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Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will face shareholders on Monday for the first time since two fatal crashes that led to the 737 MAX's grounding worldwide and triggered investigations, lawsuits and a sharp loss in share value.

NETS will share with Myanmar’s national payment network its technical and operational knowledge on Singapore’s unified e-payment system for QR codes - the Singapore Quick Response (SGQR) Central Repository platform, with the intention of implementing a similar platform in the South-east Asian country.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp, the U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company that agreed this month to sell itself to Chevron Corp for US$33 billion, decided on Sunday to begin negotiations to sell itself to Occidental Petroleum Corp instead, according to people familiar with the matter.

DBS Group Holdings Ltd, Southeast Asia's biggest lender, reported an 8.5 percent rise in quarterly profit on Monday to beat market estimates, powered by a rise in net interest income.

Industrial machinery maker Gardner Denver Holdings Inc is nearing a deal to merge with a division of Ingersoll-Rand Plc, creating a business that would have an enterprise value, including debt, of about US$15 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

A whistle blower at Swiss asset manager GAM Holding AG who alerted UK financial regulators last year did so over concerns about the purchase of more than half a billion pounds of bonds from commodities tycoon Sanjeev Gupta, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Jaguar Land Rover, Britain's largest auto manufacturer, said on Monday it is testing software that will allow drivers of its cars to earn the IOTA cryptocurrency as a reward for sharing data.

UBS' invested assets at its wealth management division in Asia-Pacific hit US$405 billion in the first quarter of 2019, said the world's largest private bank.

PENSION funds, other institutions and family offices are buying hedge funds hoping that they will be an antidote to uncertainty.

THE extreme low volatility of the US dollar against the Singapore dollar is rare and untenable and could portend a multi-year explosive price action, said a United Overseas Bank strategist.