Posts by Yurie Miyazawa
Hit the gas – stocks’ dashboard is working again
HAVE you ever noticed your ability to tune out background noise? So much, you don’t even hear when it stops? Investors do this now with a key global economic indicator: the “yield curve” … which is silently re-steepening. You can profit. The “yield curve” has over a century-long history as a great leading economic gauge.…
Read MoreMeta seeks US$29 billion from private capital firms for AI data centres, FT reports
[BENGALURU] Meta Platforms is seeking to raise US$29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in the US, the Financial Times reported on Friday (Jun 27). The Facebook-parent advanced discussions with private credit investors including Apollo Global Management, KKR, Brookfield, Carlyle and Pimco, the report said, citing people familiar with…
Read MoreEurope: Stocks rise as US-China trade tensions ease; auto stocks jump
[BENGALURU] European stocks closed at an over one-week high on Friday (Jun 27), fuelled by a rally in automakers, as investors took more risks on hopes for a truce in the US-China trade spat. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 1.1 per cent higher, snapping a two-week losing streak and posting its first weekly gain…
Read MoreSygnum is sole new unicorn from South-east Asia in H1 2025: report
[SINGAPORE] Digital asset group Sygnum has emerged as the sole new unicorn from South-east Asia in the first half of 2025, data platform Tracxn said in a report released on Thursday (Jun 26). The Singapore-based firm attained unicorn status in January 2025, after three rounds of funding and a total of eight investors before its…
Read MoreSingapore stocks track overnight Wall Street gains on Friday; STI up 0.7%
[SINGAPORE] Local stocks tracked overnight Wall Street gains to end higher on Friday (Jun 27). The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rose 0.7 per cent or 27.74 points to 3,966.2. Across the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers 309 to 202, after 1.8 billion securities worth S$1.4 billion changed hands. Regional markets were mixed. The Nikkei…
Read MoreJapan’s NTT files billion-dollar Reit listing with MAS; IPO set to be SGX’s biggest in four years
[SINGAPORE] Japanese telco Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) is spinning off some of its data centres into a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust, or S-Reit, marking what is likely to be the largest Singapore listing in four years. The last company to list at this size was the US$977 million initial public offering (IPO) of…
Read MoreJapan’s NTT files billion-dollar Reit listing with MAS; IPO set to be SGX’s biggest in four years
[SINGAPORE] Japanese telco Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) is spinning off some of its data centres into a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust, or S-Reit, marking what is likely to be the largest S-Reit listing in a decade. The last S-Reit to list at this size was Mapletree Greater China Commercial Trust, in 2013. Its…
Read MoreAsia: Stocks climb, dollar holds on trade hopes and rate bets
[HONG KONG] Asian markets rose on Friday on fresh trade hopes and the dollar held around three-year lows amid bets of cuts to US interest rate cuts. Easing concerns about Middle East tensions also added to the upbeat mood. With the Israel-Iran ceasefire holding for now, investors were able to turn their attention back to…
Read MoreGold heads for second weekly loss, investors eye US inflation data
Published Fri, Jun 27, 2025 · 10:57 AM GOLD prices fell on Friday, poised for a second consecutive weekly loss as a slight uptick in the dollar pressured bullion while markets awaited US inflation data for signals on Federal Reserve rate policy. Spot gold was down 0.4 per cent at US$3,314.27 per ounce, as of 0051 GMT. Bullion…
Read More‘Long overdue’: Experts welcome advisory against private-sector use of NRIC numbers for authentication
[SINGAPORE] Urging the private sector to stop using NRIC numbers for authentication is a timely and pragmatic move to strengthen data security, industry players told The Business Times. On Thursday (Jun 26), the government released an advisory telling private-sector organisations to move away from using full or partial National Registration Identity Card numbers to authenticate…
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