Asia Pacific

Banks, brokers and the stock exchange are all launching new gold trading services, as investors turn to it and foreign currency trading as alternatives to volatile stock market trading, according to leading industry players.

Hong Kong stocks are predicted to head lower on Wednesday, the first trading day of the Year of Rooster, as markets return from a four-day holiday to catch up with recent losses for global equities amid concerns over Donald Trump’s tightening of US i

They may sound as though they live at opposite ends of the economics spectrum, but Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are brothers under the rhetorical skin.

China was excluded from the 12-member TPP, which former U.S. president Barack Obama saw as a security alliance to contain Beijing’s regional power ambitions as much as a trade pact.

China is expanding the number of industries it wants to shrink because of excess manufacturing capacity. Until now, drives to cut capacity have focused on coal and steel.

Japan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry is warning that U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies threaten to unravel the entire structure of the global economy.

The formal end of military rule in Myanmar has encouraged massive investment in telecommunications. The equivalent of $3.

Australia has always had to battle isolation at the bottom of the world and has an honourable history of dreaming up clubs of nations that would connect it to other countries. The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum was one such.

The parading of CETA, the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, as a model for what all future free trade deals ought to be is finding no favour in India.

Sun Wei, a sale manager with Ping An Real Estate Co., travels frequently between Beijing and Xishuangbanna in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. Her company sells luxury villas, mostly to buyers who hail from China’s northern provinces.