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Global investment landscape needs rethink

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... products in emerging markets. "Unilever's Pureit water purifier was developed in India before being sold in Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and Nigeria. Some companies in emerging markets, such as Tencent, are becoming big players on the global stage," Budden ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... 18 months - and a small 0.2% annual rate of decline in imports in July, a sharp improvement from June's 10.0% drop. Indonesia consumer confidence Bank Indonesia's consumer confidence index rose to a reading of 114.2 in July - the highest level since ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... 1.36% in July while its yield-to-maturity tightened 17 bps to 3.25%. Within the index, star performers were the S&P Indonesia Bond Index that climbed 3.36% in July and 15.63% YTD. The S&P Philippines Bond Index was up 2.37% in July with a YTD total return ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... investment in YUM!, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is a play partly on the growth in consumption in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. In his update to investors, Douglass was candid about predictions he made last year for a ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
FTA with Indonesia gets closer Australia's trade minister, Steve Ciobo, is in Jakarta this week holding talks with Indonesian Minister for Trade, Enggartiasto Lukita, trying to negotiate details of the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... share sitting between the twelfth place Spain and the fourteenth placed Russia. Hot on Australia's heels however is Indonesia which is currently in sixteenth place with a GDP of A$1.2 billion but which is widely expected to overtake Australia within ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... major employer of Canada's Aboriginal people and major contributor to economic development in Canada's northern regions. Indonesia keen to promote PPP infra Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has said he is open to relaxing regulation and adjusting Indonesian ...

Malaysia drives growth in Shariah funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
Support for Shariah-compliant investment funds in Asia is on the rise, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia, but the sector still face challenges, according to global research house Cerulli Associates. Shariah finance principles forbid the acceptance ...

Bloomberg partners with DFAT for health program

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... "priorities" in a country. The first 18 countries to join the initiative are: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Morocco, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... strong gains in May, of 13.2% and 14.8% respectively. The 'time to buy a major household item' sub-index was unchanged". Indonesia trade balance Indonesia's trade surplus dropped sharply to US$370 million in May from the US$1,080 surplus recorded in ...