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Asian stocks extend record rally while oil, dollar drift
Asian stocks extended their record climb on Tuesday, taking the baton from Wall Street where gains for oil companies and financials helped…
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Singapore investment banking fees climb to US$864.6m in 2025, highest in 4 years
DBS leads in fees earned; local firms issue a total of 38 IPOs last year, raising US$2.5 billion Investment banking fees generated in…
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McDonald’s rival Jollibee plans US listing for global business
Shares of Jollibee Foods jumped the most in more than five years, after it announced plans to spin off its international business and list…
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Next global rebalancing likely to dwarf 2008 financial crisis: George Yeo
The anticipation of such a rebalancing explains why the price of gold has continued to climb, says former Singapore foreign minister A…
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Gold dips from one-week high on steady dollar; other precious metals slip
Gold prices dipped on Tuesday (Jan 6), easing from a one-week high reached in the previous session when it rose nearly 3 per cent towards…
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STI crosses 4,700 mark for first time buoyed by DBS, OCBC gains
The blue-chip Straits Times Index (STI) breached the 4,700-point mark for the first time on Tuesday (Jan 6), setting it on course for a…
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Japan’s cash in circulation falls for first time in 18 years in 2025 on BOJ stimulus exit
Japan’s monetary base, or cash in circulation, declined for the first time in 18 years in 2025 as the central bank weaned off massive…
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Samsung likely to flag 160% jump in Q4 profit as AI boom stokes chip prices
Samsung Electronics is expected to flag a 160 per cent jump in its fourth-quarter operating profit spurred by a severe chip shortage that…
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Concord New Energy up over 8% a day after flat debut on SGX
Concord New Energy, Singapore’s first listing of the year, recovered in early trading on Wednesday (Jan 7) following a muted opening on…
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Intel shows off new computers that are central to comeback bid
The performance of the new products is vital to the turnaround plans of the embattled chipmaker Intel showed off laptop computers based on…
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Tesla UK car sales slump 29% in December as competition heats up: data
TESLA’S UK car registrations dropped by more than 29 per cent year-on-year in December, industry data showed on Tuesday, underscoring the…
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Lucid, Nuro, Uber debut robotaxi ahead of launch this year
Lucid Group, Nuro and Uber on Monday (Jan 5) unveiled a production-intent robotaxi, marking a key step towards commercial deployment for…
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Stocks to watch: Creative, iFast, Concord New Energy, Digital Core Reit, Ley Choon
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Tuesday (Jan 6): Creative Technology: Sim Li…
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US auto sales defy regulatory uncertainty to rise 2% in 2025
Sales of new cars in the United States rose about 2 per cent in 2025, defying extraordinary disruptions all year in an industry where…
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AI video generation leads China’s Kuaishou to 84% stock surge
The company has projected US$140 million in annual revenue for 2025 from AI video FEW major companies have tried to pull off a pivot to…
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1,044% toilet paper price jump, 1,500% for face masks: Amazon being sued for pandemic-linked price gouging
A US judge on Monday rejected Amazon.com’s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the online retailer of price gouging…
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Saudi Arabia cuts flagship oil price to Asia for a third month
The International Energy Agency has forecast a glut of about 3.8 million barrels a day for this year Saudi Arabia dropped the price of its…
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Nvidia CEO Huang touts automotive AI at CES talk as competition mounts
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday touted new software the company is releasing for autonomous cars in a keynote at the Consumer…
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UBS raises US$3 billion from sale of Additional Tier 1 bonds
UBS Group sold US$3 billion of Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds on Monday (Jan 5) as major banks face modest refinancing needs that are…
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Hyundai unveils new humanoid robot to work in its car factories
The South Korean company plans to invest 125 trillion won in South Korea over the next five years Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics unit…
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5 Steps to a Luxury Laundry Routine That Feels Like Self-Care, Featuring the Fine-Fragrance Detergent People Call Their “Sunday Reset”
From fragrance-forward detergent to intentional timing, small changes can turn laundry day into a restorative ritual many now call a…
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10 Ways to Organize Receipts Without a Full Bookkeeping System
You know you should be tracking receipts. You also know you are not ready to commit to QuickBooks, a bookkeeper, or a perfectly…
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Elon Musk company bot apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children
Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to…
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Tesla dethroned as the world's top EV maker
Elon Musk’s Tesla is no longer the top electric vehicle seller in the world as demand at home has cooled while competition heated up…