Analysis on Fixed Income, Fx & Equity Markets

Closure may be approaching as far as Pakistan's attempts to secure emergency funds from external creditors are concerned, although the source of assistance will unlikley be to Islamabad's... 2008-10-31

The won rose sharply against the US$ today on the back of a US$30bn swap agreement with the USFederal Reserve and an encouraging trade account reading for September. We see potential... 2008-10-30

BMI sees the growing possibility of a rate cut by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) at its meeting this Friday, October 31. Japan's weakening economy, and the fact the world's major central... 2008-10-29

The writing appears to be on the wall as far as Thailand's chances of pulling off above-, or even near-, trend growth over the coming year or two is concerned. An inhospitable global... 2008-10-29

Heightened risk aversion and a weakening growth outlook continue to push the Philippine peso towards important support in the PHP50.00/US$ area, with the unit dropping to PHP49.58/US$... 2008-10-28

BMI View: We believe the Vietnamese government may soon move to ease rules on foreign direct investment in order to boost investment inflows to cover the trade deficit, expected... 2008-10-28

As we have been highlighting for quite some time, Pakistan's sovereign creditworthiness remains highly questionable, and there are few signs yet of a stabilisation of external liquidity... 2008-10-28

Another week and another string of not so cheerful economic data points to mull over. Taiwan's Council For Economic Planning and Development (CEPD)'s leading and coincident indicators... 2008-10-27

In line with our view, the Indonesian rupiah has continued its slide against the greenback, having tentatively breached the psychologically important IDR10,000/US$ support level on... 2008-10-24

Thailand did not escaped the carnage witnessed across Asian equity markets today (October 24), with the benchmark Stock Exchange of Thailand Index (SETI) dropping 7%, to 432.87. The... 2008-10-24