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The Venezuela Trade: Markets Move Faster Than Politics
The overnight capture of Nicolás Maduro has jolted geopolitics — and, almost immediately, reset the investment debate around Venezuela’s reopening. For global capital, the question is no longer whether a “reconstruction trade” could exist, but what it would take for
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Rolex vs Watch Flippers: How Certified Pre-Owned Became a Weapon of Pricing Power
Rolex has finally confronted the watch flipper economy — not by flooding the market or cutting prices, but by tightening control over trust in a resale ecosystem awash with counterfeits and speculation. The brand’s Certified Pre-Owned programme has become less
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The Cost Curve That Is Squeezing Coal and Gas
By the end of 2025, the energy transition’s most persistent objection — that renewables cannot be relied upon when the sun sets and the wind drops — looked far less convincing. Not because politicians mandated a new outcome, but because
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2025: When Markets Made Renewables Dispatchable
For years, the energy transition was argued as much on ideology as on engineering. Supporters framed renewables as a moral imperative; critics framed them as an expensive, unreliable add-on that would always need a parallel fleet of fossil backup. In
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Accenture on Saudi Arabia’s AI Revolution: Leading the Next Wave of Enterprise Transformation
As the global technology landscape undergoes a seismic shift with the rise of agentic AI, Saudi Arabia stands at a pivotal crossroads. Accenture’s Technology Vision 2025 report highlights how enterprises worldwide are embracing this new paradigm—and the Kingdom is uniquely
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‘Sanaenomics’: The Abenomics 2.0 Shift from Deflation to Security
The economic platform of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, quickly dubbed ‘Sanaenomics’, is not a radical break but a clear continuation and evolution of the policies pioneered by her mentor, Shinzō Abe. Where Abenomics was primarily an aggressive strategy to combat
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Decoding Sanae Takaichi’s Unyielding Conservatism
Sanae Takaichi’s rise to become Japan’s first female Prime Minister has inevitably earned her a sobriquet that evokes both admiration and trepidation: “The Iron Lady of Japan.” This comparison to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is no accident; it
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Sanae Takaichi – Becoming Japan’s First Female Prime Minister
The election of Sanae Takaichi as the President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in October 2025, and her subsequent appointment as Prime Minister, marks a watershed moment in Japanese political history. At 64, she shattered the decades-old “bamboo ceiling,”
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The Silent Giants: The Critical Role of SMEs in the Global Future
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are more than just business units operating in the shadow of large corporations—they are the beating heart of national economies. In every region of the world, from dense cities to remote rural communities, SMEs fuel
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Navigating Complexity: How The Access Bank UK Limited Delivers Unmatched Trade Finance Solutions
In the rapidly evolving landscape of global trade, businesses face pressures that can disrupt even the most carefully planned transactions. Currency volatility, shifting regulations, supply chain disruptions and liquidity gaps increasingly define the international marketplace. During these moments of uncertainty,
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