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The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... numero uno export market on the ropes (buying 32.7% of our total exports as at 2019), the second - Japan (9%) - third - South Korea (5%) - fourth, fifth and down the line are also in line for contractions in their respective economies. While the Reserve ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... recorded on March 19 this year - reducing its 2020 year-to-date loss by more than half to -16.1% from -33.7%. Similarly, South Korea has more than recouped its 5.2% depreciation versus the US dollar, rebounding by 5.4% from the March 19 low. These, perhaps ...

Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... BOJ increased monetary largesse. This compares with 142,823 cases in China, 21,157 in Italy, 12,729 in Iran; 8162 in South Korea and even lower than the 1678 reported cases in the US... at the time. covidjapan.com data shows that as of April 6, 2020 ...

Best, worst equities performers in COVID-19 sell-off revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... Morningstar argued. "At this point Asia appears to be getting 'ahead of the pandemic curve,' with China and South Korea curtailing new COVID-19 infections, while confirmed cases continue to escalate exponentially in Europe and the US," it said. ...

EM debt relatively unscathed by virus: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... past 24 hours, excluding the cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship," they said. "Many of the cases on the rise in South Korea, Iran and Italy have no known connection to China." While the short-term effect is not as bad as originally expected, the ...

Pendal cuts fees on equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... subsidiary J O Hambro Capital Management and invests in EM stocks. Its biggest allocations were to China, India and South Korea, while the biggest stock positions were in Samsung Electronics (9.2% of the portfolio), Tencent (5.5%) and Naspers (3.9%) ...

Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
Global institutional pension fund assets among the 22 largest markets bounced back in 2019 to climb by 15%, reaching US$46.7 trillion. Over the last decade, the fastest growing pension markets in the world have been in Asia and the US - with South Korea's ...

Chief economist update: Equity markets struck by coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... confirmed 291 cases of infected patients in an update on Tuesday. There have also been reports of cases in Thailand, South Korea and Japan. Philippine health authorities said on Tuesday that they were investigating the case of a five-year old Chinese ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... growth, led by rising expectations for a US recession (and perhaps, Germany); the trade war - US and China, Japan and South Korea; Brexit; political uncertainty (in Hong Kong, in Italy, in Russia and in Argentina). These mounting uncertainties have pushed ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... everybody - China, Mexico, Iran, the EU, climate change, etc. The debilitating effect of which has now prompted Japan and South Korea to engage in a trade war of their own. There's Brexit and the recent contraction in Germany's economy and increased ...