The Business Times, 23 May 1977

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) 300/1/77 MONDAY, MAY 23, 1977 50 CENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 59 1 STOCKS worth more than $5 million went up In flames yesterday as fire gutted a paint factory In Jurong Town. The factory Is Thlam Joo, a private company with Mr. Chew Ban Joo as Its proprietor. The cause of the fire Is unknown. Some firemen were hurt
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    • 98 1 AP. TOKYO, Sun. There Is little confidence In the future among International bankers and Investors, International Monetary Conference president A.W. Clausen told the world's top bankers today. "This negative attitude may not be surprising, in view of recent history, but In my Judgment It Is wholly unjustified,"
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    • 71 1 Reuter WASHINGTON, Sun. The US Army's Chief of Staff in South Korea, Major General John K. Slnglaub, was told after a meeting with President Carter that he was to be "reassigned." Mr. Carter had summoned the General back to Washington to explain an interview this week in which
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    • 66 1 MANILA, Sun. Ninety-two top officials and key members of the Philippine communist movement will be tried by a military court In the biggest rebellion trial in more than four years of martial rule. Of the total, 42, including Communist Party chairman Jose Maria Slson and his
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    • 60 1 AP HAMBURG, Sun. The chairman of the West German Federation of Police Detectives has been detained as a suspected spy, Hamburg police said over the weekend. Chief inspector Rolf Grunert, 51, of the Hamburg police force, was taken into custody on orders of the Federal prosecutor, on
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    • 88 1 Reuter MAIDSTONE, (England), Sun. Common Market foreign ministers reached broad agreement today on the need to tighten the European Community's Internal workings before accepting new members. Greece, Portugal and Spain are expected to be the next mepibers. French Foreign MlnisterTouls de Oulrlngaud said "Tl'e Community had not worked
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    • 84 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Datuk Hussein Onn announced that a petroleum supply base will be set up in Cukal. Kama man, to meet the needs of oil exploration activities In the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The Prime Minister, in a statement issued here over the weekend, said
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    • 122 1 Reuter WASHINGTON, Sun. Following discussions with the British Prime Minister, James Callaghan, yesterday on prospects for a Middle East settlement Crown Prince Fahd Ibn Abdulazlz of Saudi Arabia, First Deputy Prime Minister and right-hand man to his brother, King Khalld, is due In Washington today for
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  • 114 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 Friday and (he high and low for 1977. Company Turnover Prices High Low UOO May 20 1977
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  • LOCAL STOCK INDICES
    • 71 1 May IS May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 B.T. Index: 270.57 271.87 273.57 276.36 275.84 Industrials: 242.76 242.53 242.64 243.76 244 JO Finance: 427.11 425.82 425.62 427.02 436 46 Hotels: 158.58 158.58 156.18 150.14 159.54 Propertles: 151 JO 151.26 151.69 152.11 151J7 Tlns: 105.81 105.81 106.81 106.06
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    • 80 1 May 1« May 17 May 18 May 19 May 28 ++rf.T. Index: 224.44 228.53 230.75 228.17 231.32 •Industrials: 269.41 289.18 289.82 270.50 271.07 ©Finance: 387.39 387.18 388.97 389.28 388.95 ••Hotels: 172.07 172.14 172.14 172.14 172.14 •Properties: 139.02 137.98 138.08 138.87 138.82 +Tlns: 109.50 109.50 110.28 110.37 ***** +8 rubbers:
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  • 1165 1  -  $450 m TIED-UP IN UNSOLD UNITS By COLIN CHEE DEVELOPERS Of private residential properties In Singapore these days have trouble lust keeping their heads above water. With $450 million tied up in 3,500 units of unsold houses and apartments it is not difficult
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  • 268 1 LOAN demand to buy residential and commercial properties still remains low in Singapore. Finance company managers attribute this weak loan demand to the lethargic housing market here. However, they feel that demand may pick up If the nation's general economic recovery gains momentum. The
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  • 220 1 TWO new Joint ventures between Japanese and Singapore Industrialists may be set up here as a result of the visit of a Japanese Industrial mission. One is a plant for canning fish, fresh fruits and other foodstuffs while the other Is an Industrial training facility In
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  • 206 1 A SECOND Singapore Airlines (SIA) top level executive has tendered hit resignation, following close iy the departure of Mr. Lye Khay Feng, the airline's deputy managing director. He is Mr. Tea Lin Hup. the airline's treasurer, a director level function which includes responsibility over minimisation
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  • 110 1 THE Poet Office Savinga Bank has established itself more or lees in the local money market, and last week dealers reported that the national savings institution had vontnred into the weekend counter. It cum into the market at first as a placer of funds in
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  • 342 1 SINGAPORE'S exports grew much faster than Imports in the first four months of this year. From January to April, exports rose to $6.31 billion, up 27 per cent from the same period last year. Imports amounted to $8 billion, up 10.9 per cent.
