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Among Southeast Asia's major economies - ASEAN-6 - Indonesia and the Philippines have currently almost 360,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases each. According to WHO's models, the real number could be 3.5 million or more. If the modeled estimates are some 10 times higher than the confirmed c...

ETF Overview The Invesco India ETF (PIN) focuses on large-cap and giant-cap stocks in India. The ETF tracks the FTSE India Quality and Yield Select Index. The biggest challenge to investors who want to invest in India right now is the outbreak of COVID-19 that will continue to drag the econo...

After the COVID-19 earthquake and a historical contraction, China is rebounding, whereas advanced economies face a depression-like plunge. The consequent tsunami is about to hit Southeast Asia. As the total number of confirmed cases may exceed 3 million and deaths will surpass 200,000 in a m...

The lethal combination of a viral and financial crisis has no doubt taken a heavy toll on emerging markets, which saw their export-driven economies and currencies decimated by a halted global economy and safe-haven flows into the U.S. dollar respectively. Not to mention certain developing coun...

Our Emerging Markets Equity team examines the impact of the spread of coronavirus across emerging market economies during the month of February. Three Things We're Thinking About Today The Covid-19 coronavirus led the narrative in February, as a spike in new cases outside of China height...

At the beginning of the month, I wrote: " What The Market Is Telling Us About The Coronavirus " which detailed market performance along with the spread of COIVD-19. By then we had seen global energy companies, Asian equities, and U.S manufacturers in China were being hit partially hard by the ...

Over recent months the price of world sugar that trades on the Intercontinental Exchange has been trending higher. Brazil is the world's leading producer and exporter of the soft commodity. While the ICE futures use the US dollar as a pricing mechanism for sugar, local production costs are in ...

Against the backdrop of slowest economic growth since 2008, the Indian government unveiled a sizable stimulus package in its $40 billion budget, which raises spending on farms and infrastructure as well as slashes personal taxes. Skepticism abounds on whether the measures are sufficient given ...

We think 2020 will be characterised by muted global growth, a slower US economy and continued uncertainty about how monetary policy and politics will move markets. In this environment, investors should aim to keep their portfolios on track by having conviction and actively managing risk - not ...

(Source - Pexels/Tom Fisk ) The much anticipated U.S.-China trade talks are now over. Thank goodness, because I for one am getting a bit tired of hearing the word "deal" on financial media and want to discuss the greater issues. Still, fully assessing deals like this are important in unders...