Saturday, May 07, 2005

Christopher Lingle: Graft Goes Hand in Hand With Big Government

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In the local arena, media brims with dreary news articles spotlighting on widespread and endemic corruption as the major deterrent to the Ph...

World Bank Press: Support Deal 'Could Become Asian IMF'

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World Bank Press: Support Deal 'Could Become Asian IMF' The currency swap agreements in East Asia providing mutual protection...
Friday, May 06, 2005

Reuters: Emerging debt-Market shrugs off GM, Ford downgrades

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During the past month or so, while rising interest rates anxieties increased the risk aversion profiles of investors thereby affecting emer...
Friday, April 29, 2005

World Bank: Manila Ponders Securitization Of Remittances.

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Finally, an innovative way to access unexploited reserves..... World Bank: Manila Ponders Securitization Of Remittances. The Philippine g...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

Bloomberg's John Berry: U.S. Shows Some Parallels With Argentina of '90s

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While the Philippines ’ economic and financial landscape may be vulnerable to a cataclysmic debt default ala Argentina , it represents only ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

China Signs Trade and Investment Deals With Philippines Worth $1.5 billion

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China sealed a $1.5 billion trade and investment deal with the Philippines today. Most of which were centered on the MINING and Ene...

World Bank: Nigeria At Risk Of $33 Billion Default

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It has been a de rigueur to brand the Philippine economic setting as having segued into a state of crisis or of concerns of the possibility ...
Monday, April 25, 2005

Philippine Crisis Pales in Comparison to Exploding Global Imbalances

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Philippine Crisis Pales in Comparison to Exploding Global Imbalances Yes, the Philippines does look as if it is in a perennial state o...
Tuesday, April 19, 2005

The Economist: Unrest that riles Tokyo and worries Beijing

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Growing tensions between China and Japan underscores emerging geopolitical risks...According to the Economist… China’s government wor...

A Whiff of Stagflation?

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Too much rate hikes pricks the bubble, a slowdown would probably compel the US Fed to ease; the probable consequence…stagflation. Discerni...
Thursday, April 14, 2005

Newsday's James Pinkerton: 3 signs of impending 'Asian Century'

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James Pinkerton: 3 signs of impending 'Asian Century' James Pinkerton writes in the Newsday that geopolitics have been shaping ...

In Favor of A National ID System?

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In Favor of A National ID System? The following presentation of a fictional pizza ordering scenario demonstrates of how GOVERNMENT S i...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Christopher Lingle: Excessive Asian Reserves?

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Excessive Asian Reserves Christopher Lingle argues that excessive Asian reserve currencies risks can pose distress in the financial mone...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Ex- US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker: "We are skating on increasingly thin ice."

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Former Fed Chairman Paul Volker, as a keynote speaker in Stanford for Economic Policy Research last February 11 th , goes on the record to ...
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Thursday, April 07, 2005

Prudent Investor: Possibly ABN AMRO's downgrade triggered the Exodus

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If you’d ask me, I think that today’s excruciating selloffs was an outlier, we took the biggest loss in the region where most of the bourses...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Bloomberg's William Pesek: In Manila, Downgrades Are Good for Bonds

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Bloomberg Asian Analyst William Pesek, finds it ironic that after two recent credit rating downgrades investment bank ING sees the Philipp...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

The Philippines is into energy conservation mode

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The Philippines is into energy conservation mode. Aside from the 4 day work week, the private sector is enticed to shift working hours to...
Monday, April 04, 2005

Commodities' Q1 rally puts other assets at risk in Q2

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Commodities greatly outperformed stocks and bonds after the CRB Index hit a 25-year high in March, and it seems that the trend is likely to ...
Thursday, March 31, 2005

DR Barton of Trader's U: What Investors Can Learn From Traders

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I'd like to share with you an insightful article by DR Barton of Traders U... What Investors Can Learn From Traders by D.R. Barton, Jr. ...
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Friday, March 25, 2005

Hedge Funds Dominated the Selling of Emerging Market Assets

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According to Turkish Daily News Asia , hedge funds were mostly responsible for the recent emerging asset selloffs, “Hedge fund accounts were...