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Oil prices slide 2% to near 4-year low as US trade conflict fuels recession fears
April 7, 2025
[NEW YORK] Oil prices slid 2 per cent to a near four-year low on Monday on worries US President Donald Trump’s latest trade tariffs could push economies around the world into...
European stocks slide at open after Trump tariffs
April 3, 2025
[Brussels] European stock markets slumped at the start of trading on Thursday (Apr 3) after US President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs salvo aimed at countries worldwide.Frankfurt’s DAX index was...
Singapore shares slide ahead of Trump’s tariffs; STI down 0.4%
April 2, 2025
[SINGAPORE] Singapore shares fell on Wednesday (Apr 2), ahead of the United States unveiling tariffs against its trade partners.The blue-chip gauge, the Straits Times Index, was 0.4 per cent...
Singapore shares slide on Monday after MAS unveils stock market measures; STI down 0.1%
February 24, 2025
Across the broader market, gainers beat losers 298 to 286 as 1.4 billion securities worth S$1.7 billion change hands SINGAPORE equities were marginally lower at the end of the...
Europe: Shares end lower as trade war worries spike; automakers slide
February 7, 2025
European shares closed lower on Friday (Feb 7), with automakers among top decliners as investors grew skittish on worries of a global trade war escalating, while a bleak profit...
Google shares slide on spending plans despite sales jump
February 4, 2025
TECH giant Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported robust fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, with revenues jumping 12 per cent to US$96.5 billion, but analysts saw reason for concern in costs...
Microsoft shares slide as cloud forecast, AI spending disappoint
January 30, 2025
MICROSOFT on Wednesday (Jan 29) forecast disappointing growth in its cloud computing business, sending its shares down more than 5 per cent as investors worry about big spending, elusive...
BMW sales slide after brake fault recall, China demand slump
January 13, 2025
BMW car sales slipped last year as a costly recall compounded a slump in demand in China that’s hit Germany’s automakers hard.
Sales of the group’s cars, which also include...