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  • 239 1 Reuter HIROSHIMA. Sun. Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda said here today that the Japanese economy would show a recovery trend in a month or two and that economic growth without Inflation could be attained. Mr. Fukuda made these remarks in a press conference In this western Japan
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  • 45 1 Reuter ROME. Sun. Italy's industrial production growth is likely to slow sharply this year, chairman of the Italian Industry Federation. Guldo Carll, said. In the first quarter 1977 output was 8.2 per cent above the same 1976 period, Mr Carll said on television.
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  • 465 2 LOCAL banks have often been criticised for being afraid to take advantage of opportunities in overseas markets. Their slower growth vis-a-vis leading foreign banks is nearly always blamed on their conservative and cautious policies, which in their context have become a vice, not a virtue. These banks'
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    • 1081 3  -  I MUSIC By HAROLD SCHONBERG NYT EARLY pianos and their role In the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven is a problem very much on the minds of literate musicians. For those three composers wrote piano music for an instrument that was a
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    • 96 3 THE Singapore University Madrigal Singers (SUMS) will feature in two concerts at the Development Bank of Singapore auditorium at 8 p.m. on May 26 and 28. Founded by Dr. Bernard Tan, SUMS has a repertoire that includes sacred and secular music from many ages and countries besides madrigals
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    • 2394 3  -  By A LAWYER The author is a prominent Singapore lawyer who prefer* to remain anonymous. MONDAY: The Editor of Business Times personally rang up to ask when was I ever going to deliver my "One-man's week" to her. She made me swear by my diary that I
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  • 1337 4  -  By WILLIAM MANN AP THE woman inside the fence was a political detainee who said she'd been tortured. The women on the outside were two friends, listening to her complaints. An armed guard approached. "Please go away," the Philippine constabulary soldier almost
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  • 1016 4  -  By BARRY MAY Reuter. UNITED STATES diplomats talking to Fidel Castro's government, American tourists taking the yankee dollar to Cuba by the boatload, businessmen Jockeying for trade and a procession of American politicians, sportsmen, Jazz musicians and Journalists making the short hop
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 177 5 NYT LOS ANOELEB, Sun. An investment group financed by money from New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Virginia has outbid Mobil for the landrich Irvine Company. Taubman Allen Irvine won the company with an offer of U5537.4 million, or $40.10 a share,
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    • 42 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. The Province of Manitoba is making a five-year HK$l5O million bond issue due 1982, Wardley (Vila) said as manager. The coupon is expected to be 6% per cent with initial subscription for the bonds in Canadian dollars.
