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Thematic Analysis
Economic Outlook Executive Briefing (Fourteenth Edition): Strategic Intelligence
Political regimes are shifting across the globe, and a new general-purpose technology is rapidly emerging. At the same time, aging is structurally tightening the global labor market, re-warming wage growth. Long-term economic forecasting remains supremely complex, with standard macroeconomic modeling processes not up to the challenge. This latest edition covers the anticipated impact of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East and the longer term outlook for the global economy reflecting the longer term impact of AI.
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Thematic Analysis
Video Streaming: Strategic Intelligence
Video streaming has become a mainstream digital service, reaching about 6.5 billion users in 2025. GlobalData estimates it will surpass 7.9 billion by 2030, driven by continued growth in both subscription- and advertising-supported platforms. As subscription-based streaming approaches maturity, ad-supported services will increasingly drive future growth.
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Thematic Analysis
Generation Alpha's Media Habits: Strategic Intelligence
Generation Alpha is becoming the defining youth cohort globally. As the children of Millennials and the first generation born entirely into a digital world, Gen Alpha (anyone born between 2013 and 2025) will have a profound influence on future consumption, culture, and labor markets across all sectors.
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Company Insights
Catalyst Monitor: Q3 2026 Outlook
This report compiles published, predictive intelligence based on interviews with key opinion leaders (KOLs) on market-moving events that are expected to occur in Q3 2026. GlobalData’s latest report, “Catalyst Monitor Q3 2026”, delivers forward-looking intelligence derived from interviews with key opinion leaders (KOLs), covering trial initiations, completions, Phase III trial results, PDUFA dates, and regulatory filings. The report covers 11 significant catalyst events that are expected to occur in Q3 2026. Some of the catalysts covered in the report, include...
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Thematic Analysis
Deep Dive into Dark Factories: Strategic Intelligence
Dark factories (or lights-out factories) are manufacturing facilities that operate with full automation and no human presence on the production floor. In many regards, fully automated factories are the logical endpoint of an automation journey that has been centuries in the making.
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Thematic Analysis
Digital Sovereignty: Strategic Intelligence
Digital sovereignty is imperative for national security. With increased geopolitical fragmentation, fears are growing about excessive dependence on foreign technologies, most notably frontier AI models from the US or China. Access to this technology can be revoked without warning, prices raised abruptly, and the code may be unauditable or even contain malicious components.
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Thematic Analysis
Cryptocurrencies: Strategic Intelligence
Cryptocurrency is now widely accepted as an established and investible mid-sized asset class, with growing institutional adoption and improving regulatory clarity in major markets. The second Trump presidency ushered in a more pro-crypto regime in the US and helped the total market capitalization hit a record $4.2 trillion in June 2025. The market value has since retrenched, falling to $2.5 trillion by the end of May 2026. This largely reflected broader geopolitical concerns, a move that, in turn, has raised...
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Company Insights
Liberty Mutual: Digital Transformation Strategies
Liberty Mutual Holding Company (Liberty Mutual) is a property and casualty insurance company. The company, through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, offers a range of personal insurance and business insurance solutions to individuals, families, and businesses. It offers insurance products for homeowners, commercial multi-peril, property, general liability, commercial automobile, surety, workers compensation, and specialty lines. It also offers employee benefits insurance, health insurance, marine insurance, construction insurance, energy insurance, trade credit insurance, aviation insurance, and crisis management insurance. It markets...
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Company Insights
Grupo Financiero Banorte: Digital Transformation Strategies
Grupo Financiero Banorte SAB de CV (Banorte) is a leading financial institution in Mexico, offering a broad range of traditional and digital financial products and services. The company's main activities include banking, insurance, retirement savings, mutual funds, leasing, factoring, and warehousing. The company serves a diverse customer base, including individuals, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), corporations, and government entities, providing services such as checking and deposit accounts, loans, insurance, and investment planning. Banorte operates through various channels, including internet, mobile...
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Company Insights
Mastercard: Digital Transformation Strategies
Mastercard Inc (Mastercard) is a payments and technology company that handles the clearing, authorization, and settlement of payment transactions. It offers a wide range of payment solutions including credit, debit, prepaid, and commercial cards; digital payments; real-time account-based payments; payment system security; as well as cross-border and domestic transaction services. Mastercard also provides value-added offerings such as loyalty and rewards programs, and advisory services including consulting, analytics, and implementation. Notable brands associated with the company include Mastercard, Maestro, and Cirrus....
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