Prashant Rao
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🔮 Defense officials, meanwhile, fret that a party seen as favorable to the Kremlin could have greater sway in a country that is fast rearming and is the largest single donor to Ukraine.
🔮 Goldman Sachs raised its oil-price forecast, “reflecting our new assumption that Mideast shipping disruptions continue into 2027.”
🔮 China’s trade growth accelerated last month, but data showing imports fell short of analysts’ expectations will likely add to calls for Beijing to rebalance its economy ahead of a high-stakes leaders summit with the US this month.
🔮 “Every time we take a deep dive into this sector,” analysts at S&P Global Ratings wrote last week, “we find that capex is rising faster than we anticipated, financings are becoming more complicated and less transparent, and that returns on investment will take years to realize.”
🔮 That cooperation looks set to grow with Canada’s prime minister due to address the European Parliament next week.
🔮 Authorities have shown little interest in such fiscal stimulus, however, insisting instead that a long-term shift to high-tech sectors will power the economy.
🔮 Growing calls for AI regulation looked set to dominate the days ahead as Washington took up the issue and frontier labs mulled proposing their own watchdog.
🔮 Russia’s president landed in India for a BRICS summit that looks set to underline a broader reordering of global alliances.
🔮 The latest operation comes just weeks before Israeli parliamentary elections which most polls suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party is unlikely to win — though the country’s fragmented political scene means he could yet form another coalition government.
🔮 The moves follow escalating rhetoric between the pair’s leaders, though a senior Trump administration official said the countries would try to negotiate an offramp from the dispute.
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