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At $4.29 per gallon on average, Americans are still paying less for petrol than many people. Australians and Canadians, according to website Global Petrol Prices,  are paying between $5.47 and $5.91 for a gallon. Europe has some of the highest gasoline prices in the world. Most of Western Europe was paying upwards of $7.00 for a gallon of  petrol as ...

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After decades of growth for world trade, global tourism and international cooperation, globalisation has hit roadblocks recently  as nationalism and protectionism have recersed past progress. In 2020, global trade, measured as a share of global GDP, dropped to its lowest level since 2003 in 2020. in 2022 the trade-to-GDP ratio peaked at 62.8% before dropping back to 56.8% in 2024, ...

In 1990, there were 9.8 landline subscriptions per 100 people worldwide, a figure that nearly doubled to 19.2 by 2006, according to the International Telecommunication Union. While landline subscriptions peaked in the early 2000s, mobile subscriptions began to rise rapidly. From fewer than 10 subscriptions per 100 people before 2000, mobile penetration reached 50 per 100 people by 2007 and ...

Oil prices have soared – although Iran only supplied 5% of global oil production in 2024 delivering mostly to China, its vicinity to the Strait of Hormuz roils markets. Although safehaven assets like precious metals typically soar in the face of global instability, over the past 10 days, gold, silver and palladium prices dropped by up to 10%. With inflation ...

Next month a lot of  people are expecting Lenovo and Dell to come out with PCs powered by Nvidia CPUs. For years, Nvidia has been rumoured to be prepping its own CPUs for consumer PCs , and the rumours are now coming thick and fast. Nvidia has two PC processors – the N1 (for desktops) and N1x (forlaptops) which run ...

OpenAI—$850 billion Anthropic—$380  billion   xAI—$200+  billion.  Databricks—$134 billion. CoreWeave—$19  billion  Scale AI— $13-14 billion  .Figure AI—$3.2  billion Perplexity AI—$2.2 billion Runway—$5.3  billion Skild AI— $14  billion

Touted as the ‘mother of all deals’ by EU President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU-India trade agreement is one of the biggest trade agreements ever negotiated. India exported $58 billion worth of goods to the EU in 2024, the EU exported  products worth $84 billion to India. This number is supposed to increase by 41 percent for India, but ...

Global growth is expected to remain resilient at 3.3 percent in 2026, according to the IMF’s latest edition of the World Economic Outlook. This is slightly higher than the 3.1 percent forecast published in October 2025. The IMF attributes the resilience to continued investment in artificial intelligence and other technologies, alongside fiscal and monetary support and the adaptability of the ...

Despite sales declining for a second consecutive year, Tesla’s share price increased 11 percent in 2025. With a market capitalization of $1.4 trillion, Tesla is not only the world’s most valuable car maker, but it’s valued higher than the next 20 car companies combined. That includes pretty much the entire legacy car industry as well as relative newcomers such as ...