consumption

GLP clinches new leases in China, Japan

SINGAPORE (March 9): Logistics facilities provider GLP has signed 69,000 sqm of new leases in China and Japan over the past three months.

Citi investment theme for 2017

3 ways China’s semiconductor industry is set to transform global markets

SINGAPORE (Jan 19): Citigroup is expecting the republic’s semiconductor sector to become the global industry’s main growth driver in the years to come, given the trend of increasing demand and emerging opportunities for China’s semiconductor vendors

Commodities

What investors need to understand about the value of gold

SINGAPORE (Nov 3): How does one value the price of gold without a coupon or dividend, and no expected earnings or book-to-value ratios?

In print this week

The going's getting tougher for more STI companies

SINGAPORE (Oct 21): The global economic weakness has already hit many of the large and diversified companies that make up the Straits Times Index.

China Focus

China's reform of SOEs may look a little odd to the West: Goldman

HONG KONG (Sept 9): China’s desire to improve the efficiency of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is real, just don’t expect the reform process to follow a Western model.
China night market

4 Asian countries with room left to raise household spending: HSBC

SINGAPORE (June 17): While consumer debt-to-GDP ratios have climbed over the years for most countries in Asia, HSBC says there is “still some room left to raise household debt, and fuel consumption” in some.
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