KUALA LUMPUR – Amid global headwinds, investor sentiment is likely to stay fragile as Malaysia heads into a snap election with an unapproved budget. And experts predict the worst is yet to come for the stock market if the polls do not produce a strong mandate. The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI has plunged almost […]
Globalization was deflationary, Deglobalization is inflationary. The entire point of globalization is to 1) lower costs as a means of maximizing profits and 2) find markets for surplus domestic production. Both serve to export deflation as offshoring production keeps prices stable (and profits high) and dumping surplus production in high-cost developed-nations suppresses their domestic producers’ […]
China’s military exercises highlight the risk that Taiwan tensions could exacerbate existing supply chain woes. The Taiwan Strait is the primary route for ships passing from China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to points west. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, almost half of the global container fleet and 88% of the world’s largest ships […]
WHO’s chief warned that the ability to track the virus is under threat as reporting and genomic sequences are declining. The optimistic mid-year deadline for all countries to vaccinate at least 70% of their populations is looking unlikely, with the average rate in low-income countries, standing at 13%. According to NUS East Asian Institute’s Dr Chen […]
According to WHO organization, reported cases and deaths from COVID-19 continue to decline globally, although the trend should be interpreted with caution as many countries haves reduced the number of COVID-19 tests which reduces the number of cases find. Particularly, China is marching toward the second half of 2022 with a hard-won victory against the […]
Scott Lim, founder of Omni Capital Partners and his investment partner Derrick Kow sits with the FIRL Guys, John Huo and MJ Gan to talk about their experience and thoughts in investing and market overviews in China. Scott Lim and Derrick Kow shared how they got started and what their investing style is. They […]
Experts warned there are three things in particular that, alone or together, could reverse all the progress of recent months and send COVID cases and deaths skyrocketing, potentially prolonging the pandemic into its third year or longer: China, Africa and mutations. These three things that might stand in the way of global endemicity. China is […]
THE cryptocurrency market crash has begun, with close to US$800bil (RM3.51 trillion) in market value wiped out in the last 30 days. The total value of cryptocurrencies, at US$1.12 trillion (RM4.92 trillion), are now only a third of what they were six months ago. On Thursday, over US$200bil (RM878.5bil) was erased from the cryptocurrency market […]
The World Bank noted that the war in Ukraine threatens the uneven recovery of developing East Asia and Pacific countries from the COVID-19 shock. The war comes on top of the economic distress caused by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the financial tightening in the United States at high valuation, and the pandemic resurgence amidst zero-COVID […]
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