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SET posts weekly gain despite global trade tensions
Business, Published on 25/08/2018
» Recap: Two days of low-level talks failed to yield any progress in the US-China trade standoff, with new tit-for-tat tariffs creating further friction. Market sentiment was also pressured by the release of Fed meeting minutes pointing to another US interest-rate increase next month.
If America walks away from Ukraine, what will Europe do?
Published on 24/04/2025
» BERLIN — European allies of the United States have been trying to convince President Donald Trump of the virtues of a shared approach toward ending the war in Ukraine, to enhance leverage on both Russia and Ukraine and to preserve European security.
US-China trade optimism buoys regional bourses
Business, Published on 12/10/2019
» Recap: Investor risk appetite revived yesterday in response to progress in US-China trade talks, with big gains across Southeast Asian bourses. Meanwhile, China's securities regulator has set a timetable to remove foreign ownership limits on finance companies next year in a bid to attract overseas investment to bolster a slowing economy.
So little time, so much to do
News, Kornchanok Raksaseri, Published on 28/10/2019
» When Thailand assumed Asean's chairmanship earlier in the year, the kingdom had high hopes for the bloc, because this year, the helm of the region returns to its very birthplace -- the place where 52 years ago, the Asean Declaration, also known as the Bangkok Declaration, was signed.
Baht, jobless surge spells tough times
News, Published on 11/12/2019
» Media reports and analyses from various news agencies are in agreement about the Thai economy. And it is not at all good news.
Let England shake
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 02/12/2018
» "And especially, from every shire's end of England/ The holy blissful martyr for to seek/ That them had helpened when that they were weak." So begins Merrie Land, the second LP by The Good, The Bad & The Queen, a supergroup made up of Blur frontman Damon Albarn, guitarist Simon Tong from The Verve, bassist Paul Simonon from The Clash and Nigerian drummer Tony Allen. Titled Introduction, the album's brief opener is based on an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales -- the perfect premise for a record concerned with the uncertain future of a post-Brexit UK.
Fed, US shutdown threat spoil holiday mood
Business, Published on 22/12/2018
» Recap: World stocks extended a steep sell-off yesterday as the threat of a US government shutdown and further increases in US borrowing costs compounded investor anxiety over the trajectory of global economic growth.
Prospect of Trump-Xi trade talks revives stocks
Business, Published on 03/11/2018
» Recap: Global stock markets rebounded strongly yesterday after US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke by phone and reported progress in resolving trade tensions. The pair plan to talk at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires on Nov 30.
Investors fret over US Treasury yields, trade talks
Business, Published on 30/03/2019
» Recap: Global stock markets continued to experience volatility as US Treasury yields edged lower, igniting concerns about a recession as signalled by an inverted yield curve. Given the weakening global growth outlook, investors are hoping for a positive US-China trade deal soon.
Illiberal politicians and other threats to democracy
Oped, Published on 22/02/2022
» The emergence of illiberal politicians across the West has led to prophecies about the end of democracy. In the United States, Donald Trump is manoeuvring to return to the White House in 2025, after attempting to overturn an election that he lost in 2020. In France, not one but two far-right populists are running for president. And in Italy, Matteo Salvini of the League and Giorgia Meloni of the post-fascist Brothers of Italy will be plausible contenders for the premiership when Italians go to the polls in 2023.