The Business Times, 21 September 1977

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) 300/1/77 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1977 50 CENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 62 1 Reuter KUALA TRENGGANU, Tues. Exxon's oil project off the coast of Trengganu is expected to begin production at the end of the year, State Chief Minister, Datuk Wan Mokhtar said today. Datuk Haji Wan Mokhtar said he was told that two of the eight platforms had been completed
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    • 40 1 Reuter TOKYO, Tues. Japan granted Thailand a 25year 9.6 billion yen (5587.8 million) loan at an Interest rate of 314 per cent to help it complete an electricity distribution project, the government's Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund said.
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    • 38 1 Reuter MUNICH, Tues. West Germany's gross national product will probably rise a real 3.5 to four per cent this year compared with initial official 1977 forecasts of five per cent, Bundesbank president Otmar Enminger said. Reuter
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    • 43 1 AP VIENNA, Tues. Some 250 representatives of government and private industry are attending a four-day symposium of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Trans-border Data Flows and Protection of Privacy Impacts and Trends which opened here today. AP.
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    • 35 1 Reuter MANILA. Tues. The government's Sugar Commission (Philsucom) plans to put up two more sugar refineries within the next two years to complement the five already in operation, Philsucom sources said today. Reuter.
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    • 64 1 Reuter BANGKOK, Tues. A network of undersea and onshore pipelines bringing natural gas from the Gulf of Thailand to Banekok will cost this country US$4O4 million (Ssl billion) the Industry Ministry announced today. Industry Minister Perm Limpisawat said a total of 16 Thai and overseas financial institutions
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    • 42 1 UPI ATHENS, Tues. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassls will receive US$26 million (5564.4 million) from the estate of her late husband, Aristotle Onassls, under the terms of an out-of-court settlement, a member of the Onassls foundation board since today. UPI.
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    • 89 1 UPI NEW YORK, Tues. Blue-chip stocks, which fell to a 21-month low the previous session, headed even lower early today amid investor concern about the economic slowdown and rising interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 1.90 points to 849.62 shortly before 11 a.m. It fell
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 185 1 TRADING was quiet and uncertain on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. The market opened with more sellers about and share prices edged lower under a combination of stale bull liquidation and scattered profit-taking. However, on the strength of a few volatile shares, the Business Times index
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    • 112 1 Foils Most active Perils Lien Hoe 1.37 1.90 -.10 -.08 Olympia Sim Llm 141,000 127,000 C Storage Olympia 2.21 1.80 -.07 -.08 M Weaving Haw Par 128.000 114.000 P Bank BRaya Bolton 2 34 1.18 1.31 -.05 -.04 -.04 Total Turnover 2.21 M Total Value: MS3.94 M
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  • 1165 1 EXPORTS SLACKEN, CoL HIGHER AUGUST has proved to be a wicked month for Singapore economic Indicators. According to figures from the Department of Statistics, exports are slackening and Inflation is beginning to heat up again. These are easily the two worst bits of news about
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  • 120 1 TOKYO, Tues. The fourth and fifth yen loans worth $42 billion yen (***** million) which Japan has pledged to give Malaysia, will carry only a four per cent Interest with a repayment period of 27 years Including a seven-year grace period. Disclosing this here today Malaysian
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  • 701 1 JAPAN'S Interest rates are now at rock-bottom the lowest since the end of the last war. This situation is expected to attract good borrowers from Singapore and other nations to float yen bonds In the Tokyo market. Leading Japanese securities houses are already
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  • 372 1 THERE is a constant dialogue between the government, employers and educational Institutions to determine Singapore's manpower needs, and this has resulted In a constant adjustment of training facilities to cope with demand. This point was stressed by Dr. Pang Eng Fong, director of the Economic Research
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  • 240 1 Reuter LONDON, Tues. British dealers of Japanese Datsun cars have formed an action committee to protest against what they called "regular attacks" on Japanese car imports "from certain interested quarters." The dealers at the same time called on Datsun UK, the sales arm of
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  • 458 1 THE Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Ltd offer of six million shares to be made before the end of next month will allow Investors to get In on a thriving $15 million a year business. The newspaper, which claims to have the largest circulation
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  • 160 1 Reuter LONDON, Tucs. Unemployment In Britain dropped slightly this month but figures released today also showed the number of hard core Jobless was still rising. In mid-September 1,609,063 people were out of work, a drop of nearly 27,000 on the post-war record figure
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 586 2 Reuter THE HAGUE. Tues. Holland's caretaker government today proposed sharp increases in taxes on natural gas. oil, coal and cigarettes to help offset a predicted deficit of 12.5 billion guilders (about 5512.5 bilfion) In next year's budget. Finance Minister Wlm Duisenberg told
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    • 715 2 Washington Star WASHINGTON. Tues. Mr. Bert Lance's Senate foes, insisting anew that he should quit, are pressing a fresh complaint over camouflaging of his financial troubles. Regaining the initiative now that the Budget Director's testimony are over. Senate challengers are testing whether a
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    • 229 2 AP WASHINGTON, Tues. Sweden yesterday became the 15th nation from outside the Western Hemisphere to Join the Inter-American Development Bank. Its entry Increases the bank's total membership to 40 countries. The ambassador of Sweden, Count Wilhelm Wachtmelster, signed the agreement establishing the bank,
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    • 198 2 Reuter CAIRO, Tues. Arab League economic and finance ministers meet In Cairo today to consider a proposal for a summit to further Inter-Arab economic cooperation, Including the establishment of an Arab monetary market. League officials said. This idea, which is a main
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    • 156 2 Reuter BOGOTA, Tues. The governors for Latin America and the Philippine* will demand lower tariff and non-tariff trade barriers at the forthcoming World Bank-IMF meeting, Colombian Finance Minister Abdon Espinosa Valderrama said. The governors, most of whom are the finance ministers of these nations, meet
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    • 45 2 Reuter SEOUL, Tues. The South Korean National Assembly today started a regular three-month session to discuss the draft Budget for 1978, which envisages revenue and expenditure to balance at 3.55 trillion won each, up 23.7 per cent over this year's Budget.- Reuter
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    • 311 2 UPI OTTAWA, Tues. Colonialism, economic deprelvatlon, environmental degradation and the prospect of nuclear war could be ended if the world seized an unprecedented opportunity now being offered. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said yesterday. In the opening address to the 23rd annual meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary
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    • 216 2 ORLANDO, Tues. Investors who bought Central Florida real estate are claiming they lost millions to a scheme built around phony mortgages and offshore corporations. Two suits have been filed on behalf of more than 200 Europeans and another action was filed by four retired US servicemen.
