The Construction Industry’s Invisible Villains
For a year, Cristian Batres was a regular visitor at a construction site on 19th Avenue in Queens, New York. The job was Wildflower Studios, a $1 billion movie production complex. As an…
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Singapore shares rise marginally as investors turn cautious ahead of Fed decision
Decliners beat gainers 279 to 271 across the broader market, as 1.3 billion securities worth S$1.4 billion are transacted Singapore stocks finished slightly higher on Monday (Dec 1), as…
China’s slow-motion stock rally starts to win investor trust
Blue-chip index CSI300 has matched the S&P 500 with a roughly 16% year-to-date gain [SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI] Fund managers are picking Chinese industrial stocks and holding volatile tech…
This affordable bourbon was just named Best in the World—and it makes a great gift
At this fall’s prestigious New York World Spirits Competition, a wheated bourbon that’s widely available for about $30 claimed the title of Best Overall Bourbon. The blind-tasting…
Thai central bank proposes new foreign-exchange rules to ease pressure on baht
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) plans to roll out additional measures to ease appreciation pressure on the baht and tighten oversight of gold-related foreign-exchange transactions after the…
The key to high-performing teams isn’t more talent or perfect leaders
Below, Jon Levy shares five key insights from his new book, Team Intelligence: How Brilliant Leaders Unlock Collective Genius. Levy is a behavioral scientist. For the last 15 years, he has…
Malaysia’s Perodua unveils US$19,000 EV, battery not included
Malaysian automaker Perodua launched its first electric car on Monday (Dec 1), and will sell the vehicle separately from the battery to reduce upfront costs in a bid to appeal to…
You can learn to be a better listener. Here’s how
Few Zoom calls have made me quite as self-conscious as my chat with Robert Biswas-Diener. An executive coach and psychologist, he recently coauthored a book on “radical listening.” Like…
S-Reits poised for upturn with ‘buy’ call on 5 blue-chips: UOBKH
Among the top picks are Keppel DC Reit and Keppel Reit, with a “buy” rating on target prices of S$2.65 and S$1.20, respectively UOB Kay Hian (UOBKH) analyst Jonathan Koh has kept an…
5 simple ways AI can cut email time to near zero
Let’s be honest: email kinda sucks. It’s not just the writing: it’s also the reading, the sorting, the figuring out what the third reply in a 15-message chain is supposed to mean. The good…
Industrial developer Soon Hock likely to benefit from S$1 billion earnings pipeline: UOB Kay Hian
UOB also expects attractive dividend yields of 5.5% and 10% for 2025 and 2026, respectively UOB Kay Hian initiated coverage on industrial property developer Soon Hock Enterprise with a buy…
Industrial developer Soon Hock secures S$1 billion in value from 4 projects: UOB Kay Hian
UOB also expects attractive dividend yields of 5.5% and 10% for 2025 and 2026, respectively UOB Kay Hian initiated coverage on industrial property developer Soon Hock Enterprise with a buy…
UOB Kay Hian initiates coverage on Soon Hock, optimistic on its S$1 billion project pipeline
UOB also expects attractive dividend yields of 5.5% and 10% for 2025 and 2026, respectively UOB Kay Hian initiated coverage on industrial property developer Soon Hock Enterprise with a buy…
Hong Kong stablecoin stocks slump after PBOC vows cryptocurrency crackdown
Hong Kong-listed stocks with cryptocurrency-related businesses tumbled on Monday (Dec 1) after China’s central bank vowed to crack down on virtual currencies and flagged concerns about…
Asian markets mixed as traders eye US data ahead of Fed decision
Among the reports due for release are private jobs creation, services activity and personal consumption expenditure Asian equities were mixed on Monday (Dec 1) with investors awaiting the…
Silver hits fresh record after trading outage, supply tightness
Its most recent surge has been supported by renewed concerns of tightness in the global market Silver jumped to a record, reinforcing a gain of nearly 6 per cent in the previous session,…
Silver jumps to record high on supply tightness, rate-cut hopes
Markets are fully pricing in a quarter-point rate cut on continued weakness in the American labour market and a series of dovish comments by Fed officials Silver jumped more than 2 per…
Marco Polo Marine H2 profit quadruples to S$47.9m on impairment reversals
This is attributed to a combination of stronger underlying performance and several extraordinary gains Marco Polo Marine posted on Saturday (Nov 29) a nearly four times rise (348 per cent)…
Marco Polo Marine H2 profit jumps over 4 times to S$47.9 million on impairment reversals
This is attributed to a combination of stronger underlying performance and several extraordinary gains Marco Polo Marine posted on Saturday (Nov 29) a more than four times, or 348 per cent…
ASX announcements platform operational issue ‘largely resolved’
Embattled stock exchange operator Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is facing fresh pressure to enact its turnaround plan, after its announcements platform suffered an outage on Monday…
Stocks to watch: Centurion, Manulife US Reit, Seatrium, Wilmar, LHN, Marco Polo Marine
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (Dec 1): Centurion: The company has expanded its Australian footprint into Perth,…
Stocks to watch: Low Keng Huat, Centurion, Manulife US Reit, Seatrium, Wilmar, LHN
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (Dec 1): Low Keng Huat: The majority shareholders of Low Keng Huat (Singapore) (LKH)…
Trump defends Hegseth over reports of a second strike on alleged drug boat
President Trump on Sunday downplayed reports that his defense secretary ordered military members to strike a suspected drug boat a second time after an initial strike failed to kill two…
China earnings miss casts doubt on Xi’s bid to end deflation
Beijing’s campaign to rein in price wars and blunt deflation has done little to lift third-quarter earnings, leaving investors short on catalysts as Chinese stocks extend their losses into…