A tough sell: insurance against a China financial crisis
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult, five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global economy. But when it comes to China,...
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Apocalypse Now? China ‘bears’ hope for their ‘told you so’ moment
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - "It's like a horror movie. People like to watch, but don't want to be in it," quips economist Andy Xie about his popular lectures where he predicts...
China’s yuan carry trade, an anchor and a risk for Asia
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - When China averted a default in its shadow banking industry last week in the midst of an emerging market meltdown, investors globally heaved a sigh of relief....
Analysis: Asia FX carry trade returns but hostage to volatility
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The currency carry trade is making a slow comeback in Asia although, unlike its popular pre-crisis version, punters are more selective in their investment targets for fear...
Analysis: Asia’s post-September market rally runs out of gas
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors' appetite for emerging Asia stocks, bonds and currencies is spent, and for reasons that go beyond the overriding question of when and how the U.S. Federal...
Exclusive: Foreign banks to provide upfront loans for Indian dollar deposits
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Foreign banks are pushing to raise billions of dollars from expatriate Indians in response to New Delhi's drive to defend its weak currency, which could mean the...
Analysis: India’s inverted yield curve fails rupee and slams economy
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Viewed in one light, India's steeply inverted yield curve is the result of a deliberate and classic policy strategy to defend a weak currency. From another perspective,...
Analysis: Asia’s great investor rotation flows to North from South
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Alongside the great rotation from bonds to equities and from emerging to developed markets that has been 2013's overriding investment theme, Asia is seeing its own...
Analysis: More than dairy scare needed to topple top pick New Zealand dollar
SINGAPORE/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A sudden slump in the New Zealand dollar this week as the country's biggest dairy exporter was hit by a contamination scare put the spotlight on a...
Analysis: India is Asia’s weakest link in QE-driven rout
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India is emerging Asia's canary in the 'hot money' mine. As financial markets sell off on concerns over rising U.S. rates, what happens in India, an economy...