Asia

Thailand’s Trade War Tripwire

Two years after a constitutional referendum passed to set the stage for 2019 elections returning civilian rule, amid calculations that ...

Asian Stocks’ Safety Scramble Scrum

With the negative MSCI showing across all Asian core and frontier stock markets, fund managers began the second half constructing ...

Mongolia’s Roughshod Rescue Refrain

A year after the international community assembled a $5.5 billion emergency package, Mongolian stock and bond performance reflected debt crisis ...

Asia’s Scarce Safety Stopgaps

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

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

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

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

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

Pakistan stocks and bonds tried to shake off the third rupee devaluation since December as it touched 120/dollar for a ...

ASEAN’s Malaysia Maelstrom Milage

The shock victory and anti-corruption and economic policy cleansing promised by Malaysia’s opposition alliance roller-coasted stocks  before a slight MSCI ...

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