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Singapore keen to facilitate US-China dialogue amid tensions

BLOOMBERG Singapore’s top trade official said the city-state is willing to facilitate a dialogue between the US and China to repair their relationship, as he described growing tensions between the world’s biggest economies as detrimental to the world. US-China tensions “have serious consequences for the rest of the world,” Gan Kim Yong, Singapore minister for trade and industry, told Bloomberg ...

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Goldman favours EM equities over bonds as rates buffer fades

BLOOMBERG Emerging-market shares have value as bonds are losing their buffer because of US rates volatility, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. With rising nominal interest rates, local fixed income securities “no longer appear to have much cushion” with fluctuations in US rates, strategists led by London-based Kamakshya Trivedi wrote in a note. MSCI Inc.’s index of developing ...

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Stocks retreat in anticipation of higher Federal Reserve rates

BLOOMBERG Global stocks retreated on Thursday, and Treasury yields held near the key 4% mark as investors priced the likelihood of higher interest rates and a looming US recession. Futures on the S&P 500 slipped 0.3% and those on the rate-sensitive Nasdaq slid 0.6%. Chipmakers Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc fell about 0.7% in pre-market trading, while Tesla ...

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