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Singapore and Washington, DC

ACROSS CABINET tables, boardrooms and diplomatic missions this week, one topic of dialogue has overshadowed all others. The sweeping victory of Donald Trump and the Republican Birthday party in The United States’s elections will give huge powers to an impulsive president with unorthodox economic beliefs and a belligerent manner to negotiation. Bigwigs in executive and industry all thru are scrambling to analyse the penalties—for The United States and for the leisure of the sphere.

This article looked in the Finance & economics share of the print edition below the headline “The United States v the sphere”