SINGAPORE: Resale prices in the public housing market held steady in the first quarter of 2020 amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a contrast to the decline in the private property sector. The resale price index was 131.5, unchanged from the fourth quarter of last year, according to flash estimates ......
SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed former Goldman Sachs banker Taiichi Hoshino as head of a new investment planning department, as the group increases oversight of its tech bets battered by volatile markets.
Risk currencies looked fragile and the yen firmed on Wednesday, the first day of a quarter that looks set to see the worst economic contractions for decades in many countries as they scramble to tackle the coronavirus epidemic.
Crude oil benchmarks opened the month mixed on Wednesday, following their biggest-ever quarterly and monthly losses, overshadowed by fears of global oversupply as data showed a bigger-than-expected rise in inventories in the United States.
SINGAPORE: Private home prices in Singapore fell 1.2 per cent over the quarter in the first three months of the year, according to flash estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Wednesday (Apr 1). This reverses the 0.5 per cent increase seen in the previous quarter. The...
Bond investor and DoubleLine Capital Chief Executive Jeffrey Gundlach said on Tuesday he believes the coronavirus sell-off is not over yet and that the lows stocks hit in March will be surpassed in April due to uncertainty over the outbreak.
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce as soon as Wednesday it will allow oil companies to lease space in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), as it tries to comply with President Trump's directive to fill the facility to capacity, two industry sources said.
THE extent of the latest support announced by Singapore's financial industry and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for distressed property owners and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) shows the depth and breadth of the current economic downturn, a Citi report said late on Tuesday.
THE extent of the latest support announced by Singapore's financial industry and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for distressed property owners and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) shows the depth and breadth of the current economic downturn, a Citi report said late on Tuesday.
U.S. pension funds that delayed rebalancing their portfolios are likely to pump about US$400 billion into stocks over the next two quarters, analysts at JP Morgan said, providing a potential boost to equity markets battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
