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UOB soars 3.6%, hitting record alongside OCBC; STI up 1% to new peak
Shikhar Gupta - Both shares and the index hit all-time highs
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China’s 5% growth defies the headlines
Daryl Guppy - China’s GDP figures, released on Jan 19, showed annual growth of 5% for 2025. Some Western media were quick to strike a downbeat tone, leading with headlines that fixated on the December quarter falling short of analysts’ expectations rather than the broader picture. For these news groups, the t ...
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Bank of Singapore prefers Asia ex-Japan equities, neutral on US
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan - Ask investors which country’s stock market they want to park their capital into and they will probably point to the US. In 2025, the country’s flagship S&P 500 index recorded 17.9% in total returns. A large part of those gains came from big tech giants like Nvidia and Google parent company A ...
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China’s AI stocks with killer apps are winning investor favour
Profitable app makers are trading more cheaply than some of the more overheated tech segments
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Gold, silver and platinum extend record-setting rally
The US dollar index fell to a more than two-week low on Friday
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Asean-6: From disruption to advantage
Radhika Rao and Chua Han Teng - Supply-chain shifts triggered by evolving US tariff regimes shaped the Asean-6 landscape in 2025. As production networks realign and investment deepens, 2026 will emerge as a defining year for translating trade disruption into a strategic advantage. While the dominant view around mid-2025 was that t ...
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GCMD orchestrates funds for US$20 bil vessel retrofit market
Lin Daoyi - Lynn Loo wears multiple hats: a professor of engineering at Princeton University, a co-founder of start-ups and, in yet another role as CEO of the Global Centre of Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), she relishes the task of bringing together multiple stakeholders to help the notoriously complex and sp ...
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RHB keeps ‘buy’ on Raffles Medical Group citing potential earning growth in 2HFY2025
Teo Zheng Long - RHB Group Research's Shekhar Jaiswal is reiterating his "buy" call on Raffles Medical Group (SGX: BSL ) with an unchanged target price of $1.15. In his Jan 23 report, Jaiswal states that Raffles Medical offers exposure to a “high-quality Singapore healthcare compounder” with impro ...
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Amid $100 bil construction boom, SGX’s steel sector buzzes with acquisitions and family fights
Teo Zheng Long - In our recent article on the exciting state of the local construction sector (Multi-year construction boom fires up investor interest, Issue 1219, Dec 15, 2025), we discussed the infrastructure upcycle that has led to greater investor interest in construction companies. Apart from construction playe ...
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UOB Kay Hian gets ‘direct leverage’ from broadening market, says Macquarie
The Edge Singapore - As the Straits Times Index (STI) makes new highs regularly amid higher volumes, a direct beneficiary is UOB Kay Hian Holdings (SGX: U10 ) , one of the largest brokers in town. Besides its Singapore base, the brokerage has a significant presence in Hong Kong and Malaysia. From the perspective of Macq ...
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Surging memory chip prices dim outlook for consumer electronics makers
GLOBAL demand for smartphones, personal computers and gaming consoles is expected to shrink this year as companies from Britain’s Raspberry Pi to...
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Brokers' Digest: DFI Retail, Marco Polo Marine, iFast, Soilbuild, CSE Global
The Edge Singapore - DFI Retail Group Price target: UOB Kay Hian ‘buy’ US$5.30 Bolder targets and greater expectations UOB Kay Hian’s Adrian Loh has raised his target price for DFI Retail Group (SGX: D01 ) to US$5.30 ($6.82) from US$4.30, following the company’s “bolder” targets for sales and capital returns ...
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Price of office space falls 2.1% in 2025 but rents rise 0.3%: URA
Jovi Ho - Prices of office space decreased by 0.7% in 4Q2025, compared with the 0.2% decrease in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, rentals of office space increased by 0.4% in 4Q2025, compared with the 0.1% decrease in the previous quarter. For the whole of 2025, prices of office space decreased by 2.1%, compa ...
