Stephen Bartholomeusz

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  • Sep 2, 2021
    The debt-riddled underbelly of some of China’s bigger companies perhaps provides another layer of insight into Xi Jinping’s abrupt imposition of a new and aggressive...
  • Aug 12, 2021
    How the world’s second-largest economy and Australia’s major trading partner fares in dealing with the Delta outbreak and the threat to its people, growth and stability...
  • Jun 21, 2021
    Last week China announced plans to release government reserves of some key commodities – including copper, aluminium and zinc (but not iron ore) – to counter...
  • Jun 7, 2021
    Markets and economists are debating the implications of another surge in US inflation to levels last seen a quarter of a century ago but the dilemma confronting investors and...
  • Jan 20, 2021
    Among the many legacies of the Trump era is the distrust and resentment it has sown in the primacy of the US dollar in international trade and the way the US under Trump has been...