The Business Times, 11 April 1977

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  • 9 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) 300/1/77 MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1977 50CENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 76 1 Reuter PADANG BESAR, Sun. Malaysian troops converging on a major communist sanctuary In lolnt operations with Thai forces today captured a large camp in southern Thailand, a Malaysian military commander said here. Malaysian Field Commander of Joint Operations, Brigadier General Yusof Din, told reporters that the camp,
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    • 38 1 Reuter BANGKOK, Sun. Malaysian Home Affairs Minister Tan Sri Mohammed Ghazall bin Shafie arrived here today to attend top-level talks tomorrow on joint measures to counter communist guerilla activities along the ThaiMalaysian border areas. Reuter
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    • 81 1 AP LONDON, Sun. Abdullah Al Hajari, former Prime Minister of Yemen, was killed along with a woman and a chauffeur this morning when as assassin fired into their parked car in London, Arab diplomatic sources said. F»ur hours after the assassination outside the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Scotland
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    • 59 1 AP PARIS, Sun. The French government has agreed to loan air transport to Zaire and Morocco, President Valery Glscard d'Estalng's office announced today. A statement which said Zaire and Morocco had asked for the assistance noted the government of Zaire was the "victim of armed subversive activities
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    • 54 1 Reuter BRAZZAVILLE, Sun. Two African countries have sent troops to support an invasion of Zaire, according to Zaire Pfesident Mobutu Sese Seko. He declined to name the countries involved, but said they had sent troops which were now stationed qjPi the Angolan border "to support the invasion
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    • 75 1 Reuter DAR ES SALAAM. Sun. British Foreign Secretary David Owen begins his southern Africa tour here tomorrow by meeting Rhodesian guerilla leader Robert Mugabe and President Julius Nyerere, the spokesman for Rhodesia's black African neighbours. Mr. Nyerere is particularly Influential In the Rhodesia situation as chairman of
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    • 58 1 AP VIENTIANE, Sun. Laos has accused Thailand of abetting anti-communist rebels who seized an island in the Mekong river and has warned against "interference in Laotian affairs." The official Lao news agency, KPL, said a note protesting alleged Thai assistance to rightist rebels was delivered to the
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    • 53 1 UPI RANGOON, Sun. The Burmese Government formally announced over the weekend the enforcement of a new 320 km exclusive economic and continental shelf zone. Under the newly enacted territorial sea and maritime zones law, Burma asserts her sovereignty over 19 km of sea extending from baselines drawn around
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    • 68 1 Reuter HONGKONG, Sun. The official New China News Agency today reported that China's biggest oilfield at Taching has beaten its crude oil production target for the first quarter of this year "In the teeth of the worst cold spell of the decade." The agency, monitored here, said that
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    • 91 1 NEW YORK, Sun. A federal district court meets tomorrow to set a date for a hearing to determine whether the Anglo-French Concorde airliner Is being illegally denied landing rights at New York's Kennedy airport. The court session is to fix a date for hearing a suit brought
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  • 109 1 THE following list of stocks gives the 10 most traded in on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover in thousands of units, closing prices on Thursday and the high and low for 1977. Company Turnover Price# High Low •ooo Apr 7 1977
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  • LOCAL STOCK INDICES
    • 75 1 Apr 4 Apr 5 Apr 6 Apr 7 Apr 8 B.T. Index:, 261.06 257.25 257.79 256.76 Closed Industrials: 248.67 248 06 247.54 246.95 Closed Finance: 427.81 425.65 423.67 424.57 Closed Hotels: 158.68 158.68 158.18 158.02 Closed Properties: Tins: 142.79 141.94 142.01 141.51 Closed 107.43 107.42 107.42 107.42 Closed S
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    • 84 1 Apr 4 Apr S Apr 6 Apr 7 Apr 8 B T. Index: 204.87 202.39 201.97 201.47 202.65 Industrials: 273 54 272.61 271.81 271.31 272.20 Finance: 356 64 354.07 353.38 353.08 353.58 Hotels: 171.92 171.92 171.99 171.99 171.99 Properties: 140.89 140 39 138.62 138.12 138.82 Tins. 111 07 110.94
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  • 869 1  - Switch holdings into bonds offer STORE, MALAYSIA AMONG 20 ASKED By QUEK PECK LIM SINGAPORE and Malaysia are believed to have been among some 20 countries which have received an offer from the British Government to switch their official sterling holdings Into new foreign currency bonds. Details of the conversion
