The latest monthly activity data for Korea suggest that the economy weakened again last month and that GDP will have contracted in the second quarter of the year.
In addition, while the central bank in the Philippines this week hinted strongly that interest rates would be cut at its August meeting, the minutes from the Bank of Thailand’s June meeting all but ruled out the possibility of an early cut there.
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