China’s building crash helps ease the Hormuz pain

2026-07-27T09:00:00.000Z
When labour becomes more productive, competition for workers should push up wages. 

Why wages and productivity look set to diverge further

2026-07-27T06:08:30.000Z
With a large gap between condo and HDB resale home prices, much upgrading activity will happen within the public-housing market.
THE LEVEL GROUND

Mind the gap opening up as HDB resale market slows while million-dollar sales spike

2026-07-27T04:15:45.000Z
With its upcoming chairmanship of Asean in 2027, Singapore can play a key role in strengthening regional connectivity and integration.  

How Singapore can orchestrate global supply chains in a fractured world

2026-07-27T04:03:19.000Z
The latest tariff campaign follows a chaotic year and a half in which the US administration’s original “Liberation Day” tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court in February 2026.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Can Washington treat its allies like adversaries – and still keep them?

2026-07-27T03:41:18.000Z
Musk’s political views, disseminated to his followers on X, strike many as plain-speaking and strike many more, including The Economist, as plainly bigoted.

Should you be afraid of Elon Musk?

2026-07-26T04:00:43.000Z
GIC says that for long-term investors, the environment widens the range of possible outcomes, and that its response is to prepare, not predict.

GIC’s portfolio resilience in a structurally changed world

2026-07-26T04:00:00.000Z
EGP Energy’s net profit rose 21 per cent to S$10.3 million in 2025.
ESG INSIGHTS

Issue 204: EGP’s energy transition story; MAS prices 20-year green bond

2026-07-24T11:00:00.000Z
Protecting children is increasingly taking precedence over earlier concerns about regulatory restraint.
THE BROAD VIEW

More countries are outlawing social media for children. Will Singapore join them?

2026-07-24T04:00:00.000Z
As a unit of account, the renminbi’s share of global trade finance is well under 10%.
THE BROAD VIEW

Is China prepared to give up control?

2026-07-24T03:31:16.000Z