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SINGAPORE (March 14): Bank of Singapore (BoS) is maintaining its moderately defensive asset allocation stance with a preference for credit over equity, as a Fed hike in March is “all but certain” with two more hikes forecast to occur by end-2017.

HONG KONG (Jan 27): The world's most famous measure of volatility in financial markets is flashing a sign akin to boredom — languishing around levels that prevailed before the global crisis.

SINGAPORE (Jan 20): CIMB and DBS Vickers Securities are maintaining their respective ratings of “hold” and “buy” on Singapore Exchange (SGX), after the bourse posted a 5.5% rise in 2Q17 earnings to $88.3 million on Thursday. 

SINGAPORE (Jan 19): Singapore Exchange reported 2Q17 earnings rose 5.5% to $88.3 million from $83.7 million the previous year, helped by higher trading activity.

HONG KONG (Jan 5): When top Hong Kong investor Alex Wong scours financial data looking for promising returns, he draws on a long history of judging probabilities. As a pre-teen watching Jockey Club horse races, he learned that it all came down to the pri

SINGAPORE (Dec 27): The Singapore market faces several challenges in the year ahead, many of which are upcoming world events whose outcomes are beyond the predictive scope of analysts and economists.

SINGAPORE (Dec 1): The biggest challenge investors will face in 2017 is to find yield at reasonable risk. This was the view expressed by Nannette Hechler Fayd’herbe, global head of investment strategy at Credit Suisse, in a Thursday release.

SINGAPORE (Nov 22): HSBC Global Research says it is turning positive on China’s public private partnership (PPP) financing model after its recent visit to the relevant regulators, financial institutions and construction companies.

TOKYO (Nov 21): The global stock market’s biggest comeback story of 2016 isn’t over yet. So say Citigroup Inc., AllianceBernstein and Bordier & Cie, who all see further gains for Japanese shares after the Nikkei 225 Stock Average climbed more than 20%

SINGAPORE (Nov 9): While the setbacks of a possible Donald Trump presidency have been oft discussed among economists and analysts, few have actually expected the Republican to achieve a clean sweep victory that took the world by surprise on polling day.