormuz Blockade Upend Global Gas Trade
- Global Pump Shock: Overnight Gasoline Jumps After U.S.–Israel Strikes Ignite Iran War
- Supreme Court Nixes IEEPA Tariffs; Trump Counters With 10% Stop-Gap Duty
- Merz’s Beijing Trip Clinches 120-Jet Airbus Sale and Promises of Fairer Sino-German Trade
- Nvidia’s Q4 FY-2026 blowout results and guidance turbo-charge AI infrastructure cycle
- Supreme Court Overturns Trump’s Emergency-Based Global Tariffs
- Trump Invokes Unused 1974 Section 122 to Impose 10-15% Global Tariffs After Supreme Court Defeat
- EU Parliament Freezes Ratification of US Trade Pact After Court Nixes Tariffs, Trump Slaps 15% Blanket Duty
- EU Parliament Freezes Ratification of 2025 Trans-Atlantic Trade Pact After U.S. Court Nixes Tariffs, Trump Retaliates
- Panama Supreme Court Ruling Sparks State Takeover of Balboa & Cristobal Canal Ports
- Novo Nordisk’s CagriSema Misses Non-Inferiority in Head-to-Head Phase 3, $475 B Valuation Gain Evaporates
- After Supreme Court Nixes 1977 Tariff Authority, Trump Hits World Imports With 15% Levy and Beijing Calls for Reversal
- Trump Escalates Post-Ruling Retaliation: Global Tariff Jumps to 15% for 150 Days
- EU Freezes Ratification of 2025 Trade Pact After Trump Imposes New 15 % Global Tariff
- Supreme Court Voids IEEPA Tariffs; Trump Immediately Re-imposes 10 % Import Duty Under Trade Act §122
- Supreme Court Nullifies Trump’s Emergency Tariff Authority, Re-empowering Congress
- India–Brazil Set $30 B Trade Goal and Seal Critical Mineral Pacts During Lula’s 2026 Delhi Visit
- Budapest Veto Stalls €90 B EU-Ukraine Rescue Loan
- Nvidia Replaces Unexecuted $100 B Supply Pact with One-Shot $30 B Equity Stake in OpenAI
- Lagarde Floats 2026 Departure to Lock-In Successor Before French Vote
- Argentina’s Lower House Approves Milei’s Labor Overhaul Amid Nationwide 24-Hour Strike
- Germany Signals Possible FCAS Exit, Eyes Extra F-35s as Airbus Floats Dual-Fighter Plan
- Fed January 27-28 Minutes Put Both Cuts and Hikes Back on the Table
- Hungary and Slovakia Suspend Diesel Exports to Ukraine over Druzhba Pipeline Standoff
- Japan Announces April 2026 In-Flight Power Bank Ban After Spike in Lithium-Ion Fires
- Japan Begins $550 B Trump Deal With $36 B Trio of U.S. Energy & Mineral Projects
- Adani Group Unveils $100 B Renewable-Powered AI Data-Centre Push Through 2035
- Czechia Offers Reverse-Flow Lifeline to Slovakia After Druzhba Shutdown
- India AI Impact Summit 2026: Govt Targets $200 B AI Build-out, Orders 20,000 New GPUs
- Hungary & Slovakia Invoke Adria Pipeline After Jan-27 Druzhba Strike
- Warner Bros. Board Weighs Paramount’s Sweetened $108 B Counter-Bid, Threatening Netflix Deal
- Hapag-Lloyd Inks $4.2 B Takeover of ZIM with FIMI ‘New ZIM’ Carve-Out
- Jan-27 Strike Shuts Druzhba Oil to Hungary & Slovakia Ahead of Hungarian Election
- Warner Bros. Board Weighs Paramount’s Amended $108 B Offer, Pressuring Netflix Deal
- Q3 FY26 Earnings Jolt Rocks Indian Mid-Caps on 16 Feb 2026
- Waymo Sets 1 M-Ride Weekly Goal After $16 B Funding as Senate Grills Firm on Offshore Remote Operators
- Nico López Refinery Blaze Quickly Contained Amid Cuba’s Post-Maduro Fuel Crunch
- Feb-14 2026 Tourism Crossroads: Boom in Europe & Pacific, Bust in U.S.
