UOB's return on equity has been only slightly above the 9% level we assume as its cost of equity, but we forecast that its ROE will remain above 12% across our forecast horizon as its revenue benefits ...

Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election will dominate the coming week and is likely to have a significant impact on global ...

Banks have a cautious stance as their lending policy for Q4. The loan growth of Thai banks are expected to fall short of ...

Vietnamese consumers showed the highest level of optimism regarding their country’s economic outlook and higher appetite for ...

China announced a Rmb10tn ($1.4tn) fiscal package on Friday to help shore up its faltering economy, as it braces for increased trade tensions with the US under Donald Trump.

US treasury yields have almost fallen back to pre-election levels after an initial spike following Donald Trump’s victory. The yield on the 10-year Treasury declined 0.05 percentage points to 4.3 per ...

What are the likely risks that the economy faces from now until the end of the year? It will likely be a challenging period for Vietnam approaching the end of this year. While we see upside risk to ...

Việt Nam News spoke with Heng Koon How, Head of Markets Strategy at Global Economics & Markets Research for United Overseas Bank Limited ... Indonesia, Thailand, and Việt Nam may introduce policy ...

UOB economists ... of economic growth, unlike, for instance, neighboring Bank Indonesia's (BI) dual task that included defending their currency, the Indonesian rupiah. The BI kept its interest rates ...

(Bloomberg) -- Thailand ... his forecast for the baht to rise to appreciate to 32.5 per dollar at end of 2024. Jian Hui Tan, investment strategist at United Overseas Bank: I would read it as a small ...

UOB revised down its 2024 Thai inflation forecast after the lower-than-expected October headline inflation print of 0.8% y/y. It should then pick up to 1.2% in 2025, which it revised down 0.1pp due to ...