Asia’s Scarce Safety Stopgaps
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At end-June Emerging Asia slightly outperformed the MSCI benchmark with a 5% loss lower than other regions, but all core ...
Asia Local Bonds’ Trade Tantrums
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The Asian Development Bank’s mid-year local bond publication described unfavorable yield, debt, currency and trade trends through May, as market ...
Central Asia’s Belt-Road Divots
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A new International Monetary Fund research paper predicts “massive” investment inflows into the Central Asia-Caucuses (CCA) from China’s Belt and ...
The Rohingya Crisis’ Brooding Business Agenda
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The UN’s Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR’s) annual global forced displacement trends report, released on World Refugee Day, focused on the additional ...
China-India’s Big Bet Boomerang
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China after adding MSCI Index “A” shares plunged into the negative column for a greater loss than India into the ...
Pakistan’s Third Strike Depreciation Drive
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Pakistan stocks and bonds tried to shake off the third rupee devaluation since December as it touched 120/dollar for a ...
The Asian Development Bank’s Blessed Bond Behavior
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Fifteen years after the ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and Korea) countries launched their local bond market initiative in the aftermath of ...
ASEAN’s Malaysia Maelstrom Milage
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The shock victory and anti-corruption and economic policy cleansing promised by Malaysia’s opposition alliance roller-coasted stocks before a slight MSCI ...
Iran’s Stifling Sanctions Soundtrack
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Following a currency crash and ban on parallel market trading in April that ravaged stock-market listed banks reporting a combined ...
Asia’s Green Bonds Green Light
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On the eve of its annual meeting, the Asian Development Bank, which has issued its own “green” bonds for clean ...