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Singapore CPI stays at 4-year lows as city-state prepares for election newsthirst.

Singapore’s Raffles Place at lunchtime. Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty Images Singapore’s inflation in March stayed at over four-year lows, with the city-state’s consumer price index climbing 0.9%, year on year. Singapore’s monetary authority said increases in the costs of food and private transport in March mainly contributed to the headline inflation. March inflation…

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U.S. discloses details on chips probe as it prepares new tariffs newsthirst.

William_potter | Istock | Getty Images The U.S. Commerce Department is conducting a national security investigation into imports of semiconductor technology and related downstream products, according to a Federal Register notice put online Monday.  The official document — which calls for public comments on the investigation — further confirms that chips and the electronics supply…

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I.R.S. Prepares to Help Find Immigrants Targeted for Deportation newsthirst.

The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to help homeland security officials locate immigrants they are trying to deport, according to three officials familiar with the matter, in a shift toward using protected taxpayer information to help President Trump’s mass deportation push. Under a draft of an agreement between the I.R.S. and the Immigration and Customs…

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