The Smart Investor

The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed above the 5,700 mark for the first time in late July 2026.

It’s a remarkable rise, with the index sweeping past milestone after milestone in the space of a few weeks.

But it also

The first half of the year has been a mixed bag for Singapore real estate investment trusts (S-REITs) given investors’ focus on interest rates, refinancing costs and where property values are heading.

My eldest daughter is in Primary 6, and this week marks a pretty big milestone at home: the start of her PSLE journey with the oral examinations.

Watching her get ready has been a gentle reality check on just how fast these primary school years fly by.

Before we know it, our kids will be grown up and making major financial decisions of their own.

With a staggering market capitalisation of more than US$5 trillion, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is arguably the poster boy of the AI revolution.

Developers rely on its CUDA software ecosystem for running critical AI workloads – and once they build on it, they also stay locked in, underscoring the chip designer’s key advantage over competitors.

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