Entrepreneurship

Opec further lowers 2026 global oil demand growth forecast
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 09:44 PM[LONDON] Opec on Monday (Jul 13) lowered its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2026 to 780,000 barrels per day, a...
US dollar wavers amid renewed Iran attacks, yen slides on pensions doubts
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 08:25 PM[SINGAPORE/LONDON] The US dollar slipped on Monday (Jul 13) after giving up earlier gains as investors focused on renewed hostilities in the...
Volkswagen CEO threatens 50,000 more job cuts in memo to staff
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 07:27 PM[BERLIN] Volkswagen could cut around 50,000 additional jobs based on calculations aimed at bringing the carmaker into line with the cost competitiveness...
Lum Chang Creations to move to SGX mainboard on Jul 16
[SINGAPORE] Urban revitalisation specialist Lum Chang Creations will transfer its listing from the Catalist board to the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on Thursday (Jul 16), the firm...
Largest public fast-charging hub for electric commercial vehicles opens in Jurong
[SINGAPORE] Drivers of electric buses and trucks now have access to Singapore’s largest public fast-charging hub for commercial electric vehicles (EVs), which opened in Jurong on Monday (Jul 13).Located...
SK Hynix plunges after Nasdaq debut amid profit-taking, diminishing earnings optimism
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 03:39 PM[SEOUL] SK Hynix shares fell more than 15 per cent in trading on Monday (Jul 13), its biggest one-day decline on record,...
Keppel secures deal for final Bifrost cable pair; total contracts value hits US$1.3 billion
The project will generate an internal rate of return of about 30% for the asset manager and its private fund investors[SINGAPORE] Asset manager Keppel on Monday (Jul 13) said...
Australia, New Zealand dollars lose ground as Gulf fighting intensifies
The Reserve Bank of Australia could be done hiking after three rate rises to 4.35 %Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 12:04 PM[SYDNEY] The Australian and New Zealand currencies...
China is supercharging a rooftop solar boom in the Philippines
The South-east Asian nation has become China’s single biggest overseas market for solar panels for the first time in 2026[SINGAPORE] In a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao...
Nippon Paint said to offer US$8.6 billion for Akzo Nobel paint arm
The bid comes a month after Nippon and Sherwin-Williams ended a joint bid for the Dutch paint makerPublished Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 09:31 AMNIPPON Paint Holdings has made multiple offers for...
Shares skid in Asia amid fresh US-Iran strikes and Hormuz uncertainty
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 09:22 AM — Updated Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 11:41 AM[SYDNEY] Share markets slipped in Asia on Monday (Jul 13) as fighting intensified...
Deutsche Bank pays A$2 million penalty for Australian trade reporting failures
Published Mon, Jul 13, 2026 · 09:19 AMDEUTSCHE Bank has paid an A$2 million (US$1.3 million) penalty for misreporting more than 260,000 over-the-counter (OTC) derivative transactions, Australia’s securities regulator...