US-China trade war

(Aug 29): A US$641 billion ($890.1 billion) asset manager is seeking refuge from the trade war in Indian and Southeast Asian stocks, saying their domestic consumer-driven economies make them the best havens from the burgeoning uncertainty.

(Aug 28): Asian governments are trickling out fiscal stimulus amid a deepening exports slump, bolstering central bank efforts to shore up their economies as the global mood darkens.

(Aug 27): Singapore firms are likely to see more soured debt as the trade-reliant economy takes a hit from US-China tensions.

SINGAPORE (Aug 26): Haven assets reigned as traders returned to their desks Monday after an action-packed weekend that saw tensions between the US and China ratchet up again.

(Aug 23): China threatened to impose additional tariffs on US$75 billion ($104 billion) of American goods including soybeans, automobiles and oil, in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest planned levies on Chinese imports that pushed US stocks

(Aug 26): On the morning of July 31, at the Xijiao Conference Centre of the State Guest Hotel in Shanghai, the US trade delegation, led by Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, sat across the table from the Chinese d

(Aug 23): The new tariffs that President Donald Trump has threatened on US$300 billion ($416 billion) of Chinese goods would drag China’s annual economic growth below 6%, according to a Bloomberg survey, which would be the slowest expansion since 1990.

(Aug 26): On the morning of July 31, at the Xijiao Conference Centre of the State Guest Hotel in Shanghai, the US trade delegation, led by Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, sat across the table from the Chinese d

(Aug 21): Singapore’s slowing economic growth has started to hurt company earnings as a trade war intensifies between its two biggest trading partners.

SINGAPORE (Aug 19): Even as Singapore teeters on the edge of a technical recession, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says there’s no need yet for immediate economic stimulus measures.