People invest in stock markets because they have historically gone up. The long-term return from the stock market is a little over 5%, higher than that of bonds or cash. To what extent has ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has thrown users of Middle Eastern oil for a loop. Relying on a single region for a critical commodity, as is more or less inevitable when it comes to fossil fuels, ...

Deglobalisation, reglobalisation, slowbalisation, fracturing, fragmentation, regionalisation. Whatever one chooses to call the current macroeconomic environment, everyone seems to agree that the ...

Huawei Technologies warns that it will see "serious challenges" in 2022, amidst an uncertain business environment, "politicisation of technology", and further "deglobalisation". It also reveals plans ...

The quarter-century leading up to the financial crisis saw a remarkable leap in globalisation. In particular, cross-border financial flows grew rapidly. Western investors piled into China and the ...

FOR more than two decades after the early 1980s, it seemed as if the financial markets were moving in only one direction. More and more money was flowing across borders; capital markets were becoming ...

It seems like barely a week goes by without some consolidation in private markets, and we’ve got two such deals to report this morning, involving AXA Investment Managers agreeing to acquire a GP-led ...

Affiliate, Professor of Economics at University Of Bonn, Theme Leader for Globalisation and Global Crises, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE); Professor of Economics at ...

Recent geopolitical events have kickstarted a shift toward more self-sufficiency. Headlines about the end of globalisation are making the rounds. But is deglobalisation really the answer to current ...

The coronavirus and the way of trying to control its effects, including the way of thinking about it, is bringing the world to a standstill (barring conflicts such as Syria and its refugees, Libya, ...