China’s Latin America Loan Double Trouble
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The Inter-American Dialogue’s 2015 database of Chinese official loans proclaimed a “doubling down” of commitments which were up $19 billion ...
Pakistan’s Miffed Military Lull
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Pakistan shares were down almost 20 percent on the MSCI frontier index into December, despite relative security calm from a ...
Kazakhstan’s Chilly Privatization Promotion
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Kazakh shares stayed in the back of the MSCI frontier pack with a 45 percent drop despite President Nazarbaev’s whirlwind ...
Myanmar’s Pesky Post-Election Pause
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party may have won a parliamentary majority with the military’s USDP conceding ...
Singapore’s Hazy Future Funk
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Singapore shares were down 20 percent on the MSCI Index through September, as the economy tipped into quarterly recession and ...
Central Asia’s Stunted Succession Syndrome
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The IMF joined the Asian Development Bank in downgrading GDP growth forecasts for Central Asia and the Caucuses this year ...
Asia Bonds’ Dreaded Destabilization Encore
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The Asian Development Bank’s September bond monitor profiled a 5 percent rise in Q2 in local instruments outstanding to $8.6 ...
India’s Mutated Mutual Suspicion
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Indian stocks continued to languish after August’s $2 billion in net foreign investor outflows, as Finance Minister Jaitley prodded the ...
President Xi’s Summit Non-Performance Spotlight
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Chinese President Xi’s visit to Washington beginning September 24 has been on the calendar since US President Obama’s invitation last ...
China’s Citadel Storm Retreat
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Chinese stocks were down 15 percent in July, including a one-day drop the last week for half the loss, with ...