Good MornING Asia - 5 May 2020

A pick up in oil prices and optimism over continued re-opening has netted out against growing concerns over US-China tension and raised forecasts for US Covid-19 deaths

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Opinion

By Robert Carnell

Offsetting currents balance sentiment

A pick up in oil prices and optimism over continued re-opening has netted out against growing concerns over US-China tension and raised forecasts for US…

Asia Morning Bites

ASEAN Morning Bytes

Regional inflation data could set the tone for Tuesday’s trading

China

Hong Kong: Deep recession

GDP shrank 8.9% year-on-year in 1Q20. This may not be the end of the economic contraction. Even though Covid-19 cases appear to be subsiding in Hong Kong,…

Malaysia

Malaysia’s central bank should be slashing rates

We expect a 50 basis point rate cut on Tuesday, taking the policy rate to the 2% low reached during the 2009 global financial crisis. But this won't…