Blue Moon increased its dividend payout ratio to above 100% since 2022, from 79% in 2021. We expect the company to maintain a stable dividend per share in 2025 despite lower profit, and project an ...

--President Trump's administration has revoked special licenses granted to BP and Shell to undertake gas projects in Venezuela, the Financial Times reports.

--Banco Santander is exploring a possible sale of its majority share in its Polish arm as it focuses on expansion in the Americas, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources. --The Spanish bank is ...

Hang Seng Bank is well capitalized and in solid financial shape. Even after recording large provisions in 2022 and 2023 for its exposure to mainland China commercial real estate, its common equity ...

Standard Chartered's solvency metrics are reasonably strong. As of December 2024, the common equity Tier 1 ratio was 14.2%, above the top end of the bank's target range of 13%-14%.

DBS Group is the largest bank in Singapore and operates in Hong Kong, Greater China, Southeast Asia, and India. Besides being Singapore's largest bank, it has also delivered the highest average return ...

OCBC's balance sheet is strong and getting stronger as profitability increases. All of the bank's capital metrics are significantly above the regulatory minimums set by the Monetary Authority of ...

Banca Monte dei Paschi said it received approval from the European Central Bank to raise capital from the issuance of new shares as part of its bid for Mediobanca. The Italian bank, formally called ...

United Overseas Bank is one of the three dominant banks in Singapore. Compared with its two rivals, it has somewhat smaller exposure to Greater China, while it has larger exposure to Association of ...

HSBC has evolved from a global bank, where two decades ago half of its capital was deployed outside the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, to a somewhat more geographically focused group centred mainly on ...

Asian stock markets fell as U.S. President Trump's sweeping duties, including a 104% tariff on Chinese goods, took effect Wednesday, casting a further cloud over the global economic outlook. Japan's ...

We think Foshan Haitian Flavouring and Food is in sound financial shape as it possesses abundant cash reserves and runs on very low leverage with minimal debt. The company has a debt/equity ratio of ...