Good MornING Asia - 13 April 2020

With much of the world still on holiday, this will be a quiet start to the week, though an OPEC deal and some stabilisation in Covid-19 cases provide a steady start. Increasingly, thoughts will turn to the process of deconfinement, something that we expect will be very slow and phased

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Opinion

By Robert Carnell

Deal for OPEC+

With much of the world still on holiday, this will be a quiet start to the week, though an OPEC deal and some stabilisation in Covid-19 cases provide a…

Asia Morning Bites

ASEAN Morning Bytes

Market sentiment to remain jittery on virus concerns although Monday’s focus maybe the oil deal

Asia week ahead: How bad was 1Q20 for China’s economy?

China’s GDP report for the first quarter will provide some sense of the damage the pandemic has inflicted on economies in that part of the world

OPEC+ deal: Not so fast

The OPEC+ alliance has agreed to cut oil output by 10MMbbls/d starting in May, however, this is conditional on Mexico accepting its allocated cut. So far,…

Australia

Australian QE: A premature tapering?

After hinting at tapering if conditions improve, Australia's central bank actually trimmed its daily bond-buying today. However, an excessive…