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    • 347 2 AP UNITED NATIONS. Tues Industrialised and Third World delegations to the UN General Assembly failed yesterday to agree on a resolution to assess results of the Paris conference on International economic cooperation. The failure meant that a resumed session of the assembly. In progress since
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    • 66 2 Reuter BRIDGETOWN, Tues. The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC) plans to spend £11 million (SS46 million) this year, managing director Anthony Tasker said yesterday. He told a press conference £8 million would come from Canada Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Nigeria. Members of the Fund,
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    • 255 2 Reuter LONDON, Tues. UK gross earnings rose 8.8 per cent In the year to July, compared with 13.9 per cent to July 1976 and 9.6 per cent the 12 months to June 1977, the Employment Department said. The seasonally adjusted Index was unchanged In both June
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    • 252 2 Reuter i LONDON, Tues. British Mineworkers Union negotiations voted to continue talks on plt-by-plt i productivity schemes which, If approved by the membership, could defuse demands for major wage lncreases In November in breach of the 12-month pay rule. The miners' negotiating sub-committee will contlnue
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    • 379 2 AFP AP BRUSSELS, Tues. European Economic Community (EEC) companies operating In South Africa were today ordered by the EEC foreign ministers to obey a "code of conduct" designed to ease the lot of black employees. At the same time, the idea of
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    • 170 2 Reuter MANILA, Tues. Dr. J.R.M. Van Den Brink, chairman of European Banks International (EBIC), today urged International financial Institutions to disseminate more Information on the state of national economies In order to Increase commercial bank confidence In lending. The dissemination of such
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    • 140 2 Reuter BRUSSELS, Tues. UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and Dutch Finance Minister Willem Duisenberg have ■emerged as candidates for the Job of president of the International Monetary Fund's Interim committee, EEC sources said. The committee has the task of revamping the International monetary and payments system.
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    • 285 3 AFP ANTWERP, Tues. Several European banks are planning to offer their clients a diamond Investment service, reliable sources In Antwerp, the world's leading cut-dia-mond market, said yesterday. The chief French banks sent their representatives here In July, but Inquiries have been going on
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    • 326 3 Reuter ZURICH. Tues. The Swiss National Bank said it raised the celling on total loans to be floated by foreigners on the bond market in September and October to 580 million francs (Sss9l million) compared with 520 million in the July/August period. The figure
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    • 244 3 Reuter OTTAWA. Tues. The Conference Board of Canada said the Canadian economy should grow at a seasonally adjusted four per cent rate during the last half of 1977 following a real decline of 0.6 per cent In the second quarter. The second quarter should not be
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    • 291 3 PARIS. Tues. The French Government cut to 3.1 per cent Its forecast of the rise in real gross domestic product this year, documents sent to Parliament with the 1978 Budget show. In June it forecast a 3.5 per cent rise this year, Itself a downward
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    • 766 3 NYT NEW YORK, Tues. Tensions are beginning to build up in business and financial circles as the US economy enters a new phase of apparently slower growth after two and a half years of rather rapid expansion. Simultaneous with the economy's downshifting
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    • 334 3 Reuter PHILADELPHIA, Tues. The Wharton School of Economics expects US real Gross National Product during the 1977 second half to slow to an annual rate of between 4.5 per cent to 5.4 per cent, and a real growth rate of only 4.25 per cent
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    • 371 3 Reuter ROME, Tues. First estimates of Italy's overall balance of payments in August Indicate a record surplus of around 1.2 trillion lire (553.3 billion), official sources said. This follows estimated surplus of 935 billion lire in July and 384 billion in June and brings
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    • 338 3 AP CHICAGO, Tues. A federal court has been told of an alledged scheme to win a city contract with (U*****,000 (Ss2 million) from a Swiss bank account and other illegal payoffs. The allegations were made yesterday at the fraud trial of the handling
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    • 102 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. US real gross national product growth was revised upward to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.2 per cent for the second quarter, the Commerce Department said. This compares with the 6.1 per cent figure reported last month and the Initial indication of
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    • 114 3 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tues. The House defeated a bill which would have raised the federal debt limit from the current USS7OO billion (8*1,708 billion) to $775 billion over the next 12 months. The vote against the bill was 201-180. Most of the opponents said they were protesting the
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    • 307 3 Reuter NEW YORK, Tues. Growth of commercial loans over the next several quarters Is likely to be between 10 and 11 per cent, US Trust Co vice president Thomas Synnott told analysts. This growth rate should level off at about 10 per cent by
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    • 147 3 Reuter WASHINGTON, Tues. US housing starts fell in August to a seasonallyadjusted annual rate of 2.02 million from the 2.08 million In July, the Commerce Department said. The decline was almost entirely centred on a drop In starts from apartment blocks, which fell to 457,000 In
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    • 123 3 Reuter JOHANNESBURG, Tues. The gold market should enter a new and buoyant phase shortly after January 1978 if the existing agreement between the IMF and the Group of 10 not to increase their net aggregate gold holdings lapses, Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mining Co chairman, A.C.
