Economy
India
In line with our call, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kicked off its monetary easing cycle in April, albeit by a larger-than-expected 50 basis points (bps), taking the benchmark repo...
2012-05-04Bangladesh
Consumer price inflation (CPI) edged lower in March, coming in at 10.1% y-o-y, down from 10.4% in the previous month. Food inflation hit a 28-month low 8.3% y-o-y (down from 8.9%),...
2012-05-03Pakistan
Posing upside risk on our end-FY2011/12 (July-June) consumer price inflation (CPI) forecast of 9.0%, the headline rate ticked up to 11.3% y-o-y in April, up from 10.8% in the previous...
2012-05-03Sri Lanka
Given the Central Bank of Sri Lanka's (CBSL)'s largely unexpected slew of policy measures to combat overheating over the recent months (i.e. currency devaluations and policy rate hikes),...
2012-05-03India
Even though Indian industrial production (IP) growth for the month of January surprised to the upside, coming in at a seven-month high 6.8% y-o-y (up from 2.5% in December), we believe...
2012-03-27Pakistan
Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) ticked up for the second straight month in January to 11.0% y-o-y, from 10.1% in the preceding month, posing upside risk on our end-FY2011/12...
2012-03-27Sri Lanka
For the second consecutive month, export growth witnessed an increase from the -4.9% y-o-y low in October 2011, coming in at 24.3% in December, according to the Central Bank of Sri...
2012-03-26Bangladesh
During the first seven months of the current fiscal year (FY2011/12, July-January), Bangladesh achieved a cumulative current account surplus of US$462.0mn, with a goods trade deficit...
2012-03-26India
In January, headline wholesale price inflation (WPI) dropped for the fourth straight month, bolstering our view that interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are imminent....
2012-03-02Bangladesh
Headline consumer price inflation ticked up to 11.6% y-o-y in January, up from 10.6% in the previous month. Food inflation saw a marginal increase to 10.9% y-o-y (from 10.4%), while...
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