13 h. ago French President urges more Chinese investment and balanced trade

French President urges more Chinese investment and balanced trade  Investment Monitor

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26 h. ago Macron urges Xi to Boost Cooperation, Trade Balance During Beijing Visit

Macron urges Xi to Boost Cooperation, Trade Balance During Beijing Visit  politicstoday.org

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8 d. ago Price wars and tariffs: China’s industrial profits snap winning streak

China’s industrial profits dropped in October after a strong September, according to official year-on-year data released on Thursday, and analysts are pointing to domestic competition and trade tensions weighing on corporate balance sheets. Profits fell 5.5 per cent from a year ago, reversing a 21.6 per cent surge in September and a 20.4 per cent jump in August, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics. For the January-October period, profits earned by Chinese companies of a...

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1 week ago Can Manila as Asean chair deliver progress on Myanmar and South China Sea code?

As the Philippines prepares to take over the rotating Asean chairmanship next year, Manila faces the daunting task of managing a protracted civil war in Myanmar while pushing for progress on a long-delayed code of conduct (COC) in the South China Sea. Analysts say Manila must navigate an Asean agenda crowded with difficult trade-offs, balancing the crisis in Myanmar where progress is expected to remain incremental with a COC process facing a 2026 deadline, even as internal divisions within the...

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1 week ago How Philippines might navigate Asean’s divisions as it prepares to lead bloc

As the Philippines prepares to take over the rotating Asean chairmanship next year, Manila faces the daunting task of managing a protracted civil war in Myanmar while pushing for progress on a long-delayed code of conduct (COC) in the South China Sea. Analysts say Manila must navigate an Asean agenda crowded with difficult trade-offs, balancing the crisis in Myanmar where progress is expected to remain incremental with a COC process facing a 2026 deadline, even as internal divisions within the...

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1 week ago Trump can’t have it all: low prices, booming stocks, balanced trade

Earlier this month, the US Democrats, whom many had written off, swept the local and state elections. From Zohran Mandani becoming New York mayor and Abigail Spanberger becoming Virginia governor to two statewide wins in Georgia’s public service commissioner races, the Democrats had a good run. The winning message was, ironically, what lost them the last presidential election: affordability. President Donald Trump has since sounded the alarm that Republicans must reclaim the issue of...

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1 week ago Venezuela? Trump’s real aim could be laying claim to the western hemisphere

On November 16, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s most advanced aircraft carrier, sailed into the Caribbean to join Operation Southern Spear – the largest US military deployment in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Donald Trump is, however, a very different president from John F. Kennedy. Whereas Kennedy endorsed the burden of American exceptionalism to “assure the survival and the success of liberty” at “any price” or “hardship”, Trump promises to prioritise “America...

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2 w. ago ‘Too early to leave the party’: fund managers say AI stock boom still has room to run

The ambitious spending plans of artificial intelligence developers coupled with rapid user adoption indicate the global rally in their stocks will persist despite bubble concerns, fund managers at Fidelity International and Allianz Global Investors said. The recent downturn in global semiconductor stocks, ahead of Nvidia’s closely watched earnings later this week, was likely to be temporary, according to Joseph Zhang, portfolio manager at Fidelity International. Unless AI capital spending or...

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2 w. ago China Snaps Up U.S. Soybeans After Pledge to Trump, but at High Price, Traders Say

China Snaps Up U.S. Soybeans After Pledge to Trump, but at High Price, Traders Say  Successful Farming

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2 w. ago Exclusive: China snaps up US soybeans after pledge to Trump, but at high price, traders say

Exclusive: China snaps up US soybeans after pledge to Trump, but at high price, traders say  Reuters

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3 w. ago Trump tariffs live updates: Trump, Bessent at possible moves to ease prices on coffee, bananas

Trump tariffs live updates: Trump, Bessent at possible moves to ease prices on coffee, bananas  Yahoo Finance

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3 w. ago Dollar carry trade defies ‘Sell America’ woes, trounces world’s stocks

The dollar is regaining its crown as one of the world’s most appealing assets, defying talk of a “Sell America” trade that had raised troubling questions about the outlook for the global reserve currency. A simple strategy of borrowing in low-yielding currencies like the Japanese yen or the Swiss franc and putting your money in dollars looks set to beat the implied returns on markets such as European stocks and Chinese government bonds once the volatility of these assets is taken into account,...

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