Credit Rating

Facing a toxic combination of high external debt, dwindling cash reserves, surging inflation and a nosediving currency, the small Southeast Asian nation of Laos...

The Lao central bank is under pressure from mounting debt US credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has become...

Malaysia is expected to maintain a robust economic momentum but will grow slower than last year, according to estimations by Moody's Investors Service issued...

The Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) will begin trading in early December, Myanmar’s deputy finance minister Maung Maung Thein said on October 13. Initially slated to...

Ahead of its anxiously awaited general elections slated for November 8, Myanmar is taking big steps forward in closing up to the modern world...

Rating agency Moody's Investors Service raised Vietnam's credit rating for the first time in nearly two years on July 29 to B1 with a...

The May 22 coup d'etat in Thailand will neither restore investor confidence nor help its economy to avoid a cut in its growth forecast...

Rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) has again upgraded the Philippines' credit rating to two notches above junk status, as the debt watcher expects...

Philippine imports surged 21.8 per cent in January 2014, their highest level in nearly three years, with imports of raw materials indicating further upward...

The Philippines may get a further credit rating upgrade as early as 2014 on the back of the economy’s rosy prospects, Bangko Sentral ng...

Moody's Investors Service has affirmed Malaysia's government bond and issuer ratings at A3, but has changed the outlook to positive from stable. The international...

Fitch has affirmed the sovereign credit rating of the Republic of Indonesia at BBB-/stable outlook. In a press release on November 15, the ratings agency ...

Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said he believes that Malaysia can avoid a cut to its credit rating while the government will try its...

Rating agency Fitch has said it is maintaining its stable outlook for Thailand's sovereign credit rating despite a slew of risks including a narrowing...

Despite being ranked higher by credit rating agencies, the default risk of Malaysia's government bonds climbed above that of the Philippines for the first...

Malaysia increased the price of petrol (RON95) and diesel at midnight on September 2 by 0.20 ringgit ($0.06) to 2.10 ringgit and 2.00 ringgit,...

The government in Manila has been put under pressure by rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) that the Philippines might lose it "investment grade"...

Rating and Investment Information Inc (R&I), a debt watcher from Japan, has upgraded its Philippines' credit outlook from "stable" to "positive" citing "progressive changes...