Neither of the two decisions announced by the Bank of Japan’s policy board on Tuesday were a surprise. The BoJ held the policy rate at 0.5 per cent, and announced that the quantitative easing taper ...

In a separate report on the outlook to 2030, the IEA forecast that oil supply would continue to outstrip demand over the next five years. Global oil demand is expected to increase by 2.5mn b/d between ...

Stephen Roach’s op-ed “My views on the future of Hong Kong have evolved” ( June 13) contains a typo, I believe. It should read: “My views on the future of Hong Kong were wrong.” ...

In life sciences — a globally competitive, high-growth sector — UK pension funds have yet to commit meaningful capital. Foreign investors back our most promising ventures, only for scale-ups, jobs, ...

From Linus Siming, Vice Dean for Research and Professor of Financial Markets & Institutions, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy ...

Janan Ganesh in his piece on the scapegoating of Joe Biden for the loss of the 2024 presidential election (“Biden is a scapegoat for the Democrats”, Opinion, June 5) bemoans the choice of Democratic ...

The Japanese central bank’s decision to slow the pace at which it cuts its monthly bond purchases came as its policy committee concluded a two-day meeting on Tuesday with a unanimous vote to hold ...

Rachel Reeves last week talked of turbocharging the economy when presenting the Spring Statement to MPs. Given her cabinet colleague Ed Miliband’s preoccupation with achieving net zero, perhaps the ...

Stephen Roach is the former Asia chair of Morgan Stanley, not the current chair as wrongly stated in an article on June 14 ...

Iran produces about 3.3mn barrels of oil a day, or about 3 per cent of the global total, not around 1.7mn as wrongly stated in an article on June 14. In the same article the surname of the late German ...

Geopolitical risks and worries about status of the greenback likely to drive further demand for bullion, survey shows ...

It has been a year since the Labour party swept to victory promising stability, competence and renewal in the face of a grim ...