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Asean well-positioned to be ‘growth nucleus’ in Asia: EY
SINGAPORE (May 4): Over 80% of businesses in Australia, Europe and the US are expecting trade and investment with the Asean region to increase over next five years, according to a new report by EY.
May 04, 2017
Investing strategies
How global financial cycles can point the way for investors
SINGAPORE (April 19): While the majority of analysts focus on inflation and growth data to assess where global economies currently are in their business cycles, Capital Group Investment Management is providing an alternative method to determine the possib
April 19, 2017
Global Economy
Rich Chinese race to apply for a US golden visa
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (March 27): As members of Congress in Washington debate raising the minimum required to obtain a US immigrant investor visa from US$500,000 ($0.7 million) to US$1.35 million, concern about the hike has set off a scramble among wealthy
March 27, 2017
Just when you thought Singapore’s O&G woes were over, they’ve surfaced again
SINGAPORE (March 21): Maybank Kim Eng Research believes profits for all three of Singapore’s main banks may fall by 3-8% this FY17E, given the estimated $217-748 million of total claims and borrowings to the beleaguered oilfield services firm, Ezra Hold
March 21, 2017
Global Economy
These economies are seen improving dramatically this year
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON(MARCH 21): Expect more good news than bad when it comes to global growth this year, led by recoveries in several of Latin America’s largest economies, a pickup in the US, and continued robustness from China and India.
March 21, 2017
Singapore banks’ exposures to Ezra ‘lower than expected’
SINGAPORE (March 20): UOB KayHian says it is keeping to its conservative 2017 earnings forecast for Singapore’s banking sector, which is 6% below consensus estimates for DBS and 7% below consensus estimate for OCBC.
March 20, 2017
CWG’s Richmont Capital launches US$20 mil fund to invest in group’s overseas projects
SINGAPORE (March 17): Shanghai Richmont Equity Investment Management (Richmont Capital), the wholly-owned fund management subsidiary of property developer CWG International, will be launching a US$20 million ($28 million) overseas property fund to invest
March 17, 2017
China Focus
From 'Made in China' to 'Made by China for China'
HONG KONG (Feb 16): China remains the biggest manufacturer on the planet, but most of what it makes stays at home and the vast majority of what it consumes is made there, too.
February 16, 2017
China Focus
China's getting under the hoods of more American cars
HONG KONG (Feb 14): Chinese companies started talking a decade ago about cracking the US auto market with an array of low-cost passenger vehicles. That hasn’t happened, so instead they’re getting under the hoods of American cars by buying up parts mak
February 14, 2017
Asia’s potential trade hot spots escaping Trump’s glare for now
SINGAPORE (Feb 13): India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam have largely escaped US President Donald Trump’s glare on trade, but he may yet come looking. The US runs trade deficits with all of them, in some cases quite big ones.
February 13, 2017