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Emerging markets suffered a torrid year in 2021. Now, facing a new year with looming higher interest rates, stuttering growth in China, and the lingering Coronavirus pandemic, emerging markets face the future with more questions than answers. Anal...

In May 2021, China started cracking down on crypto mining to protect its power supply and use it for manufacturing. By mid-2021, Bitcoin’s hashrate, which measures the total computational power contributing to the blockchain network, fell mo...

China’s efforts to reduce its climate footprint resulted in a 12% drop in Asian Benchmark iron ore prices on the Dalian Commodity Exchange for 2021. Full-year iron ore futures prices declined for the first time in three years, after prices r...

Asian stock markets showed mixed performance in trading from the last week of the year. With Omicron still looming over many countries, investors were listless. Although the Omicron variant is proving to be less deadly than previous strains, recor...

The US Dollar showed strong gains in Tuesday’s trading on expectations the Fed would raise interest rates in the first quarter of 2022 to counter high inflation. The Dollar index, which measures the greenback against six peer currencies, was...

China’s ruling Communist Party is encouraging the country’s biggest e-commerce company Alibaba to design and manufacture its own computer processor chips. President Xi has recently said that “Self-reliance is the foundation for t...

Japan belatedly joined several major nations in selling oil from its strategic reserves in an attempt to fight rising prices. The unprecedented multi-state release of crude oil has been championed by the Biden administration and has included key O...

Early data showing that the Omicron variant is not as serious as previous strains led to a rush of positive trading on Wall Street this Thursday. The S&P 500 was close to its record high from late November. Buoyed by positive gains from stocks...

The US Dollar flagged to a one-week low against other major currencies as investors shifted toward a more positive outlook for the global economy. Fueled by news that Omicron will not be as serious as previous variants, risk appetite has improved,...

The price of gold bullion rose for the first time since mid-November as investors responded to tightening monetary policy and the threat of Omicron by making safe-haven investments in the commodity. Market analysts had warned that risk aversion wo...

Fears over the growing threat of the COVID-19 Omicron variant have started to creep into stock market performances around the world. After Monday’s trading, the Dow Jones fell by 1.2%, continuing a downward trend that saw it lose 1.5% last w...

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda announced this week that it was too early for the country to start changing its monetary policy to tackle inflation. The world’s third largest economy is set to lag behind other industrialized nations w...

Technology stocks in the US plummeted with news of tighter monetary policies coming into play soon. After the US Fed signaled the likelihood of three interest rate hikes next year, the Bank of England became the latest major central bank to announce...

Officials at the US Federal Reserve have announced a plan to increase the benchmark interest rate to 0.9% in 2022, up from the 0.3% indication from September’s meeting. Analysts say this equates to three rate hikes next year.  In the sa...

Faced with no other choice, the US Federal Reserve is expected to implement stronger measures to tackle inflation.  New Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, takes his seat with high inflation affecting the US economy. Consumer prices in the world’...