Hong Kong MTR Corp’s profit rises 45% to HK$6 billion as ridership recovers strongly Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation has posted a 44.7 per cent rise in net profit to HK$6.04 …
As the first half of 2024 comes to an end, the state of China’s economic recovery is a mixed bag of joy and concern. The positive aspect is that multiple …
Yet despite all these risks and vulnerabilities, a sense of optimism permeates markets. While it is often hard to disentangle complacency from bullishness, sentiment has not been this upbeat since …
In her address to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research titled “Geopolitics and its impact on global trade and the dollar” on May 7, Gopinath observed that global economic …
China announced on Friday it would levy anti-dumping penalties of over 40 per cent on imports of a chemical from the United States used in foods, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and drug …
It’s instructive to read Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, in his book The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy, to …
Yet, since the start of this year, doubts have crept in about the Fed’s ability and willingness to loosen policy significantly. The uncertainty stems from deeper concerns about a costly …
First, it remains possible the gloom a year ago was well justified, and a recession still hangs over us. Fears have abated but not gone away. True, the alarming increase …
Not collapsing, just crumbling. That would be a good way to describe the state of the global economy at present, and now that it has begun sliding, it probably won’t …
On the cusp of what many visionaries hail as “the Asian century”, a palpable wave of anticipation is surging. Historically, while industrial Europe shaped the 19th century and the US …