The global deal landscape experienced a contraction in 2025, reflecting a cautious sentiment among investors and businesses. The total number of deals (comprising mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) announced globally decreased by 4% during 2025 compared to the previous year, according to GlobalData, a leading intelligence and productivity platform. An […]

Apple became a trending company among social media influencers during mid-January 2026, after announcing a major partnership to use Google’s Gemini technology for its future foundation models. Influencers expect the collaboration to deliver a significantly more personalized Siri that can better understand and assist with complex world knowledge. This deal allows the company to focus […]

Nvidia Corp dominated influencer discussions on social media during the first week of January 2026 after unveiling Alpamayo at the CES 2026 event. This release introduces an open-source ecosystem of models and simulation tools that shift autonomous driving from traditional perception to a ten billion parameter reasoning, vision-language-action paradigm. By providing an open ecosystem that […]

India–Bangladesh relations have entered their most critical phase since 1971, with political distrust and strategic realignment spilling over into trade, mobility, and regional security. GlobalData, a leading intelligence and productivity platform, notes that the deterioration in diplomatic confidence is unfolding against a sensitive macro backdrop in Bangladesh, where elevated inflation versus pre-2020 levels and sustained […]

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 […]

China venture capital (VC) funding landscape has experienced a significant decline in deal value, despite showcasing resilience in terms of volume. The total number of VC deals announced in China increased by 8% during January-November 2025 compared to the same period in the previous year whereas the corresponding funding value fell by around 30% year-on-year […]

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the pharmaceutical industry already witnessed a 31% increase in total deal value from $137.1 billion in 2024 to $179.6 billion in 2025 year-to-date (YTD), following a prior year characterized by smaller, bolt-on transactions. While this signals renewed optimism for pharmaceutical M&A activity going into 2026, acquirers are demonstrating increased selectivity, […]

The US venture capital (VC) funding landscape has witnessed a significant jump in deal value in 2025 despite a fall in deal volume. The number of VC deals announced in the US decreased by around 2% during January-November 2025 compared to the same period in the previous year, while the total value of these deals […]

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) deal landscape has experienced a slowdown in activity during January-November 2025, reflecting a broader trend of cautious deal-making. The total number of deals (comprising mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) announced in the APAC region decreased by 5% during January-November 2025 compared to the same period in the […]

Global deal activity declined in 2025, signaling an environment marked by challenging market conditions. The total number of deals (comprising mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) announced globally decreased by 6% during January-November 2025 compared to the same period in the previous year, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics […]