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.

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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>Japan’s retail sales rose 1.6% y/y in Jan 18</strong>, slowing from +3.6% in Dec 17. The broad-based nature of the slowdown raised concerns about consumer spending going forward particularly as consumer confidence slipped to 44.3 in February from 44.7 in Jan 18. Sentiment on overall livelihood and employment growth was down from the previous month, but consumers’ sentiment of income growth was up.</li>
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<strong>Industrial production slowed to a 1.0% y/y gain</strong> in Jan 18, down from a 5.9% increase in Dec 17, as production…</li>
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Japan’s retail sales rose 1.6% y/y in Jan 18, slowing from +3.6% in Dec 17. The broad-based nature of the slowdown raised concerns about consumer spending going forward particularly as consumer confidence slipped to 44.3 in February from 44.7 in Jan 18. Sentiment on overall livelihood and employment growth was down from the previous month, but consumers’ sentiment of income growth was up.

Industrial production slowed to a 1.0% y/y gain in Jan 18, down from a 5.9% increase in Dec 17, as production…


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