From AI to Asia’s economic boom, the world is changing fast. The Global Business Journalism program's top five global business trends of 2026 reveal where opportunity, innovation and disruption meet. At GBJ — a partnership among Tsinghue University, Bloomberg News and the International Center for Journalists — we help future journalists and storytellers decode these shifts through data, insight and global perspective. Let us know what you think of our choice of trends.

Journalists need to understand the big picture in order to report on any topic. When it comes to business journalism, the big picture is macroeconomics. Macroeconomics – or the study of large-scale or general economic factors – looks at how broad factors interact with each other and with local elements. In our interdependent global economy, macroeconomic news significantly influences international markets, businesses, and everyday lives.