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AT A worst-case scenario, Singapore banks may see a 14 to 18 per cent hit to their revenue in 2020 following the latest virus relief measures for consumers, said Jefferies Research in a report on Wednesday.

Touted as a simple but effective shield against coronavirus infections, transparent screens have sprung up at supermarket tills and pharmacies across Germany. For plexiglass manufacturer Claus Mueller, business has never been better -- but no one is celebrating.

HOMEGROWN solar company LYS Energy on Wednesday said it has obtained a S$14 million green loan from United Overseas Bank (UOB).

Japan's Fujifilm has begun clinical trials to test the effectiveness of its anti-flu drug Avigan in treating patients with the new coronavirus, after reports of promising results in China.

SINGAPORE: Resale prices in the public housing market held steady in the first quarter of 2020 amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a contrast to the decline in the private property sector. The resale price index was 131.5, unchanged from the fourth quarter of last year, according to flash estimates ......

SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday it has appointed former Goldman Sachs banker Taiichi Hoshino as head of a new investment planning department, as the group increases oversight of its tech bets battered by volatile markets.

Risk currencies looked fragile and the yen firmed on Wednesday, the first day of a quarter that looks set to see the worst economic contractions for decades in many countries as they scramble to tackle the coronavirus epidemic.

Crude oil benchmarks opened the month mixed on Wednesday, following their biggest-ever quarterly and monthly losses, overshadowed by fears of global oversupply as data showed a bigger-than-expected rise in inventories in the United States.

SINGAPORE: Private home prices in Singapore fell 1.2 per cent over the quarter in the first three months of the year, according to flash estimates released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) on Wednesday (Apr 1). This reverses the 0.5 per cent increase seen in the previous quarter. The...

Bond investor and DoubleLine Capital Chief Executive Jeffrey Gundlach said on Tuesday he believes the coronavirus sell-off is not over yet and that the lows stocks hit in March will be surpassed in April due to uncertainty over the outbreak.