- US–Taiwan Reciprocal Trade Pact Finalized: 15 % Tariff Ceiling, $85 B Purchases & $500 B Investment Pledge
- U.S. Treasury Green-Lights American Exploration in Post-Maduro Venezuela
- January 2026 CPI Undershoot Revives Global Disinflation Narrative but Sparks Mixed Policy Signals
- EU Parliament Fast-Tracks €90 B Joint Loan for Ukraine’s 2026-27 War Budget
- Trump Orders Pentagon to Procure Coal Power Amid Record Renewable Gains
- U.S. Energy Secretary’s Caracas Mission and License 48 Kick-Start Post-Maduro Oil Reboot
- Feb 2026 Energy Crossroads: China’s Record Solar Build, EU’s Fossil Eclipse, and Trump’s Pentagon Coal Order
- January 2026 Jobs Report: 130,000 New Positions but 898,000 Jobs Erased From 2025 Payrolls
- U.S. Energy Chief Begins Post-Maduro Mission to Kick-Start $100 B Venezuelan Oil Rebuild
- Alphabet Floats £1 Billion Century Bond Amid $32 Billion, Three-Currency AI Funding Blitz
- Paramount Adds “Ticking Fee” and Break-Up-Fee Coverage to $30-a-Share Cash Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
- Bithumb's 620,000-Bitcoin Misfire Triggers Korean Regulatory Scrutiny
- Indian Refiners Freeze New Russian Crude Orders After U.S. Drops 25% Tariff
- Yen Whipsaws After Takaichi’s Landslide Supermajority Signals Bigger Spending
- Washington Post Axes One-Third of Newsroom, Publisher Resigns Days Later
- U.S.–Iran Open Direct Nuclear Talks in Oman After Last-Minute Venue Switch
- Riyadh Launches $5B+ Aleppo-Centric Reconstruction Blitz in Syria
- Takaichi’s Two-Thirds Shockwave Reshapes Japan’s Fiscal Chessboard
- US–India Interim Pact Slashes Tariffs to 18 %, Ties Relief to Russian-Oil Exit
- Japan Opens Feb. 8 Snap Election with Scandal-Tainted LDP Seeking Super-Majority
- Modi Schedules 7–8 Feb 2026 Kuala Lumpur Visit After Elevating India-Malaysia Ties
- Bitcoin Craters to 16-Month Low, Wiping US$2 Trillion Off Crypto After Warsh Fed Shock
- US Slashes 50% Tariffs to 18% as India Opens Markets in Interim Trade Pact
- US-India Interim Trade Framework Cuts Punitive Tariffs
- U.S. Rebrands MSP as FORGE, Taps South Korea as Chair Until June 2026
- Kremlin Rebuts Trump’s Claim of Indian Exit from Russian Oil
- ECB Freezes Policy at 2 % as Euro Surge Tests Post-Cut 'Good Place'
- Tariff Truce: US Agrees to Cut Duties on Indian Imports to 18% in First-Phase Trade Deal
- US Unveils Critical Minerals Preferential Trade Zone Plan at 55-Nation Ministerial
- Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Plugins Spark $285 B Software Stock Meltdown
- Trump Unilaterally Unveils India-US Tariff-Cut Deal, Triggering Parliamentary Furor in New Delhi
- Trump Unveils $12 B 'Project Vault' Strategic Critical-Minerals Reserve
- Gold & Silver Crash Below $5,000 / $100 After Warsh Fed Pick, Triggering CME Margin Hike
- 2026 India-US Tariff Accord Cuts Duties to 18% Tied to $500 B U.S. Goods Pledge
- Trump–Modi ‘Phase One’ Trade Pact Cuts U.S. Tariff on Indian Goods to 18%
- Nvidia-OpenAI $100 B Data-Center Deal Stalls, Talks Pivot to Smaller Equity Stake
- Trump Unveils India–Venezuela Oil Deal After Maduro’s Ouster
- Trump Picks Kevin Warsh as Next Fed Chair, Sparking Dollar Surge and Metals Crash
- Nvidia Recalibrates—but Reaffirms—OpenAI Funding After $100 B Megadeal Rumor
- Trump Threatens 50% Tariff and Decertification of Canadian Aircraft Over Gulfstream Dispute
- India’s First-Ever Sunday Budget and Singapore’s Feb 12 Fiscal Debut of the 15th Parliament
- Trump Touts India-Venezuela Crude Switch After U.S. Seizure of Caracas Oil Assets
