The US tightened its grip on the title of world’s biggest economy in 2024 as an irrepressible American consumer helped it pull away from China for a third straight year — at least by one measure.

Beijing contends with a weakening yuan while awaiting policy clues from the incoming Donald Trump’s administration.

Donald Trump's rapid move to ban a "digital dollar" has left the field wide open, observers say, for China and Europe to make their already-advanced central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototypes into global standard-setters.

Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick explains why the impact of DeepSeek on the AI industry could be good for the Bitcoin price.

The Chinese currency jumped against the US dollar as trade war worries receded, but some fear the gains may be ‘short-lived’.

The Lunar New Year holiday, China’s most important festival, begins today and runs until Tuesday next week. Millions of Chinese leave the cities to travel back home for a rare break with family during the holidays, which tend to distort economic data early in the year.

Donald Trump's rapid move to ban a "digital dollar" has left the field wide open, observers say, for China and Europe to make their already-advanced central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototypes into global standard-setters.

Starting in the early 2000s, Taiwan started to run large current account surpluses of 5- 7 per cent of GDP. That’s big. At the time it was only really dwarfed by China. And while China’s surplus fell after the global financial crisis, Taiwan’s surplus actually expanded. It reached double-digits in 2014, and has generally kept climbing ever since.

Joyce Chang, Chair of Global Research at JP Morgan, discusses inflation, tariffs, and Federal Reserve policy. She expects inflation to remain high in the first half of the year and notes that proposed tariffs on China,

S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESH25) are up +0.46%, andMarch Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQH25) are up +0.73% this morning as solid earnings from Apple and Intel buoyed sentiment, while investors geared up for the release of the Federal Reserve’s first-line inflation gauge.

The Federal Reserve's favorite inflation gauge is due out this morning. Follow along for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.