Craig Mellow

A part of the trade surplus is going into overseas investments, including hot-button artificial intelligence-related stocks and corporate bonds.

Triple-digit temperatures, wildfires, and low river levels are taking a heavy toll. That’s a blow to chemical giants but a boon to utilities.

The European Union seems to be leveraging its market size to become the global trendsetter on digital regulation.

Vietnam should cross a milestone in September when the FTSE Russell upgrades it to “secondary emerging market” status, citing improvements for foreign investors.

Mexico’s stock gains are holding despite the country’s dependency on exports to the U.S., and the two leaders’ discourse turning from warm to prickly.

The outlook for the yen is for further declines so long as the prime minister keeps talking about spending increases and tax cuts.

The German stock market could use help. The Dax 40 index has barely budged since Friedrich Merz became chancellor 14 months ago.

A shift in Japan’s large pool of household financial assets could reshape capital markets, one analyst says.

Investors see potential for an increase in Colombia’s oil output despite a fragmented government.

Prices for urea, essential fertilizer for global agriculture, returned to near prewar levels before the U.S. and Iran announced their peace accord.

Korea has been a hot market but shares are falling back to earth, especially those of memory chip makers Samsung and SK Hynix.

Europe’s defense offerings are dwarfed in scale by SpaceX, Anthropic, or OpenAI. They may prove no less important in fate-of-the-world terms, though.

Europe is overhauling an aging grid to absorb renewable-generation capacity that now provides nearly half of the European Union’s electricity.

Investors maintain faith in India’s medium-term future as a global growth engine.

The U.S. and Japan jointly worry about the yen, which is showing increased weakness. How to buttress the currency is another matter.

The U.S. indictment of a Mexican political figure for drug trafficking complicates Claudia Sheinbaum’s relationship with the Trump administration.

Investors might want to eye oversold stocks like SAP and Rheinmetall, both plays on tech and defense.

Canadian trade shifts as U.S. tariffs fuel oil pipeline push.

Many dollar-denominated emerging market bonds are backed by investment-grade issuers.

China invested heavily in Hungary because of cheaper labor, lower corporate taxes, and political support.