Economy

We continue to see Bank Indonesia (BI) hiking its policy rate in the coming months as core inflation continues to tick higher and broad money supply growth remains elevated. However,... 2011-06-14

Singapore's consumer price inflation (CPI) decelerated to 4.5% year-on-year (y-o-y) in April, the first below-5.0% reading in 2011, reaffirming our view that headline inflation has... 2011-06-06

Given the strength of the SGD in the first four months of the year and confirmation that the MAS is willing to tolerate a stronger currency to curb inflation, we have revised up our... 2011-05-05

On the back of continued weakness seen for the US dollar over the medium term, we have revised up our outlook for the Indonesian rupiah over the coming two years. We now see the unit... 2011-05-05

While consumer price inflation (CPI) has been benign through 2010 and early 2011, we are starting to see signs that the situation may be starting to change with headline inflation reaching... 2011-05-05

Easing headline consumer price inflation (CPI) has provided Bank Indonesia(BI) with more room to hold off on rate hikes in the short term. However, with core inflation ticking up, monetary... 2011-05-03

We have revised up Singapore's real GDP forecast from 5.1% to 5.9% on the back of stronger-than-expected data from Q111. For 2011, we flag up persistently high oil prices and a sharper-than-expected... 2011-04-15

We have downgraded our real GDP forecast for the Philippines from 5.3% to 5.1% of the back of the ongoing MENA crisis and earthquake in Japan. Indeed, Japan is a key export destination... 2011-03-31

We reiterate our 5.9% real GDP growth forecast for Indonesia in 2011, despite headwinds in the form of the Japan earthquake. Indeed, although Japan is the most important market for... 2011-03-31

Singapore registered a massive current account surplus amounting to 22.1% of GDP in 2010 on account of the sharp V-shaped recovery in that year. Although external demand should hold... 2011-03-31