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Metals traders lose at least one billion yuan as ‘Hat’ flees China
Chinese metals markets have seen more than their fair share of scandal in recent years[SINGAPORE] Chinese metals traders have racked up losses totalling at least one billion yuan (S$183...
Positive takeaways for Singapore Reits from Keppel Reit’s dpu dilutive MBFC Tower 3 deal
With demand for office trusts focused in the Republic despite lower yields, more capital should be allocated domestically[SINGAPORE] Investors buy real estate investment trusts (Reits) to earn recurrent income...
‘Shop in China’ travel boom risks complicating PBOC’s yuan math
Foreign visitors to the capital city of Beijing spent an unprecedented 50.6 billion yuan in 2025Published Mon, Feb 2, 2026 · 10:29 AMA SURGE in foreign travellers strolling in...
Oil prices fall by 3% on US-Iran de-escalation
Published Mon, Feb 2, 2026 · 09:58 AM[TOKYO] Oil prices fell 3 per cent on Monday as US President Donald Trump said over the weekend Iran was “seriously talking” with...
Oracle plans to raise US$45 billion to US$50 billion in 2026
Published Mon, Feb 2, 2026 · 08:39 AMORACLE expects to raise US$45 billion to US$50 billion in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure, the software company...
GIC, Mubadala said to be set to join KKR in US$10 billion STT Deal
Data centres are attracting a lot of investor interest, not least because of their role in the artificial intelligence boomPublished Mon, Feb 2, 2026 · 07:34 AM[ABU DHABI] GIC...
Waymo seeking about US$16 billion near US$110 billion valuation
The startup plans to aggressively expand the commercial service this year to many more American cities, as well as to the UKPublished Mon, Feb 2, 2026 · 06:44 AM[SAN...
Opec+ agrees to keep oil output unchanged as Iran tensions boost prices
They will raise production quotas by about 2.9 million barrels per day from April till December 2025, roughly 3% of global demand.Published Sun, Feb 1, 2026 · 11:27 PM[MOSCOW/LONDON]...
Heavy earnings week, jobs data to test US stocks after Microsoft swoon
Results are due from about one-quarter of S&P 500 companies including Alphabet, Amazon, LillyPublished Sun, Feb 1, 2026 · 10:31 PM[NEW YORK] Another huge batch of corporate earnings including...
Singapore bank lending hits fastest monthly growth since Dec 2024; full-year lending at multi-year high
For the whole of 2025, bank lending up 5.8% at S$10.26 trillion, MAS data indicates[SINGAPORE] Singapore’s bank lending in December 2025 charted the highest monthly increase since December 2024,...
