Houseplants have long served a purpose beyond greening up interiors. Across many cultural traditions they are symbolic of different life events and are even believed to support luck and good fortune.

China’s financial mandarins have in the past 24 hours seemingly instructed major banks to continue to trim their holdings of US Treasury bonds. The move, flagged here at Bne IntelliNews on February 3, ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how fintech is disrupting the financial industry in Asia. In early February, an important Chinese journal (Qiushi) ...

It looks like John Snow did Andy Card one last favor before stepping aside: late on Friday, the Treasury quietly issued the annual foreign currency report. To no one’s surprise, the report declared ...

Several prominent Chinese economists have called for loosening restrictions on the movement of money in and out of the country, arguing that a weaker dollar provides a historic opportunity to boost ...