Expectations

Imperfect Women review – lots of fun … if you lower your expectations enough
You can’t say Imperfect Women doesn’t warn you. It is clear from the very first shots – three women dancing, drunkenly but happily, laughing but not scream-laughing, as the...
BP reports profits in line with expectations, suspends buybacks
BP reports profits in line with expectations, suspends buybacks
Published Tue, Feb 10, 2026 · 04:36 PM[LONDON] BP posted quarterly profit in line with analyst expectations on Tuesday (Feb 10) and suspended its share buyback programme as it...
Returns generated by GIC, Temasek ‘reasonable and within expectations’: Jeffrey Siow
Returns generated by GIC, Temasek ‘reasonable and within expectations’: Jeffrey Siow
[SINGAPORE] The returns generated by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and state-owned investment company Temasek are “reasonable and within expectations” given their mandates and their risk profiles, said Jeffrey...
Samsung expects record Q4 operating profit, beating expectations
Samsung expects record Q4 operating profit, beating expectations
[SEOUL] Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected a 208 per cent jump in fourth-quarter operating profit from a year earlier, beating analysts’ estimates as tight supply and a surge in...
Pfizer forecasts 2026 profit below expectations on lower Covid product sales
Pfizer forecasts 2026 profit below expectations on lower Covid product sales
Pfizer has rolled out a sweeping cost reduction programme in response to the drop in Covid-19 sales[WASHINGTON] Pfizer on Tuesday (Dec 16) forecast 2026 profit below Wall Street estimates...
US: Wall St closes with slight gains as data keeps Fed cut expectations on track
US: Wall St closes with slight gains as data keeps Fed cut expectations on track
[NEW YORK] US stocks closed out the trading week with slight gains on Friday (Dec 5) as the latest flurry of economic data kept elevated expectations for a Federal...
Oil settles up on expectations of Fed rate cut, Ukraine peace talks stalling
Oil settles up on expectations of Fed rate cut, Ukraine peace talks stalling
US crude futures briefly rose more than US$1 a barrel earlier in the session as global shares rose[HOUSTON] Oil prices settled up on Thursday (Dec 4) on investors’ expectations...
Gold drifts higher on US rate cut expectations
Gold drifts higher on US rate cut expectations
Markets are pricing in an 84% chance of a Fed rate cut next month, compared to 50% last week, according to CME Group data[BENGALURU] Gold prices nudged higher during...
US: Wall Street opens higher on Fed interest rate-cut expectations
US: Wall Street opens higher on Fed interest rate-cut expectations
[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Monday (Nov 24), buoyed by expectations of an imminent Federal Reserve interest rate cut in December, while investors were also...
Jardine Matheson’s Q3 performance ‘in line with expectations’
Jardine Matheson’s Q3 performance ‘in line with expectations’
[SINGAPORE] Hong Kong-based conglomerate Jardine Matheson said in a bourse filing on Friday (Nov 21) that its performance for the third quarter of 2025 was “in line with expectations...