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

Alpha Bites: Long Indonesia Rupiah (IDR) Vs Short Singapore Dollar (SGD)

FX Dashboard: Leaders and Laggards in EM FX as US Yields Retreat from the Peak

Indonesia: Loose Mobility Curbs Fail to Spruce Up The Economy

Indonesia: Budding Signs of a Turnaround, But Watch The IDR

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

FX & Rates

<ul>
<li>Bank Indonesia moved to cut rates to support the flagging economy, after a flurry of data from last week points to an economy that is still stuck in a rut.</li>
<li>Conditioned on a favourable global risk appetite alongside a current account deficit that will remain under wraps because of import compression, rising commodity prices and growing inflows of EV-related FDI, we expect one more rate cut by BI some time later in 2021.</li>
</ul>


Bank Indonesia moved to cut rates to support the flagging economy, after a flurry of data from last week points to an economy that is still stuck in a rut.
Conditioned on a favourable global risk appetite alongside a current account deficit that will remain under wraps because of import compression, rising commodity prices and growing inflows of EV-related FDI, we expect one more rate cut by BI some time later in 2021.


Indonesia: Latest Rate Cut By BI Unlikely To Be The Last In 2021