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Canberra now vets who buys the shares it forced Chinese investors to sellTwo of the six China-linked shareholders ordered by treasurer Jim Chalmers to exit Northern Minerals in May now need government approval before they can sell at all, after Canberra froze some holdi…Glencore's Australia move is a vote of no confidence in LondonA secondary listing sounds like a footnote until you notice who else has left. Glencore is reportedly targeting Australia within months, chasing the pension pot that Aussie super funds have built f…LGT's Japan push chases wealth Switzerland can't reachLiechtenstein's LGT expanding private banking in Japan is a bet that Japanese wealth creation, driven by a weak yen boosting export earnings and a stock market at multi-decade highs, has outgrown t…California's wealthy are buying an exit, not a holiday homeNew Zealand's golden visa overhaul dropped the minimum investment and cut the required time on the ground, and wealthy Californians are the ones responding fastest. Applications skew toward tech fo…Prologis takes out Segro in £14bn warehouse land grabThe largest UK corporate takeover of the year just handed America's biggest logistics landlord control of Britain's warehouse market. Prologis is paying roughly $18.8 billion for Segro, a company t…Bradesco is putting $2 billion behind a digital-only betBrazil's second-largest private bank approved a $2 billion capital increase specifically earmarked for digital expansion, a direct response to Nubank's relentless share gains in Brazilian retail ba…Iberdrola pays $2.3 billion to own Finland's grid outrightBuying 80% of Caruna gives Iberdrola direct control of a regulated Finnish electricity distribution network at a moment when European utilities are racing to lock in grid assets ahead of an expecte…TSMC doubles down on America with another $100bnTaiwan's most important company keeps building its most important factories somewhere other than Taiwan, and that's the whole point of the exercise. This fresh $100bn pledge stacks on top of the $6…Thailand's stock market flips from regional laggard to leaderThai equities were the region's worst performer for most of the past two years, weighed down by weak tourism recovery and political instability, and now foreign funds are piling back in on valuatio…Apollo sets a $20bn target for Mexican private creditNearshoring has been the theme for three years; Apollo's $20bn target is the first sign private credit is willing to underwrite it at real scale rather than just talk about it in conference panels.…ABB buys Rotork for £4.1bn, Britain's engineering base thins againAnother FTSE-listed engineering name disappears into foreign ownership, and the pattern is now too consistent to call coincidence. Swiss-Swedish industrial giant ABB is paying £4.1bn for Rotork, th…Pakistan's biggest copper mine is a hostage situation nowA Chinese-backed copper project sitting on one of the world's largest untapped reserves is threatening to shut down over security risk, and that single sentence should worry anyone pricing global c…Alcoa's Australian gallium project is a China-dependency hedgeGetting international approval for gallium production in Australia matters because China controls roughly 90% of global gallium supply and has already used export curbs on the metal as leverage in …India's large caps look cheap because everyone already sold themA stock only rebounds on foreign flows if foreigners already left, and that's precisely the setup in Indian large caps right now. Beaten-down blue chips are being positioned for a rebound as foreig…Indonesia's capital flight is a test case for how EM investors price political risk in 2026Already covered in Markets and Economy.Washington puts $250m into a billionaire's chip startup, and the strategic logic is obviousThe US government is committing $250 million to a chip manufacturing startup backed by a high-profile billionaire investor, continuing the CHIPS Act-era strategy of deploying public capital to acce…MSCI's Indonesia verdict is due. A frontier reclassification would cost more than a weighting cut.MSCI's May 2026 reassessment of Indonesia's market accessibility status is either complete or imminent, and the stakes are not symmetrical. A weighting reduction in the MSCI Emerging Markets index …The BRICS Bank is lending South Africa $1bn for city infrastructure. The US is responding in NamibiaThe New Development Bank's approval of up to $1 billion for South Africa's eight major metropolitan municipalities, covering water, sanitation, electricity, and waste management, is part of a consi…Apollo hunts Japanese life insurer for $5.8tn market accessThe private equity giant is actively seeking to acquire or partner with a Japanese life insurer to tap the country's ¥900 trillion in life insurance reserves. Apollo already has eight reinsurance d…UK commits £1.3bn to Universal's Bedford theme parkThe government will provide £1.3 billion in infrastructure support for Universal's first European resort, opening in 2031.Indonesia readies state control over $65bn commodity exportsIndonesia is finalizing a centralized export framework for crude palm oil, coal, and ferroalloys through its Danantara sovereign wealth fund vehicle, potentially affecting $65 billion in annual com…Rinehart bets $100m on US defense stocks after rare earths windfallGina Rinehart is putting almost US$100 million into American weapons-makers, marking a sharp pivot from her traditional iron ore empire into the military-industrial complex. The investment comes ju…Australia orders Chinese investors to dump rare earth stakesTreasurer Jim Chalmers has ordered several China-linked investors to sell down their 10.4% stake in Northern Minerals, a rare earths producer with a strategic heavy rare earths project in Western A…Korean retail investors bet the house as foreigners fleeSouth Korea's "ants" are winning the tug of war with foreign money. Retail investors have net purchased over 25 trillion won in 16 sessions, overwhelming more than 20 trillion won in foreign sellin…S&P upgrades India as foreign outflow fears prove overblownIndia just earned its first sovereign rating upgrade in 18 years, rising to BBB from BBB-. S&P cited resilient domestic demand that makes foreign outflows and US tariff threats largely irrelevant f…Korean retail investors defy government with record $3.1bn US stock bingeKorean 'Seohak Ants' nearly doubled their US stock purchases to $3.1 billion in January despite government tax incentives to redirect funds home. Interactive Brokers launched direct Korean stock ac…Cornish Pirates add healthcare entrepreneur as rugby investment trend spreadsRichard Wastnage, co-founder of Pharmaxo Group and owner of One Atlantek, joined the Cornish Pirates ownership consortium as investor interest seeps into rugby's second tier. The Champ Rugby side a…Atlas Arteria reviews IFM's $5.3bn takeover as conditions pile upAtlas Arteria's board is evaluating an unsolicited A$4.75 per share takeover offer from largest shareholder IFM Investors, which rises to A$5.10 if IFM exceeds 45% ownership before closing. The Aus…MSCI delays Indonesia review after downgrade fearsMSCI postponed its Indonesia market classification review after foreign outflows hit $2.8 billion in January alone. The index provider was considering a downgrade from emerging to frontier market s…Korean won hits longest rally since 2013 as risks fadeThe Korean won strengthened 0.8% to 1,425.25 per dollar, marking its seventh straight daily gain—the longest streak since January 2013. The KOSPI surged 6.87% to close at 5,872 as the Iran ceasefir…