by Richard Harris | Dec 17, 2015 | Writer
The markets are stressing about the fall in the oil price – who would have expected Brent at $37 even a year ago? But they are totally missing the most important commodity of all, and whose price has collapsed spectacularly. The price of money has been almost...
by Richard Harris | Dec 2, 2015 | Writer
Relationship between growth and interest rates breaks down once rates fall below 2 per cent, and policymakers don’t have the cure published in South China Morning Post. Flatlining vital signs are not good, download Doctors carry out triage on patients by checking the...
by Richard Harris | Nov 27, 2015 | Writer
From the ‘Belt and Road’, to TPP, AIIB, and numerous others – an alphabet soup of geopolitical initiatives have kept Asian leaders busy travelling. The geopolitical initiative is having more comebacks than Frank Sinatra. First up is “the Belt and Road” – of which...
by Richard Harris | Nov 13, 2015 | Writer
Round-the-clock trading on a few big exchanges is inevitable – and Hong Kong could be a hub. in the SCMP : Markets that never sleep, download. The last month saw a surge of buying on our stock markets. The Shanghai Composite Index is creeping towards what the market...