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

Global Economy: US Is Clear Leader in G3; Japan Regains Its Footing; Outlook for Eurozone Is Murky

Global Economy: Cracks Are Widening Beneath the Veneer of Respectable Global Growth

Global PMIs: Spillover of Global Demand into Trade Activity Weakens

Global Economy: Darkening Clouds but US Remains a Beacon

Global Economy: US Strength Not Enough to Offset Loss of Momentum in the Rest of the World

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.

Economic Policy and Strategic Advisors

Macroeconomics

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<li>Two trends emerge from recent data. First, the global manufacturing economy remains in remarkably fine fettle despite trade war concerns while forward-looking indicators are positive as well. This upbeat outlook bodes well for Asian exporters.</li>
<li>Second, the US economy is, if anything, too strong: the labour market is likely to tighten with spillovers into wage growth and inflation. It will not be long before Asian economies have to grapple with the fallout induced by a quicker pace of Fed monetary tightening.</li>
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Two trends emerge from recent data. First, the global manufacturing economy remains in remarkably fine fettle despite trade war concerns while forward-looking indicators are positive as well. This upbeat outlook bodes well for Asian exporters.
Second, the US economy is, if anything, too strong: the labour market is likely to tighten with spillovers into wage growth and inflation. It will not be long before Asian economies have to grapple with the fallout induced by a quicker pace of Fed monetary tightening.


Global Economy: PMIs Reveal Sanguine Outlook, Albeit with Some Moderation