Asia has suffered a disproportionate number of natural disasters recently, but its equity markets have hardly blinked. The MSCI Asia ex-Japan index has had its best first quarter in several years, up a tidy 13 per cent. That is three times better than the FTSE 100, for example. Net foreign institutional flows into the region’s stock markets, China and Japan excepted, hit $27bn in the first three months, easily reversing the $13bn in outflows seen last year.
亚洲近来频繁遭遇自然灾害的袭击,但该地区股市几乎“眼睛都没眨一下”。今年第一季度,摩根士丹利资本国际不包括日本的亚洲指数(MSCI Asia ex-Japan index)大涨13%,为数年来最佳的同期表现,比富时100指数(FTSE 100)涨幅高出3倍。不计manbetx3.0 和日本,今年第一季度外国机构流入亚洲股市的资金净值达到270亿美元,轻松扭转了去年净流出130亿美元的局面。