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Companies & Markets

Bank of America’s Asia-Pacific president sees a silver lining in US dollar volatility

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Companies & Markets

Singapore not aiming for Singdollar to be reserve currency: MAS’ Chia Der Jiun

A positive outlook for the Singapore dollar could spur interest in local real estate from overseas buyers.
Opinion & Features
THE LEVEL GROUND

Stronger Singdollar makes ‘long Singapore property, short overseas property’ strategy compelling

Fears that “strong currencies” will hammer corporate profits on exports or cause “deflationary” effects are likely to be unfounded, the author argues.
Opinion & Features
COMMENTARY

The benign truth hidden behind currency fears

This year has been a generally bad one for the world’s reserve currency. A gauge of the dollar posted its worst first-half performance since 1973 as US tariff policies sent shock waves through the US$9.6 trillion-a-day foreign currency market. But the federal government shutdown – now on day 31 – is giving the dollar a lift.
Banking & Finance

Dollar has second best month of 2025 on data void, hawkish Fed

In an extraordinary intervention, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly prodded the Bank of Japan to keep raising interest rates.
Opinion & Features

Bessent shows US will baulk at any dollar rebound

More foreign exchange conversions by local exporters could support the yuan through renewed trade tensions with the US.
Companies & Markets

Chinese firms speed up US dollar selling amid optimism towards renminbi

Singapore’s benchmark index has seen strong year-to-date performance.
Companies & Markets

STI could reach 10,000 by 2040; Singdollar could also hit parity with greenback: DBS report

The US dollar index, a measure of its value relative to a basket of other major foreign currencies, rose 0.05% to 98.58.
Capital Markets & Currencies

Dollar wavers with politics, credit risks and trade tensions in the spotlight

China set the renminbi’s reference rate at the strongest level in a year on Thursday.
Global Enterprise

Asia’s major economies step up currency defence as trade war intensifies

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