Economist, Centennial Asia Advisors

Nicholas Chia

Centennial Asia Advisors deliver timely and accurate economic and political analysis to investors, focused on anticipating key turning points that affect the client’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Clients include public agencies and central banks, as well as fund managers and investment banks. The company draws strength from its flexibility to tailor products to fit client’s specific interests. It provides detailed macro-economic forecasts, scenario analysis and timely assessments of how specific major economic and political developments may affect a client’s areas of interest. At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way.

Economist

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Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

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Macroeconomics

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<strong>Bank Indonesia kept policy rates unchanged</strong>. The decision to leave the rate untouched was made due to maintain macroeconomic stability in the face of a clouded external outlook, brought on by dearer oil, the potential outbreak of a US-China trade, and the tightening of financial and monetary conditions in advanced economies.</li>
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<strong>Exports rose 6.1% y/y in Mar 18</strong>, down from the 12.0% recorded in Feb 18. The slowdown in export growth can be attributed to the contraction in oil and gas exports (-11.5%)…</li>
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Bank Indonesia kept policy rates unchanged. The decision to leave the rate untouched was made due to maintain macroeconomic stability in the face of a clouded external outlook, brought on by dearer oil, the potential outbreak of a US-China trade, and the tightening of financial and monetary conditions in advanced economies.

Exports rose 6.1% y/y in Mar 18, down from the 12.0% recorded in Feb 18. The slowdown in export growth can be attributed to the contraction in oil and gas exports (-11.5%)…


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