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    • 421 5 NYT NEW YORK, Sun. Shareholders of four mutual funds operated by Investors Overseas Services, the once-gigantic financial complex, have been awarded almost US$l24 million frozen by securities regulators in Canada. The Judgement on Flrday followed charges made Sears earlier that lfr. obert L. Vesco, the
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    • 231 5 Reuter TOKYO. Sun. Sumitomo Bank will probably sell part of its stockholdings to raise between 20 billion and 30 billion yen to cover some of its bad loans to flnancial-ly-troubled Ataka, which is due to merge with C. Itoh on October 1, a bank
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    • 152 5 Reuter ZURICH, Sun. Earnings and sales of Gulf Oil are expected to improve In second quarter 1977 and the whole year, treasurer lir. Paul Weyrauch forecast at a press conference on the forthcoming quotation of the company's shares on the Zurich, Basle and Geneva
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    • 66 5 Reuter LOS ANOELES, Sun. Union oil of California has signed a definitive agreement for the previously-an-nounced acquisition of Molycorp. The company said under the terms It would exchange 1.035 common shares for each Molycoro share and Molycorp will call all Its outstanding preferred stock. The merger Is
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    • 656 5 Reuter MONTREUX, Sun. Swiss National Bank president Fritz Leutwiler said he expects an agreement with Swiss commercial banks covering aspects of bank secrecy to be concluded within the next two weeks. Speaking to Reuters at the International Forex Club meeting, Mr. Leutwiler
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    • 267 5 Reuter MONTREUX, Sun. -Multinational companies are no longer the principal source of instability In world foreign exchange markets or the international payments process, Bank for International Settlements economic adviser Alexandre Lamfalussy said. He told a forex club conference here he does not believe
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    • 302 5 AP BEIRUT, Sun. Banks that once made Beirut the Arab world's financial capital are showing further signs of recuperation after a 19-month civil war that left the economy in shambtot. The Central Bank reported today that deposits totalled 6.3 billion Lebanese pounds
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    • 85 5 Reuter PARIS, Sun. French Parliament approved the creation of a committee of enquiry Into dumping Activities. The committee will examine the orlgtavbf maverick Imports so that public authorities can take steps to protect the moot threatened areas, notably textiles. Mr. Jacques Llmouzy, the Parliamentary member
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    • 280 5 Reuter PARIS, Sun. Menachem Begin, leader of Israel's Likud Party, said in an interview published today, that the West Bank of Jordan was liberated territory belonging to the Jewish people. Mr. Begin told the weekly news magazine, L'Exprees, there would no longer be
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    • 336 5 KEY decisions relating to the five Asean Industrial cooperative projects will be taken In a series of meetings to be held next month by relevant working committees of the organisation. These meetings will culminate in the Asean economic ministers conference to be
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    • 207 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. Debenhams said It plans to raise £21.9 million through a one-for-three rights Issue at 68 pence per share. The company made a pretax profit of £20.45 million on sales of £386.2 million for the year ended Jan 29, 1977 compared with £13.51 million
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    • 112 5 Reuter DETROIT, Sun. United Brands hopes to be able to start paying dividend arrears on its preferred and preference stocks by the end of the year. The company has not {•aid dividends since Ocober 1974, because of restrictions in the Indenture covering Its 6* per cent debentures.
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    • 302 5 Reuter HONGKONG. Sun. Wing Tal development has reached agreement with Slu Wo Development on a scheme for Slu Wo to become Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Sun Hung Kal International said as advisers to Wing Tal. Under the scheme, holders of 3,950 HK$lOO shares In
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    • 36 5 Reuter LONDON. Sun. The British Municipal Authority of Sunderland Is floating a corporation issue, £15 million of 12 1/4 pes cent stock dated 1984, market sources said. Issue price is 99 1/4 per cent. Reuter.
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    • 474 5 Reuter LOB ANOELES, Sun. Occidental Petroleum's earnings for the second quarter will be very good compared with last year's 84 US cents a share, chairman Mr. Armand Hammer told Reuters after the annual meeting. He made no specific forecast. However, ne said that earnings may accelerate
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      • 70 5 Reuter WASHINGTON, Sun. The Federal National Mortgage Association said it will sell a total of US$l.l billion of debentures on May 25 to refund maturing issues and raise $200 million of new cash. The offering will comprise $400 million of three year debentures, $400 million five year debentures
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      • 28 5 FRANKFURT, Sun. The Proylnce of Quebec's 150 million mark 10-year 7 1/4 per cent Eurobond was priced at par, primary market sources said. Lead manager Is Commerzbank.
