Alex Millson

Dec 2, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Alex Millson

After a turbulent year, with headlines dominated by divisive politics, war and trepidation over the future, is it time to make that move you’ve always dreamed about? If so, the question is, where next? This year your best bet may be somewhere in western Europe, if you take note of global consulting firm Mercer’s latest Quality of Living Report, which ranks cities for their expat appeal.

Aug 5, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Alex Millson

China has announced a 20-step plan to get people to spend more, but offered little in the way of financial incentives to rev up domestic demand. It’s the latest attempt by Beijing to find a formula for making households less averse to shopping. Behind the urgency is China’s increasingly lopsided post-pandemic recovery, as weak consumer spending offsets a boom in exports at a time when trade tensions are also on the rise.

Jul 24, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Alex Millson

India is once again on high alert after a fresh outbreak of the Nipah virus (NiV) left a 14-year-old boy dead in the southern state of Kerala. Close contacts tested for the disease have come back negative, according to local media, although are taking no chances and many more contacts face monitoring. The brain-damaging virus, which can spread from bats and pigs to humans, has surfaced in Kerala several times in recent years. In a 2018 outbreak, 21 people died before it was contained.

Jun 16, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Alex Millson

Regional finance hubs Hong Kong and Singapore have topped a new global list of the world’s most expensive cities for expatriates, keeping Swiss destinations from the top spots for the second year in a row.

May 21, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Alex Millson

When it comes to ranking the best cities in the world, it’s a crowded field and an inexact science. But there’s a new player in town. Oxford Economics on Tuesday released its inaugural Global Cities Index, which it calls a “comprehensive evaluation of the world’s 1,000 largest urban economies.”