BLACKSTONE secured about US$8 billion in capital commitments for a new real estate debt fund, the latest effort to seize on dislocations in the property market. Read more at The Business Times.

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said it remains to be seen if the Trump administration’s tariff plans will prove to be inflationary, mapping out a checklist of things that could cause new ...

THE European Central Bank (ECB) should keep all options on the table for next month’s decision on interest rates as the economic outlook hinges on geopolitical shocks that are hard to predict, ...

CRYPTOCURRENCY exchange Kraken is readying to go public amid a friendlier regulatory climate in the US under President Donald ...

RIO Tinto has scrapped plans to raise as much as US$5 billion in a share sale following pushback from investors, sources with knowledge of the matter said. Read more at The Business Times.

THE US regulator overseeing national banks clarified on Friday (Mar 7) that banks can engage in some crypto activities, and ...

ROBINHOOD Markets, the online trading platform, agreed to pay US$29.75 million to resolve several Financial Industry ...

SHARES of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fell the most since 2020 after it said profit in the coming year would be hurt by ...

A SIMMERING tension in the crypto industry resurfaced after US President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited order creating a ...

CHINA’S central bank expanded its gold reserves for a fourth month in February, as the precious metal rallied to a record ...

US CONSUMERS dialled back the pace of borrowing in February after a near-record increase a month earlier. Read more at The ...

SOME artificial intelligence (AI) improvements to Apple’s voice assistant Siri will be delayed until 2026, the company said ...