William Pesek

As Chinese stocks get their groove back, markets are grappling anew with tension between President Xi Jinping’s long-term policy priorities and investors’

If you think Jerome Powell and Kazuo Ueda are having a rough 2024, consider the plight of their central banking counterpart in Beijing.

As the “Trump trade” returns to make fear of geopolitical upheaval great again, global hedge funds are racing to short China’s yuan currency. They are

It’s going to be a busy, tense and challenge-laden International Monetary Fund gathering in Washington this week. There, the economic glitterati will

Governments from Tokyo to Seoul are strapping in for a bumpy ride

Rising anticipation of a “red wave” sweeping Donald Trump and his Republicans to electoral victory on November 5 suddenly has Asia contemplating a plethora of “what-if?” scenarios.

As political miscalculations go, it’s hard to top Shigeru Ishiba’s decision to hold a snap election Sunday, just 30 days after his own shock rise to

The political whiplash dominating Tokyo this week is being felt with particular intensity at Bank of Japan headquarters. There, Governor Kazuo Ueda is preparing for an October 30-31 policy meeting that’s suddenly lost all relevance.

Is the “smart” money still fleeing China? Whether it's wise to leave Asia's biggest economy is debatable. What's not is that the mainland billionaire emigration trend continues and that their ranks have thinned by more than a third in just the last three years.

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