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Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... this year. "To whom it may concern" indeed! Then again, I suspect Mother Nature has more than one bullet with the Philippines' name on it. The latest typhoon - Super Typhoon Yolanda - takes the total number of tropical depressions that battered the country ...

North Asian cyclical stocks 'unjustifiably cheap'

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
... disparities in valuation between them. The ASEAN nations, for instance, are trading at a premium of 1.5 times while the Philippines -- the most expensive region - is trading at double the average. "Cyclicals and North Asia are unjustifiably cheap against ...

Bloomberg ASEAN roadshow kicks off

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... banks. The roadshow event travels to five countries between 4 - 18 July including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Each country's roadshow will be hosted by a partner bank: Bank Negara Indonesia, Maybank, Security Bank, OCBC ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... prefer local stores to supermarkets. The fund also has a sizeable position in Manila Water, a utility company in the Philippines which is winning water and sewerage contracts all over the Philippines, Vietnam and Jakarta. Morphic is also holding a basket ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... first-section shares slipped 0.58 per cent, or 6.76 points, to 1158.27. Markets in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Singapore were all closed on Wednesday for the May Day holiday. WELLINGTON - The ...

Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
... down by 6.6% over the same period. Compare this with the 13.8% rally in the stock market of Asia's rising star, the Philippines. Perhaps it's time the Philippines replace Brazil in the BRICs grouping. But then this would spell rude. Brazil's stock market ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... a poor S&P long-term rating and gloomy economic prospects. The top ESG underweights for emerging markets were the Philippines, Colombia and Indonesia. For developed markets, Japan was the largest underweight largely due to governance issues, while sovereigns ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... like, it's the positive kind. Recent reports suggest that Asia should be growing stronger than expected this year. The Philippines and Taiwan just reported better than forecasts December quarter GDP growth and Singapore posting the lowest unemployment ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... boosted by foreign - portfolio and direct - investment into the country. In Asia, latest data show the economies of the Philippines and Taiwan expanding by more than expected - 6.8% and 3.4%, respectively - in the December quarter. And in Singapore ...

Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even basic measures like inflation into account they just fuel misunderstandings ...