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Home Prices Are Facing Their Own K-Economy
ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 18: Emma and Manuel Alvarado hold shovels during a groundbreaking ceremony for their new home rebuild, on the lot where their 52-year family home burned in the Eaton Fire, on August 18, 2026, in Altadena, California.
Building the security layer for the digital economy | Market Pulse | HKTDC
Digital insurance specialist OneDegree describes its services as the security layer of the future. The group has already established strong footholds in East Asia and the Middle East – regions where fintech tools and markets are gaining…
Monday's Economic Calendar
10:30 AM Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey The Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey tracks factory activity in Texas on a monthly basis. The Department of Agriculture releases at the end of the month the index of prices received by farmers for the…
What to Watch: AI's Impact on the Economy
Artificial intelligence just might consume the world, if not literally — although some aren't counting out that possibility — then figuratively. The rapidly maturing technology is on everybody's minds at home and work. It's dominating…
Investors prosper and consumers pay as the Iran war exacts an uneven economic toll 6 months in
NEW YORK — As the U.S. and Israel relentlessly bombed Iran in the opening days of war, the most dramatic predictions of the conflict's toll were unsparing: surging oil prices, worldwide recession, and economic catastrophe. But six months…
China's Official Gauges Point to Continued Contraction in Economic Activity
China's official manufacturing gauge rebounded more than expected in August as output and market demand recovered, though activity remained in contraction for a second straight month. The official manufacturing purchasing managers index inched…
Iran's return won't dethrone Dubai as a global economic hub
Recently, an argument has emerged which maintains that the rise of Dubai and the Gulf states was closely tied to Iran's withdrawal from its regional position after the 1979 Iranian revolution. A stable Iran open to the world, the argument goes…
Trump's 'economic D-day' against Iran risks driving the stakes even higher | Sina Toossi
Donald Trump has found a new way to promise victory over Iran. After months of war have failed to force Iran's capitulation or collapse, his administration has unveiled what the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, calls Operation Economic…
US plans to sanction another bank to keep economic pressure on Iran
Washington plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week as it steps up its campaign to economically isolate Tehran amid the deadlocked truce talks, the US Treasury chief has said. In an interview with The Associated Press news agency on…
Sydney's big economic divide: Where jobs are thriving, and where they aren't
Parts of Sydney have defied the economic effects of higher interest rates, elevated petrol prices and falling house prices to register the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Unemployment in Australia climbed to 4.5 per cent in July, the…
Nurture not nature? How young women can learn to better wield economic power | Heather Stewart
Women making their way in patriarchal societies down the ages have always had to wield their meagre economic power deftly. New evidence from a fascinating research project in Zambia suggests that's a skill that can be learned. A team of female US…
What new tariff walls in U.S.-Canada trade war mean for the economy's critical metals
Metals and materials stocks surged early in the week on the eruption of a new trade war, with the U.S. imposing 50% tariffs on around $20 billion worth of imports from Canada, its second-biggest trading partner after Mexico, and Canada retaliating…
GTA 6 Launch Predicted to Cost US Economy $1 Billion
A new report claimed that Grand Theft Auto 6 could cost the US economy approximately $1 billion when it launches on Thursday, November 19. Grand Theft Auto 6 is arguably the most anticipated game of the year so far, despite waves of leaks that…
Economics and education reform
Everyone wants a reform of our education system but, believe me, no one knows what form or forms it should take. Government committees, real experts, self-styled experts, teachers, managers, students, no one, absolutely no one, has any useful idea…
Washington's push for G20 to reassess China trade terms is 'political mobilization,' not economic diagnosis: expert
A truck moves goods in a shipping container next to large stacks of shipping containers and cranes at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, USA on August 26, 2026. Photo: VCG US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's call for G20 members to…
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