Singapore’s Straits Times Index entered October with a notable recent milestone and a familiar investment question: how far can a market advance when banks are doing...
The global economy is entering a period in which geopolitical conflict, artificial intelligence, energy markets, trade policy and public debt are increasingly moving together. That was...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has appointed five asset managers — Amundi, Franklin Templeton, HSBC Asset Management, M&G Investments and Natixis Investment Managers — under...
Faced with escalating domestic overhead, acute labor bottlenecks, and an ultra-saturated local market, Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are approaching an operational inflection point. While...
Indonesia’s largest petrochemical and infrastructure conglomerate, PT Chandra Asri Pacific Tbk, is executing a transformative strategic pivot. Controlled by Indonesian billionaire Prajogo Pangestu’s Barito Pacific Group,...
Institutional capital is migrating from high-volatility emerging markets toward stable, dividend-yielding safe havens. Chinese equities face headwinds from domestic real estate deleveraging, while the Straits Times...
Singapore raised its 2026 GDP forecast to 4.5-5.5% for the second time this year, powered by AI-linked semiconductor exports. Here’s what’s driving the upgrade — and...
Singapore’s economy closed out the second quarter stronger than first thought, with confirmed data showing growth of 5.9% year-on-year — a full 0.2 percentage points above...
Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) delivered its second upward growth revision of 2026 on August 11, lifting the full-year GDP forecast to a range...
Singapore has spent the past two years becoming one of the primary beneficiaries of the global AI infrastructure buildout, alongside Taiwan’s semiconductor sector. The city-state’s role...