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 ...
Bangladesh’s Unheard Crisis Relief Cry
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After a 2.5% first quarter loss on the MSCI frontier index as the only down Asian component, Bangladesh shares continued ...
Central Asia’s Truculent Trio Test
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Central Asian financial markets lacked clear direction after a maelstrom of political, economic a banking system, and international lender cross-currents ...
China’s Teflon Tariff Tiffs
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As China and the US continued their cycle of equal tariff retaliation on agricultural and industrial goods and threatened tighter ...
Myanmar’s Reform Wave Riptide
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As the US and EU debate tougher trade and diplomatic sanctions against Myanmar for expulsion and killing of Muslim Rohingya ...
Asia Local Bonds’ Yanked Yields
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The Asian Development Bank’s March regular survey of nine domestic bond markets, with insights from the last quarter of 2017 ...
Asean’s Split Sentiment Sentry
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ASEAN’s main stock markets were mixed heading into the first quarter close, with Thailand and Malaysia at the front with ...
The Asian Development Bank’s Indochina Bond Barrage
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While Cambodia and Myanmar, despite logging high-single digit GDP growth, have been off mainstream investor radar screens as they face ...
China’s Wagging Tail Risk Tide
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Entering the Lunar Year of the Dog Chinese and Hong Kong shares slumped on local and global fears after 2017 ...