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April 21, 2025
Stocks, World Economy

Asia-Pacific Markets Tread Carefully as China Balances Growth Support Against Yuan Stability

Asia-Pacific financial markets adopted a risk-averse posture on Monday as market participants assessed China’s latest monetary policy stance. China’s central bank left its key lending rates unchanged (one-year: 3.10%;...

April 19, 2025
News, World Economy

When Politics Meets Finance: The $9 Trillion Cross-Asset Earthquake That Could Follow a Politically-Driven Rate Cut

A potential Fed capitulation to political pressure would trigger the most violent asset repricing since 2008, with winners and losers emerging across every investable sector. Hedge funds are already...

April 18, 2025
Technology, World Economy

Made in China 2025: Straddling the Line Between Technological Progress and Global Friction.

The Made in China 2025 initiative marked China’s strategic shift from replicating foreign technologies to fostering homegrown innovation. Ten years on, the initiative remains a point of patriotic accomplishment...

April 16, 2025
News, World Economy

Coastal Crisis: How China’s Slowdown Is Hitting Export Hubs Hardest

China’s manufacturing heartlands are bearing the brunt of the economic slowdown, with: • Guangdong exports down 18% YoY• Zhejiang factory utilization at 63% (10-yr low)• Jiangsu seeing first labor...

April 15, 2025
News, World Economy

2025 Treasury Rout Mirrors 1994 Bond Massacre – But This Time Is Different

The current Treasury selloff bears eerie similarities to the 1994 bond market crash, when yields surged 240 basis points in 9 months. However, key differences make today’s situation more...

April 14, 2025
News, World Economy

China’s Export Engine Roars Back with 12.5% March Growth, But Domestic Demand Lags Behind

China’s export sector delivered a stellar performance in March 2025, growing by 12.5% year-on-year, as global markets snapped up Chinese goods. Key drivers included high-tech products, renewable energy equipment,...

April 11, 2025
News, World Economy

Echoes of 1930: How Modern Protectionism Mirrors Depression-Era Trade Collapse

Economic historians are sounding alarms as current trade measures increasingly resemble the catastrophic policies that deepened the Great Depression. Our comparative analysis reveals disturbing parallels: 1930 vs. 2025: Metric...

April 10, 2025
News, World Economy

Sectors Winners and disasters in Trump’s Tariff Reprieve

The fine print of Trump’s 90- day tariff pause reveals stark difference in relief across diligence, with automakers and tech enterprises arising as big winners while essence and fabrics...

April 9, 2025
News, World Economy

Gulf’s Expat Workforce in Crisis as Trade Wars Disrupt Key Sectors

The Gulf’s 25 million-strong expatriate workforce – the backbone of its diversification economy – faces growing uncertainty as tariff-related slowdowns trigger layoffs across manufacturing, construction and logistics sectors. Impact...

April 8, 2025
News, World Economy

Businesses Brace for Chaos as Trump’s 50% Tariff Threat Sparks China Trade War Fears

Corporate boardrooms across Asia, Europe, and North America are in crisis mode following President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose 50% tariffs on Chinese imports—a move that executives warn could...