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| 17.08.2026 | CNBC’s The China Connection newsletter: Money or power? The key to winning the AI race | Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 11:00 SIN/HK | 0400 - 05:00 CET
If China has one dollar left, “that dollar is going to be spent on AI rather than real estate,” said Bruce Liu, CEO of Esoterica Capital.
For now, private sector AI investment in the ... |
| 03.08.2026 | Trump says Iran talks to resume Monday after calling off planned strikes | Trump said negotiations with Iran will begin Monday after he decided to hold off on new strikes.
Shipping risks persist even as diplomacy has advanced, with a U.K. maritime agency reporting an incident in the northeast of Oman.
A parallel t... |
| 22.05.2026 | Oil prices rise as investors doubt breakthrough in US-Iran peace talks | SINGAPORE: Oil prices climbed on Friday (May 22) as investors doubted the prospects of a breakthrough in United States-Iran peace talks, but held on track for a weekly loss.
Brent crude futures were up US$3.30, or 3,2 per cent, at US$105.88... |
| 10.04.2026 | Big Tech is going nuclear | Big Tech is reshaping the funding landscape for new nuclear technologies as it seeks to bolster electricity supply for power-hungry AI data centres, inking deals that offer nuclear companies both funding and a clearer path to making money.
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| 03.04.2026 | Wall Street closed for Good Friday, but US futures inch lower following strong March jobs report | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By YURI KAGEYAMA and MATT OTT, AP Business Writers
U.S. futures were trading modestly lower early Friday following surprisingly strong jobs data from the federal government.
Equities markets are cl... |
| 23.03.2026 | Gold dives to four-month low as inflation pressures lift rate hike bets | Gold slid more than 8 per cent on Monday (Mar 23) to hit its lowest level in four months, after logging its biggest weekly loss in about 43 years last week, as an escalating Middle East conflict stoked inflation concerns and raised expectat... |
| 18.03.2026 | Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Israel and U.S. assets after security chief Larijani is killed | Iran has intensified attacks targeting Israel. and U.S. assets in the Middle East.
The series of attacks came after Israel killed Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani, the head of the country’s Supreme National Security Council.
Iran’s Suprem... |
| 04.02.2026 | India's Dual Trade Triumph Reshapes Global Economy | India recently forged two landmark trade agreements. A new US pact slashes tariffs on Indian exports to 18%. It removes retaliatory levies. India commits to US energy, tech, and agricultural purchases. The prior EU deal, "the mother of... |
| 03.02.2026 | Fitch Solutions Delivers AI-Ready Credit Data on Snowflake Marketplace | Fitch Solutions, a leading global provider of insights, data, and analytics, today announced a collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, to deliver Fitch’s comprehensive datasets on Snowflake Marketplace. This offering will e... |
| 03.02.2026 | Here’s who analysts expect to gain from India’s U.S. and EU trade deals | Monday’s U.S.-India trade deal lowers U.S. tariffs on Indian exports to 18%.
The pact follows India’s landmark agreement with the EU last week, dubbed “the mother of all deals”.
Analysts highlighted manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and IT as ... |
| 06.01.2026 | Iran unrest deepens as U.S. attack in Venezuela sharpens Trump intervention threat | Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 13:00 SIN/HK | 0600 - 07:00 CET
The widespread unrest, fueled by a long-running economic crisis in Iran, killed at least 29 people, and more than 1,200 people have been arrested.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ... |
| 14.11.2025 | War-torn Myanmar embraces solar to tackle power crisis | When Thailand cut power supply to Myanmar across its western border this year, it intended to curb online scam centres linked to regional networks trafficking hundreds of thousands of people.
However, the move also hit the wider community, ... |
| 28.10.2025 | Japan’s Nikkei crosses 51,000 on Tokyo-Washington trade optimism, Fed rate cut hopes | Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed as investors await the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 hit a fresh record high, crossing 51,000 for the first time.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 2.17% to hit a record high, crossin... |
| 06.10.2025 | Who is Sanae Takaichi? The first woman set to helm the Japanese government | Takaichi is seen as a proponent of “Abenomics,” which espoused loose monetary policy, fiscal spending and structural reforms.
