Market View: AI boom regains momentum, bolstering Asian stocks; Malaysia’s economy grew 5.7% on year in Q4 2025; Ford reportedly in talks to use BYD batteries for overseas factories; TSMC eyes smaller tech gap between US and Taiwan chipmaking fabs; Keppel, SIA to watch

Singapore shares inched higher today as investors continue to set their sights on the AI trade as well as the ongoing situation in Iran. The Straits Times Index was up 0.15% at 4,840.70 points at 2.41pm Singapore time, with a value turnover of S$930.26M seen in the broader market. In terms of counters to watch, we have Keppel, after the asset manager announced yesterday that it secured a 720 megawatt (MW) power bank for an artificial intelligence data-centre campus near Melbourne, Australia. Elsewhere from how official advance estimates out today showed Malaysia’s economy grew 5.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, to how TSMC will try to accelerate the transfer of its advanced chipmaking expertise to the US in the future, more economic and corporate headlines remained in focus. On Market View, Money Matters’ finance presenter Chua Tian Tian unpacked the developments for the day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.