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  • 545 1 THE Central Provident Fund Board last year enlarged Its role as a financier to the Government* despite higher withdrawals for the purchases of public housing units. According to the Monetary Authority of Singapore's fourth quarterly bulletin for 1976, the CPF held as at the end of last
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  • 153 1 THE NTUC yesterday asked the Pioneer Industries Employees Union to refrain from meddling In the weeklong Metal Box strike. This followed efforts by the PIEU to organise nonstrlklng Metal Box employees. An NTUC spokesman said the Metal Box Workers' Union is
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  • 696 1 NYT JAKARTA, Sun. Continued repercussions from the current financial problems of Pertamlna, the state oil company, are threatening large segments of Indonesia's private banking and business community with cash troubles, with possibly serious effects on American and other foreign banks and
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  • 312 1 AP Reuter LONDON, Sun. British Airways resumed some flights from Heathrow airport today after a week-long labour dispute, but too late to lure thousands of Easter vacationers from its competitors. The state-run airline planned a near-normal service today to Amsterdam, Brussels and
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  • 402 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Dunlop (M) Industries has returned to the steady profit growth path from which it strayed in 1975 with pretax profits for the year ended Dec 31, 1976, up some 23 per cent to a record M 524.01 million. For
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  • 264 1 UPI AP TEL AVIV, Sun. Defence Minister Shimon Peres emerged as the ruling Labour Party's candidate for Prime Minister as he and Foreign Minister Ylgal Allon sealed a deal over the weekend that would make Mr. Allon the Defence Minister in a new
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  • 684 2 THE results of the three-day conference between leaders of the European Economic Community (EEC) and Asean were not particularly dramatic but neither were they altogether discouraging. Reports from Brussels indicate that the 125 top Asean businessmen and public administrators did not achieve all that they had hoped for,
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  • REVIEWS
    • 1057 2  -  By ALINE MOSBY UPI MARC CHAGALL turns 90 on July 7. Like a man decades younger, he is busy working and eager to journey to New York. Chicago or Paris for special exhibitions this year honouring one of the last of the great 20th century painters.
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    • 529 2  -  By ARTHUR HIGBEE UPI THE new show at the Folies Bergere has opened under new management to a timetested swirl of ostrich plumes and acres of nudes. It Is the first all-new show since Helene Martini, owner of nine Paris night clubs, bought the Folies three
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    • 683 2  -  MUSIC By CKT A TRULY whacko-type tale Is one In which the story Is quite clear and the moral quite vague. The fellow who thought up the following wheeze ought to be awarded a $20,000 POSB voucher and a lifetime subscription
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    • 453 2  -  By JOHN SIMS UPI THERE are two operas named La Boheme. One is the popular opera written by Giacomo Puccini, the other was written by Ruggiero Leoncavallo and, almost unbelievably, received its first professional performance in America last Saturday. The operas, written within two years of each
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    • 849 3  -  BOOKS By HERBERT MITGANG NYT With Malice Toward None: The life of Abraham Lincoln. By Stephen Oates. Illustrated. 492 pages. New York: Harper Row. U5515.95. A QUARTER of a century ago, a group of Lincoln Scholars In Illinois decided
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    • 691 3  - THE FABIANS AN ENCHANTING BOOK By JOHN LEONARD NYT The Fabians: By Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie. Illustrated. 446 pages. Simon Schuster. U5512.95. WHAT an odd crew they were tireless morallsers, talented snobs, professional enthusiasts, evangels of a crumpety socialism, permeators and wirepullers, for the fTOst part utterly humourless, so highminded
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    • 674 3  -  By ALDEN WHITMAN NYT The Fall Of Eagles. By C.L. Sulzberger. 408 pages. Illustrated. Crown Publisers. U5517.95 THE eagles of C.L. Sulzberger's title are the three European royal houses the Hapsburgs, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs that employed that bird
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    • 1179 3  -  By CHAN HENG CHEE Dr. Chan u a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Singapore. AS I write this column I can -recall vividly a brief exchange with an acquaintance some time before How many hours do you lecture? Ten hours a week. (Silence)...