She is also a China hawk and favours revising Japan’s Article 9, which renounced Japan’s right to wage war.
Takaic... |
| 07.09.2025 | Japanese stocks jump as Prime Minister Ishiba set to step down | Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced over the weekend that he will resign.
China’s exports growth missed expectations in August, while imports also grew less than expected.
Asia-Pacific markets traded mostly higher Monday as inv... |
| 13.08.2025 | Can global auto industry giant Thailand shift gears in the age of EVs? | Listen
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BANGKOK: On a taxi ride from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport to the city centre, signs of shifts in the country’s auto industry are hard to miss.
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| 12.08.2025 | Japan’s Nikkei 225 hits fresh high as Asia markets track Wall Street gains on Fed rate-cut hopes | This is CNBC’s live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets.
Asia-Pacific markets opened higher, tracking gains on Wall Street after the latest U.S. inflation data raised expectations that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates next month.... |
| 10.04.2025 | A global commodity sell-off is flashing warning signals for the world economy | The S&P GSCI index, which tracks global commodities across the energy, metals and agriculture sectors, shows that prices have declined over 8% since April 2, when U.S. President Donald Trump announced a slew of “reciprocal” tariffs.
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| 04.04.2025 | Japan PM says Trump tariffs a 'national crisis' | TOKYO: US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Japanese goods are a "national crisis", Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Friday (Apr 4) ahead of cross-party talks on mitigating the impact on the heavily export-dependent economy... |
| 12.03.2025 | What US retreat means for South Africa’s energy transition | Climate programmes targeting about US$45-billion (R825-billion) in funding for emerging economies won’t be derailed by America’s decision to withdraw, according to analysts.
The US decision to exit from a leading role in Just Energy Transit... |
| 29.11.2024 | Oil prices rise over accusations of breaches to Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire | Oil prices rise over accusations of breaches to Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
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| 16.11.2024 | Naira fails to hold N1,650/$ support line in official market | The Nigerian currency hit a multi-weekly low this week, demonstrating that CBN’s intervention and attractive fixed-income yields have not stopped the naira’s decline.
The Nigerian currency lost the N1,650/$ support line at the last trading ... |
| 31.10.2024 | South Africa's Energy Renaissance: A New Dawn for Eskom and the Economy | South Africa stands at a crossroads. For years, the nation has battled crippling power outages, a situation that turned daily life into a game of chance. Businesses shuttered, homes grew dark, and the economy stumbled. But now, a flicker of... |
| 28.10.2024 | How Eskom went from zero to unlikely hero | Aslina Wines, an independent winemaker located among the rolling vineyards of Stellenbosch, counts a large generator among its most valuable inventory. It relied on the machine to stay up and running during the worst of South Africa’s power... |
| 19.09.2024 | CNA Explains: What does a Fed rate cut mean for you in Singapore? | Listen to this article
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| 15.08.2024 | The Rise of Wealth in North Asia: A New Era of Investment and Transformation | In the bustling streets of Hong Kong and the dynamic markets of Shanghai, a new chapter is unfolding. The region is witnessing a surge in wealth, investment, and transformation. At the forefront of this change is Alvarez & Marsal (A&... |
| 14.08.2024 | Клуб сверхбогатых людей Индии процветает: куда инвестируют самые богатые люди страны | По данным консалтинговой компании Knight Frank, в ближайшие несколько лет в Индии будет наблюдаться самый быстрый рост числа состоятельных людей во всем мире, сообщает CNBC. В начале этого года финансовый центр Индии, Мумбаи, обогнал Пекин ... |
| 04.08.2023 | Debt is America’s golden goose. Fitch can’t kill it | On August 1, credit rating agency Fitch downgraded the United States from its highest triple AAA rating to AA+. Two of the three leading ratings agencies now rate the US at their second highest tier – Standard and Poor’s previously downgrad... |
| 27.04.2023 | Research Shows How AIIB-Amundi Climate Change Investment Framework Can Guide Investors | Concentrated efforts needed toward climate adaptation planning and implementation: Companies and Climate Change Report
BEIJING and LONDON, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Amundi and Climate Bo... |
| 13.09.2022 | Fitch Group adding capital-markets fintech dv01 to its fold | Fitch Group, the parent of bond-rating firm Fitch Ratings, is acquiring a majority ownership stake in capital-markets fintech company dv01 — which provides data and analytics services to the structured-finance market.
