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CHINA-BASED waste treatment group Zheneng Jinjiang Environment reported a net profit of 411.6 million yuan (S$76.2 million) for the second half ended Dec 31, rising more than 26 times the…
Company blames earnings slide on higher net finance costs, exceptional losses in a ‘tough year for the industry’ AGRIBUSINESS giant Olam Group on Friday (Feb 28) reported a net profit of…
APOLLO Global Management is in talks to lead a roughly US$35 billion financing package for Meta Platforms to help develop data centres in the US, according to sources with knowledge of the…
HP GAVE a profit outlook for the current quarter that fell short of expectations, citing the impact of rising component costs and tariffs on goods from China. Earnings, excluding some…
OIL prices rose more than 2 per cent on Thursday (Feb 27) as supply concerns resurfaced after US President Donald Trump revoked a licence granted to US oil major Chevron to operate in…
WALL Street stocks tumbled on Thursday (Feb 27), extending a rough period as disappointment with Nvidia earnings and fresh tariff rhetoric from Donald Trump pressured the market. While…
CITY Developments Ltd (CDL) group chief executive Sherman Kwek highlighted a Dr Catherine Wu on Thursday (Feb 27) in his latest response in the “attempted coup” saga that broke in the…
CDL group chief executive Sherman Kwek says the “primary reason” for the ongoing dispute at the property behemoth relates to “a very serious issue of corporate governance” involving Dr Wu…
SINGAPORE-LISTED companies are not doing nearly enough when it comes to whistle-blowing policies, according to a study by the Centre for Investor Protection (CIP) at NUS Business School.…
JARDINE Cycle & Carriage (C&C) posted a 4.4 per cent rise in its underlying profit of US$602 million for the six months ended December 31, 2024. This came as revenue for the period rose 9…
The success of DeepSeek’s R1 and V3 models has sent Chinese tech giants like Tencent scrambling to put out new versions of AI models CHINESE tech giant Tencent on Thursday (Feb 27)…
REAL estate services player Apac Realty posted a 53.6 per cent fall in net profit to S$3.1 million for the six months ended Dec 31, 2024, hit by a fall in new home sales. The company’s…
PROPERTY player UOL Group posted a 60 per cent fall in net profit to S$227.8 million for the six months ended Dec 31, 2024. This was mainly due to the absence of a one-time gain from the…
HSBC is reducing staff numbers at its China digital wealth business Pinnacle by nearly half, or about 900 people, two sources said, a sharp reversal of the bank’s ambition for the unit as…
The three local banks show mixed performance, with DBS declining while OCBC and UOB advance SINGAPORE equities climbed on Thursday (Feb 27) as investors took stock of company earnings. The…
The group hopes to ‘rationalise its assets’ in a way that will help them to grow bigger PURPOSE-BUILT accommodation operator Centurion Corporation said on Thursday (Feb 27) that the…
GUOCOLAND will partner Malaysia’s UEM Sunrise to develop selected freehold land parcels in Iskandar Puteri, within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ). This is under a…
THE cut-off yield for Singapore’s latest six-month Treasury bill (T-bill) fell to 2.75 per cent, based on auction results released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Thursday (Feb…
ANALYSTS believe that the ongoing feud between CDL’s executive chairman Kwek Leng Beng and chief executive officer and his son, Sherman Kwek, could cause an overhang on the group’s share…
Share price is deeply undervalued, could father-son tussle lead to restructuring or a merger? Investors buy into listed groups where families hold major stakes and are active in…
HONG Kong’s bourse operator reported on Thursday a 10 per cent rise in profit in 2024, beating forecasts, bolstered by a sharp jump in trading revenues after China’s announcement of…
BLACKSTONE is in advanced talks to sell three logistics projects in China to Ping An Insurance (Group), according to sources familiar with the matter, in a major exit from the business…
US HEALTH officials are re-evaluating a US$590 million contract for bird flu shots that the Biden administration awarded to Moderna, sources familiar with the matter said. The review is…
PRIVATE equity firm Bain Capital is weighing options, including a sale, for Rocket Software that could value the US automation software provider at as much as US$10 billion, including…
