Good MornING Asia - 8 May 2020

As Asia trades ahead of today's US jobs report, the idea of perhaps more than 20 million new jobless being priced into markets seems hard to accept

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Opinion

By Robert Carnell

20 million reasons for caution

As Asia trades ahead of today's US jobs report, the idea of perhaps more than 20 million new jobless being priced into markets seems hard to accept

Asia Morning Bites

ASEAN Morning Bytes

US and China set to discuss trade next week as economies move to gradually reopen

Asia week ahead

Asia week ahead: A big data pipeline

Economic releases from China and India crowd the Asian calendar, as India heads for its worst economic slump while Malaysia's 1Q20 GDP report card is…

Asia: Lockdowns work, they also hurt

There is a really wide spectrum of experience for Asia in terms of the Covid-19 outbreak, the responses, the state of the economy and the proximity to a…

China: Challenges shift from supply chain to global demand

China‘s economy is recovering from the damage caused by Covid-19. The broken supply chain is not the top issue anymore. Weak global demand is. As a…

China

China: Surprise! Exports rebound

Exports expanded in April after contracting in March. But this should not be perceived as an upward trend, and the threat of a trade war could change…

Philippines

Philippines: 1Q GDP contracts - steep drop ahead

The streak of 84 consecutive quarters of positive growth has ended, at the hands of Covid-19