Good MornING Asia - 15 March 2019

The US-China trade deal continues to be elusive with Trump-Xi meeting unlikely to take place until April. Softer China data suggests that further GDP slowdown in the current quarter is inevitable, though the stimulus is expected to prevent a hard landing of the economy

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Asia Morning Bites

ASEAN Morning Bytes

General market tone: Wait and see. Market players will likely adopt a holding pattern for the time being on concerns about the US-China trade negotiations.

Asia week ahead: Central banks frenzy

Asian central bank meetings dominate the agenda next week, and while all four are likely to pass without any policy changes, we'll be looking for…

China

China: Data shows fiscal stimulus is working

Infrastructure investment and real estate development has supported the economy while retail sales growth has stabilised. We don't read too much into…

China

Why Brookings is right on China growth, and why we’re not surprised

Chinese growth since 2008 has been almost 2 percent lower than official numbers indicate, according to a recent Brookings research paper. We think the…

Malaysia: The doors open for central bank policy easing

We are revising our view of Bank Negara Malaysia monetary policy from one of no change this year to one 25bp policy rate cut as early as next quarter…