Irene Cheung Quotes (7 Quotes)

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

The Japanese yen will become less of a driver for Asian foreign exchange and the influence of the yuan will grow.

I see more interest rate hikes and this will dampen domestic consumption. Also, the coming 50 percent increase in fuel prices will have a major impact on inflation.

China is now a more important trading partner than Japan.

Asian economies are in better shape, so it's more than possible that Asian central banks will allow further gains.

The economy is improving and there is a case building for the central bank to hike rates. We will look to short the bonds on price rallies.

For North Asia, Korea is the prime candidate to see consumption-led demand in 2006, given the turnaround of domestic spending.