Bank Central Asia – Hunkering Down Is Not Helping
*Lower Costs and Under-Provisioning Support Result: Bank Central Asia’ (BBCA.IJ) [BCA] reported 2Q20 earnings results of IDR of 5.7 bn, declining...
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Indonesia: Another 50bp of Rate Cuts by October Will Spur 2H 2020 Recovery
BI cut its policy rate 25bp to 4% on Thursday (16 July), completing 100bp of cuts in 2020. But with inflation at 1.96% YoY in June, the real policy...
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Houston, We Have A Problem
* Pay Me To Take Your Assets: Yesterday, US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures closed at a negative USD 37.63 per barrel (bbl) [yes,...
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Start of Systematic Screening Provides Hope, but Widodo Has Yet to Cordon Java
Health: Quarantining Java – i.e., suspending travel between it and other islands – still has yet to receive consideration by policymakers in public...
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Hello Doni! New Task Force Chair Injects Hope / China Study Suggests Slow Tropical 'R'
In the space of a week, Indonesia’s outlook has actually improved. The Widodo administration had been distinctly negligent and inept about...
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