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Malaysia’s Troubles Are Just Beginning – OpEd
By Andrew Harding As it tussles with multiple crises of political legitimacy and governance, Malaysia has reached a decisive point in its more than half-century history as an independent nation. What started as a shocking but not exceptional scandal has turned into a political crisis of unprecedented proportions. This was underlined by the Bersih 4 protests on … Continue reading
As Scandal Mounts, Largesse Keeps Malaysia’s PM In Power
By Nile Bowie Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak – a British-educated technocrat with a reputation for opulence – is at the center of an unprecedented scandal. A sovereign wealth fund established to develop lucrative industries and boost economic growth in Malaysia, the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), has incurred more than $11 billion in debts and is … Continue reading
Malaysia ETF (EWM) Hits New 52-Week Low
By Zacks Equity Research For investors seeking to know about the painful areas of investing, iShares MSCI Malaysia Index Fund (EWM) is probably on the radar now. The fund just hit a 52-week low, and shares of EWM are down roughly 36.6% from their 52-week high price of $16.32/share. Are more pains in store for this … Continue reading
Asian Financial Crisis Redux?: Is Malaysia Set To Introduce Capital Controls, Currency Peg?
In July 1997, during the dawn of the Asian Financial Crisis, the Malaysian ringgit was heavily traded by speculators. The overnight rate jumped from under 8 percent to over 40 percent. This led to rating downgrades and a broad selloff of its stock and currency markets. By the end of 1997, Malaysia’s ratings had fallen many notches from investment grade … Continue reading
Malaysia Planning More Fuel Subsidy Cuts Amid Scandal Which Raises Policy Risk
Malaysia is planning to cut more government fuel subsidies and move billions of dollars in government employee housing loans off its balance sheets to shore up its fiscal position, in the face of a growing scandal that is threatening Prime Minister Najib Razak’s ability to execute potentially unpopular policies, Bloomberg reported on Monday night. The Malaysian government will … Continue reading
Malaysia’s Economy: Tricky Tasks Facing Najib Razak
By Shankaran Nambiar After a year of solid achievements on the economic front, Malaysia’s leaders will face difficult circumstances as they implement reform in 2015. One of the more impressive achievements of the Malaysian government in 2014 was the resolve it demonstrated in trying to balance the budget. Prime Minister Najib Razak inherited a budget … Continue reading
Will Falling Commodity Prices Bring Down Malaysian Growth?
By Nurhisham Hussein World oil prices are falling precipitously. For an oil exporter like Malaysia, that’s definitely bad news. Unless the country can diversify its economy, it may find it difficult to navigate its way through the economic challenges it faces on its way to higher income status. Of course, the drop in the world … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight (19-Dec-2014)
By ETFalpha Global Emerging Markets expressed as iShares MSCI EM ETF (EEM) have been remaining in both negative trend and momentum. However, if the recent market bounce appears to be sustainable during the week commencing December, 21st we may see momentum turing into positive territory. Assuming that’s the case we would be recommending to increase … Continue reading
Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation Insight
By ETFalpha Contact(at)ETFalpha.uk What an interesting week for global stocks and Emerging Markets. The levels of volatility jumped significantly with the VIX Index reading increased by more than 78% for the week! Both Emerging and Frontier Markets lost around 6% predominantly due to plummeting oil and generally commodity prices. Technically things look awful as both … Continue reading
Your Weekly Emerging & Frontier Market ETF Dashboard: Quantitative Asset Allocation (Iconographic)
Emerging and Frontier Markets are an asset class itself these days and offer investors amazing opportunities. The challenge is to harness the amount of volatility relatively bigger versus the other equity asset classes. Also the universe of ETFs in that space is pretty big and any successful asset allocation approach has to follow a well … Continue reading
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