Economy

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... 2012-03-01

Headline inflation hit a 28-month low of 2.7% y-o-y in February, falling sharply from 3.8% in the previous month. Meanwhile, core inflation remained unchanged at 4.7% y-o-y for the... 2012-03-01

Pakistan recorded a slightly wider goods trade deficit in January, with the balance inching up to US$1.3bn from US$1.2bn in the previous month. On a year-on-year basis, the country's... 2012-03-01

Headline consumer price inflation (CPI) came in at 10.1% y-o-y in January, up slightly from 9.7% in the previous month. Similarly, wholesale price inflation edged higher to 8.7% y-o-y,... 2012-02-03

Purchasing managers indices (PMI) for the month of January came in much stronger than expected, posing upside risk on our end-FY2011/12 (April-March) real GDP growth forecast of 6.8%.... 2012-02-03

Headline inflation hit a 26-month low of 3.8% y-o-y in January, falling sharply from 4.9% in the previous month. Meanwhile, core inflation remained unchanged at 4.7% y-o-y. The current... 2012-02-02

Remittance growth jumped from -9.0% y-o-y in November to 18.4% in December, with the monthly inflow hitting a record high of US$1,147.2mn in the last month of 2011. The total amount... 2012-02-02

The latest trade statistics showed India's trade deficit narrowing in November from the record high seen in the previous month. The monthly deficit fell to US$13.6bn from US$19.6bn... 2012-01-04

Pakistan's trade deficit narrowed in November to US$1.1bn from US$1.2bn in the previous month. Export growth edged lower to -0.2% y-o-y (from 9.1%), with earnings coming in at US$1.9bn,... 2012-01-03

In line with our expectations, Bangladesh's cumulative current account balance for the ongoing fiscal year (FY2011/12, July-June) has entered into deficit territory - the first time... 2012-01-03