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SINGAPORE (Dec 22): Driven by the rally in blue chips, the Straits Times Index is up 18.5% in the year to Dec 18.

(Dec 12): Wall Street economists are telling investors to brace for the biggest tightening of monetary policy in more than a decade.

SINGAPORE (Nov 29): The overall performance of the Central Provident Fund Investment Scheme-included funds (CPFIS-included funds) for 3Q17 ended September increased by 2.7% on average.

(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

(Aug 23): The populist leaders of India, Indonesia and the Philippines won office with promises of massive spending to upgrade their nation’s roads, railways and ports. Doing so, the thinking goes, would supercharge economic growth and emulate China’s

SINGAPORE (Aug 11): Forget the US Federal Reserve’s rate hikes. There is far more to be feared from the imminent reversal of quantitative easing (QE) by both the Fed and the European Central Bank (ECB).

SINGAPORE (March 17): Rising interest rates on the back of US Fed rate hikes should favour banks, property developers, and stocks with yield backed by net cash, says DBS Group Research.

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.