However the Supreme Court decides, history suggests the levies will induce lasting structural shifts, similar to a targeted steel regime that was briefly deployed more than 20 years ago.

West Africa's largest financial market has recovered to a record year. Yet that story risks being swamped.

The Central Asian frontier has been upgraded by S&P and Moody's, scoring a long-term sovereign BB from the former for the first time in nearly two decades, up from B+ just a month ago. The boosts come at an interesting moment for Mongolia, following the June ousting of one prime minister after political unrest, and the temporary removal - and subsequent reinstatement - of his successor. And boosts here are notably plural: S&P only last month upgraded Mongolia to BB- and has n

The small Arabian country rocketed up a recent ranking. How? Believing - or investigating - any individual measurement in reputational security or soft power is usually a problem. In a space that is increasingly, often usefully though sometimes problematically, awash in rankings and indexes, the aggregate big picture is more important than a single data point. That said, sometimes a single data point screams curiosity. So it was for us belatedly sifting through the World Comp

Consensus emerging around "imminent and inevitable" regime change augurs significant investment impact.