- Trump Nominates Kevin Warsh to Replace Powell as Federal Reserve Chair
- Gold Breaches $5,100/Oz, Triggering Worldwide Coin Liquidations and Reserve Jitters
- US Tariffs Threat on Cuba’s Oil Imports Forces Mexican Diplomatic Tightrope
- Fed Freezes Rates at 3.5-3.75% as Powell Nears Exit, Markets Bet on June Cut
- Caracas Green-Lights Hydrocarbons Law Rewrite, Ending PDVSA’s Monopoly
- SpaceX Sets Up Shell Firms for Pre-IPO Merger With xAI
- India-EU Seal 2-Billion-Person Free-Trade & Security Accord After 18-Year Talks
- Bessent’s ‘Strong Dollar’ Declaration Snaps Four-Year USD Slide
- Fed Freezes Rates at 3.50–3.75% Despite Trump Pressure Ahead of Powell Succession
- India-EU Seal Record-Size FTA, Ending 19-Year Negotiations
- Trump Announces 25 % Tariff Snapback on South Korean Imports
- Silver Clears $100 as Gold Leaps Past $5,000 in Record 2026 Metals Spike
- India-EU Clinch FTA Terms After 19-Year Negotiation Marathon
- India-EU Seal Long-Awaited FTA and Security Pact Ahead of 27 Jan Summit
- Trump Raises Tariffs on South Korean Imports to 25% Over Unratified 2025 Trade Framework
- India-EU Leaders Fly In to Clinch 18-Year Free-Trade Negotiations
- Trump Threatens 100 % Tariffs After Carney-Xi EV Tariff Swap
- Gold Smashes $5,000/Oz Threshold, Dragging Silver and Platinum to Record Highs
- TikTok USDS Joint Venture Closes, Majority-U.S. Ownership Ends Ban Threat
- U.S.–Brokered Hydrocarbons Overhaul Races Through Caracas After Maduro’s Ouster
- Chery Buys Nissan’s 60-Year-Old Rosslyn Plant, Cementing First Chinese Manufacturing Foothold in South Africa
- ByteDance Seals 80.1%-American TikTok USDS Joint Venture, Averting Jan-2026 Ban
- ByteDance Cedes Control: 80.1 %-US TikTok Joint Venture Sealed to Dodge Ban
- Amazon Sets Second Wave of 2026 Corporate Layoffs to Reach 30,000-Job Target
- Venezuelan Assembly Fast-Tracks Oil Liberalization After U.S. Seizes Maduro
- Trump Invites Putin to Pay-to-Join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ Ahead of Davos Launch
- TikTok Cedes 80.1 % U.S. Stake in Last-Hour USDS Joint Venture Deal
- Rodríguez Agrees to First U.S. Bilateral Visit by a Venezuelan President Since 1997
- EU Freezes US Trade Deal and Mulls Anti-Coercion ‘Bazooka’ After Trump’s Greenland Tariff Ultimatum
- Japan’s Pre-Election Bond Rout Ripples Through Global Debt Markets
- Netflix Converts WBD Takeover to All-Cash Bid Amid Paramount Proxy War
- Gold Smashes $4,700/Oz Barrier, Igniting New Wave of ‘Monetary’ Demand
- Trump Dangles 200 % Wine Tariff to Strong-Arm France into Joining U.S. ‘Board of Peace’
- Mercosur-EU Mega-Deal Signed Without Brazil’s Lula Present
- Modi-Al Nahyan 3-Hour Summit Seals LNG Deal, Defence Pact Roadmap & $200 B Trade Goal
- Canada Cuts Chinese EV Tariff to 6.1%, Caps Imports at 49k
- EU–Mercosur Ink World’s Largest Tariff-Free Zone After 25-Year Stalemate
- Seoul Invokes “No-Less-Favorable” Clause as U.S. Ties Chip Tariff Relief to Local Investment
- Google Appeals Search Monopoly Verdict, Seeks Stay on Court-Ordered Data Sharing
- EU–Mercosur Mega-Trade Zone Finally Signed in Asunción
- U.S. Adopts “Separate Deals” Approach After Taiwan Chip Tariff Accord
- Canada-China Tariff Swap: 49,000-Vehicle EV Quota for Canola Relief
- US–Taiwan Pact Trades 5+ New TSMC Arizona Fabs for 15% Tariff Rate
- U.S. Invokes Section 232 to Levy 25 % Duty on Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X AI Chips
- Trump–Rodriguez First Call Signals Post-Maduro US-Venezuela Reset
- China Logs Record $1.2 Trillion 2025 Trade Surplus After Redirecting Exports Away from U.S.
