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Singapore shares open lower on Thursday; STI down 0.4%
SINGAPORE stocks declined on Thursday (Feb 20) morning, tracking overnight losses in European markets.
As at 9.01 am, the Straits Times Index (STI) opened 0.4 per cent or 14.07...
Australia’s Goodman raises A$4 billion for data centres to tap AI boom
AUSTRALIA’S Goodman Group plans to raise A$4 billion (S$3.4 billion) via a share placement to develop a global network of data centres, as the march of artificial intelligence (AI)...
Seatrium gets offshore rig contract from International Maritime Industries
SEATRIUM’S offshore jack-up designer Seatrium Offshore Technology has won an international tender from International Maritime Industries, a shipyard in the Middle East and North Africa region, for the supply...
Tesla cited by US regulators over worker’s death
US FEDERAL regulators have cited Tesla for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas auto-manufacturing plant.The US Department...
Beyond Meat pursues new borrowing to shore up liquidity
PLANT-BASED burger maker Beyond Meat is sounding out investors to borrow as much as US$250 million from private credit lenders, its second such attempt in less than 12 months,...
Siemens set to raise 1.4 billion euros in Healthineers stake sale
SIEMENS is likely to raise about 1.4 billion euros (S$2 billion) from the sale of a roughly 2.3 per cent stake in Siemens Healthineers, the medical technology unit it...
Forever 21 plans hundreds of store closures in second bankruptcy
THE US-based operator of Forever 21 is preparing to close at least 200 more locations from the fast-fashion retailer’s shrinking store base as part of a bankruptcy process that’s...
Reviving SGX is not the endgame – creating a vibrant financial ecosystem is
IT IS somewhat counterintuitive that shares of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) have weakened since the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) review group on Feb 13 announced tax incentives as...
US: Wall St opens slightly lower as markets assess latest tariff threats
WALL Street’s main indexes opened marginally lower on Wednesday (Feb 19) on worries over US President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats and head of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s...
SingPost to lay off 45 employees ‘in the coming months’
The move is not correlated with previous incidents or whistleblowing reports, it emphasisesSINGAPORE Post (SingPost) will lay off 45 employees “in the coming months” in a move to restructure...
