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Since the beginning of 2024, cyclical imbalances have decreased Last year, the global economy grew moderately as a result This growth also reduced inflation, although it remains quite persistent in ...

Compared to our previous quarterly report, our expectations have remained more or less the same: we assumed a house price growth of 9.2% in 2025 and 6.0% in 2026.There are some underlying changes, but ...

Europe has set ambitious goals to expand its wind energy capacity. European turbine manufacturers have traditionally dominated the domestic market and the global market outside of China, but intense ...

So, economic statecraft is just one leg of a three-legged grand strategy stool of ways to achieve national security ends within given national means. As Von Clausewitz infamously argued, “war is a ...

Agri commodity markets outlook 2025: Fat tariffs lead to slim margins. 2024 has been a year of further price declines for major grains and oilseeds and for sugar, while tropical tree crops like cocoa, ...

In part 2 and part 3 of our series on Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), we showed how the BESS markets in the UK and Italy are rapidly growing thanks to the combination of high penetration of ...

Donald Trump will shortly again become US president, but the fireworks have already started. Neoliberal market economics this is not. Instead, it’s what we warned of in early November: the return of ...

In the US, data suggests that Generation Z is drinking less alcohol than previous generations did at the same age. Most industry experts believe that this trend is driven by young people's concerns ...

RaboResearch anticipates significant uncertainties in US-China trade relations under Donald Trump's second term, with a high likelihood of renewed trade war escalation, although negotiations might ...

Trade liberalization, regional specialization, and year-round demand have transformed US agricultural trade over the past three decades. The US now faces increasing trade deficits in horticultural ...