- Trump Threatens 25 % Tariff on All Nations Trading With Iran, Reviving US-China Trade War Risks
- Trump Slaps Extra 25% Duty on All U.S. Trade With Countries Dealing With Iran
- EU–China Minimum-Price Scheme Supplants 2024 EV Tariffs
- Carney Opens 14–17 Jan 2026 Beijing Summit to Trade EV Tariffs for Canola Relief
- China Rejects Trump’s 25 % Tariff Threat Over Iran Trade
- EU-Mercosur Mega-Trade Pact Secured Ahead of 17 Jan Signing in Paraguay
- EU Opens Path to Replace Chinese EV Tariffs with Model-by-Model Minimum Price Scheme
- Trump DOJ Issues Grand Jury Subpoenas to Fed Chair Powell Over Renovation Testimony
- U.S. Capture of Maduro Leads to 30-50 M Barrel Venezuelan Oil Transfer to America
- Gold Tops $4,600 as DOJ Threatens Fed Chair and Iran Unrest Ignites Safe-Haven Rush
- EU Council Greenlights EU-Mercosur Trade Pact After Italy Flips
- Trump Orders Immediate U.S. Take-Over of 30–50 Million Venezuelan Barrels After Maduro’s Capture
- Trump Shields Venezuelan Oil Revenues After Majors Call Country ‘Uninvestable’
- EU Offers €45 Billion in Early CAP Funds to Sway Italy Ahead of Mercosur Vote
- Trump Orders Immediate Transfer of 30–50 M Barrels of Venezuelan Crude to U.S. After Maduro Ouster
- Rio Tinto–Glencore Reopen Merger Talks in a Copper-Driven $207 Billion Play
- Washington Courts Big Oil for Post-Maduro Venezuela Rebuild
- Supreme Court Poised to Rule on Legality of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ IEEPA Tariffs
- Italy’s U-Turn Tips the Scales for EU-Mercosur Pact
- EU Secures Italy’s Yes with €45 B Farm Sweetener, Clearing Path to Sign Mercosur Pact
- Trump Announces Push to Ban Big Investors From Buying U.S. Single-Family Homes
- Maduro Capture Sparks Full U.S. Oil Embargo, PDVSA Ordered to Slash Output
- US Seizes Maduro, Trump Tells American Oil Majors to Pour Billions into Venezuela
- China Imposes Immediate Ban on Dual-Use Exports to Japan After Takaichi’s Taiwan Remarks
- xAI Secures $20 B GPU-Backed Series E, Pioneering Asset-Based AI Financing
- OPEC+ Affirms Q1-2026 Output Freeze Amid Saudi-UAE Rift and Venezuela Shock
- Trump Dangles New Tariff Hike to Force India Off Russian Crude
- Gold Surges to One-Week High After U.S. Capture of Maduro and Fresh Fed-Cut Signals
- OPEC+ Freezes Q1-2026 Output in 10-Minute Emergency Call
- U.S. Forces Remove Maduro; Trump Vows American-Led Revival of Venezuela’s Oil
- China Imposes 55% Safeguard Tariff on Beef Imports Above 205,000-Ton Quota
- Iran’s Mindex Lists Crypto Payments for Ballistic Missiles and Drones
- China Scraps Contraceptive Tax Break, Slaps 13 % VAT to Fight Population Slide
- Norway’s 2025 Auto Market Hits 95.9 % Battery-Electric Share Ahead of 2026 VAT Hike
- BYD Clinches 2025 Global EV Sales Crown From Tesla
- China Slaps 55% Safeguard Tariff on Over-Quota Beef Imports
- Warren Buffett Hands Berkshire CEO Role to Greg Abel After 60-Year Run
- China Activates 55 % ‘Safeguard’ Tariff on Over-Quota Beef Imports
- Trump Lifts Ban on Nvidia H200, Sparking 2-Million-Chip Chinese Buying Spree and Emergency TSMC Ramp-Up
- BYD Passes Tesla in 2025 Global Electric-Vehicle Sales
