William Pesek

Few things enrage Donald Trump more than being upstaged, particularly when he is on the biggest stage of both his stints as US president — in Beijing. Though Trump World will deny that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did just that this week, he did. And global markets know it.

Talk that Japanese bonds are about to crash is inspiring a bull market is eye-rolling. On any list of the globe’s top “widow maker” trades these last 15 years, betting on yen-denominated debt collapsing is right at the top.

TOKYO — Bond markets are cracking around the globe as geopolitical, technological and demographic trends simultaneously upend everything investors thought

TOKYO — Few market visuals are more striking than the South Korean won and the Kospi index suddenly tearing off in opposite directions. The won

Indonesia hasn't commanded the global economic spotlight in decades. The collapse of its currency is changing that—placing Jakarta at the center of a turbulent 2026.

Taiwan has just vaulted past India to become the world's No. 5 stock market, powered by an AI boom that's fused investor frenzy with the dominance of the planet's most critical chipmaker.

Not since the darkest days of 1997 have South Korean markets gyrated like a seismometer detecting a big one.

Speaking on Wednesday (May 27), Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda cautioned that central banks must prevent this year’s oil‑driven inflation surge from

Global investment banks are rapidly abandoning any expectation of a Federal Reserve rate cut this year.

On any list of countries anxious to see the war in Iran end, India deserves a place near the very top. Few countries have been knocked off balance as sharply.