We attended Yili 2021 Investor Day, held in Hohot, Inner Mongolia, which reconfirmed our confidence that Yili will become the world’s largest dairy company by 2030. Yili will announce its 3Q21 results on 29 Oct; we don’t expect any negative surpris....

Scientists from the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered an artificial method for synthesizing starch from CO2, a world first. The discovery was published in the journal Science on 24 Sep 2....

Brazil: The Senate is accusing President Bolsonaro of crimes against humanity due to his government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The budget is 5.3% bigger than the previous record approved for 2021, with funds earmarked to ease economic press...

New channels, new concepts, new products, and new supply chains – all indicate a brand-new logic of consumption investment in China. As we discussed in the previous article, the evolution of new mediums has reshaped the consumer goods market in China...

Improved risk sentiment has seen the USD come under some pressure. Uganda: Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Finance and Treasury Ramathan Ggoobi said that GDP growth is forecast to accelerate from 3.4% in 2020/21 to 3.8% in 2021/2022. Against this...

The purpose of COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference from 31 October to 12 November, is for countries to update their national targets ("nationally determined contributions" or NDCs) to close the gap between the shared ambition of the 2015 Paris Ag...