Assassination of nuclear scientist echoes that of others in 2010-12 and of overseas commander Soleimani in Jan 2020. Iran has implicated Israel, but restraint is more likely than retaliation given Biden's pledge to restart negotiations. Reaction of o...

Africa is no less geared to the bump in commodity export prices and no less chequered in terms of sluggish reform and accumulation of debt than Latin America, where much more liquidly traded equity market peers have rallied sharply this month. Egypt...

Are these reforms sufficient? They are more likely to help the off-plan (eg Emaar Development) than the completed (eg Emaar Malls) part of the real estate sector, which might prompt a reversal in the relative ytd performance of these two subsidiaries...

Today, the CBRT, under the leadership of its new governor, Naci Ağbal, hiked the one-week repo rate by 475bps to 15%, in line with the median estimate of 25 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. However, the shift away from Turkey’s convoluted rate corrido...

The spark for clashes was Polisario's blockade (since 21 October) of a road through Guerguerat on the Moroccan-Mauritanian border. The historic context dates back to the Spanish colonial withdrawal from the region in 1975 and the subsequent war betwe...

The extraordinary G20 finance ministers and central bank governors (FMCBG) meeting today, ahead of the Leaders’ Summit (21-22 November), is due to publish the Common Framework for dealing with bilateral debt and also discuss outstanding issues relate...