In this week’s round-up:
- Egypt’s Mercantile Exchange Signs MoU with Russia’s SPIMEX to Boost BRICS Integration
- BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry to host business summit
- India joins UNIDO-backed BRICS centre to boost MSME productivity
- Brazil to harvest record coffee crop in 2026 amid favourable weather and technological gains
- Trump’s Board of Peace Cracks the BRICS Wall
Egypt’s Mercantile Exchange Signs MoU with Russia’s SPIMEX to Boost BRICS Integration
The Egyptian Mercantile Exchange (EMX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Russia’s St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) to enhance bilateral cooperation in commodity trading, market integration, and the exchange of expertise, as part of broader efforts to deepen economic ties between the two countries.
India joins UNIDO-backed BRICS centre to boost MSME productivity
India has joined the BRICS Centre for Industrial Competencies (BCIC) at an event organised by the Centre’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) in the national capital.
Brazil to harvest record coffee crop in 2026
Brazil is on track to achieve the largest coffee harvest in its history in 2026, according to the country’s first official crop forecast, driven by favourable climatic conditions, productivity gains and sustained technological progress in agriculture.
Trump’s Board of Peace Cracks the BRICS Wall
U.S. President Donald Trump’s launch of the Board of Peace has been condemned as an imperial project. Yet the derision cannot mask the geopolitical audacity of the initiative. Whether or not it succeeds, Trump’s Board of Peace already amounts to the most sweeping attempt to modify—if not supplant—the global order established in 1945.
