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JPMorgan abandons oil price forecast as Iran war defies market models

Bangladesh, Sept. 20 -- JPMorgan has abandoned its usual baseline forecast for oil prices, acknowledging that the ongoing conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran has created an unusually... Read More


Britains union is under strain: Why the Cardiff Pact matters

Bangladesh, Sept. 20 -- For decades, the United Kingdom has been held together not only by law and institutions, but by an assumption: that despite political disagreements between its constituent nati... Read More


Bitcoin won the market, but lost its political revolution

Bangladesh, Sept. 17 -- Bitcoin was supposed to do more than create a new asset class. For many of its earliest advocates, it was meant to change the relationship between individuals, money and the st... Read More


North Korea's Kim Jong Un Calls Russia's War 'Sacred,' Pledges Deepening Alliance With Moscow

India, Sept. 15 -- The letter arrived in Moscow not as diplomacy but as declaration. Kim Jong Un, writing to Vladimir Putin in reply to the Russian leader's congratulations on North Korea's 78th found... Read More


BRICS and Xi Jinping's "four pioneers": A blueprint for a changing world

Bangladesh, Sept. 15 -- The world is entering an era defined less by certainty than by disruption. Geopolitical rivalries are deepening, economic fragmentation is accelerating, technological competiti... Read More


Trump's Korea gamble is putting America's Asian alliances at risk

Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- For years, US President Donald Trump's most dramatic attacks on traditional American allies have been directed at Europe. But Washington's increasingly transactional approach t... Read More


Iran's Hormuz gamble is getting more expensive as Trump tightens the noose

Bangladesh, Sept. 13 -- Tehran believes the Strait of Hormuz is its strongest weapon in the war. But Washington is steadily raising the price Iran must pay to use it. Iran has long understood the str... Read More


Former Swiss banking chief gets suspended sentence in $101 million bribery case

Bangladesh, Sept. 9 -- Pierre Mirabaud, a former president of the Swiss Bankers Association and one-time partner at Geneva-based private bank Mirabaud & Cie, has been handed a two-year suspended priso... Read More


UK and Twelve Nations Ban Israeli Settlement Goods, Declare Occupation Illegal

India, Sept. 8 -- The legal argument was settled long ago. Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank violate international law, and Britain has said so repeatedly for decades. What changed on Tues... Read More


Australia puts Western Union under the microscope over money-laundering risks

Bangladesh, Sept. 1 -- Australia has opened a regulatory investigation into Western Unions Australian operations and its US-based parent company, placing one of the worlds best-known money-transfer br... Read More