Silver Linings Emerge for Asian Stocks After Rocky First Quarter
- Healthcare companies come out top as tech shares falter
- Stay in equities, buy dividend shares, DBS CIO Hou says
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After two years of relative calm in Asian shares, volatility has returned with a wave of geopolitical risk and market uncertainty.
The first quarter of 2018 brought a trade war between the U.S. and China and President Donald Trump’s protectionist swagger. It saw a scandal in Japan, a new Federal Reserve chief and Treasury yields hitting the highest level since January 2014, not to mention key executives at the region’s largest companies came under fire.