The Business Times

United States

Global Enterprise

Trump’s TikTok deal with China – what do we know?

The defence pact comes amid simmering tensions in the South China Sea, where China is pressing its claim over nearly all of the disputed waters vital to international trade.
ASEAN Business

US and Malaysia boost security partnership in South China Sea

US consumers are tightening spending in general due to an uncertain economy and government shutdown, and the rising cost of sweets has further prompted them to trim their candy budgets.
Consumer & Healthcare

US candy makers haunted by Halloween discounts as retailers scare up sales

The drop in Chinese demand cost US farmers - a key pillar of US President Donald Trump’s political base - billions of dollars in lost sales and the deal would represent a return to normalcy in trade with the top US soy importer.
Energy & Commodities

China to buy 12 million metric tons of US soybeans this season, Bessent says

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped to a seasonally adjusted 219,000 for the week ended Oct 25 from 232,000 in the prior week, JPMorgan calculated.
International

US weekly jobless claims fall, economists estimate

FILE PHOTO: A "For Sale" sign stands at a house in Miami, Florida, U.S. April 16, 2025. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo
Property

US mortgage rates drop to 6.17%, lowest since early October 2024

US President Donald Trump (left) and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, Oct 30, 2025.
International

Trump-Xi meeting: Trump seeks trade war truce with China’s Xi in South Korea talks

The United States has already delayed reports on employment, trade, retail sales and others, only recalling some furloughed staff to produce key inflation figures needed for the government to calculate Social Security payments.
International

US economy in the dark as government shutdown cuts off crucial data

Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung told reporters the government was confident in Taiwan-US relations and was “of course” paying attention to the talks taking place between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.
International

Taiwan ‘confident’ in US ties ahead of Trump-Xi meeting

Blackrock chief investment officer Rick Rieder is one of five candidates on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s shortlist of potential successors to Fed chair Jerome Powell when his term ends mid-May.
Banking & Finance

US Fed chair candidate Rieder says Powell was more hawkish than expected

Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
View More