Archive List for Asia Squawk Box

Ex-Malaysian prime minister Najib will get better treatment in prison than I did: Opposition leader

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Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim discusses former prime minister Najib Razak’s 12-year jail sentence for corruption in the 1MDB scandal.

Tencent is regaining growth momentum across its core sectors, says financial services firm

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Esme Pau of Macquarie Group says Tencent’s core segments are showing early signs of improvement.

Product affordability is one key reason why we like Coca-Cola stock: Barclays

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Laura Liberman of Barclays discusses her call on the Coca-Cola stock post earnings.

Sri Lanka needs political stability to draw IMF support, says professor

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Deborah Brautigam of Johns Hopkins University explains that the IMF does not provide assistance solely on the basis of an emergency, and that it requires assurances that its money will be repaid.

Asian central banks are being vigilant on inflation, ADB says

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Albert Park of the bank says although the reliance on rice as opposed to wheat or corn in Asia has managed to keep inflation in check, he discusses the factors that could lead to the increase in rice prices.

Sri Lanka’s acting president is not the ‘long-term answer’ to the political crisis, says analyst

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Akhil Bery of the Asia Society Policy Institute says acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe never finished a term as prime minister.

It’s a ‘ridiculous’ idea to suggest putting price cap on Russian oil: Expert

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Gal Luft of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security Capacity says the proposal of putting price cap on Russians will backfire.

Biden’s Middle East trip is ‘quite questionable,’ says think tank

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Trita Parsi of The Quincy Institute says that when it comes to reasserting American leadership, there’s likely to be “more rhetoric than substance.”

Japan’s ‘hands are twisted’ and it will have to continue buying LNG from Russia, says Jefferies

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Pham Thanhha of the financial services firm says Japan is a very resource-poor country and much of its gas is imported from overseas.

Goldman Sachs explains why China’s inflation rate remains low

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Andrew Tilton of the investment bank says China’s situation is different because its economic activity has suffered from significant Covid-19 lockdowns.