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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

ECFA: Equal consultation and mutual benefits

Taiwan hopes ECFA will smooth the path towards signing free trade agreements with other countries in an effort to ensure that its export-oriented economy is not marginalised.

The end of June mainland China and Taiwan signed a tariff-cutting trade agreement, the so-called Economic-Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) that aims to deepen economic ties and ease tensions between the two countries. The deal is a high point in the ‘cross strait’ policy of President Ma.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Sweet Europe, sour America?

European purchasing managers′ indexes in the past week showed private sector business activity accelerating in July, surprising economists who had expected a slowdown.

Investors are finding themselves with a new kind of balancing act -- one in which they have to juggle with three major regions posing three significantly different circumstances. Europe's bank stress testing, the focus of much of the past week's market focus, is but one ball in the air.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

IMF challenges Asia to change its economic habits

The old model of a bank-dominated financial system that paid depositors a pittance and funneled cheap loans to exporters and manufacturers is past its sell-by date. People would need to save less if they got higher returns on the money they do save.

That warm glow and soft purring emanating from South Korea was the International Monetary Fund trying, yet again, to put the Asian financial crisis behind it. The IMF needs Asia on its side. The region will wield more clout at global institutions like the IMF and provide more of their funding.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The CIVETS: Windfall Wealth From the ′New′ BRIC Economies

Given how much money investors have made from the BRICs, that suggests the CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa) deserve a closer look. Potentially, they may be the great growth markets of the new decade - or not!

Martin Hutchinson, a noted commentator, author and longtime international merchant banker, tells us which countries figure to be the "next" hot emerging-market economies. His recommendations may surprise you. In fact, the CIVETS are the "new" BRICs.

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