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AT JUST age 24, Ms Pamela Lua is the managing director of fashion company Amber Avenue (www.amberavenue.com). Started just three years ago, the business was born from practically nothing. Ms Lua started Amber Avenue as a blogshop with boyfriend Ryan Chng, a final-year business-management student, because she “was interested in fashion while he was interested in the business aspect”, ... more

U.S. Dollar Trading (USD) was buoyed by month end buying of the USD but in general the market was very quiet with the US markets closed for Memorial day. The markets were quite thin and so small orders were moving the market in a whippy fashion that kept many speculators

Risk appetite rebounded in stuttered fashion across most asset classes on Friday night. US equities opened weaker, but news that Germany’s parliament approved the EU rescue package and unfounded rumours that Goldman Sachs had reached a settlement with the SEC helped turn that around, followed by another small surge near

No matter what we do or how long our day goes on for, we eventually retreat to our homes in the evening. In similar fashion, and because the housing market is at the epicenter of this Great Recession, economists find themselves constantly going back to scrutinizing housing markets. A sustainable…

FINANCE Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday said the government will use every tool at its disposal ‘in a calibrated fashion’ to prevent boom and bust in the property market. One day after the Monetary Authority of Singapore served notice of further action to cool the housing market if needed, in the face of growing speculation risks, Mr Tharman spoke about the need to manage the property cy… more

FOR the ‘caveat emptor’ or ‘buyer beware’ regime in our stock market to function smoothly, listed companies must be prepared to make important disclosures in a timely fashion.
Ideally, this enables investors to make well-informed decisions on whether they should buy or sell a stock, based on the information supplied by the company.
But the listing manual of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) can only go… more