GIVE NO QUARTER Few will regret the end of the first 2020 quarter. Fears of a U.S.-Iran war gave way to the coronavirus pandemic which JPMorgan reckons will have pushed the world economy into a 12% contraction over January to [...]

KING DOLLAR The dollar juggernaut rolls on. The U.S. currency has rocketed to a near three-year high versus the euro EUR=, a 10-month high against the yen and an 11-year peak versus the Aussie. This month alone it's added 2.5% [...]

CHINA ON SICK LEAVE A leap in coronavirus cases in Hubei gave markets pause - for all of 24 hours. Then attention shifted back to the global case-count and the rally resumed. But while investors are focused on containment, the [...]

COUNTING THE ECONOMIC TOLL The coronavirus continues to claim lives, yet the impact on global demand and companies is just starting to be felt. Recent days have seen an unremitting flow of dire headlines as supply chains from New Zealand [...]

SCHLOCK AND AWE IN CHINA Financial markets have gone swiftly from nonchalance to awe in reacting to the fast-spreading 2019-nCoV or new coronavirus. Global stocks have been shaken in the past week by headlines of cases and deaths, countries telling [...]

OUTBREAK Wuhan in central China is the size of London. But these days, flights to and from the city are canceled, highways are shut and soldiers guard the railway station, as China tries to quarantine the center of a virus [...]