TOP STORIES
STI stocks expected to hand out 7.9% more in dividends for 2019
CONSTITUENTS of the FTSE Straits Times Index (STI) are projected to pay out 7.9 per...
BT Weekend magazine celebrates wanderlust
ONE travels the world to dine at the best restaurants. Another makes it a point to...
Tokyo-Seoul dispute adds to Singapore exporters' woes
A NEW battlefront triggered by the South Korea-Japan trade dispute and possible...
Cleaning robots to be available island-wide by March 2020
MADE-in-Singapore robots that clean up public spaces - and sing and rap while at it -...
Business-travel platform raises US$3m in pre-Series A funding
US venture firm Accel is putting money behind business-travel management startup...
Visa invests undisclosed sum in Gojek's Series F round
PAYMENTS provider Visa on Wednesday said it has invested in ride-hailing player Gojek...
Will Facebook's Libra turn into a cancer?
WHEN it announced its plans to launch a cyber currency, Facebook emphasised that its...
Stratech's Chew family is owner of Belmont GCB put up for auction
THE husband-and-wife team of David Chew and Leong Sook Ching that used to control...
New framework for data protection officers and certifications for international data flows
A NEW framework and training plan for data protection officers (DPOs) has been...
JTC, NTU to start advanced manufacturing training programme for undergrads
SINGAPORE plans to maintain manufacturing at 20 per cent of its gross domestic product...
Small car COE falls, big car COE soars
CERTIFICATE of entitlement (COE) prices ended mixed in a tender marked by new car...
COMPANIES & MARKETS
The future's bright for SGX's rubber derivatives
THERE is an unmistakable bounce on the derivatives corner of the Singapore Exchange...
Hyflux: S$535m rescue deal is Utico's valuation; deal still on the table
HYFLUX said on Wednesday that it has sought clarification from potential white knight...
Maxi-Cash to issue new S$50m 6.35% three-year notes at par
MAXI-CASH Financial Services expects to issue new S$50 million 6.35 per cent three-...
Corporate digest
QIAN HU reported a 61.6 per cent year-on-year increase in net profit for the second...
CCT acquires second property in Frankfurt
CAPITALAND Commercial Trust (CCT) continues to deepen its presence in Frankfurt with...
Broker takes ads to urge listing process reform after Budweiser IPO pullout
THE dramatic failure of brewer Budweiser APAC's US$9.8 billion Hong Kong listing left...
Bank of America Q2 profit beats estimates
BANK of America Corp (BofA) beat estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, as the...
Market unfazed by exports slump
JUDGING from Singapore's non-oil domestic exports reading for June, the global tech...
Brokers' take
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has acquired a 55 per cent stake in Odfjell Terminal (...
Euro falls to one-week low as easing expectations favour US$
THE euro fell to a one-week low against the dollar on Wednesday and towards the lower...
REAL ESTATE
Frasers Property secures A$500m green loan for two Singapore properties
FRASERS Property has secured a A$750 million (S$715.2 million) term loan, comprising a...
US housing starts fall; permits hit 2-year low
US homebuilding fell for a secondstraight month in June and permits dropped to a two-...
China Merchants Shekou plans US$800m Reit IPO in HK
CHINA Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone Holdings is planning an initial public offering...
Row of six freehold shophouses in Joo Chiat up for sale via public tender
A ROW of six adjoining three-storey shophouses along Joo Chiat Road has been put for...
French MPs agree on Notre-Dame restoration as controversy swirls
FRENCH MPs on Tuesday approved a law on the reconstruction of Notre-Dame, three months...
BANKING & FINANCE
Thai central bank says rate cut won't curb capital inflows
THAILAND'S central bank is ready to act if the baht's moves are not in line with...
Deutsche Bank poaches talent to target Europe's wealthy
DEUTSCHE BANK AG hired a team of around a dozen private bankers from Credit Suisse...
Eurozone bond yields fall as Fed debates July rate cut
THE euro area's government bond yields tumbled on Wednesday after comments by US...
ENERGY & COMMODITIES
Feeding 10b people by 2050 will require GM food
LIKE it or not, genetic modification is going to be an important tool to feed the...
Freak weather poses new risk to India's renewable energy goals
INDIA'S ambitious plan to take the leadership position among nations as one of the...
