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THE BOTTOM LINE

The ‘phoney trade war’ may be ending

The S&P 500 has delivered 16% a year over the past five years and 15% a year over 10 years, much of it driven by Big Tech and easily beating the index’s long-term average return of closer to 9% a year. 
Opinion & Features

This market is nothing like the dotcom bubble

So far in 2025, every major sector from utilities and industrials to healthcare and banks has fared better in the rest of the world than in America. This suggests that if AI does not deliver for the US as anticipated, the country's economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

America is now one big bet on AI

Markets can sometimes be driven by just a handful of companies, creating concentration, shares David Walsh, head of Investments at RQI Investors.
Wealth & Investing
Branded Content

Extreme market concentration: Why index funds and ETFs may not give you the diversified exposure you expect

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
Wealth & Investing
RETHINKING MATTERS

The great sucking sound: Japan’s capital shifts

The Czech National Bank tried to stimulate domestic consumption and inflation by maintaining extremely low interest rates, but long failed to do so.
Opinion & Features

How much influence do central banks really have?

In less than three years, OpenAI's ChatGPT has amassed more than 700 million weekly users, 99% of whom are individual consumers using free and paid versions of the program.
Opinion & Features

AI’s path to profits is being driven by consumers

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, June 20, 2025. US stocks rose on Friday as investors returned from the Juneteenth holiday break to evaluate recent comments from a top Federal Reserve official as well as the latest developments in the conflict between Israel and Iran. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly

China’s central bank has largely held its currency steady against the greenback, spreading pressure to the yuan’s value against currencies such as the euro and the Korean won.
Banking & Finance

China will hike quota for investors buying overseas assets

The signs of caution about Indonesia’s market recovery speak to global uncertainties from US President Donald Trump’s rapidly evolving trade policy.
ASEAN Business

Global funds weigh whether Indonesia market rebound was too fast

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