interest rates

SINGAPORE (Dec 4): Central bankers are starting to see promising results from one of the recent additions to their monetary policy toolbox.

(Oct 15): Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that the US central bank expects to continue to raise interest rates gradually as solid growth, a strong labor market and a healthy global economy lift prices even as she recognised that inflation has been

(Oct 9): Our research, which looks at episodes of rising rates since 1970, suggests income-producing assets do not perform as investors might expect.

(Sept 18): Chan Siew Guat, a part-time cleaner in her late 50s, sighs at how the price of her kopi, the oily local coffee brew, has been rising steadily at hawker centres and coffee shops in the CBD, where she works.

(Aug 24): Indonesia’s central bank surprised most economists on Tuesday by lowering interest rates, reflecting its relative comfort with the currency and inflation outlook.

SINGAPORE (July 3): Two decades ago, several Asian economies were shattered by a series of financial, economic and political crises that set the region back badly.

SINGAPORE (June 22): Maybank Kim Eng Research remains “positive” on Singapore REITs (S-REITs), with confidence that a firmer exchange rate regime poses no immediate threat to the industrial REITs.

TOKYO/HONG KONG (June 14): There’s a dark cloud building behind the world’s best period of synchronous growth among developed and emerging economies this decade -- one that in time could rain down volatility in global markets.

SINGAPORE (May 30): Maybank Kim Eng Research is turning positive on Singapore’s property developers with expectations of a potential rebound in property prices, even without further policy easing.