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Some would describe the so-called "neoclouds" as the railways of the AI revolution that facilitate the steam-trains of the next most powerful chips to thunder across. However, are these AI infrastructure giants economically viable in the long term?
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Anthropic's Claude has identified a previously uncharacterised biological system. For biotech investors, the real breakthrough could be AI making the earliest stage of drug discovery much cheaper.
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Reform's £72m donor row shows Britain isn't turning into America, the rules are stricter and tightening, but the scale and the alleged foreign-money dodge make this a genuinely serious case, not just media noise.
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How Bangladesh’s garment industry transformed more than just the country’s exports, giving millions of women paid employment and reshaping education, fertility and household decision-making.
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Private equity's hopes dating from 2025 have once again been simmered this year, and the liquidity reckoning could quietly rewrite how the industry raises and returns capital.
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Trump's promised $5,000 dividend has no confirmed funding source, raising questions about its inflation and economic risks. Here's what the numbers say.
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Rearmament has turned defence from an industry private capital avoided into one it is pouring money into, though Europe's governments are increasingly particular about whose money it is.
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Four years after default, Sri Lanka has growth, reserves and a near-complete restructuring, and an IMF review that just ended without agreement. The recovery keeps getting rescheduled, not resolved.
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As 16% of global investable assets are expected to be tokenised in 2035, the question of what settlement asset to use for digital finance raise. From "atomic settlement" to challenging the status of SWIFT, Central Bank Digital Currencies（CBDCs）seems to be the most ideal currency for the future. If so then how should central banks of developed countries should change their policies to adopt this new landscape?
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Rising government borrowing and an AI-driven corporate debt boom are testing how global capital is allocated across an increasingly crowded bond market.
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Basel IV and Chinese price-dumping left frontier mineral and energy corridors unbankable for private capital. This is how sovereign balance sheets turned geopolitical chokepoints into private yield.
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Many developing economies are rich in commodities but capture little of the value created from them. Moving beyond extraction and into processing, manufacturing and branding could be key to escaping commodity dependence.
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Britain's healthcare crisis is proving lucrative. As the NHS waiting list persists, investors are paying £1bn to bet on the future of private hospitals.
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Unprecedented AI infrastructure demand has created a memory-chip squeeze. The same semiconductor materials powering your Claude Pro subscription are also needed to build the device you use to access it. The AI giants are hesitant to take their foot off the CapEx gas pedal but what implications has this had for the cost of your new iPhone?
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Partition swapped Punjab's economic capital almost overnight - and almost eighty years later that divide is still shaping the region's economy.
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With a presidential pardon in place and the Fifth Amendment invoked, Senate Republicans are scrambling to prosecute Former Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci
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South Africa's six-quarter growth streak just got broken by a trade drag. Weeks after the quarter closed, the port meant to fix that blockage fell over
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Congo is paying to map its own subsoil and intends to charge for the results. The bet is that better information, rather than more investment, is what turns mineral wealth into bargaining power.
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Higher taxes, heavier borrowing and a labour market with no slack left are keeping Russia's war economy going. What the Kremlin sacrifices to keep it going is the real question.
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The AI equity surge is spilling into the bond market, keeping US Treasury yields higher than what many think can be sustained. The AI Hyperscalers are expected to spend $700 billion this year. With no sign of slowing capital expenditures, how much more can the bond market take?
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