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    • 415 3 AP PRETORIA, Tues. South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster today announced a swing in South Africa's economic policy aimed at halting growing unemployment and shortages in the country's skilled workforce. But at the same time, he warned that the country still faces considerable
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 172 2 t H fr 'a 3 r 7 Sim Lim Investments Ltd. ANNOUNCEMENT The audited results of the Group for the year ended 31 March, 1977 are as follows: 31 March 31 March Consolidated loss before taxation Add: Provision-for taxation Consolidated loss after taxation Deduct: Minority interest Deduct/( Add): Extraordinary items
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 375 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 pm on Sept 20 at Singapore airport. Maximum Temperature 32.2° C Associated Humidity 66 Minimum Temperature 23.2° C Associated Humidity 98 Hours of Sunshine 9.55 Rainfall in Millimetres Nil Total Rainfall for the Month 92.5 Total Rainy Days for the
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 452 4 BUT for the surpluses realised from the sale of Its subsidiaries, Sim Lim Investments' latest accounts would all have been totally written in the red. For the year ended March 31, 1977, the group suffered an after-tax loss of $1.68 million
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    • 418 4 AFTER two years of downtrend, Singapore Paper Products has crept back Into the profit making league. For the six months ended June 30, 1977 the group made an unaudited pre-tax profit of $101,200. This compared with a group pre-tax loss of $497,200 In the
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    • 143 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Novo Transport Inc., the San Francisco-based freight forwarder, has expanded its facilities In Malaysia and Singapore, Mr. A.M. Stephenson, president of the company said. Sabl-Novo Enterprises Sdn. Bhd., Its Malaysia Joint venture will have Its headquarters In Kuala Lumpur with
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    • LATEST RESULTS
      • 48 4 Unaudited group pre-tax profit $2.94 million ($2.39 million) on turnover $80.25 million ($69.92 million) for the first half-year ended June 30, 1977. Parent company pre-tax profit $1.5 million ($1.41 million ($18.83 million). Interim dividend four per cent (same) payable Oct 21 to shareholders registered Oct 17.
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      • 28 4 Unaudited group pre-tax profit M 51.27 million ($1.55 million) for the first six months ended June 30, 1977. Parent company pre-tax profit $865,589 ($726,044).
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      • 29 4 Pan Malayan Holdings Unaudited group net profit $465,322 ($425,071) for the first half-year ended June 30, 1977. Loa*ns outstanding $54.71 million ($42.41 million). Parent company net profit $247,178 ($188,230).
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      • 22 4 Hotel Royal-Ramada Net loss $103,878 (loss $410,283) on sales $2.82 million ($2.63 million) for the first six months ended June 30, 1977.
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    • COMPANY MEETINGS
    • 224 4 EU YANG SANG Holdings has reported a 6.9 per cent increase in group pre-tax operating profit to $480,135 for the six months ended June 30, 1977 Oroup turnover during the period was up 6.7 per cent to $5.27 million. Trading profit and property and miscellaneous
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    • 1263 4 On Sept 19 TRADING on the Chicago Board Options Exchange came to 89,654 contracts on Monday compared with 84,656 on Friday. OPTION OCT JAN A PL 8TOCK Alcoa 45 1 3/8 25/8 33/8 45 3/4 Alcoa SO 1/16 7/8 17/8 45 3/4 Alcoa 00 UNTRD UNTRD UNTRD
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    • 318 4 THE earnings slide, which Esso Malaysia experienced last year, has continued Into the current year ending Dec 31, 1977. Chairman, Dr. Richard J. Krulzenga reported yesterday that after-tax profit fell about five per cent to MS2.I million In the first six months of this year.
