China still battling deflation, moves to defend the yuan; Japanese wages rise; India growth slows; Aussie retail rises; ...

We look at some basic building blocks of our interest rate settings, the foundation on which the 2025 changes will play out ...

Global factory PMIs turn down; global freight rates twisted by tariff reactions; China slips but signals new support; UST ...

Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration's plans to weaken the American central bank's independence ...

Gold gave back less than expected given a strong dollar and profit-taking, as a positive outlook and higher risk constrained ...

Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

Yi Fuxian thinks that China will have to shift its focus from running trade surpluses, to strengthening their middle class ...

For the first time in more than a decade a new registered non-bank financial institution is about to launch, Welcome ...

Ross Stitt reports Australia enters 2025 in 'reasonable economic shape', but facing a world that 2024 shaped with uniquely ...

New Zealand’s current account deficit, now running at $27 bln per annum, is increasingly dominated by interest on historical ...

Roger J Kerr sees the US Fed continuing to change its dot-plots in 2025. He also thinks most local analysts are missing the ...

Australia leads a global rise in services PMIs; China improves; Trudeau resigns; German inflation rises; eyes on China ...