Guyana was already the world’s fastest growing economy before the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran drove up oil prices. Now, the tiny Caribbean nation of nearly 1 million people will reap an even bigger bonanza as the conflict reshapes global energy markets.
As Japan’s yen drifts back to levels that prompted official intervention a month ago, markets are sizing up Tokyo’s remaining financial firepower and political will to defend its ailing currency.
The World Health Organisation chief on Saturday called on communities in the centre of the Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak to play a central role in fighting the disease.
Gold is approaching a potential turning point that could decide whether it extends this year’s losses or makes a stand that could facilitate a recovery.
Unrealised losses at U.S. private credit lenders deepened in the first quarter to their worst level since 2022, while the amount of interest income they received in kind, rather than cash, stayed high, filings and data reviewed by Reuters showed.
While U.S.-Canadian relations have frayed under U.S. President Donald Trump, data on Canadian citizenship approvals under recently widened rules suggests many Americans would welcome the chance to become Canadian.
California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed under the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged political “weaponization,” the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday.