HSBC Bet the Bank on China, Now It’s Paying the Price
The UK’s biggest bank is exposed to Evergrande and the Chinese real estate market. It’s also trapped in the middle of an escalating economic war between the world’s two superpowers.
Read more...The UK’s biggest bank is exposed to Evergrande and the Chinese real estate market. It’s also trapped in the middle of an escalating economic war between the world’s two superpowers.
Read more...AMLO’s proposal: to build an alliance of states within Latin American and the Caribbean, and then pursue economic integration with the United States and Canada.
Read more...In retaliation, the energy companies have even threatened to shut down nuclear plants, which would decimate Spain’s energy supplies.
Read more...As the UK government prepares to pass its Fire Safety Act, concerns are growing that it could leave even more apartment owners in limbo.
Read more...Global travel is still far from returning to anything like the conditions that existed prior to the pandemic — at least for non-essential travellers.
Read more...The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.
Read more...Latin America helped transform Spanish firms into global ones. But conditions are changing and some are getting cold feet.
Read more...This is good news for Mexico’s long-beleaguered state-owned oil company, Pemex, but not such good news for the US’ refinery industry.
Read more...Just as importantly, why is the regulator laying off 20% of its workforce in the midst of a global pandemic?
Read more...It’s the first time a high court of a European Member State has challenged the use of vaccine passports domestically.
Read more...Operating on the maxim of “never let a good crisis go to waste”, the government is exploiting the pandemic to embed even more private interests across the system.
Read more...Politically, economically and geopolitically, the sands are shifting in Latin America — and not in Washington’s favor!
Read more...It turns out that a massive increase in cross-border travel — particularly by air — is a great way of spreading an airborne virus.
Read more...One of the rare economic success stories of the past year. But there are also downsides and dark sides to the remittances story.
Read more...Vaccine certificates were ostensibly rolled out to help facilitate cross-border travel as vaccination numbers increased. But thanks to vaccine geopolitics, the opposite is happening
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