MAS signals inflation concern – Commerzbank

MAS signals inflation concern – Commerzbank

Commerzbank’s Charlie Lay notes Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unexpectedly tightened policy for a second meeting, slightly increasing the Singapore Dollar (SGD) Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) slope and stressing the move was smaller than April’s. He says MAS is signalling greater concern over inflation risks than growth, with stronger-than-expected H1 2026 growth and forecasts […]

The Dow Jones buys a peace nobody has signed, and the chips take it back

The Dow Jones buys a peace nobody has signed, and the chips take it back

The Dow Jones Industrial Average trades near 52,200, up around 250 points, after a session that handed it the month’s cleanest bullish catalyst and then took most of it back. The peace bid carried the index to just short of 52,600 before a semiconductor sell-off with Chinese fingerprints dragged it back to the 52,000 handle, […]