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Wall Street pundits and investors are schizophrenic about US assets. The dollar weakened after Moody’s cut the United States’ credit rating, citing the increasing fiscal deficit, as well as the rising interest costs on government debt.On the other hand, the S&P 500 not only recovered after US President Donald Trump’s April tariff shock, but is now less than 5 per cent off its record high in February. Nevertheless, 30-year US Treasury yields recently exceeded 5 per cent per annum, indicating investors’ nervousness about US deficits and debt sustainability.While Financial Times...

Everyone has been hyping up Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and rightly so. Governments worldwide are betting big on digital currencies, but here’s the reality—most of them have struggled. China’s Digital Yuan isn’t seeing real adoption, Nigeria’s eNaira flopped, and Europe is still debating the Digital Euro. So, does India stand a chance? Absolutely but with some changes. And here’s why—India already cracked the code with UPI.If we apply the same logic and build CBDC into the existing financial ecosystem rather than competing with it to open new avenues where...

The global economy is inexorably moving towards a multicurrency system as China’s persistent efforts to internationalise the yuan and technological changes erode the US dollar’s dominant position, economists said at a conference on Monday.“Trade invoicing in yuan went from zero per cent to 30 per cent in the last 10 years, and half of Chinese capital flows are now in yuan, much higher than before,” said Jin Keyu, a professor at the London School of Economics, at a panel hosted by the Milken Institute, a US-based think tank.“The truth is...