Europe’s capital markets union trust problem
What will it take to make progress? The European Union is founded on four freedoms: the free movement of people,…
Rates Spark: Fed and ECB in a good place
The Fed moves to using T-bill buying more actively as a means to managing reserves The Federal Reserve now plans…
Asia-Pacific leaders call for shared trade benefits as APEC summit wraps up
Facing deepening fractures in the global trade order, Asia-Pacific leaders adopted a joint declaration that emphasized the need for resilience…
China needs 4.17% annual GDP growth to meet 2035 goal, publication shows
China is confident it will achieve an annual average growth rate of 4.17% over the next decade, the level needed…
China’s Xi pushes for global AI body at APEC in counter to US
Chinese President Xi Jinping took centrestage at a meeting of APEC leaders on Saturday to push a proposal for a…
Asia’s factories stumble as US tariffs hit order books
Asia’s big manufacturing hubs struggled to fire up in October, business surveys showed on Monday, as weak U.S. demand and…
BP Indonesia operator imports base fuel from Pertamina, restocks after shortage, company says
BP’s fuel station operator in Indonesia said on Friday that it has imported base fuel via a unit of Indonesia’s…
Brazil expands LNG import infrastructure: IEA
Companies operating in Brazil have expanded the country’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification infrastructure since 2020, more than doubling its…
Russia’s January-October LNG exports down 3.4%, jump 21% in October, data show
Russia’s exports of liquefied natural gas in January-October fell by 3.4% from a year earlier to 25.2 million metric tons…
EU sanctions on CNPC units may not hit flows, but warn China on Russian crude
The EU’s latest sanctions on a trading subsidiary and a refinery of China National Petroleum Corp. are not expected to…