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WASHINGTON (April 11): Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the US central bank’s task has shifted from a post-crisis exercise of healing the economy to one aimed at holding on to progress made.

TOKYO (April 5): Corporate Japan achieved a rare feat in the fiscal year that ended last week. Not one of its almost 4,000 publicly-traded firms filed for bankruptcy protection.

SINGAPORE (Feb 8): UOB is forecasting an overall budget surplus of $6.7 billion for FY16 -- 0.9% higher than the Singapore government’s estimate of $3.4 billion -- on expectations of higher contributions from corporate and personal income taxes; motor v

SINGAPORE (Jan 26): Preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Manpower’s (MOM’s) latest Labour Market Advance Release have indicated that 2016 was once again a year of increased layoffs and redundancies among Singapore’s residents and citizens as t

SINGAPORE (Jan 23): Job cuts in Singapore may be at the highest since 2009, but official data shows workers still have it easier than most.

WASHINGTON (Jan 5): Federal Reserve officials focused on the impact of potential fiscal stimulus during their December policy meeting, with many starting to worry that the central bank might eventually be forced to quicken the pace of interest-rate increa

SINGAPORE (Dec 29): The proportion of establishments in Singapore giving out retrenchment benefits remains high, says the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) based on the results of its Retrenchment Benefits Survey covering retrenchments conducted in 2015.

SINGAPORE (Nov 17): DBS Group Research is maintaining its view that the Singapore property market remains on a “modest correction path” while highlighting that developers trading at 0.75x P/NAV still remain attractive.

SINGAPORE (Sept 22): HSBC Global Research says the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is unlikely to change its policy during its review in October, despite the deteriorating numbers in non-oil domestic exports (NODX), intellectual property, retail sal

(Sept 14): The Hanjin Shipping Co. terminal at South Korea’s largest port used to be one of the world’s busiest. Dozens of container carriers would line up to ferry boxes to and from the giant cranes that loaded and unloaded the world’s biggest ship