Category: FinanceAsia
AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 24 – 28 August 2009
Gross domestic product (GDP) growth results in the region remain mixed. The Philippines reported GDP growth of 1.5 percent y-o-y for 2Q09, while Malaysia and Thailand [...]
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Assets of Islamic banks up 66pct despite turmoil
Assets held by the world’s 100 biggest Islamic banks grew 66 percent last year from the previous year despite the financial turmoil that clobbered mainstream lenders, a [...]
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Jetstar prepares to expand Asia routes
Low cost air carrier Jetstar is in negotiations with air traffic authorities in Asia aiming to expand its route network, with China, India and Laos leading the list of [...]
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AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 17 – 21 August 2009
The latest economic figures from the Philippines show a July balance of payments (BOP) surplus of USD506 million. For the first 7 months of 2009, the BOP shows a surplus of [...]
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AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 10 – 14 August 2009
Economic data releases last week reaffirmed the progress of the economic recovery in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Industrial output in July rose 10.8 percent [...]
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AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 03 – 07 August 2009
Yet another week of active FCY and LCY bond issuance in Asia was highlighted by huge issuances from Malaysian oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) and [...]
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Korea, India sign free trade agreement
South Korea and India signed an ambitious free trade agreement Friday that slashes tariffs, encourages investment and promotes exchange of skills in a bid to double [...]
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AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 27 – 31 July 2009
Demand for new bond issues remained robust last week with a wide variety of new offerings in both USD and LCY coming to market. In the USD market, the Korea National Oil [...]
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Foster’s in $613m Asia bank deal
Foster’s Group has set up a $500 million ($613 million) three-year syndicated loan facility involving Asia region banks. The facility includes a fully drawn tranche and [...]
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AsianBondsOnline News Highlights – Week of 20 – 24 July 2009
Economic recovery appears to be underway in several Asian economies. The Republic of Korea posted second quarter GDP growth of 2.3 percent q-o-q, which was the fastest pace [...]
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Alstom weighs carbon capture project in Asia
Alstom SA, the world’s third largest power plant maker, is mulling plans to set up a pilot plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Asia, a technology that cuts [...]
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Bursa reduces tick size to boost market liquidity
Bursa Malaysia has reduced the structure of tick size or the minimum price variation between the buy and sell price for a stock, effective August 3. In a statement yesterday, [...]
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AsianBondsOnlines News Highlights – Week of 13 – 17 July 2009
Last week saw a number of important foreign currency (FCY) bond sales from the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Republic of Korea. The Philippine government sold USD750 [...]
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Fibre-optic cable links region’s data networks
The initial three-year phase of a huge IT project to build a telecoms network linking Cambodia with the region was completed when the fibre-optic cable to Laos was officially [...]
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Vimpelcom in $303m bonds issue
VIMPELCOM, owner of Beeline, the newest entrant into Cambodia’s increasingly crowded mobile-phone sector, announced late Tuesday it was issuing bonds totalling 10 [...]
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