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Economists expect the Australian dollar to climb throughout the year.

Petrol prices and interest rate cuts at risk as dollar hits record low

A plummeting Australian dollar could force a rethink of interest rate cuts and increase the cost of essential items, market analysts have warned.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo

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A view of Monterrey in Mexico, a country that emerged as an attractive manufacturing hub for U.S.-focused companies as tariffs on Chinese imports and pandemic shipping costs highlighted overseas risks.

‘Trump hates China more’: Mexicans bet that Trump is bluffing on tariffs

As Donald Trump vows an expanded trade war, Mexican businesses are continuing with factory expansions. They assume Mexico remains central to America’s goal to be less dependent on China.

  • Peter S. Goodman
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Wall Street sees more gains ahead after another bumper year for stocks

Investors are heading into 2025 in an optimistic mood, believing that with the economy on a firm footing and the White House in their corner, the stock market will continue to climb.

  • Joe Rennison
The growing threat of more US tariffs on China pushed the yuan down to a 13-month low on Tuesday.

Chinese companies have sidestepped Trump’s tariffs. They could do it again.

China’s exporters have found plenty of new channels to the US market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.

  • Ana Swanson
Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin all seek radical change to the current world order.

How has the 21st century gone so wrong?

How did we get here, and what are the chances that the next 25 years will be better than the last?

  • Adrian Wooldridge
Elon Musk, Taylor Swift.

How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can resolve US-China relations

While we were sleeping, China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything. Will China bury us? That is not at all inevitable.

  • Thomas L. Friedman
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Wall Street tumbled after the Fed shifted its thinking for 2025.

The Trump shadow hanging over Wall Street’s meltdown

A big change in the Federal Reserve’s thinking triggered a bloodbath on Wall Street that has spread around the world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
President Xi Jinping has struggled this year to jump-start growth

China is already in deep trouble. Trump will make things worse

China is considering a range of ideas to fix its economic mess. It may have to take more radical and painful measures if Donald Trump starts a new trade war.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A Xiaomi SU7 electric vehicle on display in a Shanghai showroom. Almost half of car sales in China are likely to be EVs this year.

China is leaving Europe’s and America’s carmakers in the dust in the EV race

China’s 21st-century auto technology is causing turmoil for the big established US, Japanese and European carmakers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
My tariff is bigger than yours: Financial markets are concerned about a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

China has trade weapons to fight back, and is not afraid to use them

China has targeted Nvidia with an antitrust investigation in an apparent escalation of its response to the latest US attempt to cut off its access to advanced computer chips.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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