- India Passes Japan to Claim 4th-Largest Economy at $4.18 Trillion
- Bulgaria Drops the Lev, Joins Eurozone as 21st Member
- China Enacts Three-Year 55 % Safeguard Tariff on Over-Quota Beef Imports
- Silver Peaks and Plunges as Margin Hike Collides With Looming China Export Curbs
- Meta Snaps Up Singapore’s Manus in $2B-Plus, 10-Day AI Agent Deal
- Silver Smashes $79/Oz as CME Slaps $25k Margin Hike in Year-End Metals Super-Spike
- Tesla Drops 'Sustainable' for 'Amazing Abundance' and Debuts Fully Unmanned Robotaxi Tests
- China Approves Interest-Bearing Digital Yuan Deposits from 1 Jan 2026
- Nvidia’s $20 B Groq “license-plus-talent” deal vaults it into AI inference
- Tesla’s Year-End Shock: First Empty-Seat Robotaxi Drives Just As BYD Seizes EV Sales Crown
- Bulgaria Set to Replace Lev with Euro on 1 Jan 2026, Becoming 21st Euro-Zone Member
- Codelco–SQM Launch 35-Year ‘NovaAndino’ Lithium Joint Venture
- Silver Breaks US$79/oz as CME Tightens Futures Rules and China Restricts Exports
- Lithuania Begins MiCA Enforcement Jan 1 2026, Unlicensed Crypto Firms Face Fines & Jail
- Ex-ULA Chief Tory Bruno Defects to Blue Origin to Head New National Security Group
- China Blacklists 20 U.S. Defense Contractors After Record $11.1 B Taiwan Arms Deal
- Japan Green-Lights ¥9 trn FY-2026 Defense Budget, Hitting 2 % GDP Target Two Years Early
- Silver Shatters $79/oz Record as Physical Shortage Deepens
- Gold Tops $4,500, Silver $72 in Christmas-Eve Metals Melt-Up
- Nvidia Strikes $20 B Groq Inference Tech Licensing & Talent Deal
- U.S. Section 301 Ruling Sets June 2027 Tariff Trigger on Chinese Legacy Semiconductors
- Gold Breaches $4,400/oz as Fed Easing Bets and Venezuela Crisis Stoke Safe-Haven Rush
- USTR Sets June 23 2027 Start Date for New Tariffs on Chinese Legacy Semiconductors
- U.S. Scraps H-1B Lottery, Adds $100k Entry Fee After Court Win
- Niigata Assembly Vote Clears Path for Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Restart
- US Coast Guard Seizes Second Venezuela-Linked Tanker After Trump’s ‘Total Blockade’ Order
- Silver Breaks $70/oz Barrier in Historic Precious-Metal Spike
- Trump Orders Total Oil Blockade on Venezuela as Rubio Brands Maduro Regime a Narco-Terror Ally
- Niigata Assembly Green-Lights Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Restart, TEPCO’s First Post-Fukushima Reactivation
- U.S. Interior Halts Five East Coast Offshore Wind Leases for 'National Security' Review
- Niigata Assembly Green-Lights Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Restart
- U.S. Begins De-Facto Maritime Blockade, Chases Third Venezuelan Sanctions-Busting Tanker in 11 Days
- India & New Zealand Clinch Nine-Month FTA Deal Slashing Tariffs on 95% of Kiwi Exports
- US Coast Guard Seizes Panama-Flagged Tanker 'Centuries' in Second Venezuela Blockade Action
- OpenAI CEO Admits Semi-Annual “Code Red” Emergencies as Google’s Gemini 3 Pressures ChatGPT
- France-Italy Bloc Halts Last-Minute Signing of EU-Mercosur FTA
- BOJ’s 19-Dec-2025 0.75% Liftoff Ends Japan’s Zero-Rate Era
- Nine Drug Giants Accept Trump’s ‘Most-Favored-Nation’ Pricing in Exchange for Tariff Relief
