International

Last month Japan’s stock market hit a record high, 34 years after the last record, and the BoJ loosened monetary policy

AI generated mis/disinformation is a growing risk but no clear policy response is apparent

Food prices continue to edge down overall but remain historically high and rising vegetable oil prices raise concern

Research into AI's ‘thirst’ for fresh water is proliferating

The nickel market will be under pressure from oversupply and from its environmental unfriendliness into the 2030s

Persistent low inflation in China poses both domestic and global challenges

The manufacturing PMIs show that performance divides between US/Europe and within Europe and Asia are widening

AI will lift global economic productivity over the coming decades, but also transform labour markets