China is ending its annual Congress with questions open over how to revive its slowing economy
BEIJING (AP) — China wrapped up its biggest political event of the year on Tuesday leaving one question unanswered: How far will it go to try to revive economic growth in 2025? A recurring theme throughout the weeklong meeting of the nearly 3,000-member National People’s Congress was the need to boost investment and consumer spending. […]
How Entrepreneurship Exists Outside of the West, and How to Adapt
Despite missteps, Japan remains one of Airbnb’s most successful Asian markets. getty “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” Of course, the famous opening line of L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go-Between has a different context in that it focuses on the contrast between the past and the present, but the […]
How to ‘tariff-hedge’ your European portfolio, according to TS Lombard
As Europe faces the prospect of tariffs on its exports to the United States, TS Lombard has advised investors in the region on how to “tariff-hedge” their portfolios. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump warned ahead of his election win that he would introduce a blanket tariff of up to 20% on all imports . This week […]