All three of the stock market indexes (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are swinging into the green after Thursday's market open. This comes a day after the Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steady.
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Thng, 50, joined SIA in 1999. He was formerly the CEO of SilkAir and later, Vistara.
The company made the announcement in its fourth quarter report
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Investing.com-- Alibaba Group's (HK:9988) (NYSE:BABA) Hong Kong shares rallied to a seven-month high on Friday after Michael Burry’s investment firm hiked its stake in the e-commerce giant and several of its Chinese peers.
(Reuters) -Grab Holdings raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday after reporting a higher-than-expected quarterly revenue, driven by recent cost-reduction measures and robust demand for its ride-share services. A significant restructuring at Grab, which included reducing 1,000 jobs and slashing some technology costs in 2023, is helping the company push ahead in its goal to deliver positive free cash flow this year. In an interview with Reuters, CFO Peter Oey said a surge in Southeast Asian tourism, along with an increase in corporate events and concerts in the last quarter, bolstered the demand for ride-share services.
Stocks edged higher on Wednesday as investors digested fresh readings on inflation and consumer spending.
April's CPI report is one of the most important data points the Federal Reserve will consider in its next interest rate decision.
April's annual U.S. inflation numbers met expectations but were lower than the month before, fuelling confidence that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September and again in December - driving rallies in stocks and bonds and pressuring the dollar. At the same time, even though markets price European rate cuts beginning in June, recent data has shown some upside surprises.
While consensus Wall Street forecasts call for the chip maker to report first-quarter revenue of $24.51 billion, it will likely need to beat that for the stock to rise significantly.
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The stock was the second worst performing among crypto stocks on Thursday.
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China announced "historic" steps on Friday to stabilise its crisis-hit property sector, with the central bank facilitating 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) in extra funding and easing mortgage rules, and local governments set to buy "some" apartments. Investors hoped the measures marked the beginning of more decisive government intervention to compensate for waning demand for new and old apartments, to slow down falling prices and to reduce a growing stock of unsold homes. Since the property market began its steep downturn in 2021, a string of developers have defaulted, leaving scores of idle construction sites behind, and sapping confidence in what had for decades been the preferred savings instrument for the Chinese population.
World shares were mostly lower on Friday, though Chinese stocks reversed earlier losses following the announcement of fresh measures to revive the ailing property market. In early European trading, Germany's DAX lost 0.5% to 18,648.35 and the CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.5% to 8,147.13. China’s central bank said Friday that it was reducing required down payments for housing loans and cutting interest rates for first and second home purchases, among other moves.
Japan's economy suffered a worse-than-expected contraction in the first quarter, official data showed Thursday, in further bad news for its unpopular government.In the previous quarter, from July to September, GDP suffered a major contraction of 0.9 percent, also revised on Thursday from an earlier reading of minus 0.8 percent.
A major Boeing supplier is to make up to 450 workers redundant after its biggest customer was forced to cut aeroplane production.
Gold prices were on track for a second consecutive weekly gain on Friday due to improved interest rate cut expectations, providing support to silver and platinum, which are up 5.5% and 6.6%, respectively, this week. Spot gold rose 0.3% to $2,384.08 per ounce by 0945 GMT. "Signs that inflation may be slowing down raise the prospect of interest rate cuts in the coming months, which tend to support gold and silver prices," said Frank Watson, market analyst at Kinesis Money.
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