SINGAPORE – Business owner Desmond Tay believes in keeping it simple when it comes to personal finance – spend within your means and do not over-leverage. Its an approach that […]
SINGAPORE -Career coach Elaine Ng found that most of the people seeking help when she started out in her field in 2012 were rank-and-file workers needing a new job, fast. […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street closed out a volatile week mostly higher on Friday (March 12), but tech shares once again lost the battle between optimism over a stronger […]
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – HSBC Holdings’ chief executive officer Noel Quinn and his top lieutenants were forced to defend bonus cuts to unhappy investment bankers and traders after a year marked […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Search engine giant Baidu is seeking to raise as much as HK$28 billion (S$4.8 billion) in a second listing in Hong Kong, kicking off the second […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – The big question in financial markets is whether the post-pandemic recovery will bring a burst of inflation. In some corners of the world economy, it’s already […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – While the Covid-19 pandemic battered the economy, tech companies and consumer companies powered by digital technology stood out as islands of growth. But with coronavirus cases […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang surged 41 per cent in its trading debut after delivering the biggest US initial public offering (IPO) since Uber Technologies. Coupang, […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – BuzzFeed, the digital-media outlet founded in 2006, is in talks to go public through a merger with 890 5th Avenue Partners, a special purpose acquisition company […]
BIEJING (BLOOMBERG) – Chinese factory worker Weng Changqing knew he wanted an electric car before he even had his driver’s license. Living in a small town in eastern China and […]
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – Housing prices in Sydney soared to an all-time high, gaining 5.7 per cent since last year’s low in October as the economy continues to recover. Sydney property […]
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – Australia’s government will subsidise 800,000 half-price domestic flights as part of a A$1.2 billion (S$1.25 billion) package to prop up the nation’s ailing tourism industry. To run […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The Roblox game world that has won over children around the world and became a pandemic hit scored big on Wall Street on Wednesday (March 10), […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang raised the price range of ts offering on Tuesday (March 9), signalling strong demand for its shares. The start-up, which […]
PARIS (AFP) – The OECD sharply raised its 2021 global growth forecast on Tuesday (March 9) as the deployment of vaccines and a huge US stimulus programme have greatly improved […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Dirt-cheap fares are popping up from airlines brave enough to expand or start out amid the Covid crisis, as they try to eke out sales and […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Walt Disney’s flagship streaming platform topped 100 million users just 16 months after its launch, quickly establishing the service as Netflix’s most-formidable competitor. The company announced […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Tesla and other tech shares roared back to life on Wall Street on Tuesday (March 9), powering higher after a period of weakness as Congress neared […]
(NYTIMES) During more than three decades in the oil and gas business, Andy Lane has managed the construction of enormous facilities for extracting and transporting natural gas, in places like […]
LONDON (AFP) – Troubled UK finance firm Greensill has collapsed into administration after encountering serious financial difficulties, administrators Grant Thornton said on Monday, sparking fears over thousands of jobs worldwide. […]
