A CANDIDATE backed by Indonesia’s opposition has taken the lead in the pivotal race for Jakarta governor less than a week ...

NEGOTIATORS at the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan are close to landing a carbon credits agreement after almost a decade ...

Payments services firm Nets has had a four-decade head start in Singapore. But that advantage may be diminishing in line with ...

AMAZON pumped another US$4 billion into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, as the e-commerce giant goes up against Big Tech rivals ...

THE euro slumped to a two-year low while the dollar gained on Friday (Nov 22) after gauges of business activity were released ...

PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump may have campaigned hard against high inflation, but by the time of his Nov 5 election victory ...

EUROPEAN real estate stocks surged, propelling the benchmark index to a one-week high on Friday (Nov 22), while easing of ...

BITCOIN touched a record high on Friday (Nov 22), with its sights set firmly on the US$100,000 barrier, in a stellar rally ...

ELON Musk’s net worth hit an all-time high of US$347.8 billion on Friday (Nov 22), driven by Tesla’s ongoing stock rally and ...

OIL prices climbed about 1 per cent on Friday (Nov 22), settling at a two-week high, as the intensifying war in Ukraine this ...

WALL Street closed higher on Friday (Nov 22), with all three major indexes posting weekly gains, as investors took comfort ...

When the US presidential election was called for Donald Trump, the yield on 10-year US government bonds increased from 4.3 to ...