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

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

A bond bubble is developing in Chinese financial markets and regulators are scrambling to contain it and defuse the ...

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 ...

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