Rafael Nam
Rafael Nam is NPR's senior business editor.
Nam is an experienced financial correspondent and editor with over two decades of experience. He has been with NPR since 2020.
He spent the bulk of his career for Reuters in Asia, starting as a stock market correspondent in Seoul, South Korea, and then moving on to Hong Kong to cover investment banking, where he often broke news on major deals. He also helped launch an online financial video unit, serving as an anchor and analyst.
Nam then led the markets and central bank teams in India. His teams reported on big stories, including a collapse of the Indian Rupee currency and the surprise government move to get rid of high-denomination currencies.
In India, he spent months investigating an insider trading scheme in Indian stock markets, His story led to regulatory investigation of traders that shook the financial sector. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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The dollar has just posted its worst first-half of a year since 1973. And now investors wonder — is it a sign that America is losing its financial standing? -
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The Dow Jones advanced after Trump said he wouldn't fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell and on hopes of easing tensions over tariffs with China. -
The International Monetary Fund slashed its growth forecasts for the global economy to 2.8% as President Trump's tariffs risk sparking a trade war. -
When Trump announced sweeping tariffs this month, he called it "Liberation Day." But there are fears that it may well have been the day foreign investors started to lose faith in the United States. -
U.S. stocks surged on Wednesday after President Trump announced a 90-day pause on the higher tariffs he had imposed on most countries — except for China. -
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