US Federal Reserve

The central bank also announced several other actions, including letting banks borrow from the discount window for as long as 90 days and reducing reserve requirement ratios to zero percent.

The US bond market rallied strongly even as fear over the coronavirus outbreak is driving the stock market’s steep selloff.

Emerging assets – especially North Asia and China equities – to be the outperformers in the first few months of 2020, according to Lombard Odier Asia-Pacific’s Chief Investment Officer, Jean-Louis Nakamura.

SINGAPORE (Dec 13): The US Federal Reserve has signalled that it will keep rates unchanged, which indicates borrowing costs in the country will remain at status quo even as it heads into next year’s presidential election with moderate economic growth an

SINGAPORE (Oct 10): Despite the unresolved US-China trade conflict and declining global growth, Andre Severino says the US economy is still robust and will likely remain so for longer.

SINGAPORE (July 8): “Large organisations respond to leadership, not administrative heads and not managers but leaders, and Iacocca was a brilliant leader.” — Long-time car industry executive Bob Lutz, describing his mentor Lee Iacocca, who led Ford,

SINGAPORE (July 1): The Monetary Authority of Singapore will keep its exchange rate-based monetary policy stance, signalling a status quo in line with that of the US Federal Reserve. This comes after two rounds of tightening by MAS last year, while keepin

SINGAPORE (Dec 10): In the last few years, passive fund management has become increasingly popular among investors, as its returns have often outperformed those of active investing. One reason for this outperformance can be attributed to the ultra-loose

SINGAPORE (Dec 10): In the last few years, passive fund management has become increasingly popular among investors, as its returns have often outperformed those of active investing. One reason for this outperformance can be attributed to the ultra-loose