November 2008

• West in Crisis, East in Cyclical Setback

October 2008

• Asia: Braving Crisis

September 2008

• Markets in Crisis, but not Meltdown

August 2008

• The World is Split

July 2008

• Global Focus: Welcome to Our World

June 2008

• Global Focus: The Challenges of Inflation

May 2008

• Global Focus: Monthly analysis of economic and financial market developments

April 2008

• Global Focus: Monthly Analysis of Asian, African, Middle Eastern Economies

March 2008

• Global Focus: Monthly Analysis of Asian, African, Middle Eastern Economies

February 2008

• Global Focus: Insulation is the key

January 2008

• Global Focus: The Business Cycle Still Exists

December 2007

• Global Focus: There Is Decoupling, But There Is Contagion As Well

October 2007

• Asia Focus: Asian Politics, Perceptions and Reality

September 2007

• Asia Focus: A Bumpy Boom Year, As Predicted

August 2007

• Asia Focus: Inflation With Asian Characteristics

July 2007

• Asia Focus: Easy Money, No Easy Solution

June 2007

• Asia Focus : Environment: Asia's Achilles' Heel?

May 2007

• Asia Focus : Asia and Globalisation's Next Crisis

April 2007

• Asia Focus : Made in Asia: Where is the Country of Origin?

March 2007

• Asia Focus : Property Prospects Promising

February 2007

• Asia Focus : A New Silk Road in the Making

January 2007

• Asia Focus : A Good Year, For The Brave Heart

December 2006

• Asia Focus : To Peg or Not To Peg: HKD and CNY

November 2006

• Asia Focus : Asia Needs To Foster Cross Border Talent Flows

October 2006

• Asia Focus : Asia Set To Slow, As Electronic Cycle Peaks

September 2006

• Asia Focus : Intra-Asia Portfolio Flows, A Weak Link

August 2006

• Asia Focus : Asian Consumerism, More, Not Less

July 2006

• Asia Focus : Global Inflation? Don't Blame China! Nor Asia!

June 2006

• Asia Focus : Intra-Asia Investment Reinforces Integration

May 2006

• Asia Focus : Higher Oil Prices Need Better Policy

April 2006

• Asia Focus: Intra-Asia Trade Leads Growth

March 2006

• Asia Focus: Invest More, Not Save Less

February 2006

• Asia Focus: As Japan Awakes

March 2004

• Comments on the 2004/05 Budget

July 2003

• FX Strategy: Asia Appreciates Liberalisation Rather Than Revaluation


• Asian Economic Focus: Why China doesn't want to change the peg now

May 2003

• Global Interest Rate Strategy: The Fed Will Cut - Unless the Data Improves


• Asian Economic Focus: SARS Masks Underlying Strength

April 2003

• Global Interest Rate Strategy: Peering Through the Fog of War


• Asian Economic Focus: Growth, Competitiveness and Financial Stability

March 2003

• New Themes In Asia: Hong Kong's Economy - The Glass Is Half Full Not Half Empty


• HK Budget 2003: A Palatable Fiscal Starter


• Asian Economic Focus: Gulf of Expectations

January 2003

• FX Strategy: Dollar Deflates, Euro Excites, But Asia is Key

December 2002

• New Themes in Asia: Two Fundamentally Different Views on the Hong Kong Economy


• Asian Economic Focus: Asia's Outperformance to Continue in 2003

November 2002

• This week's rate decisions: Fed to lead, ECB to lag


• Asian Economic Focus: Growth Slows As Uncertainty Rises

October 2002

• Weekly Market Report: Bali and Banks to Test the Markets' Nerves


• Monthly Update: Key Interest Rates


• Focus on Hong Kong's Public Sector Reform, not the Fiscal Deficit

March 2002

• Deflationary Conditions in HK


• HK: restructuring & turning around


• Antony Leung's economic vision : another important milestone in HK's strategic re-positioning


• Speculation on the HKD again ?


• Economic Bulletin

February 2002

• Argentina - hyperinflation looms as financial system faces bankruptcy

January 2002

• Economic Update on China - January 2002


• Long-term RMB forecast


• RMB & HKD

December 2001

• The JPY, east Asia & HK


• The Argentina crisis


• Update on China's Petroleum and Petrochemical Industry

November 2001

• HK property market


• Hong Kong: developing its technological capabilities


• Taiwan update - November 2001

October 2001

• The legal status of the linked exchange rate of the HKD


• Beijing city's offer of preferential treatment to HK investors


• Liberalizing Hong Kong's border


• China update - October 2001


• Hong Kong update - October 2001

September 2001

• China's WTO


• The attack on the US -- a nervous day in Asia

August 2001

• The impact of "three links" on Hong Kong


• Latest Development in China's Stock Market


• Emerging and Transforming Securities Industry in China --- Markets, Institutions and Legal System


• Korea update - August 2001

July 2001

• China's private sector


• Brief China update


• Update On The East Asia Region


• US-Hong Kong trade relations


• Taiwan update - July 2001

June 2001

• China update - June 2001

April 2001

• China's Banking System in Transition


• Hong Kong update - April 2001

March 2001

• Competitive devaluation serves nobody's interest


• Korea -- economic update

February 2001

• China's -- some observations


• Asia Update

January 2001

• China's RMB


• China Outlook for the Beginning of New Millennium


• Outlook for China


• Hong Kong's economy in 2001


• Reflections on east Asia after the US rate cut

December 2000

• Taiwan: when will one see the light?


• Update on East Asia

November 2000

• Hong Kong's housing / land policy


• The Impact of WTO Entry on China's Petroleum and Petrochemical Industry

October 2000

• HK Property Market


• Impact on Hong Kong of direct Taiwan - China trade

September 2000

• Hong Kong's GDP growth rate could slow to 3% in Q1 2001


• Taiwan's economic challenge


• The Impact of WTO Entry on China's Steel Industry

August 2000

• Stock Market Reform in China


• China/HK/Taiwan update

July 2000

• A New Economic Cycle Firmly in Place in China - Quarterly Economic Update on China


• Economic Update on East Asia


• Hong Kong's Residential Property: Prices are Likely to Have Bottomed


• A General Assessment of the Impact of WTO Entry on China's Industrial Enterprises

June 2000

• Hong Kong's Real GDP Growth to Exceed 10% This Year


• China's Economy and Reforms with WTO

April 2000

• China Update


• Time to Review Hong Kong's Housing Strategy

March 2000

• South Korea -- 10% growth expected in 2000


• Taiwan after the election


• China's NPC


• K C Kwok, Chief Economist, Standard Chartered Bank


• N.E Asian Quarterly


• Hong Kong: The Month Ahead

February 2000

• Taiwan Presidential Election and Its Implications


• Hong Kong's Economic Transformaion and Strategic Positioning


• Hong Kong: The Month Ahead

January 2000

• China's Economy and the RMB


• Hong Kong: The Month Ahead