The Business Times

BR Metals plans ahead to last into its golden years On top of coming in first place at the Enterprise 50 2022 Awards, BR Metals has bagged the Internationalisation Award for its endeavour to turn trash to treasure in the…

#BTOpinion: Tipping Singapore into a recession to ease labour market tightness would be a very bad idea Singapore is now in a two-speed economy - externally oriented sectors are hit by sharp slowdowns in global growth wh…

Higher interest rates hit reinsurance capital, combining with climate change to push insurance costs up Geopolitical uncertainties, rising rates, supply chain issues and climate change concerns have culminated in a “perf…

🎙BT Future of Finance: The future of banking requires true digitalisation (Ep 3) What does true digitalisation look like? In order to become a digital bank of the future, one needs to understand the customer of today an…

Civil servants to receive 1.1-month year-end bonus; junior officers another S$700 The year-end bonus takes into account the easing economic growth, September's slight uptick in unemployment and the rise in retrenchments…

Big Four accounting firms on hiring spree as demand booms for professional services The firm expects to sift through more than three million resumes this year.

Economists see monetary policy tightening ahead despite easing inflation in October “One month of easing inflation does not mean the inflation energy has been vanquished. (We) probably will still see ups and downs in the…

Latest Singapore’s Treasury bill offers 3.9% in yield The T-bill received S$11.9 billion for an allotment of S$4.8 billion – the highest in the year to date for Treasury bills of this tenor.

#BTExplains: The fine print in Singapore’s new regulations for platform work In light of new regulations, Singapore platform workers are set to get same levels of CPF, injury coverage as employees. We take a closer look…

Anwar Ibrahim sworn in as prime minister after days of political impasse After waiting for more than 20 years, Anwar Ibrahim is now Malaysia's 10th prime minister.

BR Metals tops this year’s E50 Awards 50 of the most enterprising local privately-held companies that contributed to Singapore's economic development were recognised at the 28th edition of the E50 Awards.

In Qatar, beer-starved football fans go on a quest for the elusive beer “To deny an Englishman a beer is to starve an Englishman,” bemoans an England fan.

Gig-economy players raise concerns as Singapore unveils new worker protections The potential exclusion of some third-party logistics and taxi street-hail platforms could lead to price and market distortion, says the Digi…

CAD launches probe into crypto platform Hodlnaut, directors The police received multiple reports alleging that Hodlnaut and its directors had made false representations relating to the company’s exposure to a certain dig…

Singapore’s official 2023 growth forecast gloomier than expected: analysts Even if Singapore enters a technical recession, it is likely to be a “short, shallow, and an orderly one”, says an economist.

World’s worst-performing stocks have Vietnam investors on edge While some foreign investors see a buying opportunity, the crisis is punishing for Vietnamese launched into the middle class since 2002.

Singapore platform workers set to get same levels of CPF, injury coverage as employees Full CPF regime will be voluntary for platform workers aged 30 and above in the first year of implementation; contribution rate to be…

HP to cut up to 6,000 jobs over three years as PC demand falters HP, which makes most of its money by selling computers, has been navigating a sustained downturn in PC demand.

Holland Rise GCB site up for sale again with S$106m asking price The same site was put up for sale in January 2021 for S$68 million, pointing to a 55% jump in asking price in under two years.

#BTOpinion: Investors should watch inflation and regulatory impact amid Grab’s cost cuts Grab is still burning through a great deal of cash. It used up US$783 million in net cash from operations for the nine months to Se…

Singapore core inflation in October eases to 5.1%, MAS and MTI sticks to outlook Bucking the trend was food prices, which saw inflation edged up to 7.1 per cent in October, from 6.9 per cent previously.

Nearly 10,000 flats launched in November BTO exercise The flats are spread across 10 projects in both mature and non-mature estates in Kallang Whampoa, Queenstown, Bukit Batok, Tengah and Yishun.

FTX has US$1.24b cash balance ahead of bankruptcy hearing It was reported that Bankman-Fried secretly used US$10 billion in customer funds to prop up his trading business, with at least US$1 billion of those deposits van…

Global banking sector well capitalised amid uncertainty, but China is still a risk factor for Apac players China’s economic uncertainty will be a crucial factor determining the health of the Asia-Pacific banking sector.

Manchester United owner weighs sale of historic football club as Ronaldo exits It was reported in August that the Glazers would consider selling a minority stake in Manchester United and that a deal could value the club…

BlackRock becomes substantial shareholder of Keppel With the acquisition, BlackRock’s stake in Keppel was lifted to 5 per cent from 4.99 per cent.

Singapore’s 2023 growth forecast at 0.5-2.5%; 2022 forecast narrowed to ‘around 3.5%’ This follows the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s previous forecast for growth to slow to a pace that is “below trend” in 2023.

At 1.5b euros, England squad is most valuable at the World Cup: study Meanwhile, England's 19-year-old teenage star Jude Bellingham is valued at an eye-watering 202 million euros.

For now there is no question about forming a minority government: Anwar Malaysia's king needs more time to make a decision on who to appoint as the country’s next prime minister, opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim said.