Cooperation between the US and Japan to buttress a flailing yen appears to be tightening to a degree unseen in decades, with the two sides jointly pushing back against moves in the $9.5 trillion-a-day global foreign exchange market.
China’s inflation momentum appeared to stall in June. That’s both good and bad news for the world.
Shoppers walk past a discount clothing store at a market in Dalian, China, on Thursday, June 25, 2026. A growing number of Chinese economists are forecasting the country will keep its policy interest rate unchanged throughout 2026, though an adviser to the central bank said such a move still remains a possibility. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
Ties to the data-center build-out are benefiting the region.
The Samsung Electronics Co. Seocho office building, center, in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, June 29, 2026. South Korean firms including Samsung and SK Hynix will spend at least 1,350 trillion won ($880 billion) on chips and data centers as the country seeks to maintain its edge in the AI era. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
The country’s external sector is booming at the same time domestic demand stalls.
Gantry cranes and shipping containers at the Shekou container terminal in Shenzhen, China, on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. US and Chinese trade negotiators are slated to meet in mid-March, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling a planned summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is pushing ahead despite American strikes against Iran. Source: Bloomberg
The US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz gives central banks more scope to hold rates.
Kevin Warsh, incoming chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a swearing-in ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, May 22, 2026. Warsh, who's promised the biggest shakeup in decades at the US central bank, takes over at a tense moment for the economy and the central bank. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg
Asia was quick to welcome the US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which most of the region’s energy supplies flow. But many warned it’s too early to say if that will offer long-term relief to the world’s most populous and fastest-growing region.
Asia was quick to welcome the US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which most of the region’s energy supplies flow. But many warned it’s too early to say if that will offer long-term relief to the world’s most populous and fastest-growing region.
Asia was quick to welcome the US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, through which most of the region’s energy supplies flow. But many warned it’s too early to say if that will offer long-term relief to the world’s most populous and fastest-growing region.
Bloomberg Economics examines why the ‘China Model’ hasn’t created success on the football pitch.
Lionel Messi, a soccer player for the Inter Miami, during the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. The forum brings together leaders in business, sports, culture, and technology. Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg
The artificial-intelligence capex boom is fueling gains for South Korea and Taiwan and rewiring the region’s growth model.
The Samsung HBM4 Base Die wafer displayed on the exhibition floor at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company is firing up manufacturing of H200 AI accelerators for customers in China, a sign of progress in the chipmaker’s effort to reenter the vital market. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Policymakers in South Korea are grappling with how to manage the AI-fueled chip boom.
Samsung Electronics Co. workers chant slogans during a rally ahead of a strike, scheduled to take place from May 21, outside the company's semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. Samsung’s labor union wants 15% of operating profit be handed to chip-division employees. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
The Iran war is causing price hikes and inflicting damage on a global economy that’s barely recovered from the last inflation spike.
A customer pushes a shopping trolley away from a Tesco Plc supermarket in Chelmsford, UK, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. UK inflation held at an 11-month low before the war in Iran sent petrol costs soaring and threatened to deliver another shock to household finances. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
The windfall earned by Asian chip makers is coursing through the world economy, mirroring on a global scale the circular flow of money within the AI ecosystem.
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