Dec 29th 2024 | KUALA LUMPUR FOR DECADES China has put foreign capital to work. Officials encouraged Western firms to trade technology for access to its vast market, helping to build up Chinese compet...
Dec 28th 2024 IT IS FITTING that Manmohan Singh, who unshackled Indian trade and industry as the country’s finance minister in 1991, was the son of an importer. His father’s firm in Peshawar brought d...
OENOPHILES, ART aficionados, petrolheads and all those who like the finer things in life have, alas, not had the best year. The prices of their luxury assets have tanked. An investor who put their mon...
The elevated inflation in recent years continued to wreak havoc on many Americans' wallets in 2024, but the start of the new year provides a great opportunity to set new financial goals to get back on...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and for investors in America’s stockmarket that is saying something. They have had a marvellous 2024, as share prices that had already soared in 2023 just kep...
The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates one more time this year. In their recent meeting, the Fed decided to cut rates by a quarter of a percentage point, dropping rates to 4.25% to 4.5%. This mov...
THE LIQUIDITY crunch could not have come at a worse time. Usually, most of Hizbullah’s budget arrives on a plane in Damascus, the Syrian capital, with the country’s Iranian ambassador. The cash is the...
Dec 19th 2024 GIVING IS BIG business. In 2023 Americans alone handed $557bn to charities, according to the Giving USA annual report. So identifying which charities are the most efficient in terms of g...
Dec 19th 2024 THE BRAZILIAN real holds an ignominious title this year: it is the worst-performing major currency, down by more than 20% to a record low of almost 6.3 to the dollar. The situation has g...
WHY IS HOUSING so expensive? Explanations have tended to fall into two camps. One emphasises a gummed-up supply side: a range of restrictions on land use and NIMBY campaigners have stymied housebuildi...
Dec 18th 2024 | KYIV AND PRYLUKY EVERY BUSINESS in Ukraine has a reference point. For Mykhailo Travetsky, a farmer in Pryluky, it was the first six weeks of the all-out invasion. As a Russian column s...
As the new year approaches, more Americans have a brighter outlook for the state of their personal finances in 2025, a recent survey indicated. Bankrate said Thursday its survey found that 44% of Amer...
