Economy
China's imports, exports badly disappoint market expectations
China's imports, exports badly disappoint market expectations
Investors raised their eyebrows on 2.9% growth.
Malaysia's export sales drops 3.2%
A bad sign for the industrial production.
FASBI deposit rate hike looms in Indonesia
An 75bps increase is expected in mid-2013.
With Q3 contraction, Japan economy plunges to technical recession
Downward GDP revisions result in consecutive negative growths.
2 inflation woes China investors must hurdle
Even amid 7.8% GDP growth.
Tourism no longer a stalwart for Singapore's economy in 2013
Transport engineering and construction took its place.
3 threats Indonesia must fight against in 2013
Low 4.3% inflation will uptick.
Thailand's inflation to edge down to 3%
In fact, inflation isn't much of a problem.
Philippines overnight borrowing rate hits record low 3.5%
A total of 100bps were cut this year.
Malaysia industrial production to dip to 1.3%
Not a very pretty picture.
Korea's exports growth surge to 3.9%
Manufacturing PMI also rose to 48.2.
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Malaysia exports fell 3.2% in October
Palm oil and gasoline exports particularly sluggish.
$335m shelled out for GST Voucher-Cash
Unregistered Singaporeans are urged to sign up.
Look at how measly domestic economy will grow this year
1.5% is no reason to rejoice.
Beware the 3 main risks to Singapore's 2013 growth
Laggard trade, low interest rates and "painful" structural adjustment.
Malaysia's import growth to hit 12%
Consequently, trade surplus will register MYR6.6b.
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