Beyond the index: some way to go for most to meet institutional standards
Lee Ooi Keong - Singapore’s equity market delivered its best performance in more than a decade in 2025. The Straits Times Index (STI) returned 22.7%, liquidity improved, and new listings finally exceeded the drought of recent years. My earlier article examined this rebound from a top-down perspective and highligh ...
UOB’s AI-driven strategy lifts corporate banking revenue by 5%
Felicia Tan - United Overseas Bank (UOB) has recorded tangible gains from its AI deployment, with corporate banking revenue in Singapore rising more than 5% y-o-y in 2024. The bank attributes this growth to its AI-powered portfolio optimisation solution. The solution, which transforms multi-year historical data i ...
China’s AI trinity: Efficiency, agents and edge
Stella Zhang - In the US-China AI race, the latter has the political will, entrepreneurial foresight and stamina, engineering skills, and a humongous domestic market to take the lead The year 2025 will be remembered for the ascendance of young Chinese innovators to the forefront of the AI world. It began with Deep ...
Gen Z is rewriting the rules of wealth
Felicia Tan - The generational gap is real. Every generation is routinely criticised by the one before it as less disciplined, more entitled and too keen to break with tradition. George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984, summed it up best: “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the o ...
Citi expects Asia investment banking momentum to carry into 2026
Samantha Chiew - Citi expects Asia-Pacific investment banking to remain busy in 2026, driven by a stronger deal pipeline, easing rate pressures and sustained funding demand for digital infrastructure and AI. Citi’s investment banking client revenues in Asia-Pacific in 2025 were the strongest the bank has seen in m ...
Intense and fast-paced Year of the Horse
Daryl Guppy - The Chinese term for “immediate speed”, 马上 (ma shang), literally means “get up on the horse”. Americans like to think they are unique in their tradition of the cowboy on horseback in the Wild West. They fail to appreciate the decisive role the horse has played in Chinese history. They ne ...
Australia banks’ record surge offers global haven from AI swings
The spike in banking stocks marks a shift in fortunes from early 2025
Stocks to watch: SIAEC, Sri Trang Gloves, United Hampshire US Reit
Shikhar Gupta - [SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Feb 20):
Sri Trang sinks into red with Q4 loss of 503.8 million baht on production drop due to floods, impairment losses
Shikhar Gupta - The company proposes a dividend payment of 0.50 baht per share
Nvidia, OpenAI near $30 billion investment in place of unfinished $100 billion deal, FT reports
Feb 19 : Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30 billion investment into OpenAI that will replace the long-term $100 billion commitment agreed upon by the companies last year, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing sources.The deal, which would be part of a new funding round for the artifici ...
Nvidia close to investing $30 billion in OpenAI's mega funding round, source says
Feb 19 : Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30 billion investment in OpenAI, as the chipmaker moves to take a stake in one of its largest customers, a person familiar with the matter said.The investment is part of a fundraising round in which OpenAI is seeking more than $100 billion, the person said. ...
China’s drone exports to Russia use a new route through Thailand
Chinese-made technology is routinely found on the battlefield in Ukraine
Should you buy US stocks on a weaker greenback? How to invest if converting from Singdollar
Chloe Lim - Other considerations may be at play, experts say
Want to load up on US stocks with a weaker greenback? Here’s what investors need to consider
Chloe Lim - Other considerations may be at play, experts say
United Hampshire US Reit declares 12.1% higher H2 DPU of US$0.023
Deon Loke - Revenue was down 0.3% at US$36.2 million for the half year
HSBC cuts 10% of US debt capital markets team amid overhaul
The bank is set to report earnings on Wednesday
Uni-Asia focuses on disciplined execution and seizing opportunities in Japan real estate
Lin Daoyi - Despite Japan’s overall population decline, continued urbanisation is driving demand for real estate growth in Japanese metropolises, according to a report by LaSalle Investment Management, an independent subsidiary of JLL. In its Insights Strategy Analysis (ISA) Outlook 2026, the real estate ...
