Scotland's whisky industry has seen a buoyant start to the year thanks to a resurgence in demand in Asian markets, new figures show.
It is growing because the region it serves is growing, and the region it serves is this new Middle East and emerging Asian markets.
We believe it will be an important block trading venue for Asian markets, attracting new participants and improving the trading environment in the region.
Since then, because hardly any new money has been flowing into Asian markets and because India is being painted with the same brush as the rest of Asia's and the world's emerging markets, the Indian market has fallen, too, and money has flown out of Indian stocks.
They are able to open up vast new markets in the Indian and Asian continent, as anyone who has been in those airports in the middle of the night can see.
The negotiations are going on Sunday with the opening of Asian stock markets looming mid-afternoon New York time.
Most Asian markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, while Japan was shut for National Foundation Day.
Besides emerging markets, other hallmarks of the New Asian Economy have become favored themes of investment managers: technology, infrastructure and economic reform.
Most Asian markets were closed Monday for the Lunar New Year celebration.
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In the New Asian Economy, both profits and fears are on the rise as markets open up, customers trade up and competitors toughen up.
It was curious that heavy sell orders hit the gold market Tuesday when New York and London markets were closed and at a time when Asian trading was light.
In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.55% and Asian markets lost between 0.7% and 2.2%.
Asian stock markets ended mixed Tuesday as reaction to European approval for new aid to Greece was muted by its having been widely anticipated, though some positive earnings reports lifted the Sydney market.
While the bulk of Indian exports is buffalo meat bound for Middle East and Southeast Asian markets, the growing middle class in Arab countries has sparked a new craving for cow beef.
Long established in several Asian countries, Citibank wasn't buying a bank just to break into new markets.
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