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IFM lifts stake in Atlas Arteria to 40% after upping offer price

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2026
IFM Investors has raised its stake in Atlas Arteria from 34.5% to 38.3% in an on-market stock purchase, just a day after it raised its offer price for the toll road operator to $5.10 per security. This takes IFM's total share in Atlas Arteria to 39.6% ...

Institutional investors' risk appetite trends down: State Street

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... extreme overweights (Korean won, New Taiwan dollar and Malaysian ringgit) and extreme underweights (Indian rupee, Philippine peso) and aligns with tech exposure."

Chief economist update: S&P raises Duterte ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... GDP growth to accelerate to 6.5% in 2020, 6.6% in 2021, and 6.7% in 2022. As a result, the Philippine stockmarket and the peso have rebounded. The PSE index gained 6.7% in the first four months of 2019 (after falling by 13% in 2018) and the peso's ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... track - is the Philippines. The country's benchmark equity market index dropped 12.8% in 2018 at the same time that the peso depreciated by 5.1% versus the greenback over the same period. Normally, a depreciating currency would boost equity prices. ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... year to date. The sharp depreciation in many emerging market currencies - notably the Turkish lira (-34.8%), the Argentine peso (-36.7%), the South African rand (-15.9%) and the Indian rupee (-9.0%), not to mention the Chinese yuan's 5.0% depreciation ...

Chief economist update: Emerging markets feel the heat as Turkey burns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... 45% after leaving it unchanged at 40% at its scheduled meeting less than a week ago (August 7) and July 10 to defend the peso which has tumbled to a record low peso 29.94/US$1. The Indian rupee is also trading at record lows (rupee 69.93) versus the ...

Chief economist update: Draining the swamp

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... the Canadian dollar's down by 7.5%. Not to mention, the sharp drops in emerging market currencies like the Argentinian peso (down 39.9% from 2018 high) and the Turkish lira (down 19.3%). The sharp and rapid depreciation in emerging market currencies ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... of 1275 basis points (12.75%) increase in interest rates in eight days. The reason was to stem the precipitous drop in the peso and rein in accelerating inflation. 'twas the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey's (TCMB) turn when it held an ...

Chief economist update: Crying for Argentina

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... Argentinian central bank lifted interest rates, a move intended to stem the sharp and rapid depreciation of the Argentine peso and by extension put downward pressure on inflation. Whoa! Fret not whether the Fed is going to raise interest rates by another ...

Chief economist update: Build, build, and build some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... quarter to 62.1% in the final quarter of last year. The Nikkei Asian Review reports that Japan would fund around "105 billion peso ($2 billion)" of the train project. TRAIN - Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act - would account for some as it ...
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