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    • 94 4 AFP KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A British firm is keen to set up a pharmaceutical plant in Malaysia on a Joint venture basis. The marketing director of Vitabiotics Ltd. of Middlesex, Dr. K.I. Lalvanl, said that his firm is prepared to invest Msl million for the
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    • 414 4 Current Ex Date Total for Total for payment Date payable the year previous year C. Sugar* 10% Sept 5 Sept 29 15% nil International Wood 10%TE Aug 8 Sept 30 10%TE nil Pahanf Consolidated 10% Aug 3 Sept 30 15% 10% Keck Seng 10%I Sept 5 Sept 30
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    • 462 4 Cable Wireless earnings will dwarf Post Office FT LONDON, Tues. The profit of state-owned Cable and Wireless, which will be reported to Parliament early next month, should show a massive rise from last year. The company, which supplies telecommunications equipment and services to overseas countries and companies, showed a net
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    • 382 4 NEW YORK: One of the newest areas of Investment In the West by oil exporting countries Is In the US private placement markets for American corporations and public utilities. Several of the big US Investment houses which dominate this expanding business,
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 308 5 ASIAN COMPANIES Reuter TOKYO, Tues Sony Corp said It expects to report new highs In consolidated net sales and net income for the current year ending Oct 31, 1977 despite continuing difficult market conditions. Sony made the prediction after it announced record net sales and
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    • 272 5 Reuter MELBOURNE, Tues. Australian Associated Resources proposes to reconstruct Its capital unless It receives a takeover bid substantially higher than that already received from CSR. The company said In a circular to shareholders. The reconstruction would Include the return to shareholders of any capital surplus to
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    • 84 5 Reuter TOKYO, Tues. The Finance Ministry has proposed to a syndicate of underwriters that they lower the yield on 10-year national bonds to 6.683 per cent from 6.984 per cent, effective from October Issues, a ministry spokesman said. The underwriters are expected to agree
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    • 75 5 Reuter HONGKONG, Tues. Green Island Cement said It has awarded a HKSI9.7 million contract to Fung Kau Kee Contractors Salvage and Engineering to build a seawall and Jetty and to reclaim part of Kowloon Bay. This Is the first stage of an expansion project which will take three
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    • 165 5 Reuter SEOUL, Tues. The Korea-Kuwait Banking Corp said it plans to raise its capital to four billion won from 2.5 billion. The corporation which is a Joint venture between Korean firms and the Kuwait Financial Centre will shortly submit plans to the Foreign Capital Inducement
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    • 171 5 AFP Reuter CANBERRA, Tues. British Petroleum of Australia has boosted consolidated net operating profit by more than 580 per cent from AS 1.32 million to $8.6 million in the six months to June 30, 1977. Revenue was $338.41 million, up from $288.13 million. But if
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    • 169 5 Reuter TOKYO, Tues. Yoshihiro Inayama, chairman of the Japan Iron and Steel Federation, said Japan is ready to voluntarily restrain Its exports of steel to the United States. Inayama who Is also chairman of Nippon Steel, made the remark at a press conference following
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    • 97 5 Reuter MELBOURNE, Tues. Shareholders In Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Group Holdings approved at meetings today a scheme of arrangement under which they will exchange their Asl par shares on a one-for-one basis for shares in ANZ Banking Group. ANZ Banking Group said the approval
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    • 73 5 Reuter SEOUL, Tues. South Korea's Hanjln Business Oroup, including Korean Air Lines (KAL), and the French Bank STE Generale, have agreed to set up a Joint banking corporation here this year, Hanjln officials said. The two firms will put up capital of three billion won on
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    • 37 5 Reuter BRISBANE, Tues. Mount Isa Mines said It raised its price for copper, equivalent wlrebar basis CIF main Australian ports, to Asl,oBo per tonne from $1,060 previously with effect from Sept 20. Reuter.
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    • 837 5 NYT NEW YORK: For a select group of Wall Streeters, the game with the highest stakes in town is risk arbitrage. On Monday, a big decline In Gerber products stock caused steel-nerved arbitragers to drop a bundle. In its purest form, risk arbitrage as
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    • 582 5 EUROPEAN COMPANIES FT PARIS, Tues. The French Bourse's watchdog committee has decided to call In the public prosecutor over Its allegations that the former subsidiary In France of the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson produced Irregular accounts for the thee financial years 1973, 1974
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    • 520 5 FT AMSTERDAM. Tues. The Dutch Parliament has received for approval a draft bill comprising regulations for investments institutions. The draft amounts to state supervision similar to that already In force governing banks and Insurance companies. The aim is to safeguard the interests
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    • 366 5 FT ROME, Tues. Italsider, the troubled steel company controlled by the Italian state holding, Istituto per la Rlconverslone Industrlale (IRI), has denied reports that It was no longer able to pay the salaries of Its 50,000 employees. The company said, however, after a board
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    • 66 5 Reuter BRUSSELS, Tues. Petroflna SA add natural gas deliveries from the Ekoflak Field In the Norwegian sector of the North Sea to the terminal at Emden, West Germany began on Saturday at a rate of 10 million cubic metres a day. This will rise to a dally
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    • 134 5 NORTH AMERICAN COMPANIES Reuter THE City of New York faces possible fresh delays In its efforts to return to the debt markets, a spokesman for the city's comptroller, Harrison Ooldln, disclosed. The spokesman said this possibility arises from a legal opinion received from
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    • 56 5 Reuter US pre-tax corporate profits were revised upward to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of US$l74 billion In the second quarter from originally reported $173.4 billion, the Commerce Department said. In the first quarter, pretax profits rose by $161.7 billion, while In the second quarter of 1976
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    • 61 5 Reuter FORD MOTOR said It started a US$25O million expansion at two Michigan plants to produce lightweight, more fuel efficient car axles. The company said a 13,770 sq. metre expansion of Its sterling plant and a 3,645 sq. metre addition to its Van Dyke plant are scheduled
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    • 275 5 Reuter NEW YORK Stock Exchange trading In 1977 is likely to outstrip every year except 1976 and. with an active fourth quarter, could even exceed last year, NYSE chairman William Batten said. Mr. Batten told a Securities Industry Association dinner here that
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    • 254 5 Reuter R. J. REYNOLDS Industries said It does not foresee any significant adverse Impact on earnings from the nationalisation of assets of its American Independent Oil subsidiary In Kuwait and the divided zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The company said Amlnoil's primary Kuwaiti assets were
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    • 155 5 UK COMPANIES Reuter ON A turnover Increase of 23 per cent, United Biscuits made a pre-tax profit of £17.04 million In the first half-year ended July 16, 1977. This represents a rise of 13 per cent over a profit of £15.02 million in the 1976 half
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    • 98 5 Reuter BRITISH LEYLAND said some 9,000 workers In its five Lancashire bus and truck factories are on strike over a pay claim. The workers, who make heavy trucks and chassis and engines for doubledecker buses, have rejected a management offer of an average 7.6
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    • 37 5 Reuter MARCONI Communications Systems, a subsidiary of GEC-Marconl Electronics, said the Libyan Arab Jamahlrlyah has placed an order worth over £9 million for radio communications equipment for the International airports at Tripoli and Benghazi. Reuter.
