Market View: Investors mull China’s launch of DeepSeek; US earnings lookahead: Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, Qualcomm, Apple, Visa, Intel; US Fed decision in focus; SGX-listed US office Reits surges in past

Singapore shares started trading in negative territory today, mirroring the global markets. The Straits Times Index (STI) opened down 0.3 per cent at 3,792.54 points after 45.9 million securities changed hands in the broader market. In terms of companies to watch, we have Keppel, after the company was granted a licence by the US to build a 20,000 km subsea cable system linking Singapore to the US.  Elsewhere, from Singapore-listed US office Reits surging on the back of US President Donald Trump’s executive order for federal employees to return to work in the office, to how China’s DeepSeek topped Apple’s iPhone download charts, more corporate and international headlines remain in focus.  On Market View, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian unpacked the developments with Chin Hui Leong, Co-founder, The Smart Investor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.