China looking like a ‘buy’ as US, Japan markets sag
As global investors dump US and Japanese stocks, China’s beaten-down markets are suddenly looking more attractive.
William Pesek in asian news
Nikkei’s Black Monday 2.0 triggers contagion talk
As the Japanese yen surges, investors are grasping for correlations — past events that provide some perspective on what might be in store for currency markets.
Poker-faced Ueda overplays hand as BOJ enters tightening phase
William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
Forget the Fed and BOJ; PBOC holds the monetary cards
TOKYO – With all the focus on the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan, it’s easy to forget where the most important monetary calls are being made this year: Beijing.
Less transparency, less faith in China stocks
This week is offering quite the split screen to investors hoping China would step up efforts to raise its capital markets game.
Why the ‘Trump trade’ has Asia in a panic
TOKYO — Suffice to say, 2024 hasn’t turned out the way Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida expected.
China cuts key rate amid worst deflation since ’99
Pan Gongsheng isn’t famed for acrobatic skills. But on Monday (July 22), the People’s Bank of China governor embarked on a routine that will test his monetary balance, agility and motor coordination in tantalizing ways.
China’s Third Plenum vagueness misses the moment
At this week’s Third Plenum meeting, President Xi Jinping’s Communist Party sent many of the right signals to skeptical investors worried about the trajectory of Asia’s biggest economy – including pledges to “unswervingly encourage” the private sector.