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India’s Inflation Dip Strengthens Case for RBI Easing
India’s headline inflation cooled sharply to 0.25% in October, well below forecasts of 0.48% and easing from 1.54% in September, signaling that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could have more room to loosen policy. The decline came as falling food, ...

SoftBank Cashes Out of Nvidia to Double Down on AI Bets
SoftBank sold its entire 32.1 million-share stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion in October, a move that coincided with the Japanese conglomerate’s partial divestment of $9.17 billion in T-Mobile shares. The sales form part of a broader effort to raise liquidity ...

Germany’s Trade Surplus Slides as Imports Outpace Exports
Germany’s trade balance weakened sharply in September 2025, slipping to an 11-month low as import demand surged past expectations. The monthly surplus narrowed to €15.3 billion, down from €16.9 billion in August and €18 billion a year earlier. Exports edged up ...

Markets Rally as US Moves Toward Ending Prolonged Shutdown
Global markets kicked off the week on a high as investors welcomed signs that the United States is close to ending its five-week government shutdown. The breakthrough came after centrist Democrats joined Republicans in a 60-40 Senate vote to advance ...

China’s Export Decline Highlights Strain in US Trade Relations
China’s exports slipped 1.1% yearonyear in October, marking the weakest performance since February and reversing the 8.3% surge seen in September. The decline was driven by a sharp 25% fall in shipments to the United States, extending a sevenmonth streak of ...
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Canada’s Budget Falls Short of Economic Breakthrough
Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced his first federal budget promising generational investments to fortify the Canadian economy and inoculate it against a U.S. trade war. Yet economic analysts say the plan falls short of delivering transformative change. Facing a minority government ...

OpenAI and Amazon Combine for AI Powerplay
In a bold move, OpenAI and Amazon sealed a US$38 billion agreement that grants the ChatGPT creator access to AWS data centres and “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia AI chips to power the next wave of its artificial-intelligence systems. Following the ...

Saudi Arabia Channels Oil Wealth into a $3 Billion AI Power Play
Saudi Arabia is shifting its economic engine from crude to code, pouring billions into artificial intelligence through Humain, a state-backed firm owned by the Kingdom’s nearly $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund. Announced by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in May, Humain ...

Amazon Rallies 13% as Cloud and AI Power Record Earnings
Amazon shares jumped 13.2% after the company posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings, driven by a rebound in its cloud computing division and steady consumer spending despite stubborn inflation. Revenue climbed 13% year-on-year to $180.2 billion, while net income surged to $21.1 ...

Apple Is Now a $4 Trillion Company
Apple Inc.’s share price climbed above US $269 on Tuesday, pushing its market capitalization beyond US $4 trillion. It emerged as only the third public company in history, after Nvidia Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, to achieve this benchmark. The surge followed ...

UK’s FTSE 100 Hits Record as HSBC Gains Boost Market Confidence
London’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.3% to a record 9,677.87 points on Tuesday, lifted by a 3.1% rise in HSBC shares after the bank raised its income outlook and promised to accelerate growth. Despite a 14% drop in quarterly profit following $1.4 ...
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Brent Rises as Fresh U.S. Sanctions Choke Russian Oil Exports
Brent crude surged more than 5% to about $65.87 per barrel, while WTI climbed 5.7% to $61.82, after Washington imposed new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil firms, Rosneft and Lukoil. The measures freeze U.S.-based assets and prohibit American entities ...

Kospi Hits Record as Asian Markets Rally Ahead of Trump–Xi Talks
Asian stocks ended the week higher, with South Korea’s Kospi surging 2.5% as traders welcomed news that U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping will meet next week. The rally reflected optimism that the talks, set for Thursday ...

