07 March, 2016
As appeared in Bloomberg

Senior Fellow of the CIMB ASEAN Research Institute Pauline Loong spoke on Bloomberg about the big gap in China’s policy blueprint for the next five years. She pointed out that notably missing from the outline of China’s Five Year Plan is any mention of strategies to deal with possible large-scale capital outflows once the currency barrier is dismantled, as envisioned in the push for renminbi globalization.

 

ASEAN Collective Leadership Running on Empty

10 September, 2019
By Tan Sri Dr. Munir Majid | 2 September 2019 |

ASEAN Collective Leadership Running on Empty Originally published in TheEdge Malaysia At the Bangkok ASEAN summit in June, the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) asked the region’s leaders to show greater collective political leadership

Indonesia’s headline inflation rises to 20-month high of 3.5% y-o-y in August

3 September, 2019
By Lim Yee Ping, Economist, CIMB Research and Economics and Michelle Chia, Economist, CIMB Research and Economic |

HIGHLIGHTS August 2019 CPI inflation Headline inflation quickened to a 20-month high of 3.5% yoy in August, while core inflation increased to 3.3% yoy, the highest since February 2017. Drought, rising gold prices and

Japan to the rescue?

27 August, 2019
By Imran Shamsunahar | 27 August 2019 |

It’s fair to say that ASEAN is finding itself in between a rock and a hard place. With the trade war between the US and China seeing no sign of concluding, the region’s export-oriented

Pace of contraction for Singapore’s IPI slows down in July

27 August, 2019
By Michelle Chia, Economist, CIMB Research and Economic and Sofea Azahar, Economist, CIMB Research and Economics |

HIGHLIGHTS July 2019 industrial production Manufacturing weakness abates amid regional semiconductor rebound, and incremental gains in chemicals and transport engineering. Tech output surge to be short-lived as higher US-China tariffs loom from September. The