The ECB's unexpectedly hawkish shift tone prompted a sizeable market reaction, with Italian 10-year bond yields rising 55bps, to 1.95%. However, we...
Singapore | Resilient growth prompts an early start to tightening
Posted by Sung Eun Jung on Oct 15, 2021
In a surprise move, the Monetary Authority of Singapore today tightened monetary policy by slightly raising the slope of the Singapore Dollar Nominal...
Indonesia | Recovering demand to power credit growth in 2022
Posted by Sung Eun Jung on Sep 30, 2021
Private bank credit contracted 2.7% in 2020 in Indonesia and continued to decline on a year-on-year basis through most of H1 this year. The credit...
Indonesia | Delayed fiscal consolidation unlikely to raise debt risks
Posted by Sung Eun Jung on Jul 6, 2021
Due to ongoing pandemic-related spending needs, we now expect Indonesia’s fiscal deficit will narrow to 3% of GDP only by 2024, a year later than we...