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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.

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

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

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

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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.