Financial insights
Latin American markets close mixed as commodity trends drive investor sentiment
Latin American stock markets ended Thursday’s trading session with mixed results as investors reacted to commodity price movements and shifting...
US markets close mixed as investors weigh geopolitical risks and economic outlook
US stock markets closed Thursday’s trading session with mixed results as investors balanced geopolitical developments with ongoing economic data and...
European markets close lower amid oil volatility and geopolitical uncertainty
European stock markets closed Thursday’s session lower as investors reacted to ongoing geopolitical tensions and sharp movements in global energy...
African markets end mixed as investors track oil prices and global risk sentiment
Africa’s major stock markets closed Thursday with mixed results as investors weighed the implications of rising global energy prices and...
Asian markets close lower as geopolitical tension weighs on investor sentiment
Asian stock markets ended Thursday’s trading session mostly lower as investors reacted to rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East...
On this day
On this day in 1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone
On 7 March 1876, inventor Alexander Graham Bell was granted United States Patent No. 174,465 for the telephone, marking one...
US politics
Trump privately considered deploying ground troops in Iran
US President Donald Trump has privately expressed interest in deploying American ground troops inside Iran as the war between the...
Epstein witness claims she was abused by Trump in the 1980s when she was between 13 and 15 years old
The US Department of Justice has released previously undisclosed FBI reports connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including documents referring...
Iran vs US
Explosions rock Tehran as Iran war enters second week
Explosions shook the Iranian capital Tehran overnight as the war involving Iran, Israel and the United States entered its second...
MSTRpay
MSTRPay Opens Malaysia Expansion Through Licensed Microfinance Partnership
MSTRPay AB has entered advanced negotiations to establish a 50/50 joint venture with Koperasi JN Teguh Berhad, a licensed Malaysian...
Ukraine
Hungary seizes millions of euros in cash and gold from Ukrainian convoy
Hungarian authorities have seized millions of euros in cash and gold from a Ukrainian convoy crossing into the country, arresting...
Africa
African business women in leadership 2026: a year of success
African business women have continued to expand their influence across corporate leadership, finance, technology and public governance, with 2026 emerging...
Blockchain
Bitcoin price falls under $70K again: three key reasons
Bitcoin slipped back below the $70,000 threshold after a sharp wave of selling by short-term traders, with analysts pointing to...
AI
JPMorgan expands AI investment as tech spending nears $20B
JPMorgan Chase is significantly increasing its investment in artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure as the bank’s total annual technology spending...
Banking
TD eyes $150M in cost reductions – with help from AI
Toronto-Dominion Bank is targeting roughly $150 million in cost reductions through the expanded use of artificial intelligence, as the Canadian...
Kraken receives Fed master account in historic breakthrough for crypto industry
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has secured access to a Federal Reserve master account, marking the first time a crypto-focused institution has...
Climate & Energy
Global sea levels may have been underestimated, new research suggests
Global sea levels may have been underestimated in previous climate projections due to limitations in modelling techniques, according to new...
Business of the week
Dangote Group: from small trading firm to Africa’s industrial powerhouse
Few business stories in Africa illustrate entrepreneurial scale as clearly as the rise of the Dangote Group. What began as...
Newshub long read
Iran and the world: a long history of empire, faith, and geopolitical power
Iran, historically known as Persia, is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilisations, with political and cultural traditions stretching back...
Hidden financial giants
HDFC Bank: India’s hidden financial giant powering a banking revolution
While global attention often focuses on India’s technology sector, one of the country’s most powerful financial institutions has quietly grown...
Hidden giants: The Rabiu family and Nigeria’s quiet financial powerhouse
While Africa’s billionaire class is often associated with headline names and high-profile conglomerates, one family has built a vast financial-industrial...
Hidden Giants in Finance: Euronet and the invisible rails moving US$200bn a year
Every day, trillions of digital signals move quietly between banks, wallets, ATMs, and payment apps — and behind much of...
America’s quietly powerful Pritzker dynasty
Few families shape global capital as discreetly as the Pritzkers. Best known publicly for building the hotel empire behind Hyatt...
Europe’s hidden financial giant: the foundation behind IKEA
Behind one of the world’s most recognisable retail brands sits a little-known Dutch foundation that quietly controls assets worth tens...
The Grosvenor family (Duke of Westminster)
Few fortunes in Britain are as substantial — or as discreet — as that of the Grosvenor family, headed today...
Sweden’s hidden giants: How Wallenberg and Rausing compare on the global ownership stage
Two Swedish industrial spheres — the Wallenberg network and the Rausing family — quietly control capital measured in trillions of...