Global economy

Global economy

Passerby walk past an electric screen showing Asian markets indices outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2019/ Reuters

Asian stocks subdued ahead of Fed, frail yen in focus

Sign of the times. Photo: Bloomberg

Rising small business bankruptcies are a red herring

Sri Lankan drivers push auto rickshaws to buy petrol from a fuel station amid an economic crisis last year. The country’s 69.8% inflation in September 2022 declined to only 4% in August 2023 due to the government’s rapid and effective measures to stabilise the economy. Photo: Reuters

What are the regional economies doing right?

India, Indonesia, others to help G7 fight ‘economic coercion’

India, Indonesia, others to help G7 fight ‘economic coercion’

Commercial vessels including vessels which are part of Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi during a misty morning in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas//File Photo

Ukraine suspends new Black Sea grain corridor due to threat from Russian warplanes

File Photo: Reuters

Dollar rises as US business activity ticks up in October

Time for central bank digital currencies to prove their worth

Time for central bank digital currencies to prove their worth

FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks with David Westin, Anchor, Bloomberg Wall Street Week, during a meeting of the Economic Club of New York in New York City, U.S., October 19, 2023. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

Middle East throws central banks yet more unknowns

Illustration: Collected

How big the price tag of another war could be

People walk past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. Asian shares rose Monday on relief the US presidential election results were finally decided, with Joe Biden the president-elect. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu

Asian stocks fall, gold at over 2-month high as Middle East tension weighs

These are the world's best and worst pensions in 2023

These are the world's best and worst pensions in 2023

A visitor wearing protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past in front of a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan 2 March 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files

Asian markets drop as Middle East conflict worries grow

Israeli soldiers inspect a destroyed home in the Kfar Aza settlement of southern Israel on Oct. 15.Photographer: Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images/Bloomberg

Ripple effect seen on markets globally from Middle East conflict