Posts by Liam Redmond
Addvalue Tech rises 14.5% on H2 earnings surge
[SINGAPORE] Shares of Addvalue Technologies rose on Monday (May 25) morning after the mainboard-listed company reported higher net profit for its second half ended Mar 31. The stock rose 14.5 per cent or S$0.02 to S$0.158 as at 11.59 am on Monday, with 200.1 million shares changing hands. By the midday trading break, it had…
Read MoreVessels carrying Middle East oil, LNG exit Hormuz amid US-Iran peace talks, head for Pakistan, China
They are among a handful of supertankers exiting the Gulf in May via a transit route that Iran has ordered ships to use Published Mon, May 25, 2026 · 12:11 PM [SINGAPORE] Two liquefied natural gas tankers are exiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday (May 25), heading to Pakistan and China, while a supertanker…
Read MoreJapan’s Nikkei jumps past 65,000 mark for first time on Iran talks optimism
Published Mon, May 25, 2026 · 11:19 AM [TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average surged past the 65,000 level for the first time on Monday (May 25), as optimism for a deal to end the war in Iran boosted demand for risk assets. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Index rose 3.12 per cent to 65,316.79 and touched…
Read MoreHuawei touts chipmaking breakthrough to shorten gap with TSMC
The smaller a transistor becomes, the more can be fitted on a chip, which in turn will become more powerful Published Mon, May 25, 2026 · 10:10 AM HUAWEI Technologies said that it has come up with a new pathway to shorten its gap with industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), potentially achieving a…
Read MoreChina’s Huawei reveals chip design breakthrough amid US sanctions
The company’s Ascend chip series has become increasingly central to powering Chinese artificial intelligence models Published Mon, May 25, 2026 · 10:10 AM — Updated Mon, May 25, 2026 · 01:24 PM [SHANGHAI/BEIJING] Huawei Technologies said on Monday (May 25) that its high-end chips will have transistor density equivalent to 1.4-nanometre (nm) processes in five…
Read MoreGeo Energy expects ‘further clarity’ on Indonesia’s plan to centralise commodity export controls
The coal producer says current operations and activities continue ‘as (per) normal’ [SINGAPORE] Coal producer Geo Energy on Monday (May 25) said in a statement that it expects “further clarity” on the Indonesian government’s plan to centralise control of commodity exports. The group noted that more details are needed regarding the “implementation framework, administrative processes,…
Read MoreStocks to watch: The Hour Glass, UI Boustead Reit, Boustead Singapore, Aspial Lifestyle
[SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Monday (May 25): The Hour Glass : The luxury watch retailer on Friday posted a 39 per cent increase in net profit to S$103.8 million for its second half ended Mar 31, on the back of stronger sales momentum. This…
Read MoreAims Apac Reit eyes data centre growth as it expands beyond industrial assets
Government endorsement for two Sydney sites gives the manager the option to develop them into data centre assets [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed Aims Apac Real Estate Investment Trust ( AA Reit ) is zooming in on data centre opportunities as it looks beyond traditional industrial assets for its next phase of growth, to tap rising demand for…
Read More‘Market has jumped the shark’: Sizzling chip stocks rally showing signs of patterns seen in 2000
MICHAEL Burry – the American investor who rose to fame when his bets against mortgage securities were celebrated in the Hollywood blockbuster The Big Short – recently warned that history was about to repeat itself in the form of another massive tech implosion. In a post on online publishing platform Substack, he argued that the…
Read MoreTo AI executives, we’re all just ‘meat computers’
This comparison has not landed well with a public anxious about the artificial intelligence future Source link
Read MoreNissan unit scraps plan to make EV powertrains in UK: Nikkei
The plan to invest £48.7 million to make up to 340,000 units a year has been cancelled Published Sun, May 24, 2026 · 08:24 PM [TOKYO] Nissan Motor subsidiary Jatco has scrapped its plan to make electric vehicle powertrains in Sunderland, Britain, in the light of sluggish demand for Nissan’s EVs in Europe, the Nikkei…
Read MoreNacho versus Taco: Are these Tex-Mex themes about to give investors in Singapore indigestion?
Mega cap listing aspirants SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic may draw liquidity away from less exciting companies around the world, exacerbating the impact of Nacho trade on their shares [SINGAPORE] When global bond yields suddenly began surging on May 15, it felt as though investors were finally giving up on “looking through” the inflationary impact of…
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