- Farmer-led Revolt Forces EU to Stall Mercosur Ratification Days Before Planned Signing
- China Activates Island-wide Special Customs Regime in Hainan Free Trade Port
- ByteDance Cuts Deal to Spin Off TikTok US Days Before Ban Trigger
- India and Oman Seal CEPA Granting Near-Total Duty-Free Market Access
- Hainan FTP Activates Island-Wide Special Customs Regime, Raising Zero-Tariff Goods to 74%
- Amazon Courts OpenAI With $10 B+ Cash-for-Compute Pact
- U.S. USTR Threatens Tariffs on European Tech Champions After EU’s €140 M Fine on X
- EU Scales Back 2035 Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate to 90% Cut
- MEPs Slash Import-Surge Trigger to 5 %, Forcing Pre-Christmas Showdown on EU-Mercosur Pact
- EU Leaders Prepare Dec-18 Summit to Unlock €210 B in Frozen Russian Reserves for Ukraine
- France Forces Cliff-Edge Scramble on EU-Mercosur Pact
- Ford Takes $19.5 B Hit, Axes F-150 Lightning to Pivot Toward Hybrids
- Bitcoin Drops to $85K Amid Whale Covered-Call Wave and Carry-Trade Unwind
- France Pushes to Postpone December Council Vote on EU-Mercosur Trade Pact
- U.S. Boards and Seizes Venezuelan Crude Tanker ‘Skipper’ Hours Before Legal Deadline
- iRobot Enters Chapter 11; OEM Shenzhen Picea to Acquire 100% Equity
- SpaceX Advances $1.5 Trillion IPO Plan, Shuffles $95 Million in Bitcoin
- U.S. Seizes Tanker 'Skipper' and Floods Caribbean With Forces in Escalation Against Maduro
- Mexico Authorises 5–50% MFN Tariffs on 1,463 Import Lines, Triggering Indian & Chinese Push-Back
- EU Greenlights €3 Duty on Low-Value Imports Starting July 2026
- US Appeals Court Keeps Epic Injunction, Sends Apple’s ‘Link-Out’ Fee to Lower Court
- Mexico Enacts Up-to-50% Tariffs on 1,463 Non-FTA Imports; China and India Protest
- Fed Cuts Rates to 3.5-3.75% Amid Biggest Internal Split Since 2019
- Mexico Approves Up-to-50% Tariffs on Non-FTA Asian Imports; China Protests
- Paramount’s $108 B All-Cash Hostile Tender Upends Netflix–Warner Bros Deal
- Microsoft Announces $23 B AI Build-out with $17.5 B Pledged for India (2026-29)
- Amazon Adds $35 B India Pledge, Total Commitment Hits $75 B by 2030
- SpaceX Lines Up 2026 IPO Targeting $1 Trillion-Plus Valuation
- Microsoft’s $17.5 B Sovereign AI Cloud Gamble in India (2026-29)
- Amazon Adds $35 B Commitment, Taking India Bet to $75 B by 2030
- Hungary Vetoes EU Eurobond ‘Plan B,’ Leaving Frozen-Russian-Asset Loan as Brussels’ Lone Ukraine Funding Path
- DGCA Cuts 5% of IndiGo’s Winter Flights After Week-Long Mass Cancellations
- Trump Unveils $12 B Tariff-Funded ‘Bridge’ Bailout for Farmers
- Trump Issues Tariff Ultimatum to Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Shortfall
- EU Scrambles to Win Belgium’s Nod for €90 bn Ukraine ‘Reparations Loan’ Backed by Frozen Russian Assets
- China’s Trade Surplus Blasts Past $1 Trillion After November Export Rebound
- Apple Silicon Architect Weighs Exit as Executive Exodus Accelerates
- SpaceX Floats $800 B Valuation in Insider Tender Offer Ahead of Possible 2026 IPO
- $90K Bitcoin Triggers Wall-Street vs. Academia Valuation Showdown
- DGCA Gives IndiGo CEO 24-Hour Ultimatum After Week-Long Flight Collapse
