SINGAPORE: Retail sales in Singapore fell 1 per cent in March from a year ago, according to figures released by the Department of Statistics (Singstat) on Friday (May 10), easing from the revised 9.9 per cent fall in February. Excluding motor vehicles, March sales fell 1.5 per cent. The total ...
OCBC Bank, like the other two Singapore lenders, is feeling the chill of last year's property cooling measures with its mortgage book "reduced visibly" for the first quarter of 2019.
Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani has snapped up the storied British toy store Hamleys from its Chinese owners for US$88 million, the latest in a dizzying splurge of retail acquisitions.
The Asia business of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, filed on Friday a draft prospectus for an initial public offering (IPO), which two sources with knowledge of the matter said could be worth at least US$5 billion.
SINGAPORE: Singapore's second-biggest listed lender Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd reported an 11 per cent rise in quarterly profit on Friday (May 10) that beat market estimates, driven by broad-based growth, rounding up a strong quarter for local banks. But after three years of robust loans ...
DBS has raised over S$1 billion from its DBS Global Income Note in the three months since its January launch with strong interest from its private banking clients, South-east Asia's largest lender announced on Friday.
SINGAPORE: Good news for Singaporeans going on holiday to Australia, as the Singapore dollar hit a 4-month high against the Australian dollar this week. The Singdollar traded at an intraday high of 1.0525 against the Australian dollar on Thursday (May 9). It rose to an intraday high of 1.0553 ......
WASHINGTON: Crucial trade negotiations with China will continue on Friday (May 10), the White House said late Thursday night, about 90 minutes before steep new tariffs were set to hit Chinese goods. President Donald Trump met with the US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury ...
WASHINGTON: Top US and Chinese trade negotiators concluded the first of two days of talks on Thursday (May 9) to rescue a trade deal that is close to collapsing as Washington prepares to go ahead with plans to hike tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods imported from...
A U.S. startup company is accusing Chinese telecommunications gear provider Huawei of enlisting a Chinese university professor working on a research project to improperly access the startup's technology, according to court documents filed last week.