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    • 824 4  -  By DAVID ANDELMAN NYT THE NINTH Century buddhlst temple on a mountaln in Borobudur In Central Java was built atop the remains of at least four previous shrines, according to scientists, engineers and archeologlsts who have been restoring the structure. Jacquey Dumarcais, a French
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    • 795 4  -  By ALINE MOSBY UPI THE SCENE is the fabled Hotel Ritz on the Place Vendome in Paris, all carved wood, sculpted ceilings, and brocade-covered period furniture. The board of directors gathers In a salon to await the entrance of President Ritz. In marches a tiny,
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    • 816 4  -  IN PUBLISHING, the biggest success of our times is the thriller. Frederick Forsyth's three best-sellers, for example, have made fortunes not only for him but for his publisher as well. _For Dick Francis, wealth has sprung from his horse-racing thrillers. I By MICHAEL THOMPSON-NOEL FT DICK FRANCIS
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    • 643 4  -  By VALERI SANKOV Novosti Press Agency LENIN Prize winner and People's Artist of the USSR Maya Pllsetskaya continues to be the Bolshol Theatre's brightest and most attractive "star". To get a ticket to "Carmen-Suite", a ballet Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso produced specially for
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 333 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 p.m. on April 10 at Singapore airport. Maximum Temperature Associated Humidity Minimum Temperature Associated Humidity Hours of Sunshine Rainfall in Millimetres Total Rainfall for the Month Total Rainy Days for the Month RADIO TV SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Opening Announcements
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 821 4 TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD 1 J 4 CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS 8 First person to have a single Jetty all the way round (7) 9 Strong tea blended for a VIP (9) 13 Left nothing inside for retreating soldiers (5) 14 Placed both sides of one vegetable (5) 15 Someone doing his best
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 334 5 Reuter TOKYO, Sun. Mr. Yens Le Ports, president of the European Investment Bank, is currently here to negotiate with underwriters on the flotation of a Euroyen bond which is likely to materialise soon, Finance Ministry sources said. The bond, to be Issued in the Eurocurrency market,
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    • 244 5 Reuter TOKYO, Sun. The Economic Planning Agency said the recovery of the Japanese economy is showing signs of quickening owing to increased exports and government expenditures. The Agency said in a report personal consumption and private capital spending continued at a low level, while production
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    • 96 5 Reuter TOKYO, Sun. Japan's March wholesale price index rose 0.1 per cent to an unadjusted 169.5 (base 1970), following a 0.4 per cent rise in February, the Bank of Japan said. The year-on-year rise fell to 4.2 per cent from February's 4.8 per cent. The Bank said
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    • 175 5 Reuter TOKYO, Sun. Japan plans to reduce its dependence on overseas energy sources from the present 80 per cent to 63 per cent during the next decade, Mr. Toshio Komoto. chairman of the Llbe-ral-Democratic Party's Policy Affairs Research Council, said. He told a
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    • 344 5 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. The US$l.2 billion (552.95 billion) fall in money supply reported last Thursday Indicates Federal Reserve Bank monetary policy will continue unchanged over the near-term, money market analysts said. There had been concern in recent weeks the Fed may have
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    • 203 5 WASHINGTON, Sun. The petroleum Industry reported on Thursday that US proven reserves of oil declined more sharply last year than the year before despite the most active well drilling programme in 12 years. The reduction from reserves totalling 32.68 billion barrels at the end of
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    • 64 5 Reuter PARIS, Sun. The Improvement in France's foreign trade position since last November should continue in coming months, the French Patronat Employers Federation said. Latest Foreign Trade Ministry figures show the trade deficit fell to 1.52 billion francs (***** million) in February from 2.38 billion In January
