economy

Property

Singapore’s small builders seen facing debt troubles amid curbs

SINGAPORE (Sept 11): Singapore’s small construction firms are likely to face more difficulties repaying debt as a clampdown on property speculation worsens their already tight liquidity.

Global Economy

Keeping up with the trade war ping-pong

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): The US is a massive consumer of goods imported from China. In 2017, the US ran a US$566 billion ($773.27 billion) trade deficit with the rest of the world.

Tech

Monetary policy via Facebook is Southeast Asia in turmoil

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA/MANILA (Aug 24): As the economic landscape gets more rocky, Southeast Asia’s central bankers are turning to Facebook and YouTube for help in getting their messages across.

Commentary

Temasek gains more relevance as it pursues emerging, disruptive trends

SINGAPORE (July 16): During the early years of this newspaper, I rarely made space in our pages for Temasek Holdings. While we actively covered the many public-listed companies in which it held major stakes, doing a story on Temasek itself seemed to be mo

Tech

Robots still missing from the largest part of Japan’s economy

TOKYO (June 22): Japan is famous as a land of robots, but most of those machines haven’t made their way off of factory floors.

China Focus

Xi to counter Trump blow for blow in unwanted trade war

BEIJING (June 18): The first punches in a trade fight that China doesn’t want have been thrown, and now Xi Jinping is poised to match Donald Trump blow for blow.

Fintech

Singapore has fintech dreams, but it’s short on tech talent

SINGAPORE (May 30): Singapore’s goal of becoming a high-tech financial hub are running into real-world problems of labor supply and demand.

In print this week

Where should investors turn amid the global logistics boom?

SINGAPORE (Apr 20): As global growth takes off and technology reshapes the economies of Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia, demand for logistics properties is shifting.

Global Economy

IMF warns of rising threats to global financial system

WASHINGTON (Apr 19): Threats to the global financial system are rising, with the price of risky assets surging in a manner reminiscent of the years before the global financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund warned.

Global Economy

Singapore remains among world's 'least miserable' economies

SINGAPORE (Feb 15): Rising prices are more of a threat to the global economy this year than joblessness, according to Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which sums inflation and unemployment outlooks for 66 economies.
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