Singaporeans will go to the polls on May 3, 2025, to elect 97 Members of Parliament across 33 constituencies. The election campaign runs from April 23 to May 1, with a cooling-off day on May 2. This election comes amid global economic uncertainty, rising inflation, and geopolitical tensions affecting trade and markets.
For investors, understanding how different political parties’ fiscal policies might influence Singapore’s economic tr...

Due to concerns regarding safety and privacy, access to ChatGPT has been blocked in several regions and firms.
Italy's move to temporarily ban ChatGPT has inspired other European countries to study if harsher measures are needed to rein in the wildly popular chatbots.
Privacy regulators in France and Ireland have reached out to counterparts in Italy to find out more about the basis of the ban. Germany could follow in Italy's footsteps by blocking ChatGPT over ...

Inflation in the US has reached 8.3%, which hit a 4-year high (Source: Statista, data as of August 2022). In Singapore, core inflation rose to 5.1% in August, a nearly four-year high (Source: MAS, data as of Oct 5, 2022). The prospect of higher interest rates has dampened demand for various financial products, and real estate investment trusts ( REITs ) are one of them.
However, with the higher interest rates increasingly looking like the ne...