Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on July 30 directed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to build intraparty consensus on cutting the consumption tax on food and beverages fr......
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi crossed a painful political threshold in mid-July 2026, when a Mainichi Shimbun survey recorded public disapproval exceeding approval for the ......
Taiwan's economy is running hot while inflation stays remarkably subdued. In the short term, that looks like welcome news. But beneath the surface, the risks are real — and growing......
Taiwan's export machine is breaking records, and its stock market has surged more than 60% since January. But a wave of blockbuster U.S. tech listings — led by SpaceX's $2.1 trilli......
Kevin Warsh chairs his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week under conditions that would test any central banker — and that will test him in ways his predecessor ne......
Kevin Warsh was confirmed as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve by a 54-45 Senate vote — one of the narrowest margins in recent memory — setting the stage for a sweeping overhau......
Taiwan just delivered one of its most remarkable economic performances in nearly four decades. Official data released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistic......
Standard & Poor's has kept Taiwan's long-term sovereign credit rating at AA+ with a stable outlook, concluding that the island's economic fundamentals are resilient enough to weath......
On the afternoon of April 30, Japan's financial markets faced three major shocks simultaneously: long-term interest rates surged above 2.5% for the first time in 27 years, the doll......
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on the 21st an indefinite extension of a ceasefire with Iran, moving beyond the original 14-day window and pledging to maintain it until negot......
The Bank of Japan(BOJ) kept its policy rate on hold at 0.75% on April 28 — but the vote was anything but unanimous. Three board members broke ranks to demand an immediate hike, mar......
Taiwan's state-owned oil company CPC Corporation announced this week that fuel prices will remain frozen for the fourth consecutive week. The decision was unsurprising. But unsurpr......
This article uses the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War and the 2026 U.S.-Iran conflict as parallel cases to explain two distinct mechanisms behind oil price increases. The former involved a......
Less than two hours before his own ultimatum expired, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a two-week pause on military strikes against Iran — adding yet another "TACO" moment to ......
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon issued a wide-ranging assessment of the global economy in his 2025 annual letter to shareholders, warning that geopolitical conflicts, technological ......
President Donald Trump has long treated politics as a highly publicized performance characterized by blunt declarative sentences and consistently raised stakes. He recently extende......
Gold has lost nearly $1,000 per ounce since military strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran pushed prices above $5,000. As of March 24, the precious metal was trading arou......
Gold prices, which had continued their 2025 rally into early 2026 and surged nearly 30% within a single month, subsequently entered a corrective phase and plunged sharply following......
Four weeks into the Middle East conflict, the Strait of Hormuz remains only partially accessible — and the consequences are extending far beyond oil markets. Analysts warn that dis......
Two weeks into the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran, the strategic picture is becoming clearer — and considerably less favorable to Washington than early declarations of......
The U.S.-Iran war has resurrected economic forces many assumed were relics of the past, proving that globalization, energy vulnerability, and the looming threat of inflation never ......
Global bond markets are offering their most attractive yields in a decade, but financial experts warn that the era of passive bond investing is drawing to a close. With yields hold......
Oil prices surged by more than 10% during Asian trading hours on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, after a joint United States–Israeli military operation killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatoll......
In a rare, year-long internal review released on 12 February, the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) concluded that its long-standing “multi-indicator” framework remain......
Following a landslide election victory for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party, markets are bracing for a shift toward expansionary fiscal policy focu......
Eric Maskin, the 2007 Nobel laureate in economics, believes that U.S. President Trump's first year in office has disrupted the global trade order.In an exclusive interview with Sto......
