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Retraining shouldn’t be this painful, so capitalise on the SkillsFuture movement to transform how you work, says Crystal Lim-Lange.

DISRUPTIONS to regional supply chains amid the Covid-19 outbreak have bumped costs up by almost 20 per cent for some traders and distributors as they scramble to find alternative suppliers outside of China, a senior executive at OCBC told The Business Times (BT).

YOUNG leaders from six prominent business families in Singapore, which include Goldbell Group and Super Group founder's investment firm Apricot Capital, are behind a S$5 million fund to provide financing help for local enterprises hit by the impact from the virus outbreak.

A REBOUND in investments due to favourable financial market conditions gave a fillip to Great Eastern's fourth-quarter bottom line.

Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said.

WASHINGTON: While US trade tensions have receded, including with China, Federal Reserve officials worry the danger to the economy is not over, according to minutes of the last policy meeting released on Wednesday (Feb 19). President Donald Trump last month signed a "phase one" agreement with ...

Wall Street's newest cult stock appears to be Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc , as investors drive the space tourism stock to sky-high levels and short sellers dig in their heels.

Federal Reserve policymakers were cautiously optimistic about their ability to hold interest rates steady this year, minutes of the central bank's last policy meeting showed, even as they acknowledged new risks caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook, Google and other major online platforms still need the immunity from legal liability that has prevented them from being sued over material their users post.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told Reuters on Wednesday he expected financial leaders of the world's 20 largest economies (G20) to make progress at a Riyadh meeting on a global minimum standard of taxation for companies and new tax rules for tech giants.