Globalisation is fundamentally political, not technological. This is the lesson from a new book tracing 1000 years of international trade history. Here the authors use lessons from the past to ...

With all the talk going on about the merits of free trade and the U.S.’s free trade agreements, it might be helpful to look at an example from the past. Debates over free trade vs. protectionism are ...

Most traders do not put all the pieces of the puzzle together when learning and using technical analysis. Let's talk about topping and bottoming tails. Simply put, a bottoming tail is a bullish signal ...

A long-delayed meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) ministers scheduled for today was postponed yet again due to the omicron variant of COVID-19. However, the need for a trade policy reckoning ...

This article first appeared on the Riding the Elephant site. Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May has discovered in India during her first bilateral visit outside Europe that she runs into the same ...

When it comes to international trade, the words of Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu seem more apt today than ever: “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” For middle-market companies, these are ...

With the phase one trade deal signed—and with China now promising (somewhat credibly in my view) to raise its imports of agriculture and energy above their pre-trade war levels and (less credibly) ...

As Mexico faces the prospect of a protracted trade struggle with President Trump, China has lessons to offer its fellow Group of 20 member. For the last 2½ years, Beijing has witnessed multiple false ...