Global Economy Watch: Gulf LNG Trade Creates an Emergency Shipping Relay — as Asian...
What Happened
A new workaround is emerging for one of the most vulnerable parts of the global energy system. Qatari and UAE LNG producers have...
Global Watch: Escalations in US-Iran War
What Happened. The United States launched a substantially broader round of airstrikes against Iran on September 1, hitting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets around...
Global Watch: UN Forced to Halve Food Aid in West Bank
What Happened. The World Food Programme announced on September 1 that it is cutting food assistance in the occupied West Bank by half, reducing...
Global Economy Watch: Russia Cuts Its Oil Outlook to a 17-Year Low
What Happened
Russia has slashed its 2026 oil-production forecast to the lowest level since 2009, a significant deterioration in the outlook for one of the...
Global Economy Watch: Two Saudi Oil Supertakners Hit in Hormuz
What Happened
Two very large crude carriers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unidentified projectiles within minutes of one another while exiting the Strait of...
Global Economy Watch: Global Bond Sell-Off On Debt Fears
What Happened
The global bond sell-off has materially deepened. On September 1, Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield reached 3% for the first time since...
Global Watch: Russia Unleashes Five-Day Drone Barrage on Kyiv
What Happened. Russia’s drone campaign against Ukraine has entered a more intense phase, with five consecutive days of attacks on Kyiv and surrounding regions....
Global Watch: Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Passes 3,000 Deaths
What Happened. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has crossed a grim new threshold: 6,041 confirmed infections and 2,911 deaths, according to government...
Global Economy Watch: U.S. Oil Emergency Reserve Is Approaching Its Practical Floor — Weakening...
What Happened
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at 289.7 million barrels, its lowest level since 1982, and the remaining commitments from this year’s...
Global Economy Watch: U.S. Turns Iran Sanctions Into a Weekly Campaign
What Happened
The United States has escalated its economic campaign against Iran from a series of warnings and isolated penalties into what Treasury Secretary Scott...
Global Economy Watch: China Begins Dismantling the Housing Model That Helped Create Its Property...
What Happened
China has launched one of its most consequential property reforms since the housing crisis began in 2021, moving the industry away from the...
Global Economy Watch: U.S. Begins Enforcing Its Iran Sanctions Against a Third-Country Bank
What Happened
The United States has moved from threatening Iran’s foreign financial partners to actually targeting one of them. On August 28, the Treasury Department...
Global Watch: Haiti Absorbing Forced Returns Amid Deepening Gang Crisis
What Happened. The United Nations told the Security Council on August 28 that nearly 200,000 people have been forcibly returned to Haiti in the...
Global Watch: Russia is Crippling Ukraine’s Civilian Food Distribution System
What Happened. Russia’s intensified drone and missile campaign has destroyed or disrupted roughly 90% of Ukraine’s modern food-storage and retail-logistics capacity, according to Ukrainian...
Global Economy Watch: Global Energy Shock Widens
Global Energy Shock Is Becoming a System-Wide Supply Crisis
What Happened
New data now show that the energy disruption has become substantially broader than the Strait...
Global Watch: Haiti Gang Massacre
What happened
At least 47 people were killed and 22 wounded in an overnight gang assault on Kenscoff, a strategically important community overlooking Port-au-Prince. Armed...
Global Economy Watch: US Unveils ‘Economic D-Day’ Against Iran
What Happened
The United States formally launched its promised new sanctions campaign against Iran on August 24, targeting roughly 60 individuals, entities and vessels and...
Global Economy Watch: US-Canada Trade Talks Collapse
What Happened
The United States imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods on August 22 after last-minute negotiations between Washington and Ottawa...
Global Watch: Myanmar
What happened: Myanmar’s military has deployed hundreds of troops—about 700 according to conflict monitor ACLED—into the southern Tanintharyi region, backed by air and naval...
Global Watch: NATO Planning for Hormuz Mission
What happened: NATO’s top military commander has convened allied chiefs of defense to coordinate possible national contributions to protecting freedom of navigation through the...
Global Watch: DRC Ebola Crisis
What happened: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed more than 2,500 people, and the United Nations says transmission...
Global Watch: Somalia’s Child Health System Shutting Down
What happened: UNICEF reported on August 21 that 205 health and nutrition facilities in Somalia have already closed because of unprecedented humanitarian funding cuts....
Global Watch: North Korea Fires Ballistic Missiles After US Scales Back in South Korea
What happened: North Korea launched more than 10 short-range ballistic missiles from the Pyongyang area toward the sea on August 20, prompting South Korea...
Global Economy Watch: Bond Sell-Off Is Becoming Broader Economic Warning
What Happened
A significant shift is taking place in global bond markets. Long-term government borrowing costs have climbed sharply, with the U.S. 30-year Treasury yield...
Global Watch: Somalia Hunger Crisis
What happened: The World Food Programme says 6 million people in Somalia are now facing acute food insecurity, while the agency has only about...
Global Watch: Escalation in Russia-Ukraine
What happened: Russia launched a major ballistic-missile and drone attack on Kyiv early August 20, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than...
Global Watch: Russia-Ukraine Aerial War Escalates Sharply Again
What happened: Ukraine launched nearly 800 drones at Russia on August 18, only two days after another exceptionally large Ukrainian barrage. Russian authorities said...
Global Watch: Iran-US Ceasefire Collapses
What happened: The temporary U.S.–Iran ceasefire has expired without a broader agreement, and President Trump said on August 18 that there are no talks...
Global Watch: US and South Korea
What happened: President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” joint U.S.–South Korean military exercises, including drills that began on August 17....
Global Watch: Ukraine Launches One of Its Largest Attacks of the War
What happened: Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia overnight into August 16, in what the Associated Press describes as one of Kyiv’s largest...
Global Watch: NATO Shoots Down Drone Over Romania
What happened: A Spanish F-18 flying a NATO air-policing mission shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace early on August 16. Romania’s Defense...
Global Story Watch: Third UAE tanker attacked as Hormuz crisis deepens
What happened: The United Arab Emirates says a third vessel operated by state-owned ADNOC was attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on August...
Global Watch: Israeli Strike Puts Further Pressure on Fragile Peace Framework
What happened: An Israeli dawn airstrike on Ansar in southern Lebanon on August 15 killed seven people. Lebanese authorities said the dead included three...
Global Watch: Democratic Republic of the Congo – Ebola
A major humanitarian development now meets the alert threshold.
What happened: The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has reached Bas-Uele, a sixth province, after...
Global Watch: Ukraine and Russia
A significant new escalation has occurred in the Russia–Ukraine war.
What happened: Ukraine carried out a large drone-and-missile attack on Novorossiysk, Russia’s principal Black Sea...
Global Watch: Yemen
What happened: Overnight fighting between Iran-backed Houthi forces and Yemen’s internationally recognized government intensified in Taiz and Marib. At least one government soldier was...
Global Watch: Sudan and West Africa
Sudan: the RSF has renewed a major offensive around al-Obeid. Rapid Support Forces launched drone and ground attacks on the strategically important North Kordofan...