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    • 80 5 Reuter SPOKESMEN for Imperial Chemical Industries and Phillips Petroleum said the companies are considering expanding their Jointlyowned refinery on Teesside, north-east England. But both companies said their studies sire at a preliminary stage and no final decision has been taken. The spokesmen declined to comment
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    • 70 5 Reuter THE London Borough of Southwark plans to issue £20 million of 11K per cent 1984/ 85 loan stock at 99 Vi per cent, market sources said. Ten per cent will be payable on application on Sept 21 for dealings on Sept 22 and there will be
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  • 2373 6 Gr'i Gr'i Net 1977 Laft div Div y'ld P/E Vol Day High Low Company Sale +or- c'vr C000> High Low 8ECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS 154 136 Ac ma 140 -1 12. ON 1.8 8 5 6.5 1 140 140 204 172 Alcom 172 10.0 0.5 5.8 27.7 116
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  • 1303 6 BID and offer prices officially listed and business in and reported to the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday with the number of shares traded shown li\ brackets In tots of 1 000 units unless otherwise specified Ail Time Settlement Contract* are quoted after the word "Sett." Blf
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  • 1578 6 BID and offer prices officially listed and business In and reported to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets in lots of 1 000 units unless otherwise specified INDUSTRIAL Acma (1 428). A jinamato (2 US). A leant (1.708
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  • 56 6 STRIKING prices of the stock options officially listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore, the periods, bid and offer prices and business done yesterday, with the number of options traded shown in brackets. Inchcape (Sept $2.40) (0.095). (March 52.40) (0.15B). Nat Iron (March 53.00) (0.10B). UOB (March $3.20)
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  • 151 6 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUST INCOME BOND UNIT (Mutagen' pric aa far Sept 21) (Current prl OMI The Commerce 1.73 1 83 INCOME BOND 1.07 1.13 The Saving Fund 103 1.09 S pore Prog Fund 0 82 0.87 xd MARA BL'MIPUTRA FUND S pore Security (Manager*' price* or Sept 21)
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  • 166 6 B O T 8 1/2% 1981 (100,000) (103HB 103%5) B O T 7 5/8% 1984 (100,000) (99*8 99HS) LTCB J 1982 (100,000) (98 WB 995) Credit Lyonnaia Floating 1963 (100,000) (98VfeB 98V>S) DBS Convert! 6 1/2% 1991 (100,000) (978 988) D B S 8 1/2% 1962 (100.000) (101HB
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  • 609 7 TRADING condition* were quiet and uncertain on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. Throughout the day, trading was characterised by tentative bids put up by buyers at lower levels. The market opened with more sellers about and prices edged lower under a combination of stale bull liquidation
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  • 450 7 SHARES fluctuated lower on all fronts in selective trading on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange yesterday. Conditions ruled dull and easier right from the start, with traders again showing some aversion towards opening fresh deals. As a result, the bulk of the day's turnover was again said
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • 335 7 HONOKONO: The market elosed little changed after a slightly weaker opening on Tuesday, on low turnover, dealers said. The Hang Seng Index rose 0.01 point to close at 420.48. Hongkong Baak fell 10 to HK$l7.BO and Hutchison and Wheelock Marden 2.50 cents each to $3.15 and $2.48 respectively, while
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    • 508 7 TOKYO: Share prices roae In moderate trading on Tuesday, dealers said. The Dow Jones average gained 18.38 to close at 5,196.09 with volume 250 million shares. The New Index closed at 387.75, up 1.38. Oovernment recommendations for reduction of Japan's payment surplus announced on Tuesday hardly affected the market,
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    • 390 7 SYDNEY: The market on Tuesday, *ased In quiet trading due to uncertainty, about the economy, dealers said. The Sydney All-Ordinaries closed at 439.94 points, down 1.67. BHP fell A 6 cents to $5.44, AAR six to $1.80, CSR three to $3 and Myer four to $1.99 while the ANZ,
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    • 141 7 MANILA: The market closed mixed on Tuesday, with oils advancing while minings and commercials declined slightly, dealers said. Turnover of 13.85 million pesos was little changed against Monday's 13.M million. Philex and Marinduque lost two points each but other mining Issues held steady. SEPT Pesos Acoje Mining OOM >-0.0004
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    • 104 7 SEPT Bahts Ada fibre 180 •9 Bangkok Bank 387 unch Bangkok Invest. 266 -2 Bangkok-Metro-politan Bank Bat* 7006 BernJucker 436 -1 Charoong Thai Wire lie -1 Dumex Duslt Thanl 234S unch Faber Merlin First Trust 1828 unch Genera Finance 250 unch Indo-Thal Industrial Finance Corp 1293 unch J And
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    • 294 7 AMSTERDAM: The market fell across a broad front In quiet conditions on Monday, dealers said. Traders were reserved ahead of Tuesday's 1978 budget announcement. Dutch lnternatlons were lower on balance. However, Unilever rose 0.30 guilders and Royal Dutch was 0.40 up ex-dlvldend. Elsewhere, transports were mixed. Banks, most Insurances,
