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Chip stocks stall, and Asia catches the coldA pause in the chipmaker rally is not a correction, but after eighteen months of Nvidia-led gains carrying entire regional indices, even a pause moves everything downstream. Asian markets opened lo…Asian tech stocks rally while oil keeps climbing, and both can't be bullish signalsA tech rally usually reflects risk appetite and cheap money expectations, while rising oil reflects supply tightness or geopolitical risk, and having both at once means investors are pricing two di…Thai bonds are quietly outperforming all of AsiaThailand's government bonds have delivered the region's best returns this year as the Bank of Thailand cut rates to support a tourism-dependent economy still below pre-pandemic visitor numbers, and…Thailand's stock market flips from regional laggard to leaderThai equities were the region's worst performer for most of the past two years, weighed down by weak tourism recovery and political instability, and now foreign funds are piling back in on valuatio…Asian airlines cut 2 million seats as fuel crisis hits harder than pandemicAirAsia's Tony Fernandes calls the jet fuel shortage worse than Covid for airlines, and the numbers back him up. Asian carriers have slashed 2 million seats amid soaring oil prices driven by Middle…EQT closes record $15.6bn Asia private equity fundSwedish private equity giant EQT raised $15.6 billion for its Asia fund, the largest regional PE vehicle on record. The fund targets mid-market buyouts across Southeast Asia and India, betting on c…