United Hampshire US REIT reports 8.1% y-o-y higher DPU of 4.39 US cents for FY2025
Teo Zheng Long - United Hampshire US REIT (SGX: ODBU ) (UHREIT) has reported a higher distribution per unit (DPU) of 4.39 US cents for FY2025 ended Dec 31,2025, which represent an 8.1% y-o-y increase. For 2HFY2025, DPU was up by 12.1% y-o-y to 2.30 US cents. UHREIT’s distributable income for FY2025 came in 5.7% y- ...
Japan's core inflation slows to 2-year low, complicates BOJ rate-hike timing
TOKYO, Feb 20 : Japan's annual core consumer inflation hit 2.0 per cent in January, marking the slowest pace in two years, data showed on Friday, suggesting weakening cost-push pressure that could complicate the central bank's decision on how soon to raise interest rates.The year-on-year i ...
ByteDance building out artificial intelligence team in US
The company has also been ramping up its science-focused efforts
ECB fines JPMorgan’s European arm 12.2 million euros for misreporting capital requirements
[FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank fined JPMorgan’s European arm 12.18 million euros (S$18.2 million) for misreporting capital requirements after it wrongly calculated...
Amazon dethrones Walmart as world’s biggest company by sales
The two companies compete head-to-head for shoppers’ US dollars
Who calls the shots in OCBC’s corridors of power?
Therese Soh - Its new group CEO Tan Teck Long must balance what minority shareholders want with the interests of one of Asia’s wealthiest clans
The dating game: Why a CapitaLand-Mapletree merger could turn into a marriage of inconvenience
Jude Chan - A union of the two Temasek stalwarts would essentially bring together two different souls who have little cultural DNA in common
More young investors turn to AI for stock picks, but experts warn of risks in volatile market
Koh Kim Xuan - While artificial intelligence can assist in planning investment strategies, limited human financial literacy could harm investment returns
Meta cuts stock awards by 5% for most employees to fund AI goals, FT reports
Feb 19 : Meta reduced its annual distribution of stock options by about 5 per cent for most of its staff, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg ploughs billions of dollars into its artificial intelligence goals, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.The Facebook parent did not immediately respond to a request f ...
Most Meta staff to get 5% less in equity rewards as Zuckerberg cuts costs for AI spending, FT reports
Feb 19 : Meta reduced its annual distribution of stock options by about 5 per cent for most of its staff, as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg ploughs billions of dollars into artificial intelligence build out, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
Meta cuts stock awards by 5% for most employees to fund AI goals: Report
Meta reduced its annual distribution of stock options by about 5 per cent for most of its staff, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg ploughs billions of dollars into its artificial intelligence goals, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Feb 19).The Facebook parent did not immediately respond to a request f ...
Walgreens cuts hundreds of jobs after private equity buyout
The pharmacy chain is also slowing down its store closures
JPMorgan says Trump’s lawsuit improperly named Dimon as defendant
The lawsuit is seeking US$5 billion in damages
GoPro names insider Brian Tratt as CFO
Feb 19 : Action camera maker GoPro on Thursday named Brian Tratt as its chief financial officer, taking over the baton from Brian McGee, effective March 17.The company said 66-year-old McGee, who joined GoPro in 2015 after a tenure at semiconductor company Qualcomm, would become president and retain ...
New Walmart CEO begins tenure with cautious outlook after another quarter of steady sales
The retailer also announced a new US$30 billion share buyback plan
Bank of America commits US$25 billion of its own cash to private credit deals
Some lenders have formed partnerships with asset managers in order to get deeper into the market
Trading Day: Wall Street ends modestly lower while US-Iran tensions boost crude prices
(Refiles to fix typo in headline)By Stephen CulpNEW YORK, Feb 19 : Wall Street stocks followed the example of their European counterparts by posting modest losses on Thursday as mixed economic data and simmering tensions between the U.S. and Iran kept uncertainties - and crude prices - high.The
