After years of strong growth, India's economy is slowing. While the manufacturing and services sectors are still expanding, key measures of executive sentiment in these industries have steadily slipped from early 2024 highs.

Javier Milei was in the news again this week, delivering a fiery speech at the United Nations. As Argentina's free-marketeer president approaches the end of his first year in power, austerity measures, a liberalized exchange rate, and the abandonment of rent and price controls have all had a strong impact.

Like many countries, Malaysia wants to promote electric-vehicle adoption as part of its climate goals. During 2022, buyers of EVs received considerable tax relief: first, exemption from road tax, and then complete exemptions from import duties, excise duties, and sales tax.

Australia's central bankers were global outliers in 2024. While many of their counterparts in the G20 discussed rate cuts, the Reserve Bank of Australia continued to make hawkish noises, concerned about stubborn inflation.

We're continually tapping fund-flow data from our partners at EPFR to demonstrate how asset-allocation decisions, with their implications of heightened or waning confidence in an economy, can have a predictive relationship with bottom-up metrics.

Global commodity inflation is mostly in retreat, but aficionados of some of the world's favourite legal stimulants have yet to feel any relief.