SINGAPORE: President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong sent their well wishes to United States president-elect Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration and hailed the strong ties between the two countries. In a Facebook post on Monday ...

The dollar fell against a basket of currencies and could weaken if Trump’s initial policy plans fall short of expectations for front-loaded and broad-based trade tariffs, MUFG Bank said.

The rally will resemble the free-wheeling speeches that have been a Trump staple since his first White House campaign. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The most powerful US president since FDR will demand a different approach, say Steven R Okun and Thurgood Marshall Jr.

SINGAPORE: The dollar was firm and Asia's stock markets were cautiously positive on Monday as investors waited for an expected flurry of policy announcements in the first hours of Donald Trump's second presidency and eyed a rate hike in Japan at the end of the week.

Plus, Brookfield finalises a mammoth dividend recap and a British activist investor rattles corporate Singapore

Harris, 60, is expected to meet with foreign leaders and US service members stationed in  Singapore, Bahrain and Germany throughout the five day trip, which is slated to last from Jan. 13 to Jan.

UBS expects the S&P 500 to reach 6,600 by the end of this year. In comparison, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan see the S&P 500 rising to a more measured 6,500 by year-end. Standing on the bullish side are Bank of America, which forecasts 6,666, and DWS, which predicts 7,000.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, admitted to having limited knowledge about

SINGAPORE’S currency weakness is likely to endure amid expectations that its central bank pivots to easing and US tariffs ripple through the global economy. Read more at The Business Times.

SINGAPORE – The unpredictable nature of Donald Trump, poised to begin his second US presidency, will make 2025 a volatile year, two veteran Singapore diplomats said at the UOB Global Markets ...