Oil fell more than 2 percent on Monday to the lowest in over a year as global stock markets tumbled under pressure from ... Should that fail to balance the market, OPEC and its allies will hold an ext... ( read original story ...)
What rising interest rates mean for Singapore property
Homeowner Grace Koh had barely settled into her new condominium apartment along Singapore’s breezy East Coast in August, when the interest rate on her mortgage jumped from 1.5 per cent to 1.8 per cent ... ( read original story ...)
Golf: Top golfers send festive greetings to Singapore ahead of the HSBC Women’s World Championship
SINGAPORE - Merry Christmas, Singapore! And hope to see you at the HSBC Women's World Championship in February 2019. With the holiday season in full swing, some of the world's top female golfers who w... ( read original story ...)
Is fixed-rate mortgage the best for a new home purchase?
For the floating rate mortgage, it is a variable interest rate, usually based on the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR) or Singapore Swap Offer Rate (SOR) By: Phoenix Lee/ As the name implies, f... ( read original story ...)
Finance firms’ loans hit records on relaxed SME lending rules
Singapore's finance companies are on a roll, with loans boosted by liberalised rules on lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Hong Leong Finance (HLF) and Sing Investments & Finance (S... ( read original story ...)
Singapore pvt. banks target NRIs in Middle East expansion
Singapore with 22 percent is number one and London is third at 13 percent. Bank of Singapore (BOS), the eighth largest private bank in Asia (ex-China), based on assets under management, which opened i... ( read original story ...)
HSBC: Financial Management Greatly Stresses Singapore Millennials
YOLO. You only live once. This is the great line of the millennials and the overused hashtag in Twitter. Oxford Dictionary defines YOLO as expressing the view that one should make the most of the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore private banks target Non-Resident Indians in Middle East expansion
Singapore with 22 percent is number one and London is third at 13 percent. Bank of Singapore (BOS), the eighth largest private bank in Asia (ex-China), based on assets under management, which opened i... ( read original story ...)
“Singapore figured very highly as a place from which money laundering occurred”: Veteran business journalist on 1MDB fiasco
The report highlighted that "five wire transfers totaling $636,000,000 were sent from the Aabar-BVI Swiss Account to an account at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore held in the name of Blackstone A... ( read original story ...)
People’s Bank Master Cardholders rewarded with air tickets to Singapore
From left: People’s Card Centre Acting Assistant General Manager T.G.S.P. Kumarasiri, Winner of two return air tickets to Singapore Sampath Chaminda, Master Cards (Sri Lanka and Maldives) Country Mana... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s November Inflation Seen Slowing to 0.6 Percent Year-On-Year: Reuters Poll
so nothing that would cause the MAS to back down from their current policy," said Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy at Mizuho Bank in Singapore. "Given that their starting point was ... ( read original story ...)
FEATURE-Digging deep: Singapore plans an underground future
SINGAPORE, Dec 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From its towering "supertree" vertical gardens to a Formula 1 night race, Singapore is known for many attractions; underground space is not one of them ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Stock Market May Take Further Damage On Monday
(RTTNews.com) - The Singapore stock market has moved lower in two straight sessions, dropping more than a dozen points or 0.4 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now rests just above the 3, ... ( read original story ...)
Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2018: A Marathon to Remember
The 17th edition of the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2018 was a successful running event of which Singapore can be proud of. The new two-day event was not only exciting, but it also gave the ... ( read original story ...)
STI more likely to trade between 2,800-3,200: OCBC
SINGAPORE (Dec 24): OCBC Investment Research is projecting for the Straits Times Index (STI) to trade as high as 4,125 in 2019 in a bull case scenario. As at Dec 5 this year, the index traded at 3,156 ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s ICO gamble
IT is well known among blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiasts that Singapore has taken a more open approach toward that industry compared with many other advanced jurisdictions. For starters, it is ... ( read original story ...)