Malaysia’s economy grew 5.3 per cent year on year in the third quarter of 2026, supported by stronger manufacturing activity and a surge in exports, although declining mining output and slower services
The chief executive of HSBC is considering a potential sale of the bank’s life insurance operations in Singapore, a move that could fetch more than $1 billion and mark another significant step
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Global trade is entering 2026 under unprecedented strain, with slower economic growth, rising protectionism, geopolitical fragmentation, and rapid digital and environmental transitions converging to reshape the international economic landscape. According to the
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BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, reported a fourth-quarter profit that comfortably exceeded Wall Street expectations, buoyed by a robust rally in American financial markets and surging fee income. Assets under management
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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has thrown her support behind U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, warning that eroding central bank independence risks economic stability at home and abroad. Speaking
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OpenAI has signed a multiyear agreement worth about $10 billion with chip start-up Cerebras Systems to secure vast amounts of computing infrastructure, deepening its push to reduce reliance on Nvidia and lock
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A group of the world’s most influential central banks, working alongside more than 40 major commercial lenders, is preparing to intensify testing of a digital payments platform designed to modernize how money
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CEOs from leading Wall Street banks voiced strong support for the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday, as the Trump administration launched a criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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Alphabet (GOOGL.O) reached a $4 trillion market valuation on Monday, driven by investor confidence in its sharpened artificial intelligence strategy, Reuters reported. The milestone also marked the first time since 2019 that
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Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O) intensified its fight to acquire Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) on Monday by filing a lawsuit demanding more information about Netflix’s $82.7 billion rival offer and announcing plans to nominate
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Chief Executive Vincent Clerc said ethanol, primarily produced in the United States and Brazil, could diversify supply chains and distribute the economic “upside” of decarbonisation more evenly across nations. “If all the
More OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank have agreed to jointly invest $1 billion in SB Energy, a move aimed at accelerating the development of large-scale data centres to support artificial intelligence growth. The
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Sri Lanka’s financial regulators have launched a detailed inquiry into an unusual incident at the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) on January 7, which saw a newly listed company’s shares surge to Rs.
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Chinese artificial intelligence company Zhipu AI made a strong debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Thursday, raising $558 million in one of the city’s first major technology listings of 2026,
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The board of Warner Bros Discovery has rejected a $108 billion hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, dismissing the proposal as inadequate and excessively risky despite a personal financing guarantee from Oracle
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Michael Platt’s private investment firm, BlueCrest Capital Management, delivered a striking gain of about 73 per cent last year, capitalising on market volatility and comfortably outperforming major stock indices. The result reinforces
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