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 337 5 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. The American Stock Exchange said the committee appointed by the Amex and the New York Stock Exchange to examine a possible merger has made substantial progress In the last two months. The exchange said 21 to 24 months will be
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    • 183 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. Burmah Oil's legal action against the Bank of England over Its former British Petroleum holding is unlikely to be heard before the autumn, Burmah shareholders' action group treasurer Jonathan Stone said. But Burmah chairman Alastair Down told the action group last week
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    • 132 5 HONGKONG, Sun. Swire Cheung Development reported a 18.6 per cent decline In group net profit at HK510.92 million ($13.41 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1976. The company said the 1975 figure has been restated because of a change in depreciation policy. The
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    • 144 5 Reuter HONGKONG, Sun. Jardine Industries, a subsidiary of Jardine Matheson and Company, has turned In a 17.8 per cent rise in consolidated net attributable profit at HKSI2.6 million (HKSIO.7 million) for the year ended Dec 31, 1976. The earnings per share is 42 cents, up
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    • 150 5 Reuter LONDON Sun. London Jobbers and brokers have revived a plan to establish a clearing house for Chicagostyle traded options, market sources said. Five major London Jobbing firms, plus brokers Vlckers Da Costa have approached the Stock Exchange Council for permission to deal in option
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    • 117 5 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. The New York Stock Exchange said It proposed to Its board of governors changes In rules to facilitate creation of an options market before year-end. The NYSE said among the changes would be a provision allowing exchange members to register as market
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    • 93 5 Reuter ROME, Sun. The board of General Immobilaire has adjourned its second meeting on the firm's financial position without giving any communique or explanation. Immoblliare sources would say only that the board is expected to meet again on April 13. The board meeting began last Wednesday. The firm
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    • 134 5 Reuter NIJMEGEN, Sun. Estel Nv Hoesch Hoogovens made a smart turnround in the fourth quarter of 1976 with a net profit of 25.2 million guilders. This compared with a loss of 92.1 million guilders In the previous quarter. The profit enabled the company to limit Its
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    • 87 5 Reuter TOKYO, Sun. Tokyo Shlbaura Electric (Toshiba) said it received a 400 million yen order from Iraq for a large electronic computer throueh an international trader Invited last November by the State Constructional Contracting Co of Iraq. Toshiba said it will ship the computer, a COS series Tosbac System
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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  • WALL STREET AND OTHER OVERSEAS MARKETS
    • 1137 7 NEW YORK: Stock traders Ignored a huge rise last month In US wholesale prices and used a SlO billion federal spending shortfall as an excuse to stage a modest advance In light prehollday trading on Thursday. The 1.1 per cent Jump In the March wholesale price Index, reported
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    • 235 7 ZURICH: Due to the forthcoming Easter Holiday, the stock market showed no real trend on Thursday on less activity. Banks, In particular the big ones were maintained. Industrials weakened partially. Tendency at the bond market remained friendly on moderate turnover. The Credit Suisse Index closed at 225.5. APR 07
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    • 276 7 TORONTO: The market declined for the fourth consecutive session but volume was light ahead of the holiday on Thursday. The composite Index, down 21 points in the last three sessions, closed 3.2 lower. Declines out paced advances 206 to 159. Inco A was the most active Industrial, closing at
