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China vehicle export growth to slow in 2025, association data shows
CHINA’S vehicle exports are expected to grow 5.8 per cent to 6.2 million units this year, cooling from a 19.3 per cent increase in 2024,…
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Gold flat amid Trump policy uncertainty, strong US data
GOLD prices held steady on Monday (Jan 13), caught between uncertainty around the incoming Trump administration’s policies boosting…
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Greenback firms as strong jobs data support Fed easing pause
THE US dollar rallied on Friday (Jan 10) after data showed that the world’s largest economy created more jobs than expected last month,…
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US: Wall St opens lower after hot payrolls data stokes rate cut worries
WALL Street’s main indexes opened lower on Friday (Jan 10) after a better-than-expected jobs report fanned expectations that the Federal…
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Japan’s NTT appoints banks for US$1 billion data centre Reit IPO in Singapore: sources
JAPAN’S Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) has appointed Bank of America and UBS to work on a US$1 billion data centre real estate…
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Japan’s NTT plans US$1 billion data centre Reit listing in Singapore; appoints BofA, UBS
JAPAN’S Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp (NTT) has appointed Bank of America and UBS to work on a US$1 billion data centre real estate…
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Asia: Markets drift lower as US jobs data looms
EQUITIES fell again in Asia on Friday (Jan 10) as traders prepared for the release of US jobs data that could play a key role in the…
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Gold prices on track for weekly gain; US data on tap
GOLD prices remained stable on Friday (Jan 10) during early Asian hours, poised for their strongest week since mid-November, as investors…
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Gold subdued; investors await US data for cues on Fed’s policy path
GOLD prices were subdued on Thursday (Jan 9) as rising yields and a stronger US dollar weighed, while investors awaited US data for…
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Who Is Hussain Sajwani, the Developer Behind Trump’s $20 Billion Data Center Pledge?
When President-elect Donald J. Trump called Hussain Sajwani to the lectern at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to promise a $20 billion investment in…
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US: Wall St opens muted as investors assess data, Trump economic emergency report
Wall Street’s main indexes opened subdued on Wednesday (Jan 8), as investors digested softer-than-expected jobs data and took stock of a…
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Gold flat as US yields, dollar rise on strong data
GOLD prices were flat on Wednesday (Jan 8), pressured by higher yields and a stronger dollar after US data suggested the Federal Reserve…
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Trump’s Dubai billionaire ally vows US$20 billion for data centres
SINCE Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, Hussain Sajwani, the head of Damac Group, wanted the world to know he was the US president’s…
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Trump, Dubai billionaire unveil US$20 billion for data centres
PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump announced an investment of at least US$20 billion from Hussain Sajwani, the head of Damac Group, to build new…
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Trump Blurs Lines in $20 Billion Data Center Announcement and Other Deals
President-elect Donald J. Trump was at the lectern talking through the approaching inauguration of his second term. But across the…
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Oil prices ease as weak economic data offsets higher US winter storm heating demand
OIL prices eased in volatile trade on Monday (Jan 6) as some bearish economic news from the United States and Germany offset bullish…
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Gold steady as investors await US economic data
Gold prices held steady on Monday (Jan 6) as investors awaited a slew of US economic data due out this week for guidance on the US Federal…
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US: Wall St opens higher as markets await data, policy changes
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Jan 3), as investors kept a close eye on upcoming economic data and geared up for…
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Keppel DC Reit to divest Malaysia data centre for RM55.6 million
Reit subsidiary has entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Basis Bay Services MSC, an unrelated third party KEPPEL DC Real Estate…
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China approved more than 90 per cent of overseas data transfers in 2024: top regulator
China approved more than 90 per cent of data exports in 2024, the country's top internet regulator said. The less than 10 per cent blocked…
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First South Korean plane crash flight recorder data recovered
Experts have successfully transmitted data from one of the two flight recorders recovered after the weekend's plane crash in South Korea…
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Unlawful border crossings dropped to four-year low in November, new data show
Unlawful border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped to a four-year low, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,…
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Oil inches lower in thin trade, investors eye China, US data
OIL prices slipped lower on Monday (Dec 30) in thin holiday trade ahead of the year-end as traders awaited more economic data from China…
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Who’s pulling ahead in South-east Asia’s data centre race?
THE start of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has led to a global race among countries to build more data centres and ramp up their…