The relationship between Pakistan and India has improved considerably since the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947, 1965, 1971, and 1999.
Today, while many market watchers worry about whether the eurozone is about to fall apart, India and Pakistan provide a story of coming together. The Financial Times observes that
"India and Pakistan are preparing for the biggest liberalisation in bilateral trade since partition more than six decades ago."
What is going on? Why NOW? Is it really possible that the conflicts and mistrust between the world's 2nd and 6th most-populous nations should continue to wane and may even turn into a golden era of rapprochement?
- Real Stock Market Returns vs. Inflation-Adjusted Returns: Did you know that in real terms, 6 of the 8 major markets that The Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast covers each month still trade below peaks last seen in the early 1990s or even the late 1980s? Does that mean that the Asian bull markets have been a "fake"? We give you our analysis and conclusions.
- Asian Currencies vs. the U.S. Dollar: The U.S. dollar cross-rates for many East Asian currencies tend to correlate well with the ups and downs of their related national stock indexes. The November issue shows you our Elliott wave count for the Bloomberg-JP Morgan Asia Dollar Index to answer the question, "Is the trend in Asia is still rising?"
- “Be Very Afraid of the China Bubble,” said an October cover of Time magazine. The "magazine cover" indicator says that when popular news media make a strong statement about the direction of a financial market, it often signals that the trend is nearly exhausted. Get our take on this Time cover -- along with a fresh Elliott wave count for the Shanghai Composite.
- 3rd Political Parties: When do they do well -- in good economic times, or bad? We look at Korea, Thailand and Australia's recent election results to give you the answer.
- Middle East: Expect the Unexpected. We consider Israel's Tel-Aviv 100, Amman General, Qatar's DSM, Saudi Arabia's TASI and Kuwait's KWSE stock indexes and explain why "the Middle East will remain a tinderbox for a while."
- PLUS: You get our latest forecasts for stocks in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan.
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