Thanks to the ongoing government deleveraging campaign, the build-up of debt since the financial crisis in 2008 is now much less of a concern for the Chinese economy. In 2018, China made steady progress in what it calls "structural deleveraging," using tailored measures to bring down leverage ...
“There is no denying that the global political tensions are going to affect the volatility of trading,” said Evan Lucas, market strategist at IG. “The more pressure that builds on Russia the more volatile European indices will be. With the strong trade links between the continent and Russia...
Recent years have seen the Indian government double down on blackmailing foreign companies with trumped-up charges. Google, Amazon, Nokia, and Samsung have all suffered outrageous fines, while Intel, Wistron and others have also hit snags in the Indian market. "You can earn money here; you ca...
designed to help banks close the gap between the book value of their securities, mostly U.S. Treasuries, and their market value in a new, higher interest-rate market. That lets banks act as if their
When this guest Bartleby entered the job market, she assumed that when the day came she too would be a pensioner in a pastel-coloured shirt opting for the “early-bird special”. A quarter of a century on, your 48-year-old columnist hopes to be writing for The Economist decades from n...
corporate profit gains were calming down. But Big Tech turned all that around with massive layoffs that goosed earnings along with promises of an AI revolution. That turned about a half dozen companies into behemoths that really determined the over...
But it won’t be easy, and I suspect that already the effect of rumors about slowing the fiscal expansion is strengthening the hands of those who want to stomp again on the gas pedal. For example the stock market was down 6.7% today, bringing its total decline since August 4 to 23.3%...
If I stay invested, I tell myself, “the stock market cannot remain down forever, so let me wait. If I pull out now, I might miss the recovery. So let me get wet and wait for the sun to come out. Thus staying invested is also timing in the market. In a sense, we choose to...
If you and your team keep that in mind, you’ll succeed. You won’t stop looking for new ways to improve your business and will instead keep refining planning and forecasting processes to better serve your needs. It’s a surefire way to take a long look in the mirror and make decisi...
Basse – a CTO – nevertheless emphasizes that content is the main market driver rather than the tech-powered content pipe, “Unless it's filled with content, it's meaningless.” He specifically means high-quality content that not only uses the available network and dev...