PRE-MARKET TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE STOCKS NEWS: Neousys Technology (6922 TT) expects edge AI-related revenue to rise 10–20% Y/Y, Nasdaq-100 eked out mild gains on Friday following an initial choppy mood, while futures are contained during Asia-Pac trade
TAIWAN
Neousys Technology (6922 TT) - Co. expects edge AI-related revenue to rise 10–20% Y/Y this year, driven by demand from manufacturing, transportation, semiconductor, defence and healthcare customers. (Taipei Times)
Energy
Taiwan’s CPC Corporation and Formosa Petrochemical (6505 TT) will keep domestic fuel prices unchanged this week despite a surge in international crude oil prices. (Taipei Times)
Tech
The Nasdaq-100 eked out mild gains on Friday following choppy initial price action, while futures are contained during Asia-Pac trade.
Other News
Southern Taiwan suspended work and classes on Monday as heavy rainfall persisted. (Focus Taiwan)
SINGAPORE
Singapore Exchange (SGX SP) - SGX Director of Capital Market Development Tan said the Co. will step up efforts to engage younger investors and dispel the perception that the local market lacks excitement, after retail trading activity reached a 12-year high in FY26, which ended on June 30.
Other News
Singapore PM Wong announced that parents will receive more childcare leave, greater financial support and lower preschool fees as the country makes a fundamental shift in how it supports families, with every child set to receive nearly SGD 70,000 in direct financial assistance. (Straits Times)
The lead item is single-name revenue guidance of a kind that has become standard fare in the AI hardware supply chain: small and mid-cap Taiwanese industrial computing names framing order books around edge AI demand rather than traditional industrial automation. Guidance given as a range and tied to end-market diversification, manufacturing, transport, semiconductors, defence, tends to be read through the lens of order visibility rather than the percentage itself, and the usual tell is whether peers in the embedded and industrial PC space echo the same demand picture in subsequent prints. The fuel price freeze at CPC and Formosa Petrochemical follows the established pattern of state-influenced pricing smoothing crude pass-through, which compresses refining and retail margins at the pump when international prices rise; the mechanism is administrative, not market, so the spread between domestic product prices and crude is what bears watching. The SGX commentary on retail participation at multi-year highs fits a recurring exchange-operator theme of monetising retail engagement, historically a slow-burn story for volumes rather than an immediate catalyst. The Singapore family support package is fiscal rather than market-moving, though consumption-linked names have on past occasions of this kind taken a modest cue. As a pre-market wrap, the note is informational rather than directional; the contained Nasdaq futures and weather-related closures set a quiet tone for the open.