Markets

Oil Jumps 7% As Trump Threatens Iran Hours Before Fed Decision

Glencore Sees $3.3 Billion Trading Profit as Iran War Rattles Oil Markets Oil prices surged more than 7% on Wednesday as renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities...

Jul 29, 2026 • 5 min read

Banking

$4,000 Gold Is Changing Lives Across Central Asia

Russia's Biggest Black Sea Oil Port Goes Quiet as Drone Threat Grows Eurasianet is an independent news organization that covers news from and about th...

Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Back to May, Cost of Living-Wise

According to Cleveland Fed nowcasts today: Figure 1: CPI (blue), core CPI (red), both in logs 2025M01=0. July is July 23 m/m nowcast. Source: BLS, Cle...

Jul 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Brent above $100

Huh – haven’t hear from the world’s most incompetent consultant …. Koptis. Didn’t he say oil would be at $300 a barrel? The intelligence guys are work...

Jul 23, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Don’t Depend on the Foreign Official Sector to Keep on Financing the US CA Deficit

If previous trends hold: Figure 1: Total Federal debt held by public (black line), held by Fed (yellow bar), held by foreign official sector (green ba...

Jul 22, 2026 • 5 min read

Investing

Why Kyrgyz Citizens Are Turning Against China's Growing Footprint

India Pulls Back From Iraqi Oil as Hormuz Turns Too Dangerous RFE/RL journalists report the news in 21 countries where a free press is banned by the g...

Jul 21, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

September Brent Breaks $90, RBOB Gasoline near Peak

Houthis have now said they intend to blockade Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-launches-iran-strikes-ninth-d...

Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

EPU Jumps

Figure 1: EPU (blue),  7 day centered moving average (red). Source: policyuncertainty.com and author’s calculations. The distinction between policy un...

Jul 19, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Industrial, Manufacturing Production and Business Cycle Indicators

Along with GDPNow. Industrial production under consensus (+0.1% m/m ov +0.2% Bloomberg consensus), while manufacturing is flat (+0.0% vs. +0.1% consen...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption

India Proposes Stricter Vehicle Emission Rules To Cut Oil Consumption Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for S...

Jul 17, 2026 • 5 min read

Economy

Monthly GDP Drops for Two Consecutive Months

S&P Global Markets Insights monthly GDP (formerly IHS, Macroeconomic Advisers) online today. Here is monthly GDP againnst other NBER BCDC measures: Fi...

Jul 15, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Jencap parent announces leadership appointments

Galway Specialty Wholesale, the parent company of wholesaler Jencap Group, on Tuesday announced a series of leadership appointments across the organiz...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Simpson Thacher adds three partners to insurance team

New York-based Simpson Thacher and Bartlett added three partners to its insurance transactional and regulatory team.

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Aon unveils programming interface

Aon said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface, or API, integration linking its Aon Broker Copilot with Swiss Re Corpor...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Record-low Rhine levels cut barge loads, drive up freight rates

Record-low Rhine levels cut barge loads, drive up freight rates Jul 14, 2026 Water levels on Germany’s Rhine River fell to their lowest July level in...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Lawsuit follows cargo ship attack in Hormuz conflict

Lawsuit follows cargo ship attack in Hormuz conflict Jul 14, 2026 Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in Mar...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Catastrophe rates fall up to 20% at mid-year renewals: Gallagher Re

Catastrophe rates fall up to 20% at mid-year renewals: Gallagher Re by Nils Wright Jul 14, 2026 Catastrophe loss-free rates fell by 10% to 20% at the...

Jul 14, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Injured worker’s safety lapse not proven willful misconduct, comp board says

A Tennessee workers compensation appeals board upheld medical benefits and attorney fees for a temporary worker who was seriously injured after going...

Jul 10, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

FedEx worker loses bid for additional comp benefits

A Tennessee workers compensation appeals board upheld the denial of additional medical and temporary disability benefits to a Federal Express Corp. wo...

Jul 10, 2026 • 5 min read

Insurance

Law school tells AI to take a seat as courts battle made-up law

Perhaps the legal profession has finally found an issue everyone can agree on: Artificial intelligence is useful, unavoidable and apparently in desper...

Jul 10, 2026 • 5 min read