Economy

We are expecting the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to keep its overnight borrowing and lending rates on hold at 4.00% and 6.00% respectively until the second half of 2010, in... 2009-10-02

Headline consumer price inflation continued to increase in August, rising by 2.75% y-o-y, compared to 2.71% in the preceding month. Having marked a trough in April (-0.31% m-o-m),... 2009-09-04

Having announced two fiscal stimulus packages amounting to MYR67bn (US$19bn) or roughly 10% of GDP, the government's finances are in poor shape and we are not expecting the administration... 2009-09-04

We have revised our Philippine growth forecasts for 2009 and 2010 from 0.9% and 2.4% up to 1.5% and 2.6% respectively in view of upward revisions to export performance on the back... 2009-09-04

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) left its benchmark overnight policy rate (OPR) unchanged at 2.00% at its latest policy meeting on July 29. Noting an improvement in the global economy and... 2009-07-30

In spite of its large domestic consumption base, Indonesia's economy will be affected by the current global slowdown. We are still expecting its GDP growth - which we are currently... 2009-07-30

BMI View: We have lowered our 2009 GDP growth forecast from 2.8% to 0.9% after having made adjustments to our expectations for capital investment and exports. We have also adjusted... 2009-07-29

Although the worst may have elapsed for Indonesia's economy, we believe that disinflationary pressures will persist for several months. Currently, we are projecting average inflation... 2009-07-07

Malaysia's consumer price index (CPI) has been falling since the middle of 2008, in line with a slowing global economy. We expect this trend to continue for the coming months and... 2009-07-07

Singapore's export sector continued to show signs of stabilization. Indeed, non-oil domestic exports (NODX) posted an increase of 5.6% on a seasonally-adjusted month-on-month basis... 2009-07-07