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Asia: Stocks struggle to track Wall Street higher, earnings in focus
ASIAN markets mostly fell on Friday as traders struggled to build on Wall Street’s positive lead, with hopes for a June interest rate cut fading, while earnings season gets...
Singapore stocks little changed at Friday’s open; STI up 0.04%
SINGAPORE shares opened muted on Friday (Apr 12) morning, following data released on economic growth and the Republic’s central bank standing pat on its monetary policy settings.To recap, Singapore’s...
Former Fed chief Bernanke to set out Bank of England reforms
FORMER Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke will set out on Friday how the Bank of England should reform its economic forecasting, after a surge in inflation to its highest...
Picky consumers jilting big brands are Unilever India’s new risk
THE largest consumer company in the world’s most populous nation has provided everyday products from detergent to instant coffee to Indians for decades.Now Hindustan Unilever is seeing its fortunes...
Sam Bankman-Fried appeals fraud conviction, 25-year jail term
FALLEN cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried has appealed his federal conviction and 25-year jail sentence in a sweeping fraud case, according to a legal filing made public Thursday.News of the...
Small-cap stocks lag large-cap counterparts as high interest rates take their toll
SINGAPORE-LISTED companies with small market capitalisation have been having their worst run against large caps in the last one year, with the gap between both widening since the second...
HP sued by Wex for trademark infringement over ‘Wex’ software
SOFTWARE company Wex sued HP for trademark infringement in Maine federal court on Thursday (Apr 11), accusing it of misusing the “Wex” name to brand competing HP software.
Wex, which...