US President Barack Obama, en route to ‘Asia’ (I use the speech marks, because Asia is so diverse and it is inaccurate to consider it a single entity), has no shortage of issues to deal with when he gets there. There seems to be a general feeling that US influence in Asia is on the [Read more...]

Asia’s economies are already in recovery mode, but there are still many uncertainties ahead. In a ‘Webinar’ held with the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in Singapore, BMI analysts Yoel Sano and Eugene Leow discuss the following questions:

• Which economies will be outperformers in 2009 and 2010, and why?

• Are Asian economies decoupling from the US?

• Can Asia [Read more...]

The long-heralded ‘Asian growth story’ is rapidly becoming an ‘Asian collapse story’ in 2009. Perhaps ‘collapse’ is too strong a word, but Business Monitor International (BMI) has recently revised or is currently in the process of revising down its GDP growth forecasts for several Asian economies, including South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong. [Read more...]

Singapore may be the only Asian economy currently in recession, but there is no reason to believe that its future is not bright. In fact, having just spent last week there, I concluded that the present recession should be a blip in the grand scheme of things.

Singapore has many positive attributes that lead me to [Read more...]