• August 1 2023
  China Economic Slowdown

  Beijing must start spending to secure China’s economic future

  To stop a problem becoming a crisis, the government needs to intervene

  
• July 19 2023
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  The Millionaires’ Factory — the rise and rise of Macquarie

  Joyce Moullakis and Chris Wright trace how a small Australian merchant bank became a global behemoth

  
• July 19 2023
  Thailand

  Thai election winner blocked from premiership

  Senators reject Pita Limjaroenrat’s candidacy as court suspends him from parliament

  
• July 17 2023
  News in-depthThailand

  Role of monarchy at heart of battle for Thailand’s future

  Senators appointed by former military junta have kept Pita Limjaroenrat out of government

  
• July 13 2023
  Thailand

  Thailand faces political deadlock after election winner blocked from power

  Senators appointed by former military junta reject Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become prime minister

  
• June 15 2023
  Chinese business & finance

  China to deploy deposit insurance to repay victims of rural banking fraud

  Central bank agrees to share cost with local government in precedent for resolving future financial crises

  
• June 13 2023
  InterviewCitadel LLC

  Citadel’s Griffin optimistic on growth in China

  Billionaire investor warns it will be ‘ugly’ for the US if the Chinese economy falters

  
• May 30 2023
  Banks

  SVB’s collapse was one thing, Credit Suisse’s quite another

  If a run on a liquid, well-capitalised bank is possible, it could happen to anyone

  
• April 5 2023
  Bank of Japan

  The dovish case for the BoJ to abolish yield curve control

  New governor Kazuo Ueda has the toughest job in central banking

  
• February 22 2023
  InterviewAustralian politics

  Australia’s treasurer says $2.3tn pensions pool should fund ‘nation-building’

  Jim Chalmers argues energy and social care investments would not compromise retirement savings

  
• February 2 2023
  Electric vehicles

  Beware the great battery industry fallacy

  Despite the rush for dominance, the economics are not promising

  
• December 29 2022
  Hong Kong economy

  Hong Kong’s dollar peg is on increasingly thin ice

  Economically, it is close to impregnable. Politically, it is at the whim of the China-US relationship

  
• October 13 2022
  Chinese economy

  Slowing Chinese growth is a recipe for global instability

  Beijing contemplates a future in which its economy remains well below the income levels of the US

  
• July 9 2022
  Japan

  Japan mourns Shinzo Abe as police investigate fatal shooting

  Crowds gather to pay respects to former prime minister at a memorial site close to where he was attacked

  
• July 4 2022
  The Big Read

  Global inflation: Japan faces a moment of truth

  The collapse of the yen piles pressure on the central bank to change course after decades of loose monetary policy

  
• June 27 2022
  Special ReportThe Future of Cities

  Radical neighbourhood redevelopment model splits opinion in Tokyo

  Mori Building pioneered developing large areas of the city, attracting interest across Asia

  
• June 1 2022
  Chinese trade

  Electric vehicles accelerate China’s looming dominance as a car exporter

  For Japanese and European carmakers, the challenge is that while EVs may be high-tech, they are not complex

  
• May 20 2022
  Japanese economy

  ‘Different from the US’: why Japan does not worry about inflation

  After decades of stagnation, workers no longer demand higher wages and companies do not pass on price rises

  
• April 28 2022
  Yen

  Yen slides to 20-year low as BoJ defies global shift to higher rates

  Currency’s fall through ¥130 against the dollar follows central bank vow to keep bond yields at zero

  
• April 12 2022
  Coronavirus

  The rest of the world should watch what is happening in Shanghai

  Covid lockdown in China’s biggest city will have global economic reverberations

  
• March 29 2022
  InterviewJapanese economy

  Japan must hit inflation target via domestic demand, Kishida aide insists

  Powerful adviser Seiji Kihara rules out Japan quitting joint energy projects with Russia

  
• March 10 2022
  US Dollar

  Toppling the dollar as reserve currency risks harmful fragmentation

  Sanctions against Russia have spurred calls for an alternative holding, but this would only destabilise the financial system

  
• February 17 2022
  News in-depthFutures contracts

  Hong Kong breaks Singapore’s grip on China stock futures

  Battle between rival exchanges for control comes as demand booms for Chinese equities

  
• January 23 2022
  Hong Kong

  Don’t write off Hong Kong as a financial centre just yet

  Despite a political crackdown, people who want to move capital into China will continue to use the territory to do so

  
• December 24 2021
  Coronavirus economic impact

  Omicron forces Asian countries to abandon reopening of borders

  Strict travel controls threaten to damage the region’s economic recovery next year