Pre-war playbook returns as stock traders favor Asia over US
Investors are reverting to a pre-war playbook of betting Asian stocks will outpace US peers, as confidence builds in the region’s central role in...
Philippines warns agencies not to send seamen to Persian Gulf
The Philippines is telling crewing agencies to stop sending its nationals to the Persian Gulf, according to people familiar with the matter, making it...
Silicon Valley made AI powerful. Tokyo wants to make it work
THERE WAS A TIME when Tokyo felt light years ahead of the world. The flip phone I used in the 2000s was a marvel to every American I showed it to, packed with features far beyond anything on the US market.Â
Bank of Japan seen holding rates in messaging challenge for Ueda
THE Bank of Japan (BoJ) is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged on Tuesday, setting up a communication challenge for BoJ Governor Kazuo...
Pokopia flurry helps Nintendo’s Switch 2 top US sales in March
NINTENDO Co.’s Switch 2 was the best-selling console in the US in March, riding a wave of popularity triggered by the release of surprise...
How Asia should deal with the ‘Malacca Dilemma’
IF THE IRAN WAR has taught us nothing else, it’s that weaponizing shipping routes is now the military move du jour. That’s rightly turned attention to the Taiwan Strait, but in this era of intense US-China rivalry, the Strait of Malacca is just as important.
Has the global expansion weathered too many hits?
AT WHAT POINT will the five-year-old expansion be dealt one punch too many? It may well make it through this latest scrape — and emerge in weaker shape. Top economic officials will earn their pay.
Logic demands an Iran deal. Will Trump’s fantasies allow one?
IN THE LOGICAL WORLD that markets seem to believe will prevail in the Middle East, this war will end — and soon — because there’s little realistic prospect of either side winning a decisive victory by restarting the conflict. The costs of trying, meanwhile, range from punitive to ruinous.
Mark Mobius, emerging markets investing pioneer, dies at 89
MARK MOBIUS, who put emerging markets on investors’ radar with on-the-ground insights over more than four peripatetic decades, has died. He was 89.
He died...
The end of the Petrostate Era won’t bring peace
WITH the Middle East in flames and a fifth of the world’s supplies of oil and gas in limbo thanks to the uncertain status of the Strait of Hormuz, it’s tempting to imagine that a clean-energy world might leave such conflicts behind:
Global fund managers seek reporting crackdown after Philippine flood-control scandal
MONEY MANAGERS led by BNP Paribas Asset Management and Robeco Institutional Asset Management BV are putting pressure on the Philippine government to introduce stricter...
Fuel shortages from Iran war threaten Asia’s biggest food staple
Harvest-ready rice fields are lying idle and farmers are deciding whether to skip planting for the coming season, as spiking fuel and fertilizer costs...