Two Argentine exchanges plan to merge
Two of Argentina’s exchanges, Rofex and the Rosario stock exchange (MervaRos), have agreed to merge as consolidation continues to sweep Latin America’s bourses. Rofex, or Mercado a Término de Rosario,...
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Felda presses on with blockbuster IPO
One IPO bites the dust, while plans for an even bigger one are dusted off. Hours after Graff Diamonds, purveyor of high-end jewellery, pulled its $1bn IPO from the Hong Kong market, Malaysia’s prime...
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Malaysian IPOs: zooming ahead
Initial public offering windows are opening and closing faster than ever and the story of equity capital markets issuance globally isn’t great. The latest figures from Dealogic for south-east Asia...
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Felda: a fair deal for smallholders?
To manage an 18 per cent pop on day one of a stock market listing is no mean feat in current market conditions. That is what Felda Global Ventures, the Malaysian palm oil operator, managed on the Bursa...
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Malaysia: raising the Olympic stakes
Here's what you could win Malaysia’s Olympic badminton players will no doubt be digging deep into mental and physical reserves to win medals at the London Olympics. But they now have an added...
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Welcome to KL, IPO-town
If you are a banker with a thin book of business in equity capital markets – which probably means most of you – try moving to Kuala Lumpur. Bankers in KL are enjoying a boom of breathtaking...
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CapitaLand highlights balancing act in Chinese property market
Photo: Bloomberg If your aim is to “truly prevent a rebound in housing prices” – as China’s Politburo promised recently – you won’t necessarily welcome news from a big property developer that it’s on...
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Indonesia current account: a yawning gap
Bad news often slips out when no-one seems to be paying attention. That’s what appears to have happened on Friday when Bank Indonesia released shockingly bad quarterly current account figures – with a...
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SE Asia: business confidence droops
The conventional wisdom for the past six months has been that south-east Asia is pretty much the last man standing in the global economy. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore...
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Can Petronas ease Canada’s concerns?
It’s not often that the cities of Kuala Lumpur and Ottawa are mentioned in the same sentence. Yet the Malaysian and Canadian capitals, respectively, are at the centre of an intriguing dilemma for...
View ArticleBooming southeast Asia facing new headwinds: ADB
Robust domestic demand, the rise of the middle class and healthy corporate balance sheets are reasons why southeast Asia is being talked up as the last man standing in an otherwise anaemic global...
View ArticleMyanmar: Will Asia’s breadbasket rise again?
To the lengthening list of foreign companies beating a path to Myanmar, add at least two more: Wilmar, one of Asia’s largest agribusinesses, and Cargill, the commodities’ trader. Wilmar, a...
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Malaysia: promoting investment in troubled Sabah
Promoting investment into places like Sabah, on the eastern tip of Malaysia’s bit of Borneo, isn’t easy at the best of times. It is a remote part of Southeast Asia known mostly for spectacular diving...
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Southeast Asia: shipping reveals trade secrets
Photo: Bloomberg For emerging market-watchers, data matter. But if you really want an insight into how trends are shifting on trade flows – especially in Southeast Asia – it pays to listen to a...
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Penang bids to regain its shine
Bose, the US maker of speakers and home entertainment systems, has chosen what to some might seem an unexpected location for its first manufacturing plant in Asia: Penang, on Malaysia’s western coast....
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Malaysia: election pledges mount up
Election give-aways are the oldest political trick in the book. But in Malaysia the prime minister, Najib Razak, is taking them to a new level with the distribution of cash handouts to low-income...
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Malaysia’s “electoral crime”
Waiting for Najib Razak, Malaysia’s prime minister, to call a much-anticipated general election is getting to be painful. First it was to have been called at the beginning of the month. This would have...
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Wilmar sees African sweet spot
Asia’s footprint in Africa’s commodity-rich economies has been growing, with Singapore-listed companies among the biggest investors. Wilmar, the world’s largest refiner of palm oil, first moved into...
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Malaysia’s election: good for business?
As we come to the end of the first week of official campaigning in Malaysia’s cliffhanger general election – expected to the closest since the country’s independence in 1957 – a strange thing is...
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Malaysia: don’t ditch Najib
Malaysia’s general election produced what many did not believe was probable, even if certainly possible: a respectable win for the ruling coalition, known as Barisan Nasional. Yet some are now saying...
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