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Nomura tells clients to slash financial exposure to the UK and brace for a possible collapse of the pound ...

The Catalans and Basques will be watching carefully; and further afield, separatists in Flanders, northern Italy and elsewhere will be jumping up and down with joy if Scotland votes for independence ...

US company could be fined $6bn (£3.7bn) if it fails to reach an agreement with the European Commission ...

A new taxi service directs potential passengers to another company if there are no women in the party ...

Fromer SAC Capital executive is handed one of longest ever sentences for insider trading ...

Too busy for the mall? Online services like Stitch Fix and Trunk Club attempt to re-create personal shopping relationships of yesterday, powered by today's data analytics....

An alumni survey by the school found much more optimism about the future of America's companies than that of its workers. More than 4 in 10 think employee pay and benefits are set to shrink....

September 09, 2014 2:15 AM [SINGAPORE] JLL's top investment sales broker Ashish Manchharam is leaving the group to set up his own boutique property investment outfit. ...

September 09, 2014 2:16 AM CHEW Hock Yong, the chief executive of the Land Transport Authority (LTA), will leave the statutory board to take up his new post as second permanent secretary of the Ministry of National Development (MND) on Oct 1. ...

September 09, 2014 2:16 AM IT will not come cheap, but Alife Air Automobiles says that the majority of its automobiles - scooters mostly when it launches its range come October - are aimed at the man on the street, looking for something extra, that is. ...

September 09, 2014 2:16 AM [SINGAPORE] Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group is looking to invest up to US$5 billion in healthcare, food retailing and telecoms mainly in the Philippines, Vietnam and Myanmar over the next three to five years, its top executive said. ...

September 09, 2014 2:16 AM [SINGAPORE] Resale prices of non-landed private homes rose a slight 0.4 per cent in August, compared to July, but analysts say this cannot be construed as a turnaround in price performance. They pin it instead on some pent-up revival in buyers' interest, among other factors. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM [WASHINGTON] Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen has tried to repair damaged relations with Congress during her first seven months in office. The fix-up isn't going very well. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM COMPANIES can look forward to more seamless customs procedures as Asean member countries continue to work together towards greater economic integration, said Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM [RIO DE JANEIRO] Brazil's October presidential race has been shaken up by a corruption scandal allegedly involving state-run oil firm Petrobras and dozens of lawmakers, with both leading candidates forced onto the defensive after colleagues were implicated. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM [TOKYO] Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympic Games were meant to be different: compact, on budget and on time. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM [LONDON] An independent Scotland would start out with a budget deficit of at least 6.4 per cent in the event of a vote to break away from the UK in a nearing ballot, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM AS corporations recognise the link between CSR (corporate social responsibility) and sustainability, opportunities arise for socially conscious leaders to change the world from the inside out. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM MALAYSIAN plantation stocks have been on a six-year rally. Tan Teng Boo thinks a serious correction is long overdue. ...

September 09, 2014 2:17 AM [HONG KONG] China Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Ltd, the private Chinese shipbuilder whose woes made it a symbol of the country's credit binge, confirmed the government is studying a possible restructuring of its Jiangsu unit. ...