CapitaLand eyes positive re-rating for enlarged Ascott Reit-BT

Ascott Reit-A-HTRUST merger puts it on path for index inclusion and wider investor base

The US government said on Wednesday it was reviewing license requests from US companies seeking to export products to China's Huawei Technologies "under the highest national security scrutiny" since the company is still blacklisted.

United States makes first-ever rice sale to China: trade group

Oil prices edged higher on Wednesday ahead of a US holiday, after falling steeply a day earlier as worries about a slowing global economy outweighed a decision by Opec and allies to extend crude output cuts.

Wall Street stocks surged to records on Wednesday in a holiday-shortened session as a plethora of mixed US economic data appeared to boost the odds of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.

THE Singapore market had a busy mid-week session on its hands, though much of the vibrant turnover on the day can be attributed to a number of very different factors that weighed on investors' minds.

Source: SGX Masnet, The Business Times, Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, PSR