Can investors trust Jack Ma?s pledges while the Communist Party of China looms large in the Alibaba boardroom?

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In hypermodern Tokyo the most sought-after items are decidedly primitive: candles, flashlights, duct tape.

Let?s toss aside alphabet-soup groupings parading as insights and missing the bigger picture about emerging markets

If anyone could use a few days in the Sydney summer sun, it?s Jean-Claude Trichet.

Window ledges are becoming crowded places around Asia these days as investors panic over stocks.

Add Benjamin Franklin?s wink to the US dollar?s list of humiliations. The 18th-century American statesman is perhaps best-known in Asia…

Twenty-four hours after returning from Pyongyang, Bill Clinton was in a sparse room in Langley, Virginia. The sign on the…

Investors who steer clear of Japanese debt do so at their own peril. So say bond aficionados such as Tomoya…

People don’t tend to make lots of money betting against George Soros. The hedge-fund manager has made billions speculating on…

Green shoots could be great news for black gold. That is how some traders are reading signs that global growth…

India’s stock market almost lost control this week, and it was a great thing for the nation. So intense was…

Steve Keen takes a deep breath each time he checks his e-mail account. Such is the life of an economist…

Until September, Reddy was India?s central bank governor. When I bumped into him in a Kuala Lumpur hotel lobby the…

That?s how Warren Buffett explained his lack of interest in the second-biggest economy to students at the University of Florida.…

Investors in China and India might be excused for feeling a bit of whiplash these days. Three months ago, Asia?s…