Exploring the relationship between emerging markets and the dollar

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

The dots appear to contradict one another, puzzling observers. How to connect them? Inflation over the last five years has been double the Federal Reserve’s target. Why then, does it cut its key lendi

Andrew Van Sickle: After more than a decade of poor performance, emerging markets (EMs) have staged a comeback this year. The benchmark MSCI EM index has gained more than 20% in US dollar terms. What

Age brings wisdom – or at least experience. MoneyWeek is approaching its 25th birthday (the first edition appeared on 3 November 2000), and is therefore in a better position than many publications to

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

China’s stockmarket is booming, but renewed animal spirits are not yet helping the wider economy, says Lee Ying Shan for CNBC. More than $3trn in market capitalisation has been added across mainland a