Capital
Asia-Pacific isn’t catching up to the global economy anymore — it’s writing the rules. Track the markets, trade shifts, and investment plays reshaping where Western money goes next.
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Jun- 2026 -23 June
Nvidia’s US$5 trillion peak exposed the AI bet’s broken math
South Korea's Kospi fell 10% on June 23, the worst day since 2008, as SK Hynix and Samsung each lost over 12%, signaling investors now doubt whether chip spending will…
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23 June
America’s cooking gas is now feeding India’s kitchens
The US jumped from 8% to 33% of India's LPG imports in two months, locked in by a 2.2-million-tonne term deal signed before the Middle East war disrupted Gulf supplies.
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22 June
Asia’s biggest ETFs bled $2.5 billion before the rebound
BlackRock's India and Taiwan funds lost a combined $2.5 billion in March 2026 as geopolitical risk overwhelmed earnings, leaving the April bounce resting on a single Trump statement about the…
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22 June
China’s yuan push hits a wall: control beats convertibility
At the Lujiazui Forum, Beijing announced a new facility for foreign central banks to borrow yuan, but the currency still settles just 3.3% of global payments—a gap a decade of…
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22 June
Australia’s wine bet on Southeast Asia, not just China
Southeast Asian exports hit AUD 374 million in 2025, up 11 per cent, as the industry hedges against renewed dependence on a single market after tariffs fell.
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20 June
India’s fuel firms swallowed $2.6 billion to shield kitchens from conflict
State-owned oil marketing companies absorbed ₹22,000 crore in losses between March and May 2026, holding domestic LPG prices nearly flat while the global benchmark jumped 46% during West Asia tensions.
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19 June
Chinese EV makers just claimed 17.6 percent of Indonesia’s car market
BYD, DSFK and Wuling Motors are moving beyond showroom announcements to factory investment, backed by 1.83 million new energy vehicle exports from China in the first five months of 2026.
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19 June
Franklin Templeton just put $1.6 trillion on a blockchain
The U.S. asset manager is distributing its tokenised money market fund to institutional investors across the Middle East through Dubai's Tokinvest, testing how far traditional fund regulation stretches without rewriting…
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17 June
American whiskey exports to Japan collapsed. Now the US is chasing East Asia.
A 28% drop in Japanese whiskey sales and a 70% collapse in Canadian exports pushed the Distilled Spirits Council to spend US$900,000 in federal marketing funds on Japan and Taiwan…
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15 June
Malaysia’s mall boom is really a bet on apartments next door
The Klang Valley holds 71.2 million sq ft of retail space — 39% of the national total — but developers keep building because the mall itself is secondary to the…