Terms of the deal were... |
| 28.03.2022 | Booming ride-hailing sector to boost vehicle sales | While vehicle sales in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are expected to continue on a downward spiral this year, the burgeoning ride-hailing industry in the region offers automakers and car dealers an opportunity to develop a new sales market.
This... |
| 11.03.2022 | Offering homestyle African cuisine, Kune is changing the face of Kenya’s food delivery sector | Nairobi is witnessing an explosion of last-mile food and grocery delivery. For employees in offices and families at home, ordering a meal has become commonplace.
One issue, however, is lack of choice. “People have been ordering fast food be... |
| 27.01.2022 | Tavares EU CO2 Critique Finds Support, But Environmentalists Disagree | Carlos Tavares, chief executive officer of Stellantis. Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| 18.01.2022 | Transasia Minerals Ltd announces plans to develop a nickel processing facility in Indonesia with Artha Bumi Mining group by 2024 | The USD 2 billion facility will produce ferronickel and EV battery grade nickel sulphate
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 19 January 2022 – Transasia Minerals Ltd, an international mining company headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, to... |
| 03.11.2021 | Egypt’s Breadfast wants to build ‘Gopuff for Africa and Middle East’, gets $26M backing | The market for food and grocery delivery across Africa and the Middle East is worth nearly $1 trillion. And Egypt, buoyed by a young and growing population, is a big market across both regions.
Investors are beginning to back their picks to... |
| 08.09.2021 | Digitization seeds opportunities for Eastern Africa's rural farmers | By Everlyne Situma
BUNGOMA, Kenya-I have always loved farming. My passion comes from growing up in rural western Kenya, where I braved chilly Saturday mornings to till a small piece of land that my family owned. It was near a stream, and we... |
| 19.08.2021 | Vietnam's Electronics Industry Appeals to Foreign Investors | August 19, 2021 5 min read
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Vietnam’s electronics industry is still growing despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, Vietnam has implemented some tr... |
| 02.05.2020 | 4 Fintechs in Myanmar to Watch | When it comes to fintech, Myanmar has a lot of catching up to do. With a little over a dozen companies compared to about 150 in Vietnam, and over 490 in Singapore, the Burmese fintech sector still trails far behind the rest of Asia. But wit... |
| 04.09.2019 | Brazil’s Agrosmart raises $5.8m Series A for digital tool serving Coca-Cola & Cargill | “We are going global together with our partners in the market, however this round still focuses mostly in Latin America where we already started operations,” Mariana Vasconcelos, CEO & founder of São Paulo-based digital agtech startup A... |
| 06.06.2019 | Tariffs on Mexico could hit medtech hard | The medical device industry is bracing for a potential multi-million-dollar fallout from a proposed tariff on all products coming into the United States from Mexico.
The StarTribune of Minneapolis reports that the cost of these devices coul... |
| 13.12.2018 | Fitch Solutions rates Australia’s encryption laws a negative | Efforts to staunch a technology industry backlash over new encryption busting laws given to Australian security agencies have been dealt a body blow after the macro-research arm of global agency Fitch issued a sectoral warning of an “overal... |
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| - | African economies set for uneven post-coronavirus growth, says Fitch Solutions | Tom Collins
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Growth will be uneven across sub-Saharan Africa in 2021 as countries pursue a wide variety of Covid-19 mitigation strategies amid global economic disruption.
Some sub-Saharan Af... |
