YEAR IN REVIEW: PROPERTY
[SINGAPORE] Coming on the heels of a dramatic year peppered with policies aimed at cooling the property market and a number of firsts in public housing, 2014 appears poised to be a more subdued year by comparison.
Companies
IT could be a great year ahead for short-sellers. These traders who make money on a falling stock price are betting against what they see is an epic bubble covering the global equity markets as the Dow Jones Industrial Average flirts with the 16,000 mark.
Singapore
SINGAPORE wants a strong air-services agreement with South Korea, one that would help feed the growing demand for business and leisure travel between the two countries, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.
Singapore Markets
OF ALL the near misses in the history of near misses, yesterday's market had to have been one of the nearest misses to ever nearly miss.
Malaysia
BLOOMBERG Television and Malaysia's Encorp Group will launch the country's first business channel - Bloomberg Television Malaysia - next year.
Indonesia
[JAKARTA] Indonesia's central bank kept its key interest rates unchanged yesterday, as expected, and said it will act to strengthen its monetary policy response if an expected tapering in US stimulus threatens to spark capital outflows from the country.
China
[SHANGHAI] China's chief security regulator will liberalise rules governing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of listed companies, and encourage the use of preferred shares and M&A funds for investments, the official Shanghai Securities News reported, quoting an official.
India
[MUMBAI] India's financial market regulator unveiled new proposals on Wednesday, broadening the scope of who can be held liable for insider trading violations, as it steps up its fight against securities fraud.
World
[DE CORBIERE PARIS] Cash is so cheap these days that investors have been borrowing and ploughing them in assets from artwork to wine to bitcoins, betting that prices would rise.
Transport Hub
[MANILA] India's GMR Infrastructure Ltd and contractor Megawide Construction Corp are the likely winners of a US$400 million airport terminal tender, the biggest so far under the Philippines' public-private partnership programme.
Editorial & Opinion
ON Jan 4, 2013, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon of the Supreme Court of Singapore announced at the opening of the Legal Year plans to establish the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC). On Nov 29,
Arts
HOWARD Tam applies a simple rule of thumb when deciding whether to buy art: "I categorise art into three baskets - oh, oh my and oh my god. The oh my god is the top tier.
Cinema
IT'S tough being the middle child - you're too young to have any control over the other siblings and too old to be spoilt by your parents. Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - the middle chapter of his big-screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit - finds itself in a similar predicament as it's sandwiched between last year's An Unexpected Journey and next year's concluding episode There and Back Again.
Entertainment
AMERICAN Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's Wrapped in Red is so poppy it's almost a waste to just play it over the Christmas period.
BizIT
SHORT-TERM thinking, resulting in piecemeal big-data projects being rolled out, and an organisational culture that results in a lack of communication between departments...
Young Investor
NAVIGATING the world of finance can be a minefield. Chances are you will get fooled at least once in your life by dodgy marketing. Greed is inherent in human nature, and...
Executive Money
[NEW YORK] AMERICAN mutual funds are scouring Europe for bargains, snapping up Dutch oil drillers, French drugmakers and Swiss food producers on speculation that the...
Property
THE recently released Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Draft Master Plan 2013 highlights Marina Bay as the new financial and residential district in the urban city...
Raffles Conversation
IN 2007, the 72-year-old investment bank Morgan Stanley achieved an infamous record that has yet to be surpassed: after a frenzy of disastrous bets, mainly on US...
