The Global Equity Market Pulse: A Comprehensive Review of the Week Ending February 13, 2026

The history of blue in the visual arts is fundamentally a narrative of human intervention in the natural world. Unlike the ubiquitous earth tones derived from iron oxides, blue occurs with frustrating rarity in stable mineral forms. This scarcity necessitated a multi-millennial journey of discovery, ranging from the extraction of…

The history of decorative arts is punctuated by efforts to capture the fleeting brilliance of light within the permanence of metal and stone. Among these endeavours, cloisonné stands as perhaps the most sophisticated synthesis of metallurgy, glasswork, and chemistry. The term cloisonné, derived from the French word cloison, meaning “partition”…

The demographic architecture of the twenty-first century is undergoing a structural transformation characterised by the convergence of two unprecedented trends: the significant expansion of human longevity and the delayed onset of traditional markers of adulthood. At the epicentre of this shift is a cohort of individuals increasingly defined as the…

The first week of February 2026 defined a “Great Recalibration,” blending record revenues from Alphabet and Apple with anxiety over soaring AI capital expenditures. Markets fluctuated as the industry balanced operational realities against the promise of new agentic AI models like GPT-5.3, signalling a shift from experimentation to deployment.