Economy
Chart of the Day: It's downhill for wage growth
This is the result of combined weak growth and high inflation.
Philippines keeps an eye on real estate loans
As loan growth seemingly cools down to 15%.
Taiwan's policy discount rate to stand pat at 1.875%
It has remained steady for 3 quarters.
Malaysia's industrial production jumped 5.8% yoy in October
It's a sign of resilience, says BBVA.
Check out this graph showing Korea's 36-year low share of investment
Plus a record-high share of exports in GDP.
China's imports, exports badly disappoint market expectations
Investors raised their eyebrows on 2.9% growth.
Malaysia's export sales drops 3.2%
A bad sign for the industrial production.
FASBI deposit rate hike looms in Indonesia
An 75bps increase is expected in mid-2013.
With Q3 contraction, Japan economy plunges to technical recession
Downward GDP revisions result in consecutive negative growths.
2 inflation woes China investors must hurdle
Even amid 7.8% GDP growth.
Tourism no longer a stalwart for Singapore's economy in 2013
Transport engineering and construction took its place.
3 threats Indonesia must fight against in 2013
Low 4.3% inflation will uptick.
Thailand's inflation to edge down to 3%
In fact, inflation isn't much of a problem.
Philippines overnight borrowing rate hits record low 3.5%
A total of 100bps were cut this year.
Malaysia industrial production to dip to 1.3%
Not a very pretty picture.
Korea's exports growth surge to 3.9%
Manufacturing PMI also rose to 48.2.
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