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 COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating changes underway since the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008. It is ushering in a new era of deglobalisation and protectionism — a new mercantilist world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

President-elect Donald Trump initiated a gruelling trade war with China in his first term, accusing Beijing of intellectual property theft and other “unfair” trade practices. (EPA Images pic) China’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...