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      • 89 5 LONDON, Sun. BOC International has won Its appeal against a US Federal Trade Commission ruling to divest Its 35 per cent holding In Airco. The US Federal Circuit Court of Appeal set aside the order but as a footnote required the FTC to look again at the
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      • 70 5 NEW YORK, Sun. Ontario Hydro plans to borrow US$5OO million during the balance of this year, but the Ontario Province plans no further borrowing this year, Ontario Premier Hr. William Davis told a press conference here. Ontario Hydro treasurer Mr. Jim Fullertlon said there is a good possibility
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      • 54 5 MILAN, Sun. Pirelli said 17.74 million shares remained unsubscribed under its recent five-for-eight rights Issue and these will be offered publicly on the bourse between May 23 and May 27. Shares taken up totalled 26.96 million at par value 1,000 lire. A consortium headed by Mediobanca has undertaken to
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      • 26 5 LONDON, Sun. The Chrvsler Credit Canada Cs2s million 9 1/4 per cent Issue due 1982 was priced at Ear, lead manager First oston (Europe) said.
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      • 85 5 Reuter LONDON,Sun— The Korea Iran Petroleum has been granted a 7Vt per cent US$l3.5 million 10-year loan guaranteed by the Export Credit Guarantee Department, Grlndlay Brandts said. Proceeds will be used towards a contract awarded to the Foster Wheeler group of companies for supplying UK goods and
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      • 71 5 ROSEMEAD, Calif, Sun. Southern California Edison plans to sell two Issues of first and refunding mortgage bonds totalling US$2OO million. Socal Edison said each of the issues, one maturing In 25 years and the other in seven years, will be scheduled for bidding on July 12. The longer
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  • WALL STREET AND OTHER OVERSEAS MARKETS
    • 269 7 AMSTERDAM: Market eased In general In quiet trading on Friday. but Dutch Internationals were steady, except UaitovMwhich firmed 2.10 guilders. Elsewhere Insurances advanced led up by Enaia. Most banks, shippings, trading shares and industrials declined with the exception of KLM. State loans were lower MAY Fla Ahold 85.50 unch
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    • 325 7 FRANKFURT: Shares closed mixed to weaker on Friday, on dampened pre-weekend activity following Thursday's public holiday, dealers said. Amone banks Deutsche fell 4.50 marks. Comaienbaak three and Dreadner Hunk 2.50 marks. Utilities fell up to 1.50, led by Vebn. Stores and engineerings generally rose, with Karstadt gaining three, Kaufhof
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    • 160 7 MILAN: The stock market closed mixed to lower with an easier bias in quiet dealings, on Friday, dealers said In narrowly mixed leading Industrials Fiat, Anic, Snia Viscosa Olivetti privileged ruled steadier while both Pirelli, Montedison and Olivetti ordinary eased. Insurances closed slightly lower as did banks and flnanclals.
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    • 341 7 PARIS: Prices eased slightly on Friday in a market dominated by technical adjustments of professional operators following Thursday's close, dealers said. Foods were weaker while printings were well down with smaller losses In motors, engineerings, metals and oils and a sharply-mixed tendency in banks. Among foreign stocks, Americans, Germans,
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    • 264 7 ZURICH: The market closed narrowly mixed with an easier bias in quiet dealings on Friday, dealers said. Special market factors were lacking. Among barely changed leading banks. KrediUnsUh and Leu bearer edged higher. Financials and insurance fluctuated slightly. Industrials generally eased slightly, led by Hero, Sandoc registered and Almiiimi
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    • 376 7 JOHANNESBURG: Gold shares .were narrowly mixed In quiet trade on Friday ahead of the weekend and despite higher European bullion indications, dealers said. Financial minings were easier as Anglo* lost 10 cents to 385 and Amcoal five cents to 830. In diamonds. De Been maintained an early gain of
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    • 291 7 TORONTO: Opening gains were steadily eroded and the market closed around its lowest level of the day on Friday. The composite index closed more than a point lower and declines outnumbered advances 232 to 169. Dome Petroleum lost IVi to 40, Ashland Canada rose one to 12, Husky Oil
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    • 1150 7 NEW YORK: Stock prices turned broadly lower In moderate trading on Friday, amid continuing apprehension over inflation and higher Interest rates. After opening on a mixed tone, the market began losing ground shortly after the bell when the US Government reported a 0.8 per cent rise In Its
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    • 1487 7 On May 20 TRADING in options on the Chicago Board Option Exchange came to 84,908 contracts on Friday compared with 80.660 contracts on Thursday. OPTION JLY OCT JAN STOCK Alcoa SO 8 5/8 UNTRD UNTRD 58 7/8 Alcoa 80 1 5/8 21/2 3 5/8 58 7/8 Am
