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SINGAPORE (Jan 30): NRA Capital likes LY Corporation, the original design manufacturer of wooden bedroom furniture, for what it sees as a positive mix of growth and dividend plans to come.

WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT (Dec 15): Central bankers are gingerly trying to take away the punch bowl without interrupting the party.

SINGAPORE (Sept 22): The US Federal Reserve announced on Sept 20 that it would start reducing the size of its US$4.5 trillion ($6.1 trillion) balance sheet next month. It also stuck with its forecast to raise the federal funds rate again this year, citing

SINGAPORE (Sept 7): Over the hearing which took place at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) yesterday, Malaysia’s former second finance minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, who served as adviser to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) from 1998 to 2000, admitt

NEW YORK (Aug 18): A sense of growing unease gripped financial markets as President Donald Trump exacerbated the controversy sparked by a racist rally in Virginia and terrorists struck a crowded street in Barcelona.

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Aug 17): The big ball of money in Hong Kong is rolling to the yuan, and the local dollar is suffering.

BANGKOK (June 30): Two decades ago, Thailand became ground zero of the Asia financial crisis, when its government scrapped a dollar peg with the baht, a devaluation that unleashed a wave of speculative attacks on other regional currencies and shook the gl

SINGAPORE (June 1): Europe is now threatening to be an outlier in the “as good as it gets” investment theme as its cyclical improvement continues to gather speed, according to Bank of Singapore (BoS).  

LONDON (May 11): Dissenters in the face of the relentless emerging-market rally are speaking out.

SINGAPORE (April 27): Given the disparate political views and economic agendas of French presidential candidates Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, VP Bank believes the behaviour of financial markets in response to either victory, after the upcoming retur