{"id":313019,"date":"2026-02-23T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:02:06","slug":"singapore-stocks-rose-despite-higher-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313019\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Stocks Rose Despite Higher US Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

trade headlines.<\/p>\n

Why should I care?<\/p>\n

For markets: Tariffs set the mood, but results steal the show.<\/p>\n

A higher US tariff floor raises the risk of weaker global demand, which typically hits exporters and industrial names first. But this session was driven by company-specific moves: Raffles Medical rose nearly 4% after 2H 2025 profit<\/a> attributable to owners climbed 22% to SG$38.5 million, while KTMG fell more than 6% after warning of a loss for 2H 2025 and the full year. Wilton Resources jumped over 11% after a subsidiary sold 200 million shares in PT Wilton Makmur Indonesia at 40 Indonesian rupiah each via off-market trades.<\/p>\n

The bigger picture: Lower inflation<\/a> can buffer a bumpier trade cycle.<\/p>\n

At 1.0% y\/y, core inflation suggests price pressures are fading, which can support spending and reduce the odds of policy tightening. That matters if a 15% US tariff regime slows cross-border activity across Asia\u2019s supply chains. Put together, steady equities and easing inflation point to a market that\u2019s pricing trade risk, but not panicking about the home front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"trade headlines. Why should I care? For markets: Tariffs set the mood, but results steal the show. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-313019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}