The Chinese leader’s campaign is partly aimed at addressing rising costs of education, healthcare and housing—and if successful could strengthen his expected bid to seek a third term.

A limited supply of qualified workers poses a challenge as facilities are built around the world to bolster the supply of semiconductors.

In the first seven months of 2021, cargo volumes between Asia and North America were up by 27% compared with pre-pandemic levels.

There will be a lot less money sloshing around China’s tech startups next year—at just the time when they’re going to need it most. VC firms that invest U.S. dollars in Chinese tech startups have raised far less money this year than in the past. Such firms have raised $4.2 billion this year so ...

Social commerce is a fast-growing segment of the US ecommerce market that’s garnering more attention and investment from media companies and brands.

More than 50,000 marketplace seller accounts in China have been dropped over pay-for-praise and other policy violations.

Small businesses cite national security in plea for federal aid

Rising costs at its factories — an accelerating trend, new data showed — could trickle into the rest of the world economy.

On May 17, Shein surpassed Amazon as the most downloaded iPhone shopping app in the US, something it had already done in Google Play downloads the week prior, according to analytics firm App Annie. The online-only retailer was formed in Nanjung, China, but ships its products, primarily inexpensive women’s apparel, to more than 220 countries worldwide. Researchers and consumers site innovative digital strategies and low-priced, trendy products that appeal to a Gen-Z mindset as key to the retailer’s success.

Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter of 2021 amid a resurgence of Covid-19 infections, but is expected to return to growth as soon as the current quarter with help from manufacturing exports.

The U.S., U.K. and China are roaring ahead, while most lower income nations are struggling, reversing decades of progress in alleviating global poverty. “This has become the inequality virus.”

Banks were eager to do business with Bill Hwang and his Archegos Capital Management — until he ran out of money.

Despite the pandemic, it was a record-setting year for the world’s wealthiest- with a $5 trillion surge in wealth and an unprecedented number of new billionaires.

The world’s traditional growth engine reported an 18.3 percent leap in the first quarter. But consumers and small businesses aren’t fully sharing in the spoils.

The company’s stock market arrival establishes Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the traditional financial landscape. It also elevates a technology with astonishing environmental costs.

Pressures on global supply chains are increasing and disruptions are likely to only get worse as summer approaches and the economy booms.

The electric-car maker’s performance reflected increasing sales and production around the world.