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    • 62 7 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Friday Thursday 8 Week ago 467.8 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday 930.46 Thursday 936 48 Week ago 928.34 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Friday 110% to 111V4 Thursday 113* to 113H H.K. HANG SENG Friday 443.97 Thursday 445.96 Week ago 451.29 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Friday 379.83 Thursday 378.52 Week
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    • 127 7 BUSINESS TIMES INDUSTRIAL GROUP INDICES (BASE YEAR: JAN 4, 1971 100) 1*77 Week Ended High Low Industrial Group w» wEbSS.. 210.59 145.90 Automotive 184.82 184.84 -f0.02 496.57 362 92 Banks, Insurance, Finance and Trustees 306.46 371.46 +5.00 164.62 135.80 Chemicals, Rubber Products, M1 Refining and Smelting 140.20 142.09 1.89 228.39
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    • 347 7 NYT. THE New York stock market closed slightly higher last week after selling pressure on Thursday ana Friday wiped out most of the gains achieved earlier In the week. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the week up 2.12 points at 930.46. During the first three trading
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    • 169 7 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. The New York Stock Exchange's board of directors has requested a thorough review of the question of proposed consolidation of the NYSE and American Stock Exchange. The board's action was prompted by concern raised by NYSE listed companies, particularly with
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    • 512 7 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. US financial firms are taking an increasing share of London business in nonBritish stocks, London Stock Exchange chairman Mr. Nicholas Goodison said in an interview during a visit here. Mr. Goodison said the marked US trend towards off-the-floor
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  • COMMODITY REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 238 8 LONDON, Sun Weekend short-covering In a basically thin market on Friday helped lift terminal rubber In late dealings and the market closed quiet, with reduced losses from Thursday night of 0.40 pence (near July at 51.35 pence bid) to 0.15 pence per kilo. Lots traded totalled 122af 15
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    • 132 8 THE straits tin price in Penang on Saturday was down 95 to 91,455 on an official offering down 5 tonnes to 170 tonnes. In LONDON on Friday, tin standard on the day eased £7 for Cash and £12 for Three Months, with high grade £7 and £15 lower
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    • 300 8 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE, SINGAPORE NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICUL YESTERDAY. Coconut Oil: Bulk $97 W sellers, old drum $102 Vi sellers, new drum $107tt sellers Copra: Mixed (loose) UK/CAnt 962 buyers. Pepper Muntok AST A white f.o.b. 100% NLW *382 -1 sellers. Sarawak white f ob 98* NLW
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    • 122 8 THE following palm oil prices were quoted In London on Friday The price* «re elf Rotterdam and are quoted In U8 dollar per ton unlets otherwise dated. rrUay Pfr. Malaysia 5% f fa bulk 870 sir Jly/Aug 965 sir Sumatra 5* May 875 sir 877 50 sir June
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    • 52 8 LONDON, Sun. Lead gained £9.50 for Cash and £6.25 for Three Months on Friday. Values picked up during ring dealings on short-covering prompted by reports of physical activity on Eastern European account, dealers said. Three Months traded upto £374 and nearby demand widened the backwardation to £4. Sales were
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    • 57 8 LONDON, Sun. Zinc closed £4.50 lower for Cash and Three Months on Friday. Values slipped back under stale bull liquidation which was accelerated by the decline in copper. Three Months traded down to £348 In the ring and to £343 on the kerb before final business at £344. Sales
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    • 397 8 Source: Swiss Bank Corp IN the Singapore gold market on Saturday, the kllobar was traded in the range of 8911,700 to 911,720. Demand was moderate. The loco London gold hovered around U*****.60 to 9147.20 In quiet trading. Source: Singmas Retail prices per tael quoted by the Singapore Chinese Gold
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    • 318 8 LONDON, Sun. Copper wlrebars on the day showed gains of fully £2 for Cash and Three Months on Friday. At the outset, the market was steady on further covering Induced by the steadiness at New York but stale bull liquidation and profit-taking took Three Months down to £817 In
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    • 152 8 LONDON, Sun. Silver rose by 0.1 to 1.0 pence per troy ounce on Friday. The market held steady in line with the trend at New York In featureless trading. Three Months finished with business at 280.2 pence. Sales of 136 lots were mainly carries. In NEW YORK on Friday,
