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SINGAPORE (Jan 24): Tail risks, no matter how unlikely, are not entirely implausible, exceptionally rare, or unknown. Despite falling short of base case expectations, the improbability does not undermine their potential impact to financial markets.

SINGAPORE (Oct 4): Fitch Ratings has revised down its forecast for US growth in FY16 to 1.4% from 1.8% in July, according to its latest bi­monthly Global Economic Outlook (GEO) report for Sept.

SINGAPORE (Oct 3): The profession of providing tender loving care to the wealth of the world's rich people is heading for its annus horribilis. Private bankers in Asia could deal with 2017 -- and the headaches the year will bring -- by following one s

SINGAPORE (Aug 13): It’s true they say that stock investors have a short-term memory. While Brexit may have come as a rude shock to them, it turns out they aren’t pricing in the possibility of Donald Trump as the new US President either.

SINGAPORE (June 24): The UK officially decided to leave the European Union on June 23, with leave votes trumping remain by 51.9% to 48.1%. A total of 33.5 million voted. Mayhem ensued in the markets, with the British pound dropping more than 10% to a 30-y

SINGAPORE (June 22): Citi Research is maintaining its expectations of an interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve in September, with December as a close alternative if the Fed does not move in September, according to a Tuesday report. The research hou

SINGAPORE (May 27): A Fed interest rate hike looms like a guillotine over the Asian markets.