Counting the Cost

The World Gold Coun­cil says gold pur­chas­es in the first half of this year were the high­est on record.

We con­sid­er the im­pact as Chi­na’s ex­port curbs on the chip­mak­ing met­als gal­li­um and ger­ma­ni­um take ef­fect.

The war in Ukraine, heat­waves and ex­port bans on es­sen­tial sta­ples – threats to food sup­plies are ris­ing once again.

As mil­lions in the North­ern Hemi­sphere grap­ple with ex­treme heat, we look at the cost of the lat­est cli­mate threats.

Rise in hunger ‘stalled’ glob­al­ly in 2022, but re­mains el­e­vat­ed in some parts of the world.

French busi­ness as­so­ci­a­tion says un­rest caused more than $1.1bn worth of dam­age.

The world’s cen­tral bank um­brel­la body says the glob­al econ­o­my is at ‘crit­i­cal junc­ture’ in the fight against in­fla­tion.

Wash­ing­ton and Bei­jing pledge to sta­bilise re­la­tions af­ter the US sec­re­tary of state’s vis­it to Chi­na.

Eu­ro­pean Union of­fers cash-strapped Tunisia more than $1bn in fi­nan­cial aid to help boost the na­tion’s bat­tered econ­o­my.

Sau­di Ara­bia goes it alone in cut­ting oil pro­duc­tion by one mil­lion bar­rels a day start­ing in July.