Asia

SINGAPORE (Nov 17): Currencies used to be influenced by a number of different factors, political, structural and cyclical.  However, HSBC FX Strategy now believes the dominant driver is politics.

SINGAPORE (Oct 26): Institutional investors around the world have recorded an improvement in risk appetite for the second month running, driving State Street’s global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) up by 3.6 points to 99.1 in October from September’s

BEIJING (Oct 13): China's September exports fell 10% from a year earlier, far worse than expected, while imports unexpectedly shrank after picking up in August, suggesting signs of steadying in the world's second-largest economy may be short-lived

SINGAPORE (Sept 28): Institutional investors appear to be more confident as the State Street Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for September rose 5.8 points to 95.5, driven by increases in the Asian ICI and North American ICI.

SINGAPORE (Aug 24): Tencent Holdings Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are racing to be crowned Asia's most valuable company as expectations for robust earnings growth push their share prices to record highs.

SINGAPORE (July 4): Asia’s newest headline manufacturing PMI readings from Markit, CEIC and HSBC’s combined study may reflect low inventories for some countries of late – but this does not mean that new orders nor output growth are picking up, says