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China scraps platinum tax break for state-owned giant
Wind is a favoured industry as the Asian nation aims to boost renewable energy and accelerate the country’s energy transition China will…
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Deals for startups reach record in Japan before listing curbs
A plan to cull the smallest listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is spurring a record number of buyouts of young companies in Japan,…
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IG Singapore seeks to broaden appeal beyond CFD trading under new CEO Gavin Chia
The firm plans to add new products, improve its app experience and step up investor education Online brokerage IG Singapore is moving…
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Catalist stocks ride on renewed market interest, but more needs to be done to spur mainboard transfers
Challenges faced in transitioning include low liquidity, limited visibility and investor perception issues, which hinder capital raising…
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Genomics giant Illumina to boost Singapore headcount by 25%, doubles down on local R&D
US-based company is developing next-generation sequencers, using AI models in the Republic to speed up diagnostics and lower healthcare…
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Amazon‘s AWS nears recovery after major outage disrupts apps, services worldwide
Amazon.com said on Monday that a cloud computing unit at its data center in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a…
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Amazon says AWS cloud service is back to normal after outage disrupts businesses worldwide
The disruption was the largest since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports…
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US: Wall Street ends sharply higher as earnings optimism fuels risk appetite
US stocks jumped on Monday with finance and technology shares providing much of the upside muscle, as upbeat quarterly earnings results…
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Oil settles at 5-month low as supply glut fears mount
Oil prices settled at their lowest since early May on Monday as investors weighed a potential global glut, with US-China trade tensions…
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Europe: Shares recover as easing US bank jitters drive risk appetite
EUROPEAN shares closed higher on Monday, as initial concerns over the stability of the US banking sector eased, while fresh comments from…
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Apple hits first record of 2025 as iPhone optimism fuels rebound
The iPhone maker has soared more than 50%, finally turning positive for the year in late September Apple shares hit their first record of…
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Danielle Bernstein’s Wedding-type Designer Responds to Social Media Pushback
As an influencer, entrepreneur and founder of @shopweworewhat, Danielle Bernstein understands the power of style and the unwieldiness of…
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PM Pham Minh Chinh Says Vietnam's Economy Surpasses US$500 Billion in 2025
During the 10th session of the 15th National Assembly on Monday, October 20, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that the…
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Wilmar Indonesia unit general manager charged over sugar imports
The unlawful raw sugar imports have allegedly caused state losses amounting to 578 billion rupiah The general manager of Wilmar…
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US: Stocks rise to open big earnings week
WALL Street stocks rose early Monday (Oct 20) as markets looked ahead to a heavy week of corporate earnings and monitored the positioning…
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Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?
People struggled to access social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, payments app Venmo and other popular online services on Monday…
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Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift”
For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a…
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Vietnam stocks slump after state media report on alleged bond irregularities
Vietnam’s main stock index fell to its lowest closing level in a month on Monday (Oct 20) after state media reported the results of a…
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Global companies hit by more than US$35 billion in US tariffs, but outlook stabilising
GLOBAL companies have flagged more than US$35 billion in costs from US tariffs heading into third-quarter earnings, but many are lowering…
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Coinbase, Fortnite among services hit by global outage of Amazon’s cloud unit
AMAZON’S cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday (Oct 20), causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world…
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Internet services cut for hours by Amazon cloud outage
Crypto exchange Coinbase, as well as games Fortnite and Roblox, were among those affected MANY popular Internet services, from streaming…
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Stellantis, China’s Pony AI to test robotaxis in Europe
Stellantis plans to team up with Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI to start testing autonomous vans in Luxembourg. The agreement involves…
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Emirates NBD plans to invest US$3 billion in India’s RBL Bank
Emirates NBD bank will invest as much as US$3.1 billion in India’s RBL Bank in the biggest foreign investments in the country’s financial…
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Gold holds drop as traders focus on US-China trade, credit woes
Gold steadied following a sharp drop for precious metals on Friday (Oct 17), with traders weighing the latest developments in trade…