Restaurants come back from the brink
BARELY two months ago in August, restaurateur Wang Yanqing was in dire straits. The former Chinese TV newscaster had...
Bridging the skills gap: Is education the key?
AS the hand-wringing and finger-pointing continue amid a deepening recession and rising joblessness, one underlying...
Fishing for a good catch at Catfish
CALLING all catfish. If you're worried that a restaurant by the same name is going to decimate you and your fellow...
BREAKING NEWS
Oil falls about 2% on Libyan output, Covid-19 demand concerns
[NEW YORK] Oil fell nearly 2 per cent on Friday, finishing lower for the week, in anticipation of a surge in Libyan...
Europe: Stocks rebound with banks in the lead
[BENGALURU] European stocks rose on Friday, boosted by positive earnings updates from Barclays and a surge in Airbus...
US: S&P, Nasdaq close higher as stimulus talks in spotlight
[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed modestly higher on Friday in choppy trading, with investors keeping a...
US early vote total crosses 50 million, signaling a record-smashing turnout
[WASHINGTON] More than 50 million Americans have cast ballots in the presidential election, an early-voting expert...
China to launch long-awaited international copper futures on Nov 19
[BEIJING] China's securities regulator said on Friday it had approved an international copper futures contract for...
End of a chapter in Singapore's art history
THE new show at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Gillman Barracks will be its last. The solo exhibition of...
Little big home
IN his seven years as an interior designer, Edward Seet has worked his way through every home configuration - large...
Nanofilm IPO shares priced at S$2.59; subscribed 19 times
NANOFILM Technologies, the spin-off company of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), on Friday lodged its final...
Q3 private home prices up; new home sales double over previous quarter, but rents are down
A SHARP rebound in private home sales in both primary and secondary markets in the third quarter underpinned...
The hidden dragon of 2020
BATTLING through a turbulent year, investors have come to terms with dramatic changes in the corporate sector as...
The relentless pursuit of better investment options
MY courtship with Vanguard funds started 16 years ago in 2004. Providend was licensed to give advice just a year...
Will airline bailouts fly?
AS AIRLINES and hotels with backs to the Covid wall plead with governments for help, it is not unusual for...
Ditch your basic bookshelf speakers and stream in high-fidelity instead
I'D originally set my sights on some refined, time-honoured hardware. A hand-built tube amplifier. Too-tall speakers...
5G jobs drive is wind beneath telcos' wings
WITH its latest plan to help mobile network operators (MNOs) hire or reskill some 1,000 5G professionals, the...
How does Hong Kong's new Reit ETF stack up against Singapore-listed ones?
ON Thursday, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) saw the listing of its first real estate investment trust (Reit)...
Slow recovery a setback for hotels, but there're encouraging signs
THE recovery for the travel industry remains slower than expected, throwing a spanner into the works for the hotel...
Directors need to ask if they are going overboard with their various board seats
THE issue of multiple directorships has cropped up again, following the arrest of the current and former Singapore-...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
ASEAN BUSINESS
Two-speed recovery in services trade expected: HSBC
THE Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a two-speed recovery in services trade, whereby international travel is likely to...
GARAGE
Ping An-backed China fintech Lufax seeks up to US$2.36b in IPO
[SHANGHAI] Chinese financial technology firm Lufax, backed by Ping An Insurance Group, is looking to raise as much...
STOCKS
Europe: Stocks rebound with banks in the lead
[BENGALURU] European stocks rose on Friday, boosted by positive earnings updates from Barclays and a surge in Airbus...
US: S&P, Nasdaq close higher as stimulus talks in spotlight
[NEW YORK] The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed modestly higher on Friday in choppy trading, with investors keeping a...
Singapore shares track Wall St gains, end week in the black
LOCAL shares finished the week on a high, in tandem with Wall Street stocks that rose on hopes of a US stimulus...
Hong Kong connection opens China ETF market to global investors
CHINA'S fast-growing $157 billion market for exchange-traded funds became directly accessible to overseas investors...
The sustainable debt market has become unsustainable
THE European Union has offered its first social bond - as in the middle initial of ESG: environmental, social, and...
US: Wall St rises at open on hopes of progress in stimulus talks
[NEW YORK] Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Friday, with investors anticipating progress in bipartisan...
BT WEEKLY
Diversification is a full meal at Sats
A BLOW to the travel sector during the Covid-19 pandemic has validated and accelerated Sats's plans to diversify its...
FOCUS
Will airline bailouts fly?
AS AIRLINES and hotels with backs to the Covid wall plead with governments for help, it is not unusual for...
DBS launches solution for businesses to track cross-border collections in real time
DBS has launched a solution for corporate clients in Singapore and Hong Kong to track cross-border collections in...
Office rents fall in Q3 amid cutbacks, work-from-home ops
THE pandemic took its toll on office rents in the third quarter as souring business sentiment and a weaker labour...
Equipping workers with digital skills for a new future: SkillsFuture Forum 2020 panel
Q: Singapore has been looking at reskilling and retraining for a long time. What's really different this time with...
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