In 2022, in our annual look at Asia’s “winners and losers”, we took to CNBC and put the spotlight on Southeast Asia’s “comeback kids”, for their overcoming scepticism, family history and backroom intrigue and winning elections to lead their respective nations, we named Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, as winners of “Best year in Asia 2022”. 

U.S. stocks fell in light trading on the penultimate day of a blockbuster year for markets. Treasuries and the dollar declined.