- Trump Envoys, Kyiv Extend Florida Peace Talks to Day 3 After Drafting Post-War Security Outline
- Hungary Vetoes Eurobond ‘Plan B’ for EU Ukraine Funding
- DGCA Grants IndiGo Temporary Waiver from New Pilot-Fatigue Rules After Mass Cancellations
- Trump Administration Moves to Cut 2031 CAFE Target to 34.5 MPG and End Credit-Trading
- Maduro Appeals to OPEC After Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace ‘Closed’
- IndiGo Grounds Hundreds of Flights, Seeks FDTL Waiver After Crew-Scheduling Collapse
- Turkey’s BOTAS Locks 10-Year LNG Imports from SEFE & Eni After Five-Fold Boost in Regas Capacity
- Airbus Cuts 2025 A320 Delivery Target to 790 After Fuselage Panel Flaw
- India Floats Su-57 & S-500 Procurements as Putin Lands for 2025 Delhi Summit
- EU Unveils Contested Plan to Seize €210 Bln in Russian Reserves for a €140 Bln Ukraine “Reparations Loan”
- Trump Pencils In Early-2026 Fed Chair Reveal, Hints Hassett Is the Lone Finalist
- EASA Grounds 6,000 Airbus A320-Family Jets Over Solar-Radiation Software Flaw
- Ukrainian Sea-Drone Strike Shuts CPC Novorossiysk Terminal, Kazakhstan Files Diplomatic Protest
- OPEC+ Freezes Q1-2026 Output and Orders External Capacity Audit
- SIPRI 2024 Report: Arms Sales Hit Record $679 B, Europe Surges as China Contracts
- Kazakhstan Publicly Rebukes Ukraine After Third Drone Strike Shuts Novorossiysk CPC Mooring
- Caracas Pulls Operating Permits from Iberia, TAP, Avianca, LATAM, Turkish & GOL
- First Spanish African Swine Fever Case Since 1994 Triggers Global Pork Trade Freeze
- CME’s 11-Hour Cooling Failure Freezes Global Futures Trading
- Canada–Alberta MOU Trades Climate Rollbacks for New Pacific Bitumen Pipeline Push
- Global Import Bans Ripple After Spain Detects African Swine Fever in Catalonia
- Modi Unveils Vikram-I and 200,000-sq-ft Infinity Campus, Launching India’s Private Orbital Era
- Venezuela Pulls Permits for Six Foreign Airlines After U.S. NOTAM-Triggered Flight Suspensions
- TSMC Lawsuit Spurs Taiwan Raids Over Alleged 2-nm Trade-Secret Leak to Intel
- G20 Adopts Voluntary Critical Minerals Framework at Johannesburg Summit
- Modi & Carney Re-launch India-Canada CEPA Talks After Two-Year Freeze
- India & Israel Sign Terms of Reference, Formally Opening FTA Negotiations
- India Activates Four-Code Labour Overhaul, Repealing 29 Legacy Acts
- Judge Brinkema Ponders Forced Sale of Google’s AdX After Final Court Showdown
- Unsealed Filings Expose Meta’s 2020 ‘Project Mercury’ and Other Concealed Teen-Safety Risks
- Delayed September 2025 Jobs Report Reveals 119,000 Payroll Gain Against 4.4% Jobless Rate
- India Finally Puts Four Consolidated Labour Codes Into Force
- Foxconn & OpenAI Seal $1-5 B U.S. Build-Out to Co-Design AI Server Racks
- Nvidia Posts Record Q3 and Lifts Q4 Outlook to $65 B Despite China Revenue Collapse
- After 43-Day Shutdown, September Jobs Print +119k; Jobless Rate Climbs to 4.4% Ahead of Fed Meeting
- Madrid Court Hits Meta with €479 m Damages Order for GDPR-Linked Ad Advantage
- Federal Court Rejects FTC Push to Break Up Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp
