China Tightening Capital Controls: A Least Bad Option To Stem The Slide In China’s Currency
Stronger capital controls might be the best option to halt the yuan’s fall, but it would still entail a tremendous loss of face.
Schengen: Europe’s Free-Travel Zone Faces Possible Demise, With Heavy Cost To European Businesses
Europe’s refugee crisis is about people, but commerce catastrophe looms if the countries can’t agree on a new system that preserves freedom of movement.
Japan Negative Interest Rate: Abenomics Faces New Challenges As Bank Of Japan Stuns Global Markets
Negative interest rates are the strongest ammunition yet that Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has used to spur economic growth.
US, EU Tax Conflict Looming Over Loopholes For Google, Starbucks, Apple
Fired by public sentiment, the European Commission is preparing fresh measures to stop tax avoidance, drawing hints of retaliation from the United States.
Fed Rate Meeting: Conflicting Central Banks Could Force US Federal Reserve To Rethink Its Strategy
Since it’s the only major central bank hiking rates, the Federal Reserve has to contend with a stronger U.S. dollar. That could slow its efforts to end years of cheap money.
China Stock Market: Shares Might Sink, But Cooler Heads See Nothing Justifying The Global Panic
Stock markets don’t necessarily offer insight into the broader economy, so seasoned hands are urging investors to take a deep breath.
China GDP: IMF Says Emerging Markets Face ‘Great Challenges’ As Outlook Hinges on Beijing’s Ability To Manage Slower Growth
Developing economies like China, Brazil and Russia face their toughest test in the new year to restart sustainable growth.
Stock Plunge: Global Market Rout Shows Mounting Risks To World Economy
China's problems are "a huge adjustment," not a mild correction, one analyst says, and that could have repercussions around the world.
Jakarta Attacks: Add Terrorism To Indonesia’s List Of Challenges In Attracting Foreign Investors
A brutal attack Thursday in Jakarta may not be Indonesia’s most pressing challenge in attracting outside investors.
US-Iran Sanctions Add Layer of Conflict To Relationship
The Obama administration has U.S. states to grapple with as it draws up new sanctions over ballistic missiles and fends off the GOP.
Why Oil Could Fall Toward $20 As Global Glut Amplifies Crude Price Slide Driven By China’s Economy
The slowdown in China’s growth has hit oil prices hard from the demand side, but supply issues could still bring more shocks.
China’s Economic Quandary And How To Fix It: Advice For The Country’s Old Guard
The remedies China needs to stabilize its currency and solidify the basis for strong growth are really trade-offs in disguise.
China’s Stock Market Drop Highlights Consequences Of An Uncertain Currency Policy
The government has worrisome problems with its currency and with its equity markets. Can Beijing convince investors it has them both under control?
China Currency: Continuing Slide Shows Beijing’s Dilemma In Managing Decline
Beijing wants a steadily weaker renminbi, not a sharply weaker one, pitting its desire for stability against powerful financial markets.
China’s Currency Facing A New Set Of Challenges in 2016 After A Rocky Year
Downward pressure on the yuan will continue into 2016, presenting Beijing with fresh challenges in financial management.
As Qualcomm Faces China's Wrath, Tech Foundation Steps Up Critique Of Beijing
Meet Rob Atkinson, the man helping Qualcomm and other U.S. technology companies critique China's policies, via his foundation.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Industry Discord Threatens Quick Approval Of TPP Trade Agreement
Major U.S. industries are unenthusiastic about the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. So Congress seems unlikely to quickly approve it.
Tax Policy Emerges As New Source of Friction As Europe Seeks Additional Revenue From US Multinationals
European lawmakers are focused on untaxed revenues of U.S. companies, including tech giants like Apple and Google, auguring a clash with Washington.
China's Renminbi Is Joining The IMF's Elite Currency Club
The International Monetary Fund on Monday admitted China's renminbi into its basket of currencies -- but whether China will open its capital markets remains to be seen.
Sinosteel’s Debt Troubles Test China’s Willingness To Bail Out Its Dinosaurs
With China’s economy stalled, Beijing is facing tough choices about state-owned behemoths that provide jobs but have less economic impact than private-sector counterparts.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Offers Helping Hand, Companies Give Cash To Support Democrats Backing Trade Pact
The president and major corporations are wooing congressional Democrats, hoping they'll help pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
US Federal Reserve Interest Rate Hike Risks Turmoil In Emerging Markets
If the Federal Reserve botches its rate hike, money will flee emerging markets, endangering companies that borrowed in dollars and curbing economic growth.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trade Pact That Clinton Opposes Protects Infrastructure Bank She Supports
Hillary Clinton opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but the trade pact includes an exemption for a future national infrastructure bank, which she enthusiastically supports.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: US Waters Down Corporate Investor Lawsuit Options In TPP Trade Agreement
The newly released text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership shows the Obama administration will make it harder for companies to sue governments under trade deals.
Transatlantic Trade And Investment Partnership: European Opposition To The TTIP Trade Pact Worries US
Opposition on the continent to the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the U.S. has become a worry for the White House.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: TPP Rewards Apple, Facebook, Google, Others With Unrestricted Flow Of Cross-Border Data
The Trans-Pacific Partnership grants electronic data, for the first time, the same international trade protections material goods have.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: US, Pacific Rim Nations Reach TPP Trade Deal
Officials from the U.S. and Pacific Rim countries clinched a hard-fought free-trade pact that will govern 40 percent of the world’s goods and services.
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Dairy Products Emerge As Latest Sticking Point In TPP Trade Negotiations
After years of negotiation, the 12-nation TPP talks are hung up on disagreements over dairy products.
US Farm Economy: How Globalization Soured Milk Market For American Dairy Farmers
American dairy farmers find there's no hiding from the global free market once you embrace it.
