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[East Asia Forum] Outlook for the global economy: waiting for the Chinese switch ...: Advanced economies are expected to contract by a record (-) 3.8 per cent and Asia’s newly industrializing economies (NIEs) by 5.6 per cent. Among the advanced economies, the worst sufferers are likely to be Japan and Germany who should see output shrink by 6.2 per cent and 5.5 per cent in 2009.

[Vietnam Banking and Finance RSS News Feed by Intellasia.Net] IMF sees 'long, severe recession' for Asia -- Intellasia.Net: Current news from East Asia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, .Asia's largest economy, Japan, is projected to shrink 6.2 percent this year, far worse than last year's contraction of 0.6 percent.

[Implode-Explode Heavy Industries news feed] implode-explode.com - Implosion News Pick-ups: Global Crisis ...: Commodity prices are also gaining amid signs that China’s 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package is beginning to work in Asia’s second-largest economy. Quarter-on-quarter growth improved significantly in the first three months of 2009, the Chinese central bank said yesterday, without giving figures.

[billy blog] billy blog » Blog Archive » Where the crisis means death!: But when you consider the data more generally and understand what is happening in Africa and Asia you get a broader insight into how unhinged the global economy has become during the neo-liberal years. In fact, you quickly start to understand that the global economic meltdown it hitting the poorer regions of the world more quickly and more strongly than the advanced world might ever care to contemplate.

[Signs of the Times] Signs of the Times News for Thu, 07 May 2009: Commodity prices are also gaining amid signs that China's 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package is beginning to work in Asia's second-largest economy. Quarter-on-quarter growth improved significantly in the first three months of 2009, the Chinese central bank said yesterday, without giving figures.

[The Austin Report] The Austin Report: Global Crisis ”˜Vastly Worse' Than 1930s, Taleb Says: Commodity prices are also gaining amid signs that China’s 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package is beginning to work in Asia’s second-largest economy. Quarter-on-quarter growth improved significantly in the first three months of 2009, the Chinese central bank said yesterday, without giving figures.

[ICIS Chemical Business latest] Asian Macro Economic Overview: "Despite years of robust economic growth, India scored worse than nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and all of South Asia, except Bangladesh," says the Washington, D.C.-based International Food Policy Research Institute in its 2008 Global Hunger Index.

[Talk Back] Talk Back » Blog Archive » Obama Must Use More Than Stimulus To ...: In addition to opposing genuine bank reform, the New York banking establishment opposes upsetting China on trade because it hopes to expand its presence in that nation once the credit crisis passes. Being heavily invested in the auto industry and receiving significant investments from Middle East oil exporters, New York banks are not strong advocates of aggressive policies to reduce U.S. oil import dependence.

[Brad Setser: Follow the Money] Brad Setser: Follow the Money » Blog Archive » Greenish shoots in ...: According to Brazil’s official statistics, the bilateral trade volume between Brazil and China reached 36.44 billion dollars in 2008, increasing 55.9 percent from 2007, among which Brazil’s export volume to China hit 16.4 billion dollars, import volume 20 billion dollars, rising 50.8 percent and 56.9 percent from the previous year respectively.

[TheSUBWAY - Stock Trader Blog] Oil rises above $57 on economic recovery hopes (AP) | TheSUBWAY ...: Oil prices rose above $57 a barrel Friday in Asia as investors bet that a year-end recovery in the global economy will boost oil demand.

[chinaeastern] chinaeastern » Blog Archive » The China Beat: Rambling Notes ...: Even as the megalopolis has been remade in just out decades, efforts are underway to selectively retrieve what remains of its pre-war architectural hallmark (1842-1937) and assorted of its archival records are classy deft to independent researchers. Touted as Asia's biggest and most cosmopolitan urban hinge in the pre-war cycle, Shanghai has (re)emerged extant the keep on two decades as "a foretoken of China's unborn and a testing earth fitted the fraternity at broad-shouldered."It is consequence significance reprising Shanghai's headstrong treaty-port years not unsullied as tourist-trivia employment: the years also offers a vantage make known from which to go over the at hand be tempted by of the megalopolis to epidemic perpetual.

[Commentary » Contentions] Commentary » Blog Archive » Inside the Stock Market Rally: For the past two decades China’s entry into the global economy rested on making cheap labour available to multi-nationals and pegging the renminbi to the dollar. The dollar peg allowed China to leverage the US financial system for its international needs, while domestic finance remained state-controlled to redistribute prosperity from the coast to interior provinces.

[China Business Blog and Podcast] China Business Blog and Podcast | Technomic Asia: Every market prognosticator worth his/her/its salt is in constant search-mode for “leading indicators” - data points that show us which way the markets are shifting and where trends will be moving before they actually become trends.  The easiest (and most used) are probably the ones everyone knows: GDP, consumer prices, commodity prices, exchange rates, etc.  Look on the back page of any financial magazine and you’ll find them ”¦ the problem, is that different sources will have different data, all highlighted by an asterisk that tells you why they are different.  Then mix in the challenge in China where economic data is so fraught with government intervention and interpretation so as to make it intelligible at best and downright false at worse.

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