consumption

Commodities

What investors need to understand about the value of gold

SINGAPORE (Nov 3): How does one value the price of gold without a coupon or dividend, and no expected earnings or book-to-value ratios?

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The going's getting tougher for more STI companies

SINGAPORE (Oct 21): The global economic weakness has already hit many of the large and diversified companies that make up the Straits Times Index.

China Focus

China's reform of SOEs may look a little odd to the West: Goldman

HONG KONG (Sept 9): China’s desire to improve the efficiency of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is real, just don’t expect the reform process to follow a Western model.
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4 Asian countries with room left to raise household spending: HSBC

SINGAPORE (June 17): While consumer debt-to-GDP ratios have climbed over the years for most countries in Asia, HSBC says there is “still some room left to raise household debt, and fuel consumption” in some.
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