A new Cybersecurity Act will be tabled in Singapore’s parliament next year, Singapore’s minister for communications and information, Yaacob Ibrahim, announced on April 11. According to Yaacob, the bill is aimed protecting the country’s critical information infrastructure. The bill will empower the year-old Cyber Security Agency (CSA) to “manage cyber incidents and raise the standards of cybersecurity providers in Singapore,” ...

  There are sometimes good reasons to be worried about the U.S. national debt. The debt has to be serviced, and that requires collecting taxes, which distort the economy. If government debt gets so large that the only way to avoid a default is to hold down interest rates forever, those low rates can eventually have negative effects on the ...

  BLOOMBERG A gauge of commodities headed for a five-month high, spurred by gains from metals to soy beans, and weighing on government bonds as the European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at its latest policy meeting. Steel reinforcement bars jumped to a 19-month high in Shanghai, buoyed by an improving Chinese property market. Brent crude held near $46 ...