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The 2026 power list: the systems, cities, companies, and ideas setting the global agenda
VJOURNAL's new power list tracks the institutions and operators reshaping capital, technology, design, media, and premium commerce in 2026.
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Trump says EU autos face a 25% tariff next week, reopening the transatlantic pricing fight
President Donald Trump said on May 1 that tariffs on European Union cars and trucks will rise to 25% next week, jolting a trade relationship that was supposed to be operating under last year's framework.
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China opens new probes into US trade practices as tariff pressure escalates
Beijing's response to renewed US tariff pressure underlined how quickly trade friction can move from rhetoric into concrete investigation and policy signaling.
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China's Africa tariff-free door is a sharper trade signal than another speech about openness
Beijing's May 1 zero-tariff treatment for 53 African countries is a practical response to protectionism: it offers exporters a real route, even if debt, imbalance, and dependency questions remain.
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Washington's pre-release AI testing regime shows frontier models are now treated like infrastructure
NIST's CAISI signed new May 5 agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI that let the government evaluate frontier models before public release, and the move says more about AI state capacity than about model marketing.
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A practical framework for reading global market context without chasing headlines
Global context becomes useful when teams connect policy, demand, capital, and customer behavior instead of reacting to isolated headlines.
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Trump says EU autos face a 25% tariff next week, reopening the transatlantic pricing fight
President Donald Trump said on May 1 that tariffs on European Union cars and trucks will rise to 25% next week, jolting a trade relationship that was supposed to be operating under last year's framework.
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The 2026 power list: the systems, cities, companies, and ideas setting the global agenda
VJOURNAL's new power list tracks the institutions and operators reshaping capital, technology, design, media, and premium commerce in 2026.
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China opens new probes into US trade practices as tariff pressure escalates
Beijing's response to renewed US tariff pressure underlined how quickly trade friction can move from rhetoric into concrete investigation and policy signaling.
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How to build an executive briefing that filters noise into decisions
A useful briefing is not a compressed news feed. It is a decision surface that shows what changed, why it matters, who owns the response, and when the signal should be reviewed again.
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Japan inflation keeps the normalization debate alive as markets read every Bank of Japan nuance
Persistent inflation pressure left the Bank of Japan normalization path active, even as officials kept stressing a measured and data-dependent approach.
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Dubai and Abu Dhabi restore wider air schedules as regional disruption planning stays active
Flight continuity improved after the sharpest phase of regional disruption, but transport, hospitality, and corporate security teams continued to treat the operating environment as fluid.
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US tariff reset pushes supply chains and pricing desks back into contingency mode
American trade policy re-entered the center of board-level planning as companies assessed the cost of another tariff turn and its likely effect on pricing, inventories, and supplier geography.
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Russia's March oil and gas revenues are expected to fall sharply as crude weakens and the ruble firms
Budget pressure returned to the center of the Russian macro story after calculations pointed to a steep year-on-year drop in March oil and gas tax proceeds.
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India leans on capex and infrastructure discipline as the 2026 budget story turns toward delivery
India's economic narrative in 2026 continued to center on public investment, execution quality, and how capex priorities translate into real operating momentum.
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Spain asks Brussels for the sixth Recovery Plan payment as EU funding execution enters a new phase
Madrid requested the sixth disbursement from the European Recovery Plan, reinforcing Spain's position as one of the most active large economies in using the program at scale.
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How to run a country desk that produces context instead of stereotypes
A serious country desk combines local sources, sector knowledge, historical context, and explicit uncertainty.
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Global supply chain resilience becomes the defining corporate strategy of 2026
Companies across industries are rebuilding supply chains for resilience over efficiency, accepting higher costs in exchange for geographic diversification, dual-sourcing, and nearshoring.
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