BOND investors who have spent months wagering that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s successor will push for interest-rate cuts face a stress test of those bets with President Donald Trump’s […]

BILLIONAIRE Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. is renewing efforts to sell dozens of ports to a global consortium by splitting the deal into separate parcels with different ownership structures,

GOLD notched another record high on Friday, while silver and platinum also extended gains to hit all-time peaks, powered by diminishing confidence in U.S. assets on account of geopolitical tensions

KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia Bhd will launch the Mini FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Futures (FKLM) on Jan 26, 2026, offering investors a lower-cost entry into the local derivatives market. Read

TOKYO: Hawkish signals from the Bank of Japan on Friday lifted short-term government bond yields to a three-decade high, but did little to curb persistent weakness in the yen. Read

KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit breached the RM4 threshold to hit a fresh five-year high as traders assessed strong economic growth and an otherwise upbeat annual outlook. Read full story Date:

CHINA is accelerating a shift toward a new growth model anchored in tech-driven domestic consumption as geopolitical tensions and technological disruption reshape the global economic landscape, officials, business leaders and

Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd. sees the ringgit strengthening further after its run as Asia’s top-performing currency last year, its managing director Datuk Amirul Feisal Wan Zahir said. 

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s key consumer price gauge rose 1.2% in December from a year earlier, official data showed on Friday. Read full story Date: 23 January, 2026 2:00 pm Source: thestar.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s economic outlook moderated in November 2025, with the Leading Index (LI) increasing 0.2 per cent to 113.2 points from 113.0 points in the corresponding period last year,