by root | Sep 21, 2020 | Articles, Belt and Road Initiative, China Economy, Geopolitics, Globalization, NewPost, Original Articles
Guest Comment – By Oliver Stelling In September, China’s Foreign Minister embarked on a goodwill tour of Europe. Expectations were high that he would manage to repair strained ties with the bloc. It wasn’t meant to be. His charm offensive fell flat. Wang made...
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 | Apr 24, 2020 | Africa Business, Coronavirus/Covid-19, East Africa, NewPost, North Africa Commerce/Economy, Original Articles
Two recent articles on Sudan, one in the New York Times and the other in Asharq Al-Awsat, highlight the immense challenges faced by the East African country over the next year amid the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the IMF, Sudan faces a 7.2% economic contraction...
by Afshin Molavi | Apr 7, 2020 | China Economy, Globalization, Interviews, NewPost, Original Articles
I recently met Charlie Lay in November of 2019 at the CommerzBank Emerging Markets Macro Conference held in Dubai. Charlie is a Singapore-based senior economist and FX strategist at CommerzBank, one of Germany’s largest banks and its biggest player in trade...
by Afshin Molavi | Apr 1, 2020 | Aviation, NewPost, Original Articles, South Korea
Global airlines continue to stare down the abyss as the novel coronavirus pandemic has crushed bottom lines amid a historic slowdown in air travel. Airlines across the world are clamoring for government support. Korean Airlines is trying a different tactic, opting to...
