Asia

China/Hong Kong’s Stubborn Standoff Stripe

China’s MSCI components were pressed to keep double digit gains and Hong Kong to stay positive as months of pitched ...

Thailand/Philippines’ Second Half Second Guessing

After double-digit gains through July to lead ASEAN, Thailand and the Philippines stock markets entered the second half with slower ...

Myanmar’s Complex Military-Industrial Cudgel

The United Nations Human Rights Council, charged last year with investigating the Myanmar army’s (Tatmadaw) business empire as the biggest ...

Asia’s Isolated Islamic Finance Flashes

Indonesia and Malaysia stock markets lagged on the Morgan Stanley Capital International index through July, with the former up 7%, ...

Asia’s Fraught Frontier Framing

Through the first half Vietnam and Kazakhstan led Asian frontier stock markets on the Morgan Stanley Capital International Index with ...

China’s Stumbling Star Turn

With foreign net inflows in June at $3 billion as “A” shares added to the MSCI index were up over ...

Asia’s Halting Halftime Heft

The Emerging Asia block was roughly in line with the Morgan Stanley Capital International benchmark 9% gain in the first ...

Iran’s Battered Bank Switch Spirits

Amid worsening stagflation, currency depreciation and the comprehensive US sanctions campaign moving the past month from oil to other exports ...

Asia Bonds’ Road Map Detours

The Asian Development Bank’s June local bond monitor for nine East Asian markets charts an unsettled period through May with ...

Sri Lanka’s Second Wave Wallop

While Pakistan’s stock market losses and risk of return to the MSCI frontier index occupy specialist investor thoughts with announcement ...

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