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Inside Asia’s Capital Currents
Policy ratesPBOC 7d1.40%LPR 1Y/5Y3.00/3.50%Fed3.50–3.75%ECB2.25%BOE3.75%BOJ1.00%
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Macro

Growth, demographics, and the monetary-policy machinery that frames every Chinese market.

Macro20 Jun 2026
Edward Young

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

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

Macro18 Jun 2026
Edward Young

What Chinese institutional investors see that Western analysts miss

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

Macro16 Jun 2026
Edward Young

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…

Macro21 May 2026
Edward Young

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.