For 15 years two currencies have outperformed all others
Dec 5th 2019THE PAST decade and a half has seen boom and bust, inflation and deflation, globalisation and trade tensions. Through…
Created to democratise credit, P2P lenders are going after big money
Dec 5th 2019SAN FRANCISCO“GET YOUR money right,” says a giant billboard in garish, Instagram-friendly colours in San Francisco’s…
Myanmar admits foreign life insurers
Dec 5th 2019YANGONKO PHOE THAR is a cheery 22-year-old liquor-store clerk from Mandalay, a city in central Myanmar. Death, and…
Trade war? China’s exporters have expanded their global market share
Dec 12th 2019SHANGHAIA YEAR AGO an economic forecasting unit in the Chinese government published an outlook for the coming year….
Why the revised USMCA pleases both Democrats and Donald Trump
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America wants the World Bank to stop making loans to China
Dec 12th 2019HONG KONGTHE CARIBBEAN islands of St. Kitts and Nevis are known for luxury tourism (visitors include Meryl Streep…
Climate change has made ESG a force in investing
Dec 7th 2019“LABELLING BASED on incomplete information, public shaming, and shunning wrapped in moral rhetoric,” said Hester…
Why are people attracted to 50:50 probabilities?
Dec 12th 2019BARACK OBAMA’S intelligence officers told him, variously, that there was a probability of between 30% and 95% that…
A Nordic pioneer of negative interest rates gets cold feet
Dec 12th 2019THE WORLD’S oldest central bank, Sweden’s Riksbank, is a trendsetter. In July 2009, in the depths of the financial…