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...
by Afshin Molavi | Aug 31, 2020 | Global Equities, NewPost, US Policy
What Pandemic? While global economies, most businesses, and entire industries are reeling from the multiple blows delivered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S stock market continues roaring to new heights.The S&P 500, the bellwether index that measures the...
by Afshin Molavi | Jun 30, 2020 | China Equities, Geopolitics, India Economy, NewPost
As Chinese and Indian troops were clashing in the Himalayas on June 16 in a brutal brawl leading to the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers, hundreds of millions of people across India were enjoying or downloading Chinese-based apps like TikTok and WeChat. No longer. In...
by Afshin Molavi | Jun 17, 2020 | Geopolitics, NewPost, South China Sea
While global headlines focus on the recent clash between Indian and Chinese military forces in a Himalayan border region, China has also flexed its muscles recently in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Beginning in mid-April, a Chinese survey ship accompanied...
by Afshin Molavi | May 22, 2020 | NewPost, Videos
I was delighted to join colleagues Raymond Karam (AGSIW), Steffen Hertog (LSE), Eman Al-Hussein (AGSIW), and Tariq Haq (ILO), deftly moderated by Robert Mogielnecki (AGSIW), for a discussion on GCC labor markets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic on May 20. The full...
