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Fast Food’s Value Playbook: How $5 Deals & Free Fries Are Shaping 2026

Americas Markets Restaurants and Other Eating Places

Fast-food chains are ramping up value offers ...

Value-menu traffic rose about 1% in Q2 2025 e...

Consumers are trading down within fast food, ...

Heavy discounting risks margin compression, p...

Africa’s Agrifood Investment Shifts Toward Sustainable, Unit-Economics Startups

Global Markets Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting

African agrifood VC is pivoting from grant-le...

Investors are prioritizing defensible unit ec...

Specialist funds like CRAF are placing small ...

A $75–100B annual finance gap and rising trac...

SEBI Accuses Bank of America of Sharing Price-Sensitive Information Ahead of Block Trade

Asia Risk Securities and Commodity Contracts Intermediation and Brokerage

SEBI alleges Bank of America shared material ...

The regulator says information flowed beyond ...

BofA initially denied wrongdoing but later, a...

The bank is preparing a multimillion-dollar s...

Europe’s Non-Financial Firms: Low Debt, Rising Bonds & Constructive Borrowing in 2026

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

European non-financial corporate debt has fal...

Bank lending is subdued but bond issuance and...

Debt-service risk looks contained as rates st...

More corporate debt by 2026 would likely sign...

Euro Area in 2026: Moderate Growth, Easing Inflation and ECB Policy Outlook

Europe Forecast Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

Euro-area growth in 2026 is expected to be st...

Inflation is easing toward the ECB’s 2% targe...

The ECB is likely to keep policy rates near n...

Optimism for European capital markets rests o...

U.S. Household Debt Soars: What Rising Defaults and Interest Rates Mean for You

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

U.S. household debt is near $18.6T, with cred...

Debt snowball or avalanche can work when tota...

High APRs (often 20%+) plus inflation-driven ...

Rising delinquencies and write-offs signal gr...

Uncertainty Curbs Euro-Area Corporate Borrowing and Credit Spreads — What’s at Stake

Global FYI Finance and Insurance

Multiple uncertainty measures (market volatil...

U.S. policy uncertainty spills over to Europe...

These uncertainty shocks dampen and delay the...

Despite weaker borrowing, corporate leverage ...

Fed’s 2026 Rate Cuts: Miran’s Push vs CBO’s Caution on Inflation

Americas Policy Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

Fed Governor Stephen Miran said “well over 10...

He argues underlying inflation is already nea...

Most Fed officials are far more cautious, wit...

The CBO similarly expects only gradual easing...

Fed Governance, Balance Sheet & Losses: What Ends Dec 1, 2025 Mean for Policy

Americas Policy Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

The Fed’s statutory mandate spans five core f...

Its governance structure centers on a seven-m...

The current Board is led by Chair Jerome H. P...

Recent CRS data highlight a shrinking balance...

New Laws Shift Focus: Reputational Risk Removed from Bank Supervision and Debanking Guidance

Americas Policy Depository Credit Intermediation

OCC and FDIC proposed rules to bar use of “re...

Congressional bills including the FIRM Act an...

ACA International and other banking trade gro...

Key uncertainties are how “reputation risk” i...