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Edward Young

Shanghai desk · FX & macro flows. 7 reports on Asia Market Wire.

Macro20 Jun 2026

The Hormuz Switch: What the US-Iran Oil Trade Is Actually Pricing

Markets have priced the negotiation as a binary on-off switch.

Money, Risk and Life19 Jun 2026

The Liquidity of Meaning

Risk is a relationship long before it becomes an event..

Macro18 Jun 2026

What Chinese institutional investors see that Western analysts miss

The dollar story looks very different from the other side of it..

Macro16 Jun 2026

How the PBOC runs monetary policy: rates, reserves, and the Loan Prime Rate

The People's Bank of China, or PBOC, manages liquidity and the cost of credit through a small set of interlocking tools: the money supply, the reserve.

Currencies8 Jun 2026

China's cross-border investment channels: QFII, Connect, and the RMB dashboard

Capital moves into and out of China through a defined set of named channels rather than a single open capital account.

Macro21 May 2026

China's GDP and demographics in 2025: the numbers that frame every market

Two long series sit behind every call on Chinese markets: the growth path of the economy and the aging curve of its population.

Currencies17 May 2026

RMB internationalisation: payments, e-CNY, and the cross-border rails

The RMB's progress toward becoming a more widely used international currency runs on two tracks at once: its share of global payments messaging, and t.