Capital Markets & Currencies

Net profit up 7.8% at S$698.4 million; revenue rises 13.9% to S$1.5 billion

The country’s firms raise orders after Beijing mandates local tech firms find alternatives to Nvidia products

Some ECB officials viewed the US using euros, instead of US dollars, as an unprecedented breach of longstanding conventions

The MSCI Asia Pacific equities gauge climbs 0.2% as South Korean shares rise 1.3%

Pullback underscores the limits of intervention in reversing the yen’s longer-term decline

[SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Aug 7):

There has been long-standing investor criticism that the Japanese benchmark includes too many small and illiquid stocks

The offering draws roughly US$115 billion of peak demand, according to people with knowledge of the matter

Company results drove much of the day’s gains