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    • 150 7 BRUSSELS: Most shares closed lower In fairly active trading on Monday, bourse sources said. Cockerlll, Tibictflsi and Arbed rose against the trend, white Asturienno, Vie ille Montane. Hoboken, Clabocq, GB-Inno-BM, UCB and CBR fell. UK, Canadian and Frencn shares eased, while Dutch and Oermans were little changed to lower.
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    • 298 7 FRANKFURT: Shares lost an average of up to two marks on further professional position closing and foreign selling on Monday, dealers said. Banks led losers, with Bayernvereia dropping five marks and Baysrahype three. Daimler fell four marks Public authority loans fell up to 0.20 marks, with the regulating authorities'
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    • 166 7 MILAN: Stocks closed Irregularly higher In moderate dealings on Monday, bourse sources said. Generale Imoobiliare fell sharply but Condotte D'Acqua was little changed following restriction of trading In these two shares to the cash market until uncertainties over a plan for sale of Condotte to private Interests as part
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    • 353 7 PARIS: The market eased slightly all round In quiet trading on Monday, with political divisions In both the government majority and left wing opposition remaining a dominant Influence dealers said Banks were mixed with an easier bias, while stores, electrlcals, metals and chemicals lost most ground. Americans and oils
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    • 275 7 ZURICH: The market turned Irregular on Monday, with an easier bias on profit-taking after the previous week's advance, market sources said. The Credit Suisse Index rose 0.3 points to close at 240.7. Swissair edged lower while banks remained steady a Dart from higher Bankgeeellschaft. Among slightly mixed financial. Interfood
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    • 396 7 JOHANNESBURG: Oold shares closed firmer on the stock exchange on Monday, reflecting higher bullion prices, dealers said. Higher priced shares gained up to 90 cents, with medium priced stocks 10 to 20 cents up. Marginal and speculatlves were generally five to 15 cents up. Financial minings were steady on
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    • 268 7 TORONTO: The market closed broadly lower In light trading on Monday, with 10 of the 14 subIndices declining. Paper and Pipeline* posted the largest losses. The composite Index was off almost three points and declines led advances by 223 to 154. Canadian -International Power A dropped IT* to 21%,
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    • 1122 7 NEW YORK: Troubled by more proof of slower economic growth, the stock market on Monday, ended the session with broad losses In sluggish trading. The decline, which began at the opening bell, accelerated after mid-session when the government reported a slowdown In US August housing starts to a
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    • 63 7 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Monday 510.0 Friday SS1.9 Week Ago 524.3 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday .851.52 Friday 856.81 Week Ago 854.38 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Monday 90* to 90% Friday 91 to 91% V H K. HANG SENG Monday 420.47 Friday 424.82 Week Ago 428.99 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Monday 373.62 Friday
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  • COMMODITY REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 503 8 THE SINGAPORE rubber market yesterday opened 0.75 cent lower, then slipped a further 0.75 cent on some liquidation and speculative selling. The last hour of the morning trading was quiet with levels falling off slightly on scattered fresh offerings. Turnover was fair. Prices eased, with
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    • 345 8 Prices in cents per kilo yesterday: Noon Close (per kilo) (per kilo) Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Int 1 R S S. prompt f.o.b. 212 50 213.50N 211.50 212.50N Int 1 RSS. October 213.50 214 00 212 25 212.75 Int 1 R S S November 215 25 215.75 214.25
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    • 121 8 NOON SSR and SMR prices yesterday: October November (Current Mth) (Forward Mth) R.A.S. Buyers Seller* Buyer* Seller* (cent* per kg) (cent* per kg) SSR 20 (J-ton pallet) 205 00 207 00N 206 00 208 OON SSR 50 (1-ton pallet) 203 00 205 OON 204 00 206 OON
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    • 31 8 Rubber: Sept 20 Singapore: October 212.25 orate (down 2.75 oenta) Malaysia: October 213.50 crate (down 2.50 crate) Tin: $1,658 (up $13) Official offering: 310 toi nea (up 35 tonnea)
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    • 125 8 HONGKONG, Tues. The cotton futures market closed firmer in moderately active trading, in continuation of yesterday's rally, dealers said. Trading was mainly confined to commission house straddle transactions throughout the session, with light speculative trading, they said. March rose 0.47 US cents on trade house buying, and July
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    • 193 8 YARN and cotton spot exgodown prices in HK dollars: Cotton Yarn: China Blue Phoenix 20 s 1.870. 32 s. 1.990 40's 2,100 (per bale or 400 lbs). Piece Goods: China Butterfly and Olobe Brand unq, Dragon Head una, Five Lambs unq. Flower and Butterfly unq. Flying Geese unq,
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    • 525 8 DEALERS reported very thin trading In the Singapore produce market yesterday. Prices, however, held from steady to firm in unison with the generally improved markets overseas. Fresh American and French roaster buying made for a firmer coffee bean market. Sellers In the London terminal market were generally reserved.
