Asia

SINGAPORE (March 1): State Street Global Exchange’s Global Investor Confidence Index (Global ICI) reported a fall in sentiment to 92.9 points, down 1.6 points from Jan 2017’s revised reading of 94.5.

BANGKOK (Feb 20): As the most sensitive emerging Asian currency, South Korea’s won provides the best proxy for investors looking to bet on how the region reacts to US President Donald Trump.

HONG KONG (Feb 15): Everything old is new again when it comes to trade deals.

SINGAPORE (Feb 14): Surging stocks for coatings companies worldwide have created Southeast Asia’s second paint company billionaire.

SINGAPORE (Feb 13): India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam have largely escaped US President Donald Trump’s glare on trade, but he may yet come looking. The US runs trade deficits with all of them, in some cases quite big ones.

SINGAPORE (Feb 10): Demand for healthcare services seems to be outpacing supply, as an ageing population and the prevalence of chronic illnesses quickly fill up new hospitals and clinics with patients both local and from abroad.

SINGAPORE (Jan 26): Barely a week in office and US President Donald Trump has quickly gotten down to fulfilling the promises he has made to his voters, ripping up the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, ordering the building of the Mexican border wall an

SINGAPORE (Jan 13): With the US and China displaying steady growth momentum and the continued recovery of Asian exports, Oxford Economics thinks 2017 has started on a positive note – and bodes especially well for Asia’s small open economies that rely

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Assets under management (AUM) of automated wealth management services, otherwise known as robo-advisors, are projected to rise by 2,500% to US$489 billion ($708.3 billion) globally by 2020, according to data provided by financial servic

SINGAPORE (Jan 4): Franses Gallery, a London-based UK art gallery, says it is currently in the midst of a “bitter [court] dispute” with CapitaLand over a new 15-year lease of purpose-built premises within the Singapore-listed property developer’s As