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Cuba takes steps to implement economic overhaul amid U.S. pressure campaign
Cuba announced new details of its plans to open up key sectors of its state-run economy to private industry amid Washington's campaign of maximum pressure aiming to force an economic transformation on the communist-run island. Economic changes…
Pakistan, Bangladesh face economic squeeze as US-Iran crisis widens
Pakistan and Bangladesh are entering the latest phase of the US-Iran conflict with thinner cushions than many Asian economies, raising the risk that another oil shock could quickly spill into higher food, transport and electricity costs for…
Opinion: A broken economy. Few jobs. Rising costs. Are you surprised youth are rebelling?
Please log in to bookmark this story. Create Free Account John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Last weekend, student…
AI boomtowns worsen divide in China's split-screen economy
In Hefei, the heart of China's memory-chip industry, factories can barely keep up with the world's appetite for AI hardware. In Changchun, the rust-belt home of gasoline-powered carmaking, officials admitted to “unprecedented”…
Canada's real-time rail could transform payments, competition, and economic growth
Canada's long-awaited payments modernisation agenda is finally moving from planning to implementation. At the centre of this transformation is the Real-Time Rail (RTR), a new national payments infrastructure designed to allow Canadians and…
The $411 billion blind spot in the global economy | Opinion
A recent large-scale analysis of working-age populations across 204 countries, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, found more than 437 million people were living with visual impairment in 2019—a figure that has nearly doubled since 1990. These…
Canada Economy Tracking 3.4% Second Quarter Annualized Growth
The Canadian economy is on track to post a stronger-than-expected rebound in the second quarter, as oil and gas led growth in May for a second consecutive month. A preliminary estimate suggests real gross domestic product expanded at an annualized…
China's top leaders pledge incremental measures to support economy
China pledged on Thursday to accelerate fiscal spending and adopt 'incremental policies' that boost economic growth in the year's second half, after the second quarter brought a worse-than-expected slowdown. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The…
Accounting Isn't Economics
Here's a letter to the Wall Street Journal. One of your reporters writes that “math played a role in the second quarter, when net exports – a measure of what the U.S. exports minus what it imports – subtracted a percentage…
How AI Agents Are Changing Enterprise Computing And The Economics Of AI: A Q&A With AMD
While the discussion of AI has largely centered on its powerful models and capabilities, a new challenge is emerging: how to run AI agents efficiently at scale. As organizations embrace agentic AI, technology leaders are rethinking everything from…
The Fed's Headache and an Improving Economy Give Loonie a Lift
Welcome back to Canada Daily, the newsletter on business, economics and politics from Vancouver to Montreal and beyond. If this was forwarded to you, sign up. President Donald Trump's choice as the new chair of the Federal Reserve was roasted by…
Hong Kong economy grows 4.3% on strong external trade, resilient domestic demand
Hong Kong's economy expanded by 4.3 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2026, with the government expecting “solid growth” to continue for the remainder of the year. A government spokesman attributed the robust momentum to…
Trump's merely 'okay' economy
Economic growth slowed this spring. It's a reminder that the economy could've been great — if not for Trump's policies. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Caitlin Dewey is a senior writer and editor at Vox, where she helms the…
BOJ Holds Rate Steady And Upgrades Economy View After Yen Action
The Bank of Japan kept its policy settings unchanged while signaling less caution about economic growth, pointing to confidence that the economy remains on track for further policy normalization after it lifted its benchmark rate last month to the…
Muslim Senate candidate El-Sayed says faith drives his progressive economic platform in Michigan race
The jokes practically wrote themselves as an eclectic group of progressive pastors, imams and a rabbi walked into a room, finding their seats around a table to talk about religion and politics. Though there was no shortage of levity, a sense of…
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