Asia economic round-up

Our economists and strategists take a look at some of the key issues and events driving Asian markets this year

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Asia: The easy bit is over

Asian FX faces a more challenging year than the previous one unless the stars come into perfect alignment. We think that is unlikely

China

CNY: PBOC relinquishes some control

China is changing the way it manages the Renminbi and we think the move is line with PBoC's journey towards liberalising its FX regime

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China

CNY: A year for red packets

We expect 2018 to be a strong year for the yuan albeit not quite as strong as 2017. Here are three reasons why we support a strong yuan view and expect…

Japan

Japan: The problem of success

Japanese GDP remains very strong. That's raising thoughts about the end of quantitative easing and negative rates

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Japan

JPY: Finely balanced

Frankly, we’re a bit disappointed that the JPY did not fall further on the crosses in 2017. True we saw a nice 7-10% rally in the Europe/JPY crosses…