The combined market capitalization of the top 50 companies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region surged to $10.5 trillion in 2025, reflecting a 35.1% year-on-year increase, mainly driven by AI-led surge in semiconductor demand, according to GlobalData, a leading intelligence and productivity platform. While TSMC and Tencent maintained their dominance, the year’s most striking narrative emerged […]

The aggregate market capitalization (MCap) of the top 25 global banks increased by 35.8% year-on-year (YoY), reaching $6.1 trillion in the fourth quarter (Q4) ended 31 December 2025. The gains were broad-based across North America, Europe and parts of Asia, reflecting resilient earnings, higher-for-longer interest rates that continued to support margins in many markets, and […]

The US military raid in Venezuela on January 3, 2026, resulted in President Nicolás Maduro’s capture, which has sharply heightened geopolitical tensions at the start of 2026. Oil, gold, silver, the US dollar, and global equities are expected to react immediately as investors reprice political and supply-chain risk. Venezuela’s large energy and gold endowments, combined […]

Precious metals, especially gold and silver, have surged sharply in 2025. Year to date through December 26, 2025, gold and silver prices are up about 70–72% and 140–150%, respectively. Looking ahead, GlobalData, a leading intelligence and productivity platform, foresees further gains by end-2026 of around 8–15% for gold and 20–35% for silver. Ramnivas Mundada, Director […]

Corporate strategy in 2025 reached a clear inflection point as companies shifted from expansion-led playbooks to a defensibility-first approach, prioritizing resilience, execution, and policy-aware capital allocation, according to GlobalData, a leading intelligence and productivity platform. GlobalData analysis finds that corporate activity in 2025 converged around three board-level priorities: (i) capital discipline amid tighter financing conditions, (ii) […]

The venture capital (VC) funding landscape in the UK has experienced notable shifts in 2025, with declines in both deal volume and value. Between January and November 2025, the UK saw VC deal volume drop by around 19% compared to the same period in the previous year. In terms of deal value, the UK experienced […]

The Q3 2025 global risk analysis showed a slight rise in economic risk, with the overall score increasing from 53 in Q2 to 53.2 in Q3. This increase is largely due to the full implementation of tariffs and the fading impact of frontloading, when companies accelerated activities before tariffs began, contributing to a heightened risk […]