8 hours ago
SK Hynix seeks access to AI investors in US$29 billion Nasdaq listing
THIS week’s US$29 billion US stock-market listing for SK Hynix may be the biggest-ever first-time share sale by a foreign company, but...
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12 hours ago
Gold heads for first weekly gain since May on easing Fed outlook
Bullion rises towards US$4,200 an ounce, up 2.2% for the week
12 hours ago
Metrocon eyes SGX listing through Hatten Land
The S$28 million acquisition will be via the issuance of 107.7 million new shares at S$0.26 each
13 hours ago
Nvidia supplier Hon Hai reports surging sales on solid AI demand
Q2 sales rise 40% to US$79 billion, higher than analysts’ expectations
13 hours ago
South Korea to create future fund from chip windfall to spur growth, tackle inequality
A top official says the government will use the "Future Response Fund" to help finance major national investment projects and strengthen the country's long-term competitiveness.
13 hours ago
Frasers Property’s big asset shuffle: Controlling shareholder helping it drive value and stay listed
Ben Paul - Investors may have to wait for the latent value of its shares to be fully realised in an apathetic market
13 hours ago
FPL’s big asset shuffle: Controlling shareholder support is helping it drive value and stay listed
Ben Paul - Investors may have to wait for the latent value of its shares to be fully realised in an apathetic market
13 hours ago
Opec+ ratifies planned oil quota hike as Gulf flows rebound
The group agrees to add 188,000 barrels a day to August output target
13 hours ago
Opec+ set to clear another oil output increase: sources
The group is said to have agreed in principle to increase quotas by 188,000 barrels per day from August
14 hours ago
OPEC+ approves further oil output increase as Hormuz exports start to recover
LONDON: OPEC+ has agreed a further increase in output targets from August, the group said in a statement on Sunday (Jul 5), adding to global supply at a time when oil prices are falling due to the gradual reopening of the Strait o
15 hours ago
Nearly a million investors lost a total of US$3.8 billion on Trump crypto coin
[WASHINGTON] An up-to-date tally of Trump followers turned crypto investors is in. And for them, the overall results are remarkably bad.
15 hours ago
PM Wong to visit Jakarta on Monday for annual leaders’ retreat with Indonesia’s Prabowo
Renald Yeo - The meeting will ‘explore pathways to strengthen collaboration in areas of mutual interest and benefit’
17 hours ago
Uber pauses Europe food delivery expansion as it pursues Delivery Hero deal: FT
The American firm has shelved launches in five of the seven countries it had targeted for growth in 2026
18 hours ago
Tiong Woon’s next heavy lift: S$200 million revenue by FY2030, as it expands beyond crane rental
Ry-Anne Lim - CEO Michael Ang says the group is keeping gearing low as it explores overseas M&A opportunities
18 hours ago
A week of insider buying and company buybacks
Over the five sessions, more than 120 director interests and substantial shareholdings were filed for around 50 primary-listed stocks
18 hours ago
Tiong Woon’s next heavy lift: S$200 million revenue target by FY2030, as it expands beyond crane rental
Ry-Anne Lim - CEO Michael Ang says the group is keeping gearing low as it explores overseas M&A opportunities
18 hours ago
The week of insider buying and buyback activity
Over the five sessions, more than 120 director interests and substantial shareholdings were filed for around 50 primary-listed stocks
20 hours ago
Oil’s supply wave, tumbling prices rekindle fears of global glut
Opec may soon have to consider curbing supply to prop up prices, to avoid a fight for market share
20 hours ago
VIP sales at condo launches under scrutiny after agents get first dibs
CEA has engaged agencies on ensuring that regular buyers are not disadvantaged
20 hours ago
Are the ‘Mangos’ stocks already turning soft?
There’s no guarantee that any of the acronym’s six members will stick around and thrive
1 day ago
Tech chief betting on a ‘clear North Star’ and ‘deep care’ to drive Google’s Apac solutions
Lionel Lim - The American tech firm has expanded its partnership with Singapore to include health and life sciences
2 days ago
For one small business, AI was key to a quick start and expansion
WASHINGTON, July 4 : Here Now Health isn't an AI-based company, but its quick path from an idea in founder Michelle Turner's mind to an operating mental health platform for foster children relied deeply on the technology now restructuring the U.S. economy.Working from her Virginia Beach ho ...
2 days ago
SK Hynix is said to weigh 0.5% fee payout in mega ADR offering
[SEOUL] SK Hynix is considering paying about 0.5 per cent of the proceeds from its US listing – one of the largest...
2 days ago
Energy-hungry Asia is already drawing lessons from Iran crisis
[SINGAPORE] There is still no lasting peace deal in the Persian Gulf, but energy-hungry Asia is already drawing energy lessons from four...
2 days ago
JPMorgan sees US$4,500 gold price in Q4, says risks to downside
[BENGALURU] JPMorgan said demand for gold from key sectors would not be as strong as it had expected, limiting the rise in...
2 days ago
SK Hynix considering 0.5% fee payout in ADR offering, Bloomberg News reports
July 4 : SK Hynix is considering paying about 0.5 per cent of the proceeds from its U.S. listing to banks working on the deal, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday citing people familiar with the matter. • The South Korean chipmaker has indicated it could issue up to 2.5 per cent of its outstanding ...
2 days ago
Scarred by 1997 crash, South Korea nervously opens 24-hour won trading
[SEOUL] Deep inside a government complex in Sejong, about two hours from Seoul, a room known as “the box” is ground zero...
2 days ago
Oil prices little changed as US-Iran peace efforts hold
[CALGARY] Oil prices were little changed for the week as traders held on to hopes for a successful outcome from attempts to...
2 days ago
Europe: Stoxx 600 clocks best week in over a month as rally broadens
[BENGALURU] Europe’s benchmark Stoxx 600 hit an intraday record high on Friday (Jul 3) and logged its biggest weekly jump in over...
2 days ago
A recurring pattern in the history of information
Tong Kooi Ong + Asia Analytica - Artificial intelligence (AI) is not the first technology to disrupt the economics of knowledge. The history of media is best understood as a series of revolutions of information. The first was when Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in 1440. Books that were once copied by ha ...
2 days ago
The future of media in the AI age (Part 7/9): The interpretation economy
Tong Kooi Ong + Asia Analytica - Parts 1 to 6 of “The Future of Media in the Digital Age” examined how search engines and social media disrupted traditional media — capturing attention, data and advertising economics. Many publishers mistook “going digital” for transformation. It wasn’t. Free content without a viable mo ...
2 days ago
How I knew I was ready to retire at 50
Money matters, but so do health, purpose and relationships
2 days ago
Family businesses fail when members overstep their roles
The lines between shareholder, director and executive must be clear
2 days ago
Fermi CEO Neugebauer suspends proxy campaign after judge’s recusal
July 3 : Toby Neugebauer, the co-founder and largest shareholder of energy and data center development company Fermi, said on Friday he has suspended his proxy campaign to call a special meeting after a Texas Business Court judge recused himself shortly before a scheduled hearing, disrupting the tim ...