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Accession talks accelerate in Brussels as Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, and Montenegro push for faster integration into the EU. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. On July 14, the European Union took its most consequential step toward enlargement in two decades by holding four separate accession conferences in a single…
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At 8 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $104.33 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a gain of 35 cents compared with yesterday morning and around $37 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of…
Concerns are growing that the de-facto tolling of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger a domino effect for key shipping bottlenecks worldwide, creating more global inflation and effectively killing key components of international maritime law. As Iran insists on some form of fee structure for traversing the now-infamous strait—and the U.S. increasingly seems unable to…
A haircare business founder turned her TikTok side hustle into a $269 million business. Here are some side hustles with room to become full-time businesses.
Russia stocks lower at close of trade; MOEX Russia Index unchanged