Urban Partners Raises Record €3.6 Billion to Buy Nordic Property
Turmoil in Nordic real estate markets has started attracting interest from investors looking to take advantage of landlords shedding assets to weather a looming liquidity crunch.
Turmoil in Nordic real estate markets has started attracting interest from investors looking to take advantage of landlords shedding assets to weather a looming liquidity crunch.
The widening rift between the world’s two biggest economies, the US and China, now looks in some regards to be irreconcilable, according to Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.
Investment firm PAG’s co-founder Chris Gradel bought a century-old villa in Hong Kong for HK$550 million ($70 million), taking ownership of one of the few remaining pre-war premises along the Sassoon Road.
Sony Group Corp. plans to buy more land near its image sensor factory in Japan’s Kumamoto prefecture to expand its market share in the growing business of powering camera smartphones.
China’s economic growth will get a bigger boost if the central bank cuts the reserve requirement ratio for banks rather than interest rates, according to research from Bloomberg Economics.
Singapore is confident that a rebound in travel that’s boosting the services sector will help the island’s economy avoid a recession this year despite a darkening global outlook.
Ron DeSantis officially launched his long-awaited 2024 presidential campaign Wednesday, signaling he will lean into culture war issues as a central strategy to wrestle the Republican nomination from Donald Trump.
Multiple raids on Swatch Group AG’s stores in Malaysia over their sale of Pride-themed rainbow watches has sparked a furious response from the watchmaker and raised renewed doubts about the commitment of the nation’s six-month old coalition government to LGBTQ rights.
Investors are snapping up shares of Asia’s technology hardware exporters, bolstered by interest in artificial intelligence and signs that the chip industry is turning a corner.
Big conferences often crystalize the prevailing sentiment in markets. So it’s probably no coincidence that copper has dived below $8,000 a ton and iron ore is trading south of $100 after metals luminaries gathered in Hong Kong and Singapore to chew over the parlous state of global demand and China’s recovery.