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    • 269 8 LONDON, Tues. Coffee futures opened with the spot September position £17 lower while other months showed gains of up to £14 per tonne. Initial rises followed the limit gains InNew York, but some trade house long liquidation developed In the nearbys and pared the advances, traders said. Some short
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    • 61 8 C.I.F Rotterdam. US dollars per ton. LONDON MMMIiv Previous Malaysia 5% ffa bulk Nov 438 Sir 433 sir Sumatra 5% ffa Sept 520 sir 520 sir Oct 470 sir 470 sir Nov 442 5/ 445 pd 442.50/ 445 pd December 432 50 pd 435/ 437 50 pd January
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    • 258 8 LONDON, Tues. Cocoa opened £45 to £25 per tonne higher In the traded positions and sales totalled 74 lots. Market sources said values had been expected to open around £30 higher based on New York but once this level had been achieved there was little followthrough Interest and values
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    • 332 8 THE STRAITS tin price In Penang yesterday was up MII 3 to $1,858 per plcul on an official offering up 35 tonnes to 310 tonnes. In LONDON yesterday, tin closed the morning with gains of £55 per tonne for cash and £47 for Three Months, and £10 and
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    • 300 8 LONDON, Tues, Terminal sugar opened £0.65 to £1.60 per tonne down from yesterday afternoon closing levels. Sales totalled 549 lots. Dealers said losses were recorded during last night's kerb when the market was Influenced by, but not fully reflected, a selloff In New York. The lower levels attracted fresh
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    • 186 8 BANGKOK, Tues. Indicative prices quoted today were unchanged from yesterday. (US dollar per tonne fob buit Bangkok). White Km: 100 pet lit clan 306 100 pet 2nd 292, 100 pet 3rd 288 tact Til, 10 pet 285, 15 pet 252, 20 pet 240/25 pet 240. 35 pet unq. Brake.:
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    • 185 8 CHICAGO, Tues. Soybean futures yesterday recovered small early losses to finish nine to 5Vt cents a bushel higher, at or Just below the day's highs. Initial nearby firmness on the harvesting delays caused by rains In the Midwest was lost when followthrough was lacking and prices retreated on local
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    • 61 8 CHICAGO, Tues. After an early mixed pattern, wheat futures yesterday pressed upward and eventually closed with gains of 1 3/4 to 2-3/4 cents a bushel. Trading was light and E rices fluctuated narrowly i the early trade but Increasing amounts of exKrter buying, which was lleved to be pricing
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    • 102 8 LONDON, Tues. Lead gained mostly £6.00 per tonne In the morning. This metal encountered trade selling on the pre-market down to £344 per tonne for Three Months. But short covering, fresh speculative buying and subsequent stoploss operations at the £350 level reversed the trend and took the position up
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    • 106 8 LONDON, Tues. zinc eased by mostly £2.00 per tonne In the morning. The market fluctuated within a £4 per tonne trading range throughout the morning and although earlier pre-market losses were pared following the movement in lead, hedge selling continued to weigh on a market retaining a heavy supply
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
      • 618 8 OVERNIGHT money in Singapore's domestic money market continued to be lent out at high rates yesterday, closing at a high of 20 per cent. Opening at the six per cent level, overnight was quickly traded to 10 per cent before clearing hours. It came down to six per cent
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      • 44 8 acbc 6*. Algemene Bank Citibank gi, Bangkok Bank 7 HSBC m Bank of America Indoauez Bank of China 7 Bank of Tokyo «'< 6*4 Bank Ne*ara OCBC Indonesia 7 OUB Chartered Bank 6S L'CB 7 Chaae Manhattan L'MBC 7 DBS UOB St.
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      • 170 8 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rate* a* at clow on Sept 20: US4*Uar*(8»< 7 day* 1 tnth 2 mttu 3 mthi < mtha mthi 12 mthi Oflhr Bid ...6 Vl« <3/16 6 7/16 5/18 ...6 9/16 6 7/16 ...6 11/16 6 6/16 6 7/1 6 V4 ...6 15/16 613/16
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      • 50 8 RANGE of price* offered by dlacount houses on Sept 20: Overnight 3 1/8* Call deposit 3 to 3 l/a% CMbc Buy 9»Uia« 3-Month Treasury bills 3-Month Bank bills 3-Month CD 0-Month CD 31/1* 4 8/16 SS/i 51/3 2 15/16 4 7/16 51/4 5 3/8 Source: National Discount Co. Ltd.
