Asia

Central Asia’s Skidding Transition Tread

The International Monetary Fund’s April update on the Caucasus/Central Asia (CCA) region quelled investor excitement about political and economic transition ...

Asia Financial Inclusion’s Selective Reach

An IMF working paper, in view of inclusive growth’s place on the Sustainable Development Goals ahead of a UN conference, ...

Asia’s Refashioned Frontier Frame

Anticipating index provider Morgan Stanley Capital International’s June review that may hint at future Asia frontier index entrants after Panama ...

Asia’s Stock Sprint Wheeze

Emerging Asia outperformed both the core Morgan Stanley Capital International gauge and other regions in the first quarter with an ...

Asia Bonds’ Narrow Escape Hatch

The Asian Development Bank’s March local bond monitor, for the first quarter through mid-February, traced yield decline in six of ...

China’s Bright Bond Future Squint

As Chinese local bonds prepare to enter the Bloomberg Barclays aggregate index in April unleashing an estimated $5 billion monthly ...

ASEAN’s Sleepy Stock-Taking Exercise

Among ASEAN stock markets, only frontier component Vietnam was up double-digits through February, as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand ...

Asia’s Ineluctable Election Whirl

The three stock markets in election mode were on average behind the MSCI EM Asia’s index 9% jump through February, ...

China’s Latin America Litter Litany

China’s MSCI Index comeback, with double-digit gains through February, continues on strong foreign investor inflows. Morgan Stanley and Citigroup predict ...

Iran’s Somber Revolutionary Stockpile

The Tehran Stock Exchange was down 35% in dollar terms on an annual basis through December, twice the loss of ...

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