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India: Proposed Industrial Investment 2018
January 2018, India’s proposed industrial investment stood at 217,980 INR mn, fluctuating between then and the end of September 2018. By the end of February, this had moved to 643,910 INR mn and down again to 379,080 INR mn March and 170,150 INR mn in April. May saw an upturn, coming in at 490,430 INR mn, continuing into June at 662,490 INR mn. There was a dip in July at 130,720 INR mn, before increasing again to 321,260 INR mn (August) and 406,940 INR mn (September).
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Russia: MED Economic Forecast 2019 to 2020
According to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, there are some big targets for 2019 to 2020. Russia’s GDP growth target for 2019 is 104,570.35 RUB bn and 112,941.83 RUB bn by 2020. When it comes on to foreign exchange rates against USD, Russia’s target is to be at 65.97 RUB/USD 2019 and 67.40 RUB/USD 2020. They also have natural gas export targets at 207,700,000,000 Cub m by the end of 2019 and 210,400,000,000 2020.
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Foreign Exchange Reserves (Asian Markets)
We explored the foreign exchange reserves of select Asian economies, namely China, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines. At the end of September and October 2018 respectively, China’s foreign exchange reserve stood at 3,087,025 USD mn and 3,053,098 USD mn, Taiwan at 460,441 USD mn and 460,178 USD mn, Malaysia at 99,538.99 USD mn and 98,200 USD mn and the Philippines at 65, 692.10 USD mn and 65,251.03 USD mn.