Protectionism

China's central bank is confident and capable of keeping the yuan basically stable at reasonable and balanced levels after it weakened past the key 7 per dollar level on Monday morning. The level was last breached during the global financial crisis in 2008. …

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's central bank is confident and capable of keeping the yuan basically stable at reasonable and balanced levels after it weakened past the key 7 per dollar level on Monday morning. The level was last breached during the global finan…

Editor: You rightly criticize both Democrats and Republicans increasingly tight embrace of protectionism (A bipartisan retreat on trade, August 2). Donald Trump, of course, is a protectionist of the most cartoonish sort. Unfortunately, the pronouncements of…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has criticised China for what he described as predatory trade practices and human rights abuses that harm economic development. Serving up a sharp rebuke on China's drive into Southeast Asia, Pompeo said on Friday: "We're no…

The new president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is assembling her cabinet, which will be presented and subjected to hearings by the European Parliament in autumn. Yet when it comes to the priorities of her Commission, she has already laid …

Prime Minister Boris Johnson Brexit will challenge Prime Minister Boris Johnsons character beyond measure and President Donald Trumps ability to accommodate new order in Europe. The tasks for Britain fall into two buckets. Minimizing the short-term costs of…

Hitesh Jain Sluggish economic growth and lower inflationary expectations have yet again compelled central banks to contemplate at another monetary easing in the form of rate cuts and asset purchases. Absurdly low interest rates (read negative bond yields) r…

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar has cancelled his upcoming visit to Brazil for the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meet amid the uproar over US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate on Kashmir and the possibility that pending bills in the Rajya…

(Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images) I have come to believe that nothing engages fragile masculinity quite like veggie burgers. There’s something about performative maleness that requires the public perception of a willingness to eat flesh. Men must be “hunter…

BENGALURU: The employee cost of fresh campus recruits in the United States is about the same as IT professionals sent on work visas from India, Wipro said. They are also faster to deploy and require shorter training time than tech workers from India, said th…