Prepared by: Zane Okafor, Emerging Markets
Date: April 12, 2026
Distribution: Client-Ready
Coverage: North Asia, India, ASEAN, FX, Rates, Commodities, Cross-Asset Positioning
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Asia begins the new week with a constructive but selective setup. This is not an environment that rewards broad regional beta. Performance is increasingly concentrated in markets with visible earnings, credible policy settings, and stronger external resilience.
North Asia remains the clearest expression of that backdrop. Taiwan and Korea still sit closest to the AI, semiconductor, and digital infrastructure spending cycle, while selected Japanese industrial and automation names remain direct beneficiaries of global capex and ongoing corporate reform. That combination continues to offer the strongest earnings visibility in the region.
India remains one of the best structural domestic-demand stories in emerging markets, supported by formalization, infrastructure spending, manufacturing policy, and deepening financialization. The investment case remains intact, but valuation discipline matters more than it did when the story was less crowded.
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