This week brought fresh signs of economic strain as an increasing number of businesses – from small local operators to well-known brands –announced closures, restructurings, or bankruptcy filings.
Category: TRENDS ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRONT – Apr 14 2026
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SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Gilead Sciences, a California pharma, is paying $3.15 billion to take over Tubulis, a German developer of drugs that more effectively deliver chemotherapy treatments to cancer tumors.
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SPECIAL REPORT: PRIVATE EQUITY WARNING SIGNALS DANGER AHEAD
As we have been detailing and forecasting in The Trends Journal since January, the private credit route is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy: investors panic and yank their money, making other investors reluctant to put money in.
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IN CHINA, AMERICAN BRANDS LOSE THEIR LUSTER
For the first 15 years of this century, U.S. brands were prized by Chinese shoppers not only for their quality, but also as symbols of sophistication.
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ENERGY PRICE SHOCK SPURS CLEAN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
Governments around the world “have vowed in recent weeks to deploy more clean energy” and reduce their dependence on fossil fuels that flow out of a part of the world always in turbulence, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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TOP TREND 2025: DRAGFLATION
Europe will undergo a period of rising prices and slow or stagnant economic growth due to the Iran War, even if the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran holds or extends, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Union’s (EU’s) economy minister, warned last week.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The job market showed a mixed but generally steady pattern this week, as hiring activity continued at a measured pace while employers remain cautious about long-term commitments.
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SPOTLIGHT: THE IRAN WAR’S ECONOMIC IMPACT
The socioeconomic and geopolitical impact of the Iran War is global.