Apr 11th 2025 | Hong Kong and Singapore SO FAR THIS year China has imported ten American films, including the zany “A Minecraft Movie”. But there is a limit to how much American drama anyone can stand...
Consumer prices fell 0.1% in March, according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is the first monthly drop since July 2022.Annual inflation increa...
Apr 8th 2025 | Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo “Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded.” That was the message from the White House on April 9th after Donald Trump announced a pause on tariffs for most t...
Apr 10th 2025 | Washington, DC For a good few hours on April 9th, disaster beckoned. Share prices had been falling for weeks. Then the market for American Treasury bonds—normally among the safest asse...
Apr 10th 2025 | Washington, DC For people who believe themselves to be autonomous individuals possessed of their own free will, the past week has been a bracing corrective. Everyone, down to the most ...
Apr 10th 2025 | Hong Kong Victoria Harbour is Hong Kong’s most glamorous body of water. But Rambler Channel is where the free port’s work is done. The quays along its banks extend over more than 7km. ...
Apr 10th 2025 TO WIN A game of Scrabble, start at the bottom of the periodic table. The 17 “rare earths” that reside there have longish names, such as dysprosium and praseodymium, which are replete wi...
The announcement on April 9th that America would pause sky-high reciprocal tariffs sent stockmarkets soaring around the world. Countries that had faced crippling levies, such as Cambodia and Vietnam, ...
Apr 9th 2025 | WASHINGTON, DC DONALD TRUMP has blinked. Little more than 12 hours after his radical regime of “reciprocal” tariffs took effect, he has put most of them on pause for 90 days. Mr Trump s...
Apr 9th 2025 | WASHINGTON, DC Of all the lines that could have rebounded, this might be the worst. During Asian trading hours on April 9th the yield on ten-year American Treasuries leapt to 4.5% (see ...
Apr 9th 2025 By imposing heavy tariffs on its trading partners, America has not only provoked a market crash, raised uncertainty to unprecedented levels and maybe sent the global economy into recessio...
Apr 8th 2025 | Delhi, Singapore and Tokyo COURTING THE tariff king is a tricky business. There are no rules, no obvious channels through which to reach him and no guarantee that anyone, apart from the...
