But one long-serving Asian airline, Singapore Airlines, has for decades maintained one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the industry to compete at the premium end of the travel market.

Intel has long dominated the market for PC and server chips, but there are two other big classes of processors: those for high-end graphics and for mobile phones.

When market participants mention that the yield curve has moved up or down, or the long end or short end of the curved has moved, it simply points to the changes in yield of the various benchmarks.