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

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

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

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

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

Commodity prices show weakness; China extends support, promises more; US still worried about inflation; heat & bushfires ...

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

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

Adam Nelson and May Butoy urge the US and its regional allies to focus on helping Philippine policymakers address five key ...

The global economy is very large. The New Zealand economy is very small. This is one way to view our relative place in the economic world ...

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