This opinion post was originally published in Project Syndicate. Although it has always been difficult to determine the real aims of an administration beset by infighting, three key goals now stand out: reshoring of manufacturing, an overhaul of the...

The NYSE FANG+ index is down 10% in September to date. No doubt the investment industry is littered with folk saying "I told you so"; it is just that some of them do not confess to saying these Tech stocks were too expensive in April and the rest do...

President Trump announced on Saturday that he has approved Oracle's bid for TikTok's US operation. The deal requires Beijing's approval, as as well other regulatory and shareholder clearances. ByteDance, TikTok's parent, has been valued at US$140bn b...

The Chinese central bank, the PBoC, kept the 1Y Loan Prime Rate at 3.85% and the 5Y Loan Prime Rate at 4.65%. The last time the central bank cut rates was in March. 1. 2. 3. Among the three factors, we worry more about the technology war, but the imp...

It’s September 2025, and I’m spending my birthday on the top of Kilimanjaro. Banning Huawei from using Google services had not done as much damage as the administration had hoped, as Huawei used its scale to develop its own app store and mapping solu...

We have previously highlighted the importance of payments infrastructure in accelerating e-commerce in emerging markets and the strong growth that some of these payment infrastructures companies are seeing. In 2020, the company targets solid revenue...