Chipmaking giant Nvidia’s China curse may finally be easing, after reports that Chinese officials have told Alibaba and other tech companies to prepare for purchases of Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips, signalling that Beijing may be moving toward formally approving imports of the components.According to a Bloomberg report, Chinese regulators…

The precious metals market is witnessing records tumbling every trading week.Gold on COMEX rose to a record high of $4,969.69 per ounce earlier on Friday, nearing the coveted $5,000-per-ounce mark.Meanwhile, silver continued to outperform gold in dramatic fashion and came within a whisker of hitting $100 an ounce.Meanwhile, oil prices…

According to a Reuters poll, economists are much more in agreement than they were a month ago that the Bank of Canada will maintain its overnight interest rate through 2026. The idea that policymakers are not in a rush to change borrowing prices following a protracted easing cycle has been…

Brazilian central bank is expected to start loosening interest rates in March, the first time in nearly two years, as policymakers pursue support for a struggling economy against a backdrop of fading inflation pressures. The outlook from a Reuters poll of economists is driving increasing confidence that monetary easing is just around…

Europe is bracing for a sharper, more transactional political economy.The UK is signalling an “economic reset” with China, as Starmer heads to Beijing flanked by heavyweight finance and trade figures in a bid to re-energise investment and partnerships.At home, regulators are turning the screws on Big Tech, with Ofcom launching…

Tonight’s digest captures markets and geopolitics colliding in real time.In Abu Dhabi, Zelenskyy’s trilateral talks with Russia and the US deliver optics, not breakthroughs, as territorial red lines harden into a durable stalemate.In corporate America, Amazon’s sweeping job cuts underscore that Big Tech’s efficiency drive is structural, not cyclical.Meanwhile, investors…

The World Economic Forum’s 56th annual meeting concluded Friday evening in Davos with a sobering realization that the international order that governed global finance and politics since World War II seems dead.What emerged over those five days is a world fragmenting into competing power blocs, with technological disruption arriving faster…

After days dominated by geopolitical tensions tied to US President Donald Trump’s Greenland ambitions and renewed tariff threats toward European allies, global markets are heading into a pivotal week shaped less by diplomacy and more by data, earnings and central bank signals.A heavy slate of corporate results and a closely…