JAKARTA: Indonesia’s stock exchange plans to cut the minimum trading price for shares and shrink the lot size in its drive to attract more retail investors and boost volumes. The bourse will revise the decade-old requirement for stocks to maintain a floor price of 50 rupiah and lower the minimum order size from 100, Laksono […]
Read MoreThe government’s planning unit, the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), has been assigned to work closely with the Commerce Ministry to provide updates on the export sector so that exporters can find more markets to offset the impact of the trade row between the US and China. Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said he […]
Read MoreThe Hanoitimes – The Vietnamese aviation market is currently considered to be very attractive when growing well in the past decade. Competition in the Vietnamese fast-growing air transport market is expected to intensify further this year as more entrants are joining the market. With the launch of its first flight on January 16, FLC Group-backed Bamboo […]
Read MoreAt a fruit market in Wanding, Ruili, a county on the China-Myanmar border, workers are transferring watermelons and muskmelons from Myanmar to heavy trucks which will soon leave for Beijing, Shanghai and other cities in China. “Burmese fruit tastes good and enjoys great popularity among Chinese people,” Said Liu Hongfang, a manager of the market. […]
Read MoreIn an effort to encourage tourist spending and empower small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the government will revise a regulation pertaining to value-added tax (VAT) that would allow foreign tourists to get tax refunds for their spending. The Finance Ministry’s director general for taxation, Robert Pakpahan, said a new regulation, which will revise Finance Ministerial Regulation No. 76/2010, […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: The Singapore dollar’s three-month winning streak is facing its stiffest test yet as global growth headwinds dim the outlook for further central bank tightening. An above-consensus inflation report today would go a long way toward ensuring the currency’s advance remains on track. A gauge of the country’s nominal effective exchange rate, which the Monetary […]
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