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FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a stock quotation board showing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nikkei share average, Topix average, Japan and U.S 10-year government bond yield outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo

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The great sucking sound: Japan’s capital shifts

Despite the tumultuous backdrop of US trade policy, the first half of 2025 concluded with a surprising level of resilience in the US economy.

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A year less ordinary: Navigating discordant narratives in 2025

American flags on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. Wall Street saw a quiet start to a key Federal Reserve week, with geopolitics coming into play as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his European allies get ready to meet with Donald Trump to a potential peace deal with Russia. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

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Plain sailing and successful investing

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters, as he departs for travel to Pennsylvania from the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S., July 15, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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Trump’s tariffs end Asia’s era of fence-sitting

Hong Kong’s stock market has a total market capitalisation of US$6.3 trillion, entirely dwarfing Singapore’s at merely US$0.5 trillion, a 13-fold difference.

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Hong Kong – Canary in a goldmine

A container port in Jiangsu, China. The country's external dependency is sobering – over the last five years, exports have been critical in offsetting the property sector's collapse and weak consumption.

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Blinkmanship

The Port Of Long Beach, California. A trade war triggered by President Trump’s tariffs alone could result in a US$1 trillion hit to the US economy over the next decade, according to the latest analysis from Yale University’s Budget Lab.

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Liberation Day for USA Ltd

Perhaps there exists now a cautious optimism among working people in the US who have witnessed factory closures, stagnating wages, job losses to China, and soaring corporate profits.

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The new great game

In 2016, US journalists and commentators famously observed that Trump's critics took him literally but not seriously, while his supporters took him seriously but not literally.

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Planet Trump

A sharp – rather than gradual – slowdown in China’s economy in 2025 would pose a significant deflationary shock to both global markets and economic stability.

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The year of trading dangerously

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