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Stocks to watch: CICT, Nio, Clar, CDL, HPH Trust, Low Keng Huat, First Reit
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Feb 6): CapitaLand Integrated…
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Layoffs have reached the highest level since 2009 (and AI may not even be to blame)
Planned layoffs have now reached their highest rate since 2009’s Great Recession. The data comes from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray &…
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Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE
The report attributes 30,784 of the job losses to ending contracts, such as that of UPS. Market and economic conditions led to 28,392…
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How to protect your intellectual property as a new founder
You finally have something real: a prototype, a name, maybe your first customers. And then it hits you. What if someone copies this? What…
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Wall Street opens lower on anxiety over Alphabet’s capex plans
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday (Feb 5) as investors fretted over Alphabet’s spending plans and Qualcomm’s downbeat…
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OpenAI unveils AI agent service as part of push to attract businesses
The platform is part of a broader effort by OpenAI to seize the enterprise market from its rivals OpenAI on Thursday (Feb 5) said it is…
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XRP price keeps tumbling as Trump-era crypto gains get wiped out. How low can it go in 2026?
It’s a hard time to be an XRP investor. The token, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has been on a downward trajectory for…
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EV maker Nio set to record first adjusted operating profit for Q4 FY2025
The turnaround is driven by ‘sustained growth’ in sales volume and a favourable product mix Electric vehicle manufacturer Nio expects to…
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Air India probes if crew followed protocols in Boeing fuel-switch incident
Britain has given Air India a week’s deadline to submit a complete response, or face regulatory action Air India said on Thursday (Feb 5)…
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Bank of England holds rates after narrow 5-4 vote, signals reduction ahead
It has been moving cautiously as Britain has the highest inflation rate among the world’s big, rich economies The Bank of England (BOE)…
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Aster to complete Singapore refinery expansion, berth works in second-half of 2026
Singapore’s Aster Chemicals and Energy expects to complete several projects in the second half of this year to raise its refining capacity…
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Why your AI project is about to get deprioritized (and how to save it)
It’s Q1 2026. Your chief financial officer is cutting innovation budgets by 20%. Your AI pilot showed 94% accuracy improvements. The LLM…
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Maersk’s 2026 earnings drop with gradual opening of Red Sea, cuts jobs
It expects its underlying Ebitda to be between US$4.5 billion and US$7 billion this year, down from US$9.6 billion in 2025 Danish shipping…
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Syngenta targets up to US$10 billion Hong Kong listing in 2026: sources
[ZURICH/HONG KONG] Syngenta Group is targeting a Hong Kong listing that could raise as much as US$10 billion this year, two sources with…
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CapitaLand Ascendas Reit H2 DPU falls 2% to S$0.07528
CapitaLand Ascendas Reit (Clar) on Thursday (Feb 5) posted a 2 per cent drop in its distribution per unit (DPU) to S$0.07528 for the…
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Elliott raises Toyota Industries stake in push to block buyout
Elliott Investment Management has increased its stake in Toyota Industries again as the activist investor ramps up efforts to block the…
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QT Sense raises €4M to advance a quantum sensing platform
QT Sense, a deep-tech biotech startup building tools to study living cells, announced it has secured €4 million in funding to accelerate…
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‘La Portraitiste,’ Written by Florence Longpré and Directed by Annie St-Pierre, Acquired by H264 (EXCLUSIVE)
H264, a Montreal-based film distribution and international sales company, has acquired the international rights to “La Portraitiste,” the…
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Six Nations 2026: Scotland drop Van der Merwe, Graham & Kinghorn
Analysis by BBC Sport Scotland's chief sports writer Tom English Outside Scotland, this selection is going to cause sharp intakes of…
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Kembara closes €750M first close to fuel growth of European deep tech startups
Europe’s largest dedicated deep tech growth fund has taken a major step forward after closing the first tranche of its fundraising effort…
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BNP Paribas vows more cost cuts after profit tops forecast
BNP reported net income of 2.97 billion euros (S$4.46 billion) for the three months ending in December Paribas nudged up its 2028…
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Sony Outlines Expansion Plans for Peanuts Brand Following $457 Million Acquisition
Sony Group executives detailed their vision for expanding the Peanuts franchise during the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings call…
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Grab to equip 10,000 drivers, merchants with AI skills by 2028
This aligns with efforts by policymakers to future-proof workers as AI reshapes business models and jobs Grab aims to train 10,000 drivers…
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Bitcoin slumps with key US$70,000 level in sight
Bitcoin was on the cusp of breaking below the key US$70,000 level on Thursday (Feb 5) as a slide in the world’s largest cryptocurrency…