Global economy

Data centre pushback in the US signals early limits to the AI capex boom, says StanChart research head

Singapore and the UAE show that resilience, connectivity and institutional agility can outweigh market size

Country now ‘provides the world with increasing dividends of innovation through technological progress and industrial upgrading’, he says

The country’s growing trade surplus with key partners has come in focus in recent months

Global growth is expected to improve to 2.8 per cent in 2027 and 2028

The best ammunition against such crises is objective analysis, she adds

Fiscal expansions will likely shoulder most of the burden

Billionaire is a workaholic who encourages other wealthy people to give back

Forecasts currently point to hotter-than-normal summer temperatures in East Asia