macroeconomics

SINGAPORE (Jan 10):  UOB Global Economics & Markets Research says bilateral trade relations between the US and China will be “fraught with difficulties” despite the positive steps made with their first face-to-face meeting since their 90-day truce, w

SINGAPORE (Dec 26): Last year, economists predicted Southeast Asia would be blessed with a strong and vibrant 2018. For next year, they’re not quite so optimistic.

SINGAPORE (Dec 17): Following a strong year of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity – largely thanks to Nesta Investment Holdings’ US$11.6 billion buyout of Global Logistic Properties (GLP) – Singapore is forecast to see a modest cooling in total M

SINGAPORE (July 6): In the words of Nouriel Roubini, everybody loses in a trade war.

SINGAPORE (July 2): Worries over trade tensions between the US versus China and Europe may have rattled markets in recent months, but DBS believes that a protracted, full-blown war is not likely to happen.

SINGAPORE (May 25): Relatively weak consumption growth is likely to persist across G7 nations this year, says Oxford Economics on the belief that the impact of a recovery in real incomes will be dampened by higher oil prices and waning wealth effects go

SINGAPORE (Dec 22): DBS Group Research is positive on both developed and emerging economies for the year ahead despite the anticipated tightening of central bank liquidity.

SINGAPORE (July 28): The local stock market may be headed for a correction in the third quarter of this year, but that should not deter investors from putting their money into stocks right now.

SINGAPORE (May 9): Private investment manager Brandywine Global, a Legg Mason affiliate, is expecting the current period of “remarkable reflation” in the global economy to settle down to a “more gradual, but self-sustaining” economic expansion.

SINGAPORE (March 6): Upcoming macro events are to drive volatility in markets this month, according to DBS Vickers Securities.