For the first time, the World Economic Forum ranks geoeconomic confrontation as the single most severe short-term global risk, ahead of extreme weather, misinformation, and armed conflict. Signal AI’s platform data shows the same shift inside enterprise risk signals: trade, activism, and regulatory volume all rose sharply between Q4 2025 and Q1 2026, concentrated in a small set of industries with the least room to absorb the shock.
What’s inside:
- The top 5 emerging risks by media-mentions growth, with international trade risk up 41.8%
- A cross-sector heat map of where each risk concentrates, from tech and pharma to shipping and energy
- Why shipping sits at the intersection of all five major 2026 risks
- Five operational moves for risk teams, from pricing chokepoint exposure to embedding geopolitical risk at board level