US, China will be world's biggest LNG exporter and importer: IEA
THE United States and China will become the world's biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG...
BHP aims to cut thermal coal output next year, raise quality of products
THE world's biggest miner, BHP Group, on Wednesday said it planned to produce less...
TECHNOLOGY
Trump calls for inquiry into Google's work with China
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration would investigate whether...
Facebook should not be trusted with 'crazy' cryptocurrency plan, say US senators
US Democratic and Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday that Facebook Inc's track...
Amazon in deal with German watchdog to overhaul marketplace terms
AMAZON has reached a deal with Germany's anti-trust authority to overhaul its terms of...
CONSUMER
As steep patent cliff looms, Shionogi moves to develop its own US sales staff
FOR much of its 141-year history, Japan's Shionogi & Co Ltd has played safe when...
TRANSPORT
How North Korea's Kim gets his luxury cars
THE armoured black limousines appear everywhere with Kim Jong Un, sleek Western...
Renault to invest 128.5m euros in China electric car venture
RENAULT SA will invest 128.5 million euros (S$196 million) for a 50 per cent stake in...
Toyota strikes deal with world's top supplier of electric car batteries
TOYOTA Motor Corp has agreed to buy batteries from Contemporary Amperex Technology Co...
GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
Powell maintains Fed's pledge to act to sustain US expansion
US FEDERAL Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said that the central bank is "carefully...
Trump says he could impose more China tariffs if he wants
PRESIDENT Donald Trump reiterated that he could impose additional tariffs on Chinese...
US ready to help resolve dispute between Korea, Japan
THE United States will "do what it can do" to help defuse a worsening political and...
Chinese leaders head to Beidaihe compound for key annual policy meeting
THE signs of summer have arrived in the northern Chinese resort town of Beidaihe - the...
LIFE & CULTURE
Comic-Con mines archives for future hits on 50th anniversary celebration
A smorgasbord of sequels, prequels and reunions from Terminator to Game of Thrones...
Louis Vuitton lands on the Lower East Side
ON July 12, on the same intersection depicted on the cover of the Beastie Boys album...
Turning the Met Museum's collection into an orchestra
WALKING up the stairs of the Met Breuer last week, British artist Oliver Beer pressed...
OPINION
Injecting new life into Yangon Stock Exchange
THE Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) will be the last of the region's markets to open up to...
Making the case for 'dumb' cities in the age of smart tech
LIKE a classroom full of overachieving students, cities around the world are racing to...
'Insurance' rate cuts could be risky; more tools needed to combat slowdown
AS a wave of central banks led by the US Federal Reserve signal intent to cut rates,...
Opportunities aplenty for Asean members in building Smart Cities
CHARLES Dickens described the social conditions at the dawn of the first Industrial...
Pitfalls in sizing up US-China risks
DONALD Trump's renewed trade threats this week undermine any relief from the recent...
Fifty years later, and Apollo 11 is still a miracle, but then reality hits
IT was a day of miracles and wonders. That much I remember very clearly. One did not...
BREAKING NEWS
Geely's sports-car icon Lotus maps route under Chinese ownership
[LONDON] Lotus Cars is preparing for an expansion under Asian owner Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd that could see the...
Kweichow Moutai's H1 sales disappoint by its own high standards
[SHANGHAI] Kweichow Moutai Co's revenue rose 17 per cent in the first half of 2019 compared to a year earlier - a...
Singapore shares open lower on Thursday; STI down 0.35% to 3,352.96
SINGAPORE stocks slipped when the market opened on Thursday, with the Straits Times Index falling 0.35 per cent or...
Malaysia: Shares open lower on Thursday
MALAYSIA share prices opened lower on Thursday with the FTSE Bursa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Composite Index down 1.00...
Singapore 'Fort Knox' said to be up for sale as Swiss owner fights Russian tycoon
[SINGAPORE] Asia's "Fort Knox," a private, maximum-security vault in Singapore, is for sale.
Bank of Korea surprises with 25 basis point rate cut
[SEOUL] South Korea's central bank unexpectedly cut its policy interest rate for the first time in three years on...
EDITOR'S CHOICE
TOP 10 TALKED ABOUT:
Breakfast Brief every morning |
Daily Debrief every evening |
BT Garage weekly |
