by Afshin Molavi | Jan 17, 2021 | China Equities, Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, NewPost
The EM 5 – The 5 Stories You Need to Read Today on Emerging Markets 1. Alibaba’s “Existential Crisis” (BABA) “This year could be the most consequential for Alibaba since it was founded two decades ago. China’s most famous tech...
by Afshin Molavi | Jan 7, 2021 | China Economy, China Equities, Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, NewPost
From Shenzhen Daily “ZHONG SHANSHAN is a private billionaire who’s rarely quoted in the press. Now, after an improbable career spanning journalism, mushroom farming and health care, he’s become Asia’s richest person, eclipsing India’s Mukesh Ambani and a group...
by Afshin Molavi | Oct 25, 2020 | Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, NewPost, Original Articles
By Afshin Molavi At the nexus of geopolitics and markets in the emerging world Our lead story this week is China’e economy: Is the recovery real, and what does it mean for the global economy? We also look at protests rocking Nigeria, the #MilkTeaAlliance between...
by Afshin Molavi | Oct 25, 2020 | Articles, Emerging Market Multinationals, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, FiveG (5G), NewPost, South Korea, Telecoms
By Afshin Molavi “Change everything, except your wife and children.” Those words by Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee, uttered in 1993 at a low point in the company’s history, have become enshrined in the lore of the South Korean conglomerate that has...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 2, 2020 | China Economy, China Equities, Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, NewPost, Original Articles
Is it time to buy Alibaba? That’s the question posed by the popular investment newsletter, the Motley Fool, published in Yahoo Finance. The author of the piece, Anders Bylund, notes that the NYSE-listed Chinese e-commerce giant “is on a roll” and...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 1, 2020 | China Economy, Emerging Market Multinationals, Emerging Markets, Globalization, NewPost, Original Articles
The Fortune magazine Global 500 annual list of the world’s largest companies by revenue has always been a high-profile, headline-grabbing snapshot of global business. This year, however, it’s also a snapshot of our emerging geo-economic order. For the...