Good MornING Asia - 12 April 2019

Reinforcing the ongoing shift in the Asian central bank policy toward greater accommodation, Singapore's central bank (MAS) decided to leave its monetary policy on hold today as GDP growth took a further dive to a 3-year low in the first quarter of 2019

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Asia Morning Bites

ASEAN Morning Bytes

General market tone: Risk-on. Market players will likely come out of the woodwork to take on some risk following positive US data overnight.

Asia week ahead: China and Korea in the limelight

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How will Indonesia’s elections results impact the economy?

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Malaysia

Malaysia: Evidence mounts for economic slowdown

Malaysia's economic data for the first two months of 2019 underpins our forecast of a slowdown in GDP growth to 4.2% in the first quarter of the year.…

Philippines: Slowing growth manifests in trade figures

Exports in fourth month of contraction while import growth momentum slows too