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SGX seeks public feedback on changes to board lot sizes
Chloe Lim - The move is to enhance accessibility and broaden participation
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SGX seeks public feedback on reduction of board lot sizes
Chloe Lim - If the market supports the changes, they will be implemented mid-2026
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Core Central Region and landed properties lead private residential price rise in 2025: URA
Jovi Ho - The overall private residential price index increased at a more modest pace of 0.6% in 4Q2025, compared to an increase of 0.9% in 3Q2025. For 2025 as a whole, the price index rose by 3.3%, moderating from the 3.9% increase in 2024, marking the smallest full-year increase since 2020. About 2,000 priv ...
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Co-living operator The Assembly Place opens 34.8% above IPO price in Catalist debut
Therese Soh - It rises 45.7% above its initial public offering price to S$0.335 in early trade
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The Assembly Place opens 34.8% above IPO price in Catalist debut
Therese Soh - It rises 45.7% above its initial public offering price to S$0.335 in early trade
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The Assembly Place opens 37% above IPO price in Catalist debut
Therese Soh - It opens at S$0.315 with some 3.7 million shares changing hands
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Some semiconductor stocks slump as investors short some names, but analysts give higher upside
Shikhar Gupta - Investors mull over a mix of factors, but analysts cite target prices that are mostly higher
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Tariff risks vs AI boom: S-E Asia’s semiconductor stocks diverge but upside’s ahead
Shikhar Gupta - Investors mull over a mix of factors, but analysts indicate target prices that are mostly higher
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Tariff risks vs AI boom: S-E Asia’s semiconductor stocks diverge but upside ahead
Shikhar Gupta - Investors mull over a mix of factors, but analysts indicate target prices that are mostly higher
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TikTok strikes deal for new US entity, ending long legal saga
The agreement resolves existential questions about the company’s future
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TikTok reaches deal for new US joint venture to avoid American ban
WASHINGTON: TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, finalised a deal on Thursday (Jan 22) to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company to avoid a US ban on the popular social media app used
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The Assembly Place CEO: Scaling from 6 to 10,000 keys through community
Julian Wong - CEO Eugene Lim explains how a simple experiment in shared living grew into Singapore’s largest community-living operator according to an industry report by Knight Frank as set out in TAP’s offer document, revealing why community, cash flow discipline, and an asset-light model sit at the centre o ...
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Anatomy of a scam empire: The brains, businesses and brass-plates behind the Chen Zhi network
Goh Ruoxue - BT unravels the tangled web of sanctioned collaborators, accused associates and entities with Handshakes data
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Anatomy of a scam empire: The Chen Zhi network, centred in Cambodia
Goh Ruoxue - The Business Times unravels the brains, businesses and brass plates behind a sweeping fraud crackdown, using Handshakes data
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Anatomy of a scam empire: Brains and businesses behind Chen Zhi’s network centred in Cambodia
Goh Ruoxue - The Business Times unravels the tangled web of sanctioned collaborators, accused associates and entities, using Handshakes data
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Private home prices rise 0.6% in Q4 for full-year gain of 3.3%; rents up 1.9% on year
Ry-Anne Lim - Annual price growth is at its slowest pace since 2020, even as new-home sales climb past 10,000 units
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Private home prices rise 0.6% in Q4 for full-year gain of 3.3%; rents up 1.9% from 2024
Ry-Anne Lim - Annual price growth is at its slowest pace since 2020, even as new-home sales climb past 10,000 units
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Private home prices up 0.6% in Q4 for full-year gain of 3.3%, lower than estimated
Ry-Anne Lim - The growth is led by landed properties
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HDB resale price growth eases to 2.9% in 2025; slowest since 2019
Chong Xin Wei - The housing board will launch about 19,600 BTO flats across three sales exercises in 2026
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HDB resale price growth slows to 2.9% in 2025, but million-dollar flats stay hot
Chong Xin Wei - A record 1,594 units were sold for at least S$1 million last year; incoming MOP flats may push numbers higher in 2026
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EU wants US trade deal back on track, but warns it would defend itself if threatened again
[BRUSSELS] EU leaders heaved a sigh of relief over Donald Trump’s U-turn on Greenland as they met for an emergency summit in...