- Beijing Warns Off Tourists and Patrols Senkaku After Japan PM’s Taiwan War Talk
- Microsoft & Nvidia Inject $15 B into Anthropic, Tied to $30 B Azure Compute Lock-In
- Microsoft–Nvidia $15 B Cash-for-Compute Deal Catapults Anthropic’s Valuation
- Bitcoin Breaks Below $90K, Wiping $1T From Crypto in Six Weeks
- Judge Boasberg Throws Out FTC Case, Meta Keeps Instagram & WhatsApp (18 Nov 2025)
- EU Scrambles After Belgian Veto of €140 B Russian-Asset Loan for Ukraine
- Greece Opens “Vertical Corridor” to Ship U.S. LNG to Ukraine for Winter 2025-26
- Chile’s 2025 Presidential First Round Sends Communist Jara and Hard-Right Kast to Dec. 14 Run-Off
- Ukrainian Drone-Missile Barrage Shuts Novorossiysk Oil Exports
- Athens-Kyiv Deal Activates Vertical Corridor for U.S. LNG to Ukraine
- Belgium and Euroclear Imperil EU Scheme to Underwrite €183 B Ukraine Loan With Frozen Russian Reserves
- Belgium & Euroclear Stall EU Plan to Leverage €183 B in Frozen Russian Assets for Ukraine Loan
- Trump Rolls Back Tariffs on 200-Plus Food Imports After Affordability Backlash
- U.S.–ROK Fact Sheet Green-Lights Seoul’s Nuclear-Powered Submarines in $350 Bn Deal
- White House Lifts Tariffs on Coffee, Bananas and Beef via Four-Nation Latin American Frameworks
- EU Finance Ministers Vote to Scrap €150 Duty-Free Threshold on E-commerce Parcels
- U.S. Green-lights South Korea’s First Nuclear-Powered Submarine Program in Trade-Security Deal
- EU Finance Ministers OK Accelerated End of €150 Duty-Free Threshold for Chinese E-Commerce Parcels
- EU Opens DMA Probe Into Google’s Demotion of Sponsored News Content
- Google Pledges €5.5 B German AI-Cloud Build-Out Through 2029
- UK Jails Chinese ‘Cryptoqueen’ after £5.5 billion Bitcoin Seizure
- U.S. Mints Final Penny, Retailers Begin Rounding Amid Coin Phase-Out
- UK Court Begins Sentencing in £5.5 Billion Bitcoin Laundering Case Against China’s ‘Crypto Goddess’
- Google Pledges €5.5 B Germany AI & Green Data-Center Build-out by 2029
- Operation Midas: NABU Executes 70 Raids to Bust Energoatom Kickback Ring
- Air Canada delays restart as CUPE defies CIRB back-to-work order
- Federal Court Fines Qantas A$90m for 2020 Illegal Outsourcing of 1,820 Ground Staff
- US tariff pause ends, reshaping Asia-Pacific risk calculus as Singapore’s US-bound exports plunge and Aussie voters put tariffs ahead of China threat
- Fed Sunsets 2023 Crypto-Focused “Novel Activities” Bank Oversight Program
- Second Circuit Grants Argentina Stay on YPF Stake Turnover
- U.S. Pulls Out of 6th India BTA Round After Slapping 50 % Tariffs
- Air Canada Begins Pre-Strike Flight Cancellations After 10,000 Flight Attendants Serve 72-Hour Walkout Notice
- Air Canada Begins System-Wide Wind-Down Ahead of Aug 16 Flight-Attendant Walkout
- Metaplanet’s $61 M Bitcoin Buy Caps Week of Record Corporate Accumulation
- Norway’s $2 Trillion Oil Fund Dumps 11 Off-Index Israeli Stocks and Fires Local Managers
- Norway’s $2 Trillion Oil Fund Cuts 11 Israeli Holdings and Fires Local Asset Managers
- Trump Extends US-China Tariff Truce to Nov. 10, Avoiding Snap-Back to 145 % Duties
- Jellyfish Swarm Halts France’s 5.4 GW Gravelines Nuclear Complex