Financial markets depth and GDP growth are now strongly correlated. Indeed, the expansion of the financial services sector in the Gulf is a key component of GDP growth itself, underpinning HSBC’s 2025 ...

Saudi Arabia is set to fully open its capital market to global investors from next month, removing previous restrictions that ...

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The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. AI exuberance: Economic upside, stock market downside VALLEY FORGE, Pa., Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard today ...

Is it a surprise that all of the countries with sizable stock markets are also wealthy economies? Or do stock markets make economies better? Intuitively, efficient financial markets should help ...

After a torrid rally in metals prices last year, Wall Street is seemingly bullish on copper. Many expect the ongoing AI data-center buildout to keep pushing prices of the red metal higher as demand ...

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 26, 2025 / Public-market capital raises are often interpreted through a narrow lens ...

Capital markets, on the other hand, have two drawbacks for smaller firms: First, they primarily serve much larger companies that have the sophistication to navigate equity and bond offerings. Also, ...

Jeanine Lester is head of Washington, D.C. regional office. She assumed her current role in 2018 and is responsible for the Washington, D.C. region’s commercial mortgage and real estate equity ...

Bangladesh's capital market stakeholders on Thursday remembered former prime minister and BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for her decisive role in strengthening the institutional framework of the ...