infrastructure

SINGAPORE (Feb 23): It is that time of the year again. Immediately after every Budget speech, analysts scramble to translate the slew of adjustments to taxes and government schemes into fresh views on the economy, specific industries and individual stocks

BANGKOK (Feb 15): In many ways, China’s Lunar New Year holiday is America’s Thanksgiving, Christmas and Independence Day all rolled into one.

SINGAPORE (Dec 20): SG HSR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA), and MyHSR Corporation of Malaysia have called a joint tender for a private-financed assets company (AssetsCo) to work on the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High

SINGAPORE (Dec 18): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Hong Kong recently announced that by 2019, a cross-border platform will be set up to boost trade finance using distributed ledger, or blockchain technology. The key benefit of this developm

SINGAPORE (Dec 7): With at least US$323 billion in infrastructure spending in the pipeline in Southeast Asia and potentially more expected over the next few years, 2018 could well shape up as the year of builders’ stocks from Indonesia to the Philippine

SINGAPORE (Dec 6): DBS Vickers Securities expects construction company Hock Lian Seng to see a near-doubling of earnings in FY18 to $27 million from $13.8 million in FY17 on the back of strengthening order book momentum.

SINGAPORE (Nov 28): M&G Investments has launched the M&G (Lux) Global Listed Infrastructure Fund, which invests in companies that own or control critical physical infrastructure supporting global economic growth, and in businesses whose assets are deemed

(Nov 20): Asean equity markets are up 20% year-to-date, in US dollar terms, according to a Nov 13 report by Morgan Stanley Research equity strategists Sean Gardiner and Aarti Shah. That is not a bad show, but it masks differences among the various countri

SINGAPORE (Oct 19): Keppel Corporation has announced earnings of $291.8 million for the 3Q17 ended Sept, up 30% from $224.5 million in 3Q16.

JAKARTA (Oct 17): Indonesia will turn to private investors for the hundreds of billions of dollars in investment needed to develop the archipelago’s infrastructure and natural resources, President Joko Widodo said, brushing off claims he was increasingl