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Most Southeast Asian stock markets slumped on Thursday, following a tech rout on Wall Street that saw the year’s gains being wiped out. Disappointing forecasts from chipmakers beat down the tech sector, sending investors scurrying to the safety of sovereign…
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index closed at 1,004.74 points Thursday, reaching four figures for the first time in two months. It gained 9.2 points. The HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange and the UPCoM-Index for unlisted companies rose by 0.75 percent and 1.01…
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index closed up 1.52 percent on Tuesday, the highest in two months. It ended the day at 985.06, up 14.72 points. The HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange and the UPCoM-Index for unlisted companies rose by 0.66 percent and 0.81 percent,…
The Hang Seng Index topped 30,000 for the first time in a decade on Nov. 22 amid a market sea change that is bringing mainland Chinese companies to the fore and leaving many big local names behind. The Hong Kong benchmark ended the day at 30,003.49, up 0.62%.…
Parkson Retail Asia Limited (O9E.SI)’s moving averages reveal that the Tenkan line of the shares are below the Kijun-Sen line, indicating potential downward momentum building in the bearish chart. Parkson Retail Asia Limited moved -0.001 in the most recent…
‘Index Living Mall’ (ILM), No.1 Home Furnishings Stores and ASEAN retailer with the highest number of branches across the country, self-owned factories, and a world class exporter, has declared the partnership with ‘CT Corp’: Indonesian’s No.1 business group…
The central bank of Indonesia, Bank Indonesia (BI), has launched a Strategic Food Price Center website (PIHPS) application which will serve as a reference of pricing information to help those in charge of making policy on inflation management. BIs Governor…
Air and ocean volumes on Asia-Europe trade lanes eastbound and westbound are expected to surge in the coming months, according to the latest survey results for The New APAC Forwarding Index being developed by Mike King & Associates and Logistics Trends &…
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance will start selling insurance products that compensate farmers hit by drought in Indonesia as early as this autumn. Earlier this month, Sompo Japan signed a memorandum to partner with BMKG, Indonesia’s meteorological bureau, to…
As per industrial data released on Wednesday, Japan has witnessed economical growth after months of stagnation. The country’s industrial output increased 1.5 percent on month, and inventories fell 1.5 percent on month and 4.8 percent on-year. Japan’s retail…
The Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) launched an online investment-based simulation game “Nabung Saham Go” (Saving Stocks Go) as one of the measures to introduce the capital market industry to the public, especially to university students. “The game was one of…
Statistics Korea revealed Tuesday that it’s developing what it calls a ‘quick-time consumption index’ based on civilian credit card approval information provided by the Credit Finance Association (CFA). The new index will use big data related to credit card…
South Korea plans to unveil a new index tracing online retail prices this year by using big data from private sector to reflect actual economic sentiment, according to Statistics Korea on Tuesday. The state-run agency plans to release an online price index…
The Jakarta composite index (JCI) closed 42.61 points higher on Friday on selective buying by market players. The index of the Indonesian Stock Exchange rose 0.96 percent to 4,456.74 points with index of 45 blue chips up 1.48 percent to 779.31 points.…
Thailand’s consumer sentiment recovered for the first time in 10 months in October, thanks to the government’s continued introduction of economic stimulus measures. The University of Thai Chamber of Commerce said Thursday that the consumer confidence index…
Thai homewares giant Index Living Mall has signed a Philippines partner as its Asian expansion continues. Index will team up with the Philippines largest retail and mall operator SM Group to run the franchise for the concept for at least five years. Index…
