Philippines

The peso broke out on the high side of a 10-week trend channel on December 7, but the unit could be constrained by 4½-year resistance around PHP49.40/US$. A bout of short-term weakness... 2006-12-07

Philippine and Indonesian local bonds are attracting ample interest, allowing each country's central bank to continue reshaping their respective debt profiles. Fiscal consolidation... 2006-12-05

A new wave of emerging market funds is gripping Australia, with top local players such as AMP and Macquarie unveiling EM products for investors. Influencing the fund manufacturers... 2006-11-24

Since we last gauged the sentiment of our surveyed banks to EM external debt markets back in the summer, confidence has understandably picked up, as reflected by the rise in our global... 2006-11-16

The Philippines' PSI equity index surged by 2.31% to a nine-year high of 2,818.83 on Thursday, boosted by expectations or reports of good corporate earnings, and a further loosening... 2006-11-09

Although Asia's economies have made great strides in recent years, large parts of individual countries remain underdeveloped, with newly created wealth often failing to spread beyond... 2006-11-08

Three relative value plays have been interesting us of late. The first is in the commodities universe, focusing on the price of gold versus oil. Early last week we ran a chart of... 2006-11-03

The spread between Philippine 5-year credit default swaps and Indonesian 5-year instruments has narrowed to 1.62bps from 80bps one year ago. In September 2005 we said that Philippine... 2006-10-30

Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Amando Tetangco has announced that it will discuss the possibility of a rate cut at its November monetary policy committee meeting. BMI... 2006-10-05

Dropping crude oil prices over the past month have led to diametrically opposed fundamental risks in two of the credits tracked by