Bank of Japan, caught between Trump and a hard place, must also confront ghosts of its pastThe Bank of Japan won’t shock global markets this week, no matter what rabid speculation you read in the financial pages. To understand why, let’s play a game of back to the future. Our first stop is...
Can Vietnam take Singapore’s stock market crown?Just three years ago, Vietnam was still a cipher in the global financial system. The Southeast Asian nation had only ten US$1 billion listed companies, while daily trading volume on the stock market c...
Why Donald Trump’s record-breaking trade aid for farmers could failUS President Donald Trump’s $12 billion relief plan for farmers may be the largest US government effort in recent memory to help rural America cope with an entirely man-made disaster. And it could bac...
Death of Fiat Chrysler chief focuses spotlight on CEO healthFiat Chrysler's late founding CEO Sergio Marchionne was a notorious workaholic who regularly slept on a corporate jet while landing in the headlines for his shrewd deal-making. Despite his very public...
Cuba to study whether climate change is hurting sugar harvestsCuba is studying whether to adjust its sugar-harvest calendar in response to damaging changes in the island's climate, an official newspaper reported Saturday. The Caribbean island, once the world's l...