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Chinese yuan’s longest weekly rally in more than a decade is set to extend into Chinese New Year
The Chinese yuan, riding its longest weekly rally in more than a decade, is expected to strengthen further as exporters boost demand for…
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BayView Entertainment Takes North American Rights to FlareFlow Microdramas (EXCLUSIVE)
BayView Entertainment has secured North American distribution rights to a catalog of vertical video titles from FlareFlow, the microdrama…
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Swatch Group Profits Slump 89% in 2025 on Decision to Maintain Jobs
PARIS — The cost of maintaining production capacities and jobs without asking for subsidies for reduced hours is clear at the Swatch…
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South-east Asia seeks data centre investments – but must reckon with their thirst
With rapid data centre growth straining the region’s water supply, the race is on for alternative water sources and cooling technologies.…
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Singapore, Vietnam remain on US Treasury’s currency watch list; Thailand added
Report classifies city-state as an outlier as it is the only nation on the list running a bilateral trade deficit with America The…
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Dover Street Market Kei Ninomiya Fall 2026: One for the Team
There’s no denying fashion has become the ultimate spectator sport – Lyas’ watch parties, anyone? For a similar kind of fervor, sense of…
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Malaysian Central Bank rejects using ringgit to help exports
Malaysia’s central bank said strong growth and ongoing reforms would provide support for the ringgit, ruling out using the currency to…
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Stocks tumble on bets Kevin Warsh is Trump’s Fed pick
Stocks slumped while the dollar and bond yields shot up on Friday after US President Donald Trump said he has firmed his choice for new…
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EXCLUSIVE: Curate Capital, L’Oréal’s BOLD Venture Arm Back Live Tinted
Live Tinted is flush with new funding. Curate Capital has taken a stake in the brand, as has L’Oréal’s BOLD venture arm, in a funding…
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Japan’s Nintendo and Sony face memory price pressures
ENDO and Sony Group will face scrutiny over how soaring memory chip prices driven by AI demand have affected their game console…
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‘Significant improvement’: CNMC Goldmine expects profit lift for 2025 on higher gold, silver prices
CNMC Goldmine expects a “significant overall improvement” to its net profit for the financial year ended Dec 31, 2025, compared with the…
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RWS ‘better positioned’ to win back high-rollers from MBS: DBS
Integrated resort on Sentosa could attract higher-value traffic after renovations, launch of luxury hotel While Marina Bay Sands (MBS) has…
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Trump says he’ll announce Fed chair pick on Friday morning
He reiterated that the next leader of the central bank would lower interest rates PRESIDENT Donald Trump said he would be announcing his…
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Raffles Education unit’s land in China to be acquired by government for urban planning
The group says it cannot currently assess the impact of the proposed repossession Raffles Education on Thursday (Jan 29) announced that…
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Stocks to watch: MPACT, Keppel DC Reit, NetLink NBN, CapitaLand Ascott, GuocoLand, Starhill Global, CDLHT, SGX
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Jan 30): Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial…
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Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust Q3 DPU rises 2.5% to S$0.0205
Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT) on Friday (Jan 30) posted a distribution per unit (DPU) of S$0.0205 for the third quarter…
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Keppel DC Reit H2 DPU up 7.1% at S$0.05248 on the back of acquisitions, strong portfolio reversion
Data centre-focused Keppel DC Reit on Friday (Jan 30) posted a 7.1 per cent increase in distribution per unit (DPU) to S$0.05248 for the…
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Bitcoin slide below US$85,000 leads to US$1 billion in liquidations
The digital currency is down more than 30 per cent from an all-time high on Oct 6 OIN can’t catch a break these days. First, traders were…
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US has investigated claims that WhatsApp chats aren’t private
Meta says it cannot see WhatsApp messages because they are encrypted with digital keys on users’ phones US LAW enforcement has been…
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Microsoft plunges, Meta rallies as investors demand AI payoffs
Microsoft is under growing investor pressure to justify its soaring capital outlay Tech earnings so far this week have sent a clear…
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Apple sales, profit beat Wall Street estimates amid ‘staggering’ iPhone demand
E beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday (Jan 29), powered by strong demand for its iPhones and a sharp rebound in…
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Tech selloff drags Europe stocks lower as SAP’s results disappoint
PE’S benchmark share index gave up early gains to close lower on Thursday, weighed by a selloff in technology stocks as results from…
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US stocks: S&P 500, Nasdaq close down as Big Tech’s soaring AI budgets trigger flight
Street’s main indexes finished lower on Thursday with technology-heavy Nasdaq leading declines as investors were rattled by the latest…
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SGX broadens adoption of broker custody accounts
Currently, SGX-listed securities in two-thirds of retail accounts are held directly with CDP Moves are afoot to get more Singapore…