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WASHINGTON (April 13): President Donald Trump said he won’t brand China a currency manipulator, retreating from core campaign promise, though he argued that a strong dollar is hampering the ability of American firms to compete.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (March 20): Higher labor costs and stricter regulations keep nudging Eric Li’s glass factory in southeast China toward insolvency, even though his lampshades are on the shelves at Home Depot. President Donald Trump’s threatened tar

MANILA (March 14): Efforts to salvage a blockbuster Pacific trade deal are struggling against waning enthusiasm from participants such as Malaysia, lowering expectations for a meeting of officials this week in Chile.

SINGAPORE (March 7): Since his entry into the Oval Office, Donald Trump seems to have cooled quite a bit in comparison to the feisty promises and threats he made during the US presidential campaign and his first month in office.

SINGAPORE (March 1): State Street Global Exchange’s Global Investor Confidence Index (Global ICI) reported a fall in sentiment to 92.9 points, down 1.6 points from Jan 2017’s revised reading of 94.5.

SINGAPORE (Feb 22): Global equities, risk assets and bond yields are on the brink of seeing myriad changes depending on the geopolitical events and policies to come – according to Mark Burgess, chief investment officer (CIO) EMEA and global head of equi

BANGKOK (Feb 20): As the most sensitive emerging Asian currency, South Korea’s won provides the best proxy for investors looking to bet on how the region reacts to US President Donald Trump.

HONG KONG (Feb 16): China remains the biggest manufacturer on the planet, but most of what it makes stays at home and the vast majority of what it consumes is made there, too.

HONG KONG (Feb 15): Everything old is new again when it comes to trade deals.

DALLAS (Jan 31): As new US travel rules plunged several large American airports into chaos, lawyers for some travelers who are long-term legal residents said the government had urged them to relinquish their status as a requirement for reentering the coun