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You may ask: - Is this a good time to buy gold? - Or, is this a good time to sell gold? - How do I assess the gold market today? For a start, I believe we must understand the relationship between demand, supply and prices of gold. They are interrelated. For instance, high demand and low supply of gold...

If there’s one myth - and there are many - that we should invalidate in the cross-over world of politics and economics,it‘s that central banks have saved us from a financial crisis. It’s a carefully construed myth, but it’s as false as can be. Our central banks have caused our financial crises, not saved us from them. It really should -but doesn’t...

In the developing world, a new payment model is emerging. On a recent trip to Shenzhen, in southern China, I came across a subway busker with two tip jars. The first was a cardboard box filled with coins and bills; the second was a small QR code taped to the box that allowed passersby to leave a tip by smartphone...

SHANGHAI (July 7) Virtual currencies like bitcoin are assets but bitcoin in itself does not have the fundamental attributes needed to be a currency that could meet modern economic development needs, a Chinese central bank adviser said. Sheng Songcheng, adviser to the People's Bank of China (PBOC), made the comments in an interview with financial magazine Yicai published late Thursday...

China struck deal after deal to acquire companies abroad over the last few years. Now the bill is coming due. The nation’s top corporate dealmakers, including HNA Group Co. and Fosun International Ltd., must pay off the equivalent of at least $11.5 billion in bonds and loans by the end of 2018 -- a feat now complicated by government efforts...

Nonperforming loans at Thailand’s banks are set to peak toward the end of 2017, according to Fitch Ratings, an outlook that may salve investor sentiment in one of Asia’s worst-performing stock markets this year. Thai economic growth is subdued but relatively stable at about 3 percent, signaling a slower expansion in bad loans in the months ahead and an eventual...

It took just three weeks for Ding Lieming to quintuple his net worth and become a freshly-minted billionaire. Six months later, almost half his fortune was gone. A tale of bold bets gone bad? Nope, just business as usual in the Chinese stock market. The wild ride for Ding, chairman of Hangzhou-based Betta Pharmaceuticals Co., illustrates the latest upheaval surrounding...

(June 16): Kim Dae-jung, the former president of South Korea, once told me a story that perfectly captures the spirit of reform that followed the 1997 Asian financial crisis. He was on an official trip to Vietnam when a panicked visitor from Seoul sought an audience. It was Kim Woo-choong, the flamboyant founder of Daewoo Group, then Korea's second-largest business...

China’s workers may be starting to feel like they’re getting a raw deal. Amid soaring industrial profits, employees in the world’s second-largest economy saw slower wage growth last year -- and many are seeing the smallest raises since 1997. That’s another sign that the years of pay gains above ten percent and burgeoning spending power are coming to a close...

Two weeks ago, a key China-linked concern that made headlines back in 2013 and 2014 reemerged after an extensive analysis by Reuters reporter Engen Tham found that China's "ghost collateral" problem, or collateral that was either rehypothecated between two or more loans, or simply did not exist, had not only not gone away but was still as prevalent as ever if not...