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Europe: 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...
Sygnum 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...
Singapore 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....
Japan’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...
Japan’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...
Asia: 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...
Gold heads for second weekly loss, investors eye US inflation data
Published Fri, Jun 27, 2025 · 10:57 AMGOLD prices fell on Friday, poised for a second consecutive weekly loss as a slight uptick in the dollar pressured bullion while markets...
‘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...
