IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI could add up to half a point a year to world growth, with investment set to match or exceed the railroads' share of GDP. The same boom lifts inflation and competes with governments for bond money, so economies outside the AI supply chain risk the higher rates without the growth.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged governments to stop delaying debt cuts and raise borrowing costs as needed before 191 members meet in Bangkok. Her prescription points companies toward higher rates, while her call to regulate AI stayed at the level of principle.
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Korea Money Brokerage and Seoul Foreign Exchange Brokerage, licensed in 1998 and 2000, remain the only won-dollar spot brokers, Bank of Korea data show. No firm has applied for a new spot license since 2021, the finance ministry says, so would-be entrants more than regulators set the pace of opening.
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South Korea's foreign reserves fell $1.72 billion in September to $440.56 billion after the government paid $2.4 billion of reserve assets into its first U.S. project. The payment is about half a percent of reserves, and it makes the U.S. investment program a line item in Korea's monthly reserve data.
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Friedrich Merz will meet Klaas Knot and Pablo Hernandez de Cos, the two frontrunners to succeed Christine Lagarde, as three ECB posts fall vacant. People familiar said Berlin has dropped Joachim Nagel and is weighing the chief economist and markets seats instead.
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Coinbase is supplying the payments stack for Sivar, a Modveon app that sends US money to El Salvador for a flat $2 and settles in stablecoins on Base. Recipients can still collect cash at the other end, so for now the stablecoin sits mainly in the settlement layer.
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Yemen's Houthis are advancing on Bab al-Mandab, the strait carrying 87% of Eritrea's maritime trade by value and US$520 billion of China's a year. Share and dollar value rank the exposed countries differently, and the researchers' US$30 billion estimate for a 30-day blockade is a global total.
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Iran's open-market rate went from 1,918,000 to about 2,015,000 between July 17 and August 24. Compounded, that is 61% a year, slower than the January-to-April leg, and with no bid underneath it.
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Traders put 22 cents on the strait halting by December 31, but the contract resolves only if IMF PortWatch counts ten arrivals or fewer against the fifteen crossing now, while war-risk cover runs 0.7% to 2% of hull value.
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The fund's staff-level agreement puts every coin added since the first review down to documented private donations with no public money used. That leaves the government's daily-purchase posts without a budget line behind them.
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Michael Froman's Foreign Affairs case rests on two reported figures, a $1.2 trillion goods surplus for 2025 and a 20%-plus growth rate in early 2026, and the arithmetic between them is what turns tariffs from an event risk into the working assumption.
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Goldman puts regional export flow at 15 to 16 million barrels a day, so the defended Omani corridor is carrying roughly two-thirds of it. That is what an eroding chokepoint premium looks like in volumes rather than in quotes.
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Brent still sits about a fifth above its prewar close and jet fuel is set to cost 70 per cent more than in 2025, which is where the war actually still lives now that the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq have rebuilt their losses.
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Warnings from the ECB, BIS and IMF now arrive with an admission attached: an official digital currency will not slow dollar stablecoins. What is left is rules aimed at issuers nobody local licenses.
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Iranian officials are now saying on the record that the economy cannot take another round. What that concession changes for energy and EM books is not what the headlines imply.
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