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      • 124 8 Euro rates LONDON, Tues. Eurodollar deposit rates were virtually unchanged In light trading, dealers said. Periods opened around overnight levels except for One Month at 8-7/10, 8-5/16 per cent which was adjusted lower because of a loss of Friday end of period. Among shorts overnight was lightly bid around 83/18,
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      • 256 8 LONDON, Tues. Forward sterling weakened on renewed proflttaklng in early trading, with most positions returning to show discounts against the dollar, extending yesterday's late movement, dealers said. Spot fluctuated between a low of $1.7418/20 compared with 1.7419/21 overnight and 1.7421/23, with some commercial support buying prompted by last night's
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      • 109 8 NEW YORK, Tues. A decline In sterling yesterday provided the main feature of a fairly quiet trading day here,-while the US dollar failed to regain opening losses against other major currencies by the close, dealers .said. Sterling closed at J1.7417/20 compared with 1.7425/27 In the morning and forward
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      • 125 8 HONGKONG, Tues. The US dollar closed steady on New York closing rates In quiet and dull trading, dealers said. It eased to a late DM2.3230/ 40 from a day's high of 2.3240/50 and New York's closing midpoint equivalent of 2.3240, and was steady at 266.85/95 yen from New York's
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      • 82 8 TOKYO, Tues. The US dollar for overnight delivery closed steadier in moderate trading at 266.95 yen, after a 266.85 opening compared with 266.94 at yesterday's close. The dollar for immediate delivery closed at 266.83 yen, unchanged from the opening and compared with 267.02 at yesterday's close. Combined spot trading
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      • 54 8 ZURICH exchanges closing quotes on Sept IS: U8 2 3788-3795 UK 4 1433-1449 Can 2 2139-2149 W Qerm 102 35-40 Neth 96.37-44 France 48 25-28 Belg 8 83-1/4-3/4 Denm 38 51-53 Norw 43 35-37 8 wed 48 95-97 Italy 0 2892-2894 Austria 14.37-1/2-38-1/2 Port 5.87-1/2-88-1/4 Spain 2.81-81-3/4 Arc 0
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      • 47 8 AUSTRALIA/NZ exchanges on Sept 20: Australia: Sterling 8374/ 8308 US dollar 1 1088/ 1.1020 SAT US dollar 1.1321 Ninety-day forward burin* rates Sterling 8308 US dollar 1.0952 New Zealand: Sterling 0.5007/ 0 5538 US dollar 0.9744/ 0.9644 Ninety-day forward rate Starting 0 5659 US dollar 0.9667
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      • 36 8 FRANKFURT exchanges opening quotes on Sept 20: US 2.3218/31 Can 2 1630/36 UK 4.043/063 Neth 94 .06/16 Bwits 97 86/78 Italy 2.627/635 Franc* 47 10/30 Nrow 42.22/30 Belg (com) 6.478/86 Belg (fin) 6.47/48 Japan 0.(706/10.
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      • 319 8 LONDON, Tues. The Eurobond market was relatively quiet this morning, dealers said. Guilder Eurobonds lost ground narrowly in quiet trading, dealers said. Floating coupon notes showed occasional small rises, while convertibles were basically unchanged although some US issues eased by up to *fc dealers said. Eurobonds opening quotes on
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    • 309 8 LONDON, Tues. Copper wlrebars finished with gains of mostly £1.00 per tonne. Values declined on the early pre-market under proflttaklng prompted by yesterday's higher levels, with business reported from £705 down to £699 per tonne. But losses were soon erased In the ring where shortcoverlng and some fresh buying
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    • 236 8 LONDON, Tues. Silver lost 0.7 to 0.6 pence per troy ounce. The pre-market sagged under selling which reflected the failure of gold to penetrate the US$l5O level this morning, dealers said. Three Months traded down to 264.5 penoe but hardened on shortcoverlng In the ring, encouraged by the trend
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    • 365 8 ON THE Singapore market yesterday, the kllobar opened at 5511,804 and closed at Ssll,BlB. On the London market, the metal opened at U*****.20/40, 40 cents lower than NY closing the previous night, and closed at $149.35/55 after touching a high of $149.50/70. Trading was moderately active. The London morning
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  • TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
    • 342 9 SEATRAIN Lines, a major US container ship operator, has Joined other major operators like Maersk Line and Barber Blue Sea in the Far East/ US trade. Seatrain Lines will inaugurate its fully-contai-nerised service in October. Weekly feeder services will bring cargo from
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    • 544 9 FT CARACAS, Tues. The long ordeal of putting together a tri-natlonal consortium which will build a 700 km railway In Venezuela a contract expected to be worth close to US$l billion (552.45 billion) Is finally drawing to a close. Representatives of Spanish and Canadian
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    • 191 9 UPI VICTORIA, (British Columbia), Tjues. A Soviet fishing fleet commander headed for Victoria yesterday to meet Canadian authorities after the seizure of two Soviet trawlers alleged to have violated Canada's 320-km fishing limit, a fisheries spokesman said. "We suppose he is quite concerned about what action
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    • 342 9 UPI LONDON, Tues. Queen Elizabeth is also getting one but hers, will not be as fancy. