Real Estate
South Korea’s SK Hynix to invest 103 trillion won by 2028 in AI, chips
SOUTH Korea’s SK Hynix, the world No 2 memory chip maker, will invest 103 trillion won (S$102 billion) till 2028 to strengthen its chips business, focusing on artificial intelligence...
Singapore shares open lower on Monday; STI down 0.1%
SINGAPORE shares started trading in the negative territory on Monday (Jul 1) after global equities ended lower last week.As at 9.01 am, the Straits Times Index (STI) opened 0.1...
China’s BYD taps Germany’s football fever to get edge on VW
EVEN as Germany’s national football team scrapped its way to victory in Dortmund on Saturday (Jun 29), a game of geoeconomic chess was taking place on the sidelines, with...
Fed’s rate-cut delay won’t hold back the tide of global easing
GLOBAL policymakers are not about to let the Federal Reserve’s delay in cutting interest rates distract them too much from their own easing efforts. Among the 23 of the...
Creative destruction, not government intervention, will ‘fix’ Big Tech
Some regulation is necessary, but political interference to break up industry behemoths could be counterproductive BREAK up Big Tech? Pandering politicians in the United States of America, Asia and...
‘Inconceivable’ that topic of climate change will somehow go away: MSCI president
Baer Pettit says the index provider’s ESG and climate business likely to be ‘material’ in futureIT HAS been 14 years since index provider MSCI paid US$1.6 billion for a...
Baltic Exchange Shipping Insights
Capesize
THE Capesize market experienced an eventful week despite starting off quietly with the BCI 5TC dropping by $409 to $25,650 on Monday. However, the market turned around midweek with...
Healthcare S-Reits stay defensive with robust fundamentals
THE healthcare sector is often viewed as defensive with growth opportunities, supported by long-term demographic and socio-economic trends. JLL’s latest Healthcare Real Estate Outlook report also identified that healthcare-related...