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    • 323 7 FRANKFURT: Most shares were steady to slightly higher In very quiet trading, dealers said on Thursday. Leading banks, chemicals, stores and engineerings mainly made small gains, while electricals and steels weakened. Siemeni was among larger losers, falling 1.30 marks. Motors were largely little changed, apart from Mercede» Holding which
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    • 364 7 JOHANNESBURG: Gold shares were extremely quiet toward the close with prices generally firmer, while the rest of the market softened in thin trading, dealers said on Thursday- Financial minings were mixed to firmer, with Anglos one cent lower at 387 De Beers was unchanged at 410. Coppers and platinums
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    • 423 7 PARIS: The market remained buoyant on Thursday following Wednesday's government decision to postpone application of the capital gain tax for shares and bonds to 1979 from 1978, dealers said. Shares did not rise as strongly as on Wednesday, but gains of up to seven per cent were made in
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    • 310 7 AMSTERDAM: The market closed slightly firmer In quiet trading, dealers said. Dutch Internationals were unchanged to firmer, apart from Hoogoven» which closed 0 30 guilders lower on the publication of Its fourth quarter results and poor prospects for the first 1977 quarter. Elsewhere banks and Insurances were lower with
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    • 165 7 BRUSSELS: Share prices closed mixed to mostly lower, dealers said on Thursday. Acec rose three per cent over Wednesday's close after announcing a 1976 a/ 1 several years of losses ST Roch and Tabacofina also rose. However, Reserve. Electrobel. FN. CBR and Geomines all fell. In foreign stocks, UK
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    • 186 7 MILAN: The market was mixed In Irregular trading on Thursday attributed to the pre-long week end last day but also to March liquidation by local dealers. Fiat, Montedison were leading industrials to show gains along with both Olivetti, Anic and Pirelli SPA while Snia Viscosaand Pirelli E C lost
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    • 485 7 TOKYO: Prices closed firm on active selective buying by Institutional Investors in blue chips, dealers said on Saturday. The Dow Jones average rose 37.82 to close at 4,928 03 with volume 100 million shares. The New index closed at 368 45, up 2.96 Recently sold electrlcals led the gain
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    • 61 7 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Friday Thursday 403.0 Week ago 412.5 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday closed Thursday 918.88 Week ago 927.36 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Fridav .Closed Thursday ilS 1 to 116Vi H.K. HANG SENG Friday Closed Thursday 430.14 Week ago 424.59 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Friday Closed Thursday 354.80 Week ago 358.94
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  • 1444 7 On April 7 TRADING on the Chicago Board Options Exchange came to 100,787 contracts on Thursday compared with 99,795 on Wednesday. OPTION A PL JLY OCT STOCK Alcoa SO 6 6 1/8 UNTRD 55 3/4 Alcoa 60 1/16 11/16 1 9/16 55 3/4 Am Tel SO UNTRD
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  • 393 7 NEW YORK: Inflation continued to be the major market concern last week as stock prices ended lower In slow trading. The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 8.48 points during the abbreviated trading week to close on Thursday at 918.88. Turnover on the New York Stock Exchange
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  • 104 7 Reuter TOKYO, Sun. Capital outlay for plant and equipment by 10 Japanese electric power companies will rise 22 per cent In fiscal 1977 t02.46 trillion yen from an estimated 2.01 trillion In fiscal 1976, the Federation of Electric Power Companies said. It said the
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  • 102 7 UPI SEOUL, Sun Daewoo Industrial, a leading firm here, will construct a department store in Kenya in a Joint venture with the African nation, the English-language Korea Times reported Daewood will supply management direction, commodities and an unspecified amount of capital, and Kenya will provide sales
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  • 39 7 Ishikawajima Harima LONDON, Sun The US$45 million 13/*I 3 per cent Eurobond, due 1982, on behalf of lshlkawajlmaHarlma Heavy Industries was priced at par. Joint lead manager First Boston (Europe) confirmed. The notes are guaranteed by Daiichi Kangyo Bank.
