Mena construction CPMI slips 12% in April 2026, but execution momentum rebounds to 1.01
GlobalData’s April CPMI shows resilience masking pre-execution caution, with conflict risk surfacing unevenly by country and sector.

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GlobalData’s April CPMI shows resilience masking pre-execution caution, with conflict risk surfacing unevenly by country and sector.
A new comptroller report shows inequality widening in New York City, even as the ultrawealthy fund nearly half of all income tax.
The world's largest chemical company claims dozens of Apple devices infringe its face authentication patents - and it chose a venue known for fast, plaintiff-friendly patent trials.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani sides with anti-AI parents, imposing a one-year moratorium on student-facing AI for elementary and middle schoolers.
A stronger yen is threatening the cheap-funding trade that global investors have leaned on for years - here's what an unwind would hit first.
The creator of the Global Financial Centres Index says an Asian city will eventually take the crown, with Hong Kong's legal predictability and low taxes making it a front-runner.
The GPU giant's acquisition of AI's neutral model hub threatens to tilt the entire ecosystem toward its own hardware - and regulators are the only brake.
A tropical-Pacific event upgraded to 'very strong' is forecast to hold into late winter - here's the chain of impacts hitting food, power, and inflation across Asia.
Stocks jumped on stronger-than-expected guidance, signaling enterprise AI workloads are accelerating faster than Wall Street priced in.
Two new Flash models: one for agentic work, one for cybersecurity, with Flash Cyber already patching Chrome and finding a decade-old flaw.
The former Fed governor's strategic positioning could determine who leads the world's most powerful central bank through its next crisis.
With a fractured opposition making a stable majority impossible, Tokyo's ruling party is quietly reviving its old tie-up - and that changes every boardroom's political risk calculus.