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    • 224 8 LONDON, Bun. Sugar futures on Friday continued the recent quiet spell which dealers attributed to the current low level of activity in the physical market. Prices moved In a very narrow range to close £0.45 to £1 up and sales totalled 969 lots. In NEW YORK on Friday, World
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    • 159 8 CHICAGO, Sun. Wheat futures extended an early decline on Friday, reaching new season lows If) July ana September before finishing with losses of two to cents a bushel. An easy tone appeared in the light, mixed dealings, with selling prompted by the weakness In soybean futures and the reports
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    • 171 8 CHICAGO, Sun. Soybean futures extended early losses on Friday to close off the 30-cent a bushel Umlt In old crop months and down 25 Vi to 12Vi cents In new crop months on a relatively light trade. Technical weakness and large deliverable bean stocks in Chicago set a negative
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    • 811 8 SINGAPORE'S commodity dealers last week spent another dull period of trading for want of better price Indications from markets overseas. Business during the week was minimal and mainly written on consumer ac- count. Throughout the week, the world's commodity market was moving violently under speculative
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    • 330 8 LONDON, Sun. Coffee futures on Friday closed barely steady, but with gains against Thursday night of £143 to £47 per tonne. Volume was 6,717 lots Including 69 options. July was the most actively traded position, closing at a premium to all other positions and with a gain of £143
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    • 237 8 BANGKOK, Sun The market was quiet last week, with no significant business either in the government or private sectors, trade sources said. Nothing definite was known about reports that Malaysia was showing interest In buying 130,000 tonnes of Thai rice on a government-to-government basis, they said. Thai rice exports
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 183 8 THE US dollar displayed a firmer undertone last week. From opening 2.4628-35 level. It was well bid to the 2.4632-40 level largely ascribed to the generalrlse In US banks' primes to the 6Vi per cent level from 6K per cent. A slow in Industrial production growth to 0.8 per
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    • 313 8 ZURICH. Sun. Exchange rate fluctuations were quite small last week. Trading was rather limited In the second half of the week as markets were closed In Europe on Thursday (Ascension Day). The US dollar Improved somewhat towards the end of last week. The Increase of real ONP In the
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    • 287 8 NEW YORK, Sun. The dollar closed firmer on Friday amid expectations that US short term Interest rates may rise and some market forecasts that the Federal Reserve banks will shortly raise discount rates from 5 V 4 per cent, dealers said. However, Its rise was restrained by unfavourable
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    • 287 8 Asian rates THE market last week experienced nervousness over Federal Reserve's recent non-interference when federal funds were traded up to high of 5H to close 59/16. Anticipation of further tightening of monetary growth, assisted by rollovers in Three and Six Months, caused rates to raise K per cent In these
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    • 211 8 Source: International Discount Co. INTEREST rates in the money market remained flat throughout last week. Except for the overnight funds, most term rates hardly moved by more than 1/8 per cent margin. Interbank money supply continued to be easy, satisfying most demands for funds. Discount houses faced Utile
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    • 68 8 THE overnight market last week opened with some spur of activities. Funds were traded to the five per cent level before ctoeing at three per cent. However, it remained at this level for the rerft of the week. Term rates saw little movement. The One, Twos and Threes
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    • 204 8 LONDON, Sun. Sterling edged lower In calm late trading here on Friday, to around $1.7175/77 from its mid-session level of $1.7178/80 and Its forward discount against the dollar widened, dealers said. They said the acceleration in the April UK retail price Index tended to depress sterling but actual selling
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    • 34 8 FRANKFURT exchanges closing guotes on May 20: US 2.3585/95 Can 2.2480/90 UK 4 .050/054 Neth 95.98/96.03 I Swltz 93.85/70 Italy 2.655/865 France 47.55/60 Japan 0.8500/10 Belg comni 6.535/545 Belg fin 6.52/53 Norw 44.65/70
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    • 40 8 FOR the week ended Friday May 20, the range of call rates recelvea from Short Deposits (M) Berhad was as follows: BANK FUND: 1% to 2*% GENERAL FUNDS: I*% to 4% Movements of funds totalled $318 million.