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  • COMMODITY REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 241 8 LONDON, Sun. Terminal rubber closed dull on Thursday. Prices were unchanged from Wednesday night (near May at 53 pence) to 0.30 pence per kilo lower. Lots traded totalled 104 of 15 tonnes and five lots of five tonnes. ClF's officially closed quiet. Spot was little changed from Wednesday
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    • 273 8 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE, SINGAPORE NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICIL YESTERDAY. Coconut Oil: Bluk $112 sellers, old drum tin sellers, new drum $122 sellers Copra. Mixed (loose) UK/Cont. $14 buyers. Pepper Muntok ASTA white f.o.b 100% NLW $407 v, sellers. Sarawak white f ob 9f1% NLW $387'. sellers. Sarawak
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    • 111 8 THE following Palm Oil prices were quoted In London on Thursday. The prices are clf Rotterdam and are quoted In US dollar per ton unless otherwise stated Tburwiay Prev Malaysia 5% ffa bulk 635 sir Jne/Jly unch Sumatra 5% Apl unch 645 sir May unch 645 sir June
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    • 163 8 LONDON, Sun. Futures i eased slightly on Thursday, In rather featureless dealings mainly In pre-Easter holiday booksquarlng operations. At the close prices were £0.15 up to £0.80 down. Sales totalled 1,598 lots. In NEW YORK, on Thursday, World sugar futures drifted 0.09 to 0.01-cent net lower around midday on
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    • 25 8 THE Straits tin price In Penang on Saturday was down $7 to $1,403 on an official offering up 23 tonnes to 173 tonnes.
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    • 464 8 Source: Swiss Bank Corp LONDON, Sun Gold closed higher at >148.50/ 149.50 an ounce on Thursday, compared with $148.60/ 149.10 on Wednesday in slow trading ahead of the Easter holiday, dealers said. The metal was fixed In the afternoon at $148.70 slightly below the $149.18 average price at Wednesday's
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    • 242 8 LONDON, Sun. Robusta futures closed the opening session steady, £16 higher to £20 per tonne lower on Thursday compared to Wednesday night. 232 lots were traded. July rose £16 at £3,894 after a low of £3,880. Distant May lost £20 at £3,915. Terminal closed the morning at the highs
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    • 209 8 BANGKOK, Sun. A Thai firm has been awarded a tender to supply 20,000 tonnes 100 per cent grade B to Iraq, trade sources said. The grain will be shipped in Apl/May and the price was In the region of US$292 (Ss7lB) CFFO basis per tonne. Trade sources said Vietnam
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    • 155 8 CHICAGO, Sun Wheat futures finished the session with prices 1V« to one cent a bushel higher on Thursday. Prices moved In about a three-cent range in light trading, easing Initially under the Influence of declines In soybean futures, after selling was absorbed, shortcovering turned prices upward and additional buying
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    • 195 8 CHICAGO, Sun Soybean futures closed mixed on Thursday finishing with prices 14V» to 13 cents a bushel higher in old crop {tosltlons and 5V4 cents ower to cent higher In new crop months. Final prices represented new seasonal highs for old crop contracts as May hit $9.74 a bushel
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    • 56 8 BANGKOK, Sun. The Thai Board of Trade forecasts that tapioca will become Thailand's biggest export commodity this year, with shipments totalling 4.3 million tonnes valued at $425 million (551,040 million)'. Board of trade sources estimated that exports of rice, traditionally the biggest export, would total 1.5 million tonnes
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    • 796 8 TRADING tempo in the Singapore produce market last week remained generally sluggish and prices of most commodities tended lower on lack of buying support from both at home and abroad. In certain sectors of the market, the easier trend was brought to bear on the prices
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    • 365 8 NYT LAKELAND, (Florida), Sun. Within the next two months, the harvesting of the 1976-77 citrus crop will be completed throughtout the state, and growers will happily close the books on a very trying year. They win then finally know how seriously they
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 140 8 THE US unit opened weaker last week on balance at the 2.4610-20 level after an unexpected realignment of the European Joint float which comprised the devaluation of the Swedish crown by six per cent and the Danish and Norwegian crowns, three per cent. The move to strong currencies like
