14+ hour, 45+ min ago   (143+ words) Semafor Trump says US interest rates should be lowest in the world President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the US should have the world’s lowest interest rates, piling pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh days before the bank…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (121+ words) As the next wave of technology-led growth reshapes economies and global influence, The Next 3 Billion asks one of the defining questions of the decade: will the innovations reshaping global power expand opportunity or concentrate it? Three billion people remain offline,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (175+ words) Semafor ECB hikes interest rates amid inflation risks The European Central Bank raised interest rates. Will the Fed follow? A quarter-point increase in baseline borrowing costs across the bloc came as officials warned of “upside” inflation risks and oil prices…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (131+ words) A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream. The SceneExistential AI fears broke containment this week after an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that frontier labs are…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (492+ words) View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand Semafor View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to…...

4+ day ago   (174+ words) Listed companies in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi are growing quickly, benefiting from higher oil prices and their ability to keep energy exports flowing. Gulf corporate profits in second quarter show growing divide between economies Corporate profits in the second…...

4+ day ago   (172+ words) Private equity firm Centurium Capital has contributed to the $1 billion investment alongside Mudabadala’s minority stake into China’s Luckin Coffee. Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala has taken a stake in China’s Luckin Coffee as part of a $1 billion investment…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (154+ words) US long-term bond yields jumped to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress markets. US long-term bond yields spiked to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (140+ words) The Treasury Department will buy back up to three times its usual amount of long-term debt tomorrow as the Trump administration continues trying to bring borrowing costs down. Markets barely registered the announcement, with yields dropping before climbing back up....

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (159+ words) The 21.2 billion-riyal ($5.8 billion) second-quarter shortfall was almost double the previous quarter’s, with few signs that passage through the Strait of Hormuz is easing. Qatar posted its widest quarterly budget deficit since 2016 as the Iran war choked off most of its…...