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In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight, we examine how global merchandise trade has evolved between 2000 and 2025. Combined global imports and exports increased from $12.8 trillion to $51.4 trillion over the period, representing a more than fourfold increase.

In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight we examine the remarkable scale of the US economy by comparing individual US states with some of the world’s largest national economies. We explore how industries such as artificial intelligence, semiconductor, manufacturing and data centres are contributing to growth across individual states.

In our latest Seaspray Private financial data insight, we highlight NVIDIA’s latest earnings report which provides one of the clearest indicators yet that global investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure continues to accelerate. The semiconductor giant delivered another strong quarter, exceeding market expectations and reinforcing confidence in the long-term growth outlook for AI-related technologies. Strong demand

In this week’s Seaspray Private financial insight, we analyse the price dynamics of the critical minerals sector. As the world economy becomes more reliant on these minerals for the development of industries such as AI and clean energy, many of these minerals have seen significant price increases over the past year, for various reasons including

In this week’s Seaspray Private financial insight, we continue to analyse US corporate earnings. Chief amongst these earnings was SpaceX, whose recent IPO was the largest in history. This would be the space exploration and AI developers first earnings call since becoming a publicly traded company. Along with SpaceX, Advanced Micro Devices, one of the

In today’s Seaspray Private Financial Data Insight, we examine the latest earnings results from some of the world’s largest companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Visa, Coca-Cola, Seagate and Starbucks. This week’s earnings reports highlight a growing divide in how investors view artificial intelligence investment, rewarding companies that can demonstrate clear revenue generation from AI spending while

In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight we focus on Ireland’s equity market and examine the recent performance, composition and key drivers of the ISEQ Overall Index. Despite underperforming major US and European indices in 2026, the Irish market has delivered impressive long-term returns, outperforming both the Euro Stoxx 50 and FTSE 100 over the

In today’s Seaspray Private financial data insight we explore the two principal methods used to measure the size of the world’s economies and why they produce very different global rankings. Using the International Monetary Fund’s latest 2026 projections, we compare Nominal GDP and Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) to highlight how economic strength can be viewed

In today’s Seaspray Private Financial Insight we examine the historic moment Amazon overtook Walmart to become the largest company in the United States by revenue, marking a significant shift in the corporate landscape. We explore the key drivers behind Amazon’s remarkable growth, including the expansion of AWS, artificial intelligence and its global retail ecosystem, while

In our latest Seaspray Private financial insight we explore the remarkable wealth created by some of the most successful Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in history and examine why IPO markets are attracting renewed attention in 2026. With major private companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly considering public listings, we analyse the long-term returns

In today’s Seaspray Private Financial Data Insight we discuss the latest developments from the US corporate earnings season and examine how the Magnificent 7 have re-emerged as major contributors to overall market earnings growth. We explore the evolving relationship between broader market earnings and mega-cap technology companies, particularly against the backdrop of increasing investment in

In this week’s Seaspray Private data insight, we analyse NVIDIA’s earnings call from this week, highlighting some of the key developments and takeaways from the world’s largest company’s latest quarterly report. Along with this, we compare NVIDIA against some of the other large names in the semiconductor industry, and showcase just how far ahead the