Asia: The World Bank president stated today that there is too much debt in the world, and finger pointing has turned toward China for lending trillions of dollars to other countries. This of course does not factor in that much of its holding debt is issued from mature countries, such as the U.S. In the […]

Asia: The EU has pledged to improve trade relationships with China, as well as improving the climate for foreign investors in the mainland. The signed declaration allowed for broader and non-discriminatory market access to the Chinese economy. Also mentioned was IP rights, which was an issue with the U.S.-China trade deal. Lastly, efforts were made […]

Asia: China wishes to ban bitcoin mining in an attempt to make the world a safer place – at least that is the positioning according to the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission. While hard to take serious at times, the group releases a report every year announcing what industries it wishes to restrict or […]

QUESTION: Dear Martin, you commented very intensively on the ECB destroying bond markets and the failure of monetary policy in Europe. By yesterday the US Fed also declared the end of the shrinking of the balance sheet. Possibly they will start QE4. So I would warmly welcome your comment on the US Fed – throwing […]

Note: Due to technical issues, the delivery of this blog post was abnormally delayed. We apologize for inconvenience. Asia: Denmark’s largest telecom group, TDC, has chosen Ericsson (from Sweden) over existing provider Huawei to roll out its ultra-fast 5G mobile network. This is on the back of recent security concerns regarding China. According to a […]

Asia: A mixed day for the major Asian stock markets; Shanghai led the way after adding 57.13 points (+1.92%, 3027 close), followed by SENSEX (+382.67 points, +1.04%, 37,054 close). Hang Seng and NIKKEI 225 increased 274.88 points (+0.97%, 28,503 close) and 103.16 points (+0.49%, 21,122 close) respectfully. HOSPI and ASX200 took the opposite route, losing […]

Asia: President Trump says he is optimistic that a landmark trade deal with China is near completion, however, reports suggest that Chinese officials do not feel the same. The latest news with Huawei suing the US over a product ban does not help the overall situation. A mixed day for Asian stocks: Shanghai rose 5 […]

Asia: Major global news today regarding the US China trade talks. President Trump tweeted on Sunday that the US and China have made substantial progress with the trade talks, extended trade talks were made during the weekend and the deadline for the tariff increase has subsequently been postponed. However, he did stress that an agreement […]

  Asia: The global markets reacted to the following news of President Trump expectations to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu later in the day to conclude US-China trade talks. Investors were really optimistic about the news, which pushed up most of the major Asian stock markets today. The Nikkei 225 was not to follow […]

  Asia: The markets had a stronger sense of direction today compared to yesterday with the majority of the markets in the green. After Trump’s comments alluding to the 1st of March as being a date which wasn’t necessarily set in stone, the Nikkei 225 rose 60 bps and the Shanghai added 20 bps more. […]