US disaster costs hit a record $1 trillion over 12 months due to fires, hurricanes, and higher insurance, exceeding 3% of GDP. This diverts about $80 billion monthly from other economic activity.
Property markets are headed for trouble as the US economy slows and interest rates stay high, according to Hines, the global real estate investment manager. “We will probably see a bigger wave of assets in distress,” Alfonso Munk, who runs the firm’s debt business,...
US efforts to enforce tariffs have become a game of whack-a-mole, according to Ebehi Iyoha, a trade economist and an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Iyoha also highlights how small US businesses are disproportionately affected by tariffs compared with...
«Many UAE banks have seen sustainable finance as a profit center», says Vijay Bains, Group Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of ESG at Emirates NBD. In this episode of ESG Currents, Grace Osborne, BI’s ESG integration analyst for EMEA, speaks with Bains about the...
Gold’s 2025 outperformance versus crude oil may signal deflation, potentially reinforced by grain prices. Without a Corn Belt supply shock, corn, soybeans, and wheat may trend lower, Bloomberg Intelligence analysis shows.
