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Taiwan resilience, Korea consumers regain confidence

Data published over the past week provide further evidence that Taiwan’s economy is continuing to hold up extremely well. The risks to our forecast of a 2% contraction in GDP this year are to the upside. There are also signs that the worse is over for Korea’s consumers. Having reached an 11-year low in April, the Bank of Korea’s consumer confidence survey rebounded for a second consecutive month in June.

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