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  • 307 10 Reuter MUNICH, Sun. Adjustments within the European Joint float are bound to occur from time to time to enable the float to survive, Bundesbank directorate member Helnrich Irmler told the Association of Independent Businessmen here. He said the float must take account, when necessary,
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  • 121 10 Reuter GENEVA, Sun. Cuban Foreign Trade Minister Marcelo Fernandez Font arrived here over the weekend from Moscow after talks with Soviet leaders. The minister's visit, to attend the closing stages of a 72-natlon conference on a proposed new world sugar agreement, Is expected
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  • 278 10 FT ZURICH, Sun. The board of Credit Suisse announced that an Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on June 24. The aole item on the agenda is a report "on the incidents at the Chiasso branch." This refers to the misdirection of Swiss francs 2.17
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  • 178 10 Reuter BERNE, Sun. The Swiss current account balance of payments surplus will remain considerable this year although it will not be as high as the estimated 8.5 billion francs (SSB.3 billion) in 1976, the government's Working Group for Economic Forecasting said. Economic activity will grow
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  • 101 10 Reuter MANILA, Sun. The World Bank has approved a US$l5 million (SS37 million) loan for rural land settlement projects in the Philippines, the official Philippines News Agency reported. it said the loan, the first loan granted by the bank to support agrarian land reform
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  • 150 10 UPI MANILA, Sun. Coconut production In the Philippines is likely to fall by 12.5 to 14.5 per cent by the end of this year due to a prolonged dry spell and a major earthquake in the south last year, a private research group said In
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  • 91 10 Reuter WASHINGTON, Sun. U8 Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has returned home convinced that his talks with the Soviet Union on Strategic Arms Limitations (Salt) are on a sound footing, although difficult negotiations Tie ahead. Mr. Vance flew back from Geneva after announcing that he and Soviet
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  • 282 10 UPI DACCA, Sun. Members of the President's advisory council appealed to foreign ambassadors and International aid agencies last week to release part of the nation's remaining US$2OO million (SSSI4 million) in commodity aid funds to help relieve Bangladesh's resource shortages, government officials
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  • 600 10 The behaviour we won't have —Onn KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Datuk Hussein Onn said last night that the government "will not condone bureaucracy, inefficiency, corruption or any other behaviour or conduct that will be detrimental to the national Interest and progress". However, he added, the government could not by Itself achieve
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  • 392 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Industrial Co-ordi-nation Act, like all new laws, has to be given a fair chance to be Implemented, Trade and industry Minister Datuk Hamzah Abu Samah said tonight. "Obviously, over a period of time, whatever imperfections there may be in
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  • 192 10 UPI NEW DELHI. Sua. The government appointed over the weekend one-Ban commission to investigate alleged misuse of power hy the previous government under former Prime Minister Indira Qudhi to control the priss,y official The commiseion, which will be beaded bv Mr. K.K. Dass. a
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  • 68 10 Reuter BANGKOK, Sun. AT meeting Between Asean leaders and the heads of the Japanese. Australian and" New Zealand governments* Is expected to be held on" Aug 7 and 8 In Kuala LumBur, Thai Foreign Mlnlster* padlt Pacharlyangkurf said today. Mr. U pad It told reportersthat Malaysia
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