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SYDNEY/SINGAPORE (Dec 1): The 30-year-old bull market in bonds looks to be ending with a bang. The Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Total Return Index lost 4% in November, the deepest slump since the gauge’s inception in 1990.

SINGAPORE (Nov 7): Central banks have been largely ineffective in creating credit within their economies despite repeated efforts at tweaking their monetary policy, and Huw van Steenis, the Global Head of Strategy at Schroders, thinks he might know the re

SINGAPORE (Oct 4): Fitch Ratings has revised down its forecast for US growth in FY16 to 1.4% from 1.8% in July, according to its latest bi­monthly Global Economic Outlook (GEO) report for Sept.

SINGAPORE (June 9): OCBC’s Bank of Singapore has turned less negative on the outlook of gold. Yet, it is still not outright bullish, as it finds it “hard to get excited” on gold’s upside potential over the medium-term.