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2025-11-19 • Global markets fall; S&P 500 -0.8%, Nikkei -3%, FTSE
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Global markets just logged a fourth straight sell-off—S&P 500 -0.8 %, Nikkei -3 %, FTSE 100 -1.4 %—as investors brace for Nvidia’s earnings and the first post-shutdown U.S. jobs report. Safe-haven flows into Treasuries and gold belie hopes of a December Fed …
Read More2025-11-18 • Brazil’s presidency accelerates COP-30 decisions with a 21-option draft, aiming to finalize key
Evening Analysis – The Gist Brazil’s presidency has jolted COP-30 out of its customary late-night drift. At 18:00 today, it circulated a 21-option draft that tries to lock in decisions on finance, trade and transparency before Wednesday, instead of the usual Friday overtime. The text floats a …
Read More2025-11-18 • Britain’s Labour government proposes a strict asylum overhaul, making refugee status temporary with longer waits for settlement
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Britain’s Labour government has unveiled the harshest asylum overhaul in four decades: refugee status becomes strictly “temporary,” reviewed every 30 months, while the wait for permanent settlement leaps from five to twenty years and visa bans loom for unco-oper…
Read More2025-11-17 • France is supplying Ukraine with 100 Rafale fighters, marking Europe’s largest post-Cold War arms sale
Evening Analysis – The Gist France’s decision to supply Ukraine with up to 100 Dassault Rafale fighters, drones and air-defence systems is the largest single European weapons sale since the end of the Cold War. At an estimated €15-18 billion, the package would swell Kyiv’s future fleet to roug…
Read More2025-11-17 • Tokyo sends diplomat Mori to Beijing amid Taiwan tensions. China’s travel warning hits Japan’s tourism. Markets react
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Tokyo’s overnight decision to dispatch veteran diplomat Takeo Mori to Beijing signals how perilous the Taiwan cross-fire has become. China’s retaliatory travel warning—issued hours earlier—targets the 25 % of Japan’s inbound visitors who are Chinese, a flow wort…
Read More2025-11-16 • Iran halts uranium enrichment amid Western pressure, buying time for diplomacy while global energy markets weigh nuclear risks
Evening Analysis – The Gist Tehran’s surprise admission that “no uranium is being enriched anywhere in Iran” marks the first full-scale shutdown of its centrifuges since Israel-US strikes in June. Reuters confirms Foreign Minister Araqchi’s statement that talks will resume only on “equal and f…
Read More2025-11-16 • Britain’s asylum reset cuts support, extends refugee status to 30 months, and delays settlement to
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Britain’s Labour government has unveiled the sharpest asylum reset in a generation: automatic housing and cash support will end, refugee status lasts just 30 months, and permanent settlement slips from 5 to 20 years. Ministers justify the pivot by citing a recor…
Read More2025-11-15 • China takes the lead at COP30 as the U.S. skips; Beijing showcases green tech. Protest
Evening Analysis – The Gist China’s outsized pavilion at COP30 tells the story: with Washington ditching the summit for the first time in three decades, Beijing is seizing the diplomatic microphone. Executives from CATL to BYD flaunted green tech while negotiators parried over a fossil-fuel “p…
Read More2025-11-15 • A market tremor hit global equities due to AI valuation concerns and reduced Fed rate cut hopes, with
Morning Intelligence – The Gist A one-day tremor rippled from Seoul to London as equities finally balked at sky-high AI valuations and fading hopes for a December Fed cut. Seoul’s Kospi dived 3.8 %, Europe’s Stoxx 600 lost 1 %, while the Nasdaq swung from −1.6 % to barely positive after panic …
Read More2025-11-14 • AI-driven market rally hinges on central bank signals. Recent drops in global markets highlight volatility. Fed comments
Evening Analysis – The Gist U.S. and Asian bourses just reminded us how delicately the AI-fueled rally rests on central-bank psychology. A 4-plus-percent slide in South Korea’s Kospi and 3 % drops in Tokyo and London (reuters.com) bled into Wall Street before Nvidia’s intraday flip turned the …
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