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.

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