Welcome to Finance Pulse, your daily snapshot of the economic forces shaping markets worldwide, as today’s edition highlights a shifting global landscape marked by disappointing retail sales in China that signal weakening consumer demand, a blockbuster year-end push in global mergers and acquisitions nearing a $4.5 trillion finish led by high-profile deals such as Warner Bros. Discovery, a modest uptick in India’s inflation driven by rising food and fuel prices after months of disinflation, and a quiet but accelerating real-estate boom in Ajman where transactions have crossed Dh25 billion, positioning the emirate as one of the UAE’s fastest-emerging property markets.
