NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party’s promise of free Covid-19 vaccines for poll-bound Bihar state has not only been called out for being …
Investors hedging against volatility during US election
Bloomberg – Money managers in Asia are deploying a range of traditional and unconventional strategies to cushion any losses as they brace themselves for turbulence in …
Investors hedging against volatility during US election
Money managers in Asia are deploying a range of traditional and unconventional strategies to cushion any losses as they brace themselves for turbulence in the …
The fact-based approach to managing your money
For people who are 40 and above today, the quality of your life is to a large extent the cumulative effect of important decisions in …
The fact-based approach to managing your money
For people who are 40 and above today, the quality of your life is to a large extent the cumulative effect of important decisions in …
High-paying jobs: Fleet superintendent charts path to success
Less than a year into his new job at global shipping giant Maersk, fleet superintendent Benny Lim was presented with a major problem: a vessel …
Felix: Top rank of BlockChain DApp, third-listing to Bithumb Global
Felix, a Blockchain DApp platform, which has successfully made its initial listing to Newdex in September and Foblgate exchange as the second since the initial …
Hong Kong’s windfall from posterboy Ant’s impending IPO
HONG KONG – Summer may be over but the financial world is sizzling with an impending historic debut on Nov 5 of ground-breaking proportions. Chinese …
China’s factory activity slows slightly in October as it rebounds from Covid-19
BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s factory activity expanded at a slightly slower pace in October but was slightly above analysts’ expectations, suggesting a continuing economic recovery …
Tech slide, pandemic surge slam Wall Street as stocks suffer biggest weekly loss since March
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – US stock indexes closed lower on Friday (Oct 30) to cap Wall Street’s biggest weekly sell-off since March, as losses in …
S’pore bank lending down for 7th straight month in Sept: MAS data
Bank lending last month dipped for the seventh straight session on weaker business loans, preliminary data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) showed yesterday. …
HK economy shows first signs of revival since protests began
HONG KONG • Hong Kong’s economy showed the first signs of emerging from a crippling recession sparked by political unrest last year and deepened by …
Nanofilm shares jump on trading debut
SINGAPORE – Shares of Nanofilm Technologies International surged above its initial public offering (IPO) price in its debut on Friday (Oct 30), in Singapore’s biggest …
Hong Kong economy shows first signs of revival since protests began
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Hong Kong’s economy is showing the first signs of emerging from a crippling recession sparked by political unrest last year and …
Jack Ma’s Ant IPO in Shanghai lures $3.88 trillion of bids in investor frenzy
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Chen Wu frantically clicked the order button on his online brokerage account as the clock struck noon. Like thousands of individual …
Big Tech earnings disappoint market where nothing’s good enough
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Solid quarterly earnings from America’s biggest tech firms weren’t enough to keep investors from selling late on Thursday (Oct 29), the …
Wall Street rebounds as market eyes tech results, strong US data
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – US stocks closed higher on Thursday (Oct 29), with the technology heavyweights rallying ahead of major earnings reports and upbeat domestic …
Japan tops 100,000 coronavirus cases, daily infections creep up
TOKYO (REUTERS) – Total confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Japan exceeded the 100,000 mark on Thursday (Oct 29), public broadcaster NHK said, as the number …
Umno calls for polls in Malaysia once pandemic under control
KUALA LUMPUR – Umno, the biggest party in Malaysia’s ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, has called for a general election to be held once the …
New Silkroutes plans independent review into deals signed with China entity
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Healthcare and energy firm New Silkroutes Group will appoint an independent public accounting firm to conduct an independent review into …