GENEVA — The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated structural trends and triggered fiscal and monetary policies on an unprecedented scale. As a result, the low interest rate, low-growth and low inflation environment will persist. Investors need to (...)
GENEVA — The public health battle against COVID-19 may be in its early phases. More than two months after lockdowns began across Europe, it is clear that there will be no return to the full normality that we knew. Last week, the World Health (...)
GENEVA — The deepest recessionary shock in at least 80 years has disrupted nearly every aspect of our lives and triggered an unprecedented response from policy makers. Like doctors ventilating a severe COVID-19 patient, investors are asking whether (...)
The COVID-19 pandemic has tested health systems and shut economies, damaging industries and creating widespread hardships. The European Union's nation states, unequally impacted by the crisis, have struggled to unite around a common response, (...)
Chinese inventors created the first paper and printing presses, gunpowder and the compass. Each invention found its way to Europe along the trade routes that paved the way for many of the Western world's historic evolutions.
As the rest of the world (...)
GENEVA — As governments begin to reflect on strategies for letting half of the world's population leave their homes, attention is shifting to the job of rebuilding economies, and which social trends will accelerate because of the pandemic.
As the (...)
