Market uncertainty

EY ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2025

Building resilience in an unpredictable world

Resilient growth and success will require fundamentally rethinking existing ways of operating

Over the longer term, Singapore’s relevance and value as an open trading hub are severely threatened if the rules-based multilateral system is replaced with a power-based unilateral system.

Navigating the new economic disorder: Decode, deepen, diversify

Faced with tariff turbulence, businesses must size up the impact, innovate and expand their markets

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong notes that Singapore has “done well so far”, bouncing back from the Covid-19 pandemic and ending 2024 on strong footing.
SINGAPORE BUDGET 2025

Budget 2025: Singapore enters next phase of growth amid ‘a new global contest’

Pressures will reshape worldwide economy and dampen prospects for growth, says PM Wong

Investors are now facing a very different market regime, and we are unlikely to see a return to the benign conditions of the previous decade.
WEALTH & INVESTING

Where to unlock opportunities in a changing world

GLOBAL inflation has fallen since the energy-induced spike that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and financial-market participants have been pricing in and out expected interest-rate cut...

What caused markets to be choppy this week?

BT Market Focus: Choppy market driven by fears of rate hikes and disappointing data (Ep 46)

How choppy were markets this week and why? Claressa Monteiro finds out.

Being prepared for market volatility, inflation and falling returns is as important as ensuring one is invested in the right asset class during a period of growth.

Finding financial clarity in an increasingly complex world

IF THERE is one thing of which investors can be certain, it is that crises can strike at any time. From Covid-19 to the Russia-Ukraine war to the worldwide cost-of-living crisis, 2022 was marked by su...

It is possible to train your ability to face uncertainty, like a muscle.
THE BROAD VIEW

Can we get better at navigating uncertainty?

What innovators have learned that allows them to face the uncertainty of new pursuits

Three measures of market-related uncertainty – expected asset-price volatility, divergence in economic forecasts, and unpredictability of economic policy as seen in the media – suggest that these are indeed unusual times.
WEALTH & INVESTING

Why markets really are less certain than they used to be

Three gauges of investor fear are unusually high

The first 6 months of the year were among the worst 6-month stretch in the S&P500 since 1926.
A SMART LOOK AT INVESTING

Dos and Don’ts to survive a market crash

The S&P 500 fell by more than 20 per cent in the first half of 2022, marking its worst start in decades. In fact, wealth manager Ben Carlson said the first 6 months of this year were within 3 per cent...