trade war

SINGAPORE (Aug 10): The trade war has become a reality as the US and China have imposed 25% tariffs on each other’s products worth US$34 billion ($46.4 billion) each.

(Aug 2): DBS Group Holdings Ltd. shares fell after second-quarter results suffered from what Chief Executive Officer Piyush Gupta described as the worst performance in its treasury and markets operation since he took the top job almost a decade ago.

SINGAPORE (July 26): Singapore’s industrial production grew faster than expected in June, helped by a sharp turnaround of the marine and offshore sector, data showed on Thursday, but analysts say trade tensions cloud the outlook.

SINGAPORE (July 16): During the early years of this newspaper, I rarely made space in our pages for Temasek Holdings. While we actively covered the many public-listed companies in which it held major stakes, doing a story on Temasek itself seemed to be mo

(July 17): Temasek Holdings is developing an American accent. The Singaporean state investor, whose $308 billion portfolio includes stakes in companies such as Alibaba Group Holding, is still betting on the US, even as it grows more circumspect in deployi

WASHINGTON (July 11): The Trump administration pushed ahead with plans to impose tariffs on additional US$200 billion ($272 billion) in Chinese products by releasing a list of targets, marking a sharp escalation in a trade war between the world’s two la

SINGAPORE (July 9): Everybody loses in a trade war, says Nouriel Roubini, professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Roubini, who has worked at the International Monetary Fund, US Federal Reserve and World Bank, adds that

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

SINGAPORE (July 4): Singapore’s central bank said tail risks to global economic growth have increased “significantly” in the past six months because of a pick-up in inflation and trade tensions.

SINGAPORE (July 4): RHB Research is reiterating its “buy” call on Wilmar International with an unchanged target price of $3.59, while highlighting ongoing market uncertainties and the recent retracement in share price as a good opportunity to accumula