ASEAN Tech

Southeast Asia's Tech Funding More Than Doubled. Take Out One Data-Centre Company and It Shrank

The region raised $7.4 billion in the first half, against $3.2 billion a year earlier. One Singapore data-centre operator accounted for $4.5 billion of it, and Singapore for 94 per cent of the whole.

1 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Finance

Four Companies Spent $166 Billion on Capital Projects in One Quarter. The Market Rewarded Two of Them

Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported within nine days. Combined capital spending nearly doubled year on year, and the two that fell were the two whose cash flow visibly broke.

1 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

Finance

Bank Indonesia Held at 5.75% — the Corridor and the Credit Number Say More Than the Decision

The hold was the least informative line in the release. The rate corridor is asymmetric, credit is running 0.67 points above Bank Indonesia's own band, and Rp431.9tn of liquidity incentive is still pushing the other way.

26 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

Finance

P/E, PEG and DCF: Three Ways to Tell If a Stock Is Actually Cheap

A low share price is not a cheap stock. Here is what the P/E ratio, the PEG ratio, discounted cash flow and the dividend discount model each measure, how they fit together, and the different way every one of them goes blind.

25 Jul 2026 · 16 min read

Finance

Option Greeks, Explained: Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega Without the Jargon

An option's price moves for four reasons, and the Greeks are the dials that tell you how much it responds to each. A plain-English walk through delta, gamma, theta and vega — with the exact formulas our calculators use, the sign and range conventions, and the limits of the closed-form model. General education, not advice.

24 Jul 2026 · 14 min read

Finance

Coast FIRE: The Retirement Number Nobody Coined (2026)

The coast number is compound interest run backwards, and nobody can say who named it. The worked math, the nominal-vs-real trap, and what CPF and EPF floors do to it.

23 Jul 2026 · 16 min read

Finance

The FIRE Number: The 25x Rule Neither Founding Paper Contains (2026)

25x appears in neither Bengen 1994 nor the Trinity study — it is 1 ÷ 4%. What the papers really tested, MMM's actual assumptions, and how CPF and EPF size "enough" differently.

23 Jul 2026 · 15 min read

Finance

The 4% Rule: Where Retirement's Most Famous Number Comes From (2026)

What Bengen 1994 and the Trinity study actually tested, how the 4% rule gets misused, and why CPF LIFE and EPF change the maths in SG and MY.

22 Jul 2026 · 13 min read

AI & ML

AWS Commits $1 Billion to Embedded AI Engineers as the Enterprise Fight Shifts to Deployment

AWS has committed US$1 billion to a Forward Deployed Engineering organisation that embeds its engineers inside customer teams, following private-equity-backed deployment ventures from OpenAI and Anthropic. The enterprise-AI contest is moving from who has the best model to who can put it to work.

21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read

Finance

How to Pick a Personal-Finance Calculator You Can Trust (2026)

A calculator is only as good as its tables and assumptions. The five failure modes to spot, plus a 60-second check to run before you trust any answer.

15 Jul 2026 · 9 min read