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    • 345 8 ZURICH, Sun.-The dollar lost ground against most major currencies last week, probably because US Interest rates show no sign of rising. Additionally, the only small decline of the unemployment rate from 7.5 per cent to 7.3 per cent has been disappointing. The wholesale price figures for March were published
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    • 138 8 NEW YORK, Sun. Foreign exchange dealings on Friday were at a near standstill due to the holiday closure of most centres. The dollar closed with almost exactly the same opening quotes and virtually unchanged from overnight levels. Dealers said any changes in quotes reflected primarily narrowing or widening
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    • 33 8 FRANKFURT exchanges closing quotes on April 7 US 2.385/67 UK 4.096/111 Can 2.2610/20 Neth 95.93/94.08 Swltz 94.00/15 Italy 2.683/698 France 47.96/48.11 Japan 0.8725/45 Belg com 6 527/542 Belg fin 6.51/55 Norw 44.90/94
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    • 88 8 Reuter MUNICH, Sun. Lower inflation, not a more expansive Bundesbank monetary policy, is the key to ensuring declining Interest rates, Bundesbank directorate member Helnrlch Irmler said. Writing in the Bayerlsche Landesbank Glrozentrale's capital markets report, he said Investor expectations of a certain minimum real interest especially
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    • 63 8 Reuter KOTA KINABALU, Bun. The Sabah state government will set up a development bank to finance infrastructure projects and offer loans to bumlputras, State Chief Minister Datuk Harris Salleh said. He told a seminar organised by the Association of Borrowing Companies of Malaysia the proposed bank
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    • 251 8 Asian rates RATES were steady In a thin market ahead of Easter holidays with slight rollover Interest noted in the Three Months period. Short dates funds were well offered towards the end of last week. ASIAN currency average deposits rates for the week ended April 7 USKBid Price*) High Low
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    • 252 8 THE domestic money market continued to be tight throughout last week, contrary to the customary surplus conditions exKrlenced during past prend Issue periods. Interbank overnight money rate fluctuated between the opening for the week of 4% per cent and eight per cent. As there were no indications of
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    • 161 8 Euro rates LONDON, Sun. Shortdate Eurodollar deposits closed up to 3/16 easier on Thursday, while period rates were unchanged from openings in quiet afternoon trading ahead of the Easter recess, dealers said. Day-to-day rates drifted lower due to plentiful supply of funds and lack of Interest with most operators now
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    • 39 8 FOR the week ended Thursday April 7, the range of call rates received from Short Deposits (M) Berhad was as follows: BANK FUND IS to GENERAL FUNDS: IS to 4H% Movements of funds totalled $285 million.
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    • 252 8 LONDON, Sun. The dollar edged lower on Thursday In thin late trading in Europe after the sharp 1.1 per cent jump In US wholesale prices in March, the biggest Increase In 17 months. Sterling lost a few points, to $1.7186/89 from $1.7193/98. The Bank of England reportedly supported its
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    • 64 8 RATES continued to firm last week. Overnight funds were traded, at the five to six per cent level, closing higher towards the long weekend. The terms saw much activities, with talcing interest In the One Month pushing rate up by 5/16 per cent to close at 4 Vi
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    • 62 8 Minimum lending rates (in acbc 6*. 6*4 Algemene Bank 6*4 Citibank 6*4 Bangkok Bank 7 HSBC 7 Bank of America 6*. Indosuez 6*i Bank of China 7 Malayan Banking 6*4 Bank of Tokyo 6*4 Mitsui Bank 6*. Bank Negara OCBC 6*4 Indonesia 7 OUB 6 J Chartered Bank 6% UCB
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    • 385 8 SINGAPORE business in this issue we feature: MANUFACTURING Running out of luck and line: The fishery industry cannot hope to grow until problems like lack of experience and expertise as well as adverse domestic factors are sorted out. TRADE Breaking out of the backroom: Computers have pushed their way into
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  • 889 9  -  LIVERPOOL, IPSWICH IN FIERCE STRUGGLE By GEOFFREY MILLER AP LONDON, Sun. Ipswich and Liverpool gained narrow victories yesterday and kept up their close race for the English soccer championship alive. Trevor Whymark scored the goal that gave Ipswich a 1-0 victory at nearby Norwich.
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  • 1306 9 mmmmmwm The Sunday Telegraph LONDON, Sun. Graham Thorne, the former All Black, does not see much hope for the newly selected British Lions pack. "They'll get rucked off the park. I have been watching British rugby for a few weeks now and I
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  • 555 9 ASHOK Malik, the fivetime winner of the Indian amatuer title, yesterday won the SICC Open Invitation title at the New Course. Ashok, who failed to qualify for last month's Singapore Open, proved that he is the best amateur golfer In Singapore by beating a top
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  • 307 9 Reuter NAIROBI, Sun. Swedes Bjorn Waldegaard and Hans Thorszellus, in a British Works Ford Escort, held on to their lead In the Silver Jubilee Safari Rally today after a fast 500-kllo-metre stretch at the start of the second section of the rally. Only 15 cars from
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  • 268 9 Novosti Press Agency MOSCOW, Sun. NIKOLAI Andrianov, the Montreal Olympics all-round Champion was named by Soviet sports journalists the country's best athlete of 1976. The 24-year old gymnast of the ancient Russian town of Vladimir was recognised as the world's best by foreign sports commentators and
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  • 434 9 AUGUSTA, Sun. Tom Watson, a co-leader when the day's play started, blrdled the eighth and ninth holes and took sole control of the top spot halfway through the third round of the 41st Masters golf tournament yesterday. Watson, a former British Open champion, played the
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  • 1040 10 THE Government has budgeted $2.7 billion for development purposes in the next fiscal year but the effective outlay will be less since it expects to recover nearly $600 million in loan repayments from those bodies which will be receiving the funds. Of
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  • 151 10 UPI MANILA. Sun. Libyanbased leaders of the Moro National Liberation Front <MNLF) still have not responded to the Philippine Government's offer to join a provisional government for an autonomous Muslim region, President Marcos said over the weekend. Mr. Marcos said observers of the Islamic
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  • 371 10 Reuter PEKING, Sun. British opposition leader Margaret Thatcher left Peking today for a short provincial tour to east China after three days of talks with Chinese leaders. Last night, Senior VicePremier Li Hsin-nlen paid tribute to Mrs. Thatcher and other Europeans who speakout
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  • 292 10 Reuter LAHORE. Sun. Police opened fire as antigovernment demonstrations In Sind and Punjab provinces yfesterday turned into riots, and usually reliable sources said at least 33 people died. They said hard-pressed police opened fire when mobs rampaged through the Punjabi capital of Lahore
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  • 141 10 SANTA MARIA DEL MAR (Cuba), Sun. Cuban President Fidel Castro has said he thinks It will take time for his country and the United States to resume good relations but praised recent moves towards rapprochement. The Cuban leader was talking to reporters during
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  • 538 10 AP NEW YORK, Sun. Japan's willingness to limit exports of television sets to the United States may do little to cool the TV war with American manufacturers. The Issue Is price, not quantity. Mr. Robert Strauss, US special trade representative who
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  • 153 10 THE Singapore branch of the Institute of Petroleum Intends to carry out a full scale membership drive In the near future to get support for its activities from oil refineries and related oil service companies operating in the Republic and the region. The Institute, which Is
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  • 71 10 SEOUL, Sun. A fourmember US Congressional mission headed by Representative Lester Wolff (Democrat-New York) arrived here today for a three-day fact-finding visit on a leg of its Asian tour. It was the first American Congressional group to visit South Korea since the inauguration of the Carter Administration
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  • 115 10 THE government Is planning to build a new reservoir In Changl with a storing capacity of nine billion According to a PUB spokesman yesterday, the Government has tentatively chosen a hill in the northern part of Changl as the site for the proposed reservoir. The
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  • 306 10 Reuter MADRID. Sun. Spanish communists today began preparing for their first parliamentary election campaign In over 40 years after the Government bowed to opposition demands and legalised the Party. Leaders of the Party, which had been outlawed and persecuted since the late General Franco's victory
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