Stock trading

Whether trading pauses for lunch is unlikely to rank highly among retail investors’ priorities.

Opinion & Features

THINKING ALOUD

Should SGX follow Hong Kong’s lead on longer trading hours?

Singapore’s objective is to improve liquidity and boost the capital market. Trading through lunch may not help

2026-08-17T22:30:00.000Z

The VN-Index has fallen nearly 9% in the last three months, and is down over 3% in the year to date, after surging more than 40% in 2025.

Asean Business

Tepid investor interest a dampener on Vietnam’s strong IPO pipeline

The weaker take-up of new shares is exposing a more challenging backdrop for the long-awaited revival of listings

2026-08-16T23:00:00.000Z

The question now is whether this is just a temporary summer tantrum or a serious change of heart about the AI trade that has underpinned the stock market.

Opinion & Features

THE BROAD VIEW

Are investors really getting cold feet about the AI boom?

It is not clear whether there has been a serious change of heart about the trade underpinning the stock market

2026-07-31T04:00:00.000Z

The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing is looking to bring forward its market open by half an hour to 9 am, and eliminate its one-hour lunch break.

Companies & Markets

HKSE wants to scrap lunch break; SGX’s experience shows traders had little appetite for it

The Republic’s bourse did away with the one-hour pause in 2011 to improve market accessibility, but reinstated it six years later due to its unpopularity

2026-07-30T05:49:44.000Z

Hong Kong is home to one of the few major exchanges that still keep a lunch hour, alongside mainland China and Tokyo.

Capital Markets & Currencies

Hong Kong mulls longer stock trading hours, ending lunch break

It is proposing to start equities trading 30 minutes earlier at 9 am, and to scrap the one hour lunch break that starts at noon

2026-07-20T08:18:03.000Z

Money

THRIVE NEWSLETTER

AI can now access your brokerage account. Should you let it?

[SINGAPORE] Last month, popular brokerage platform Interactive Brokers (IBKR) introduced a feature that lets users connect external AI tools – such as ChatGPT, Claude or Grok – directly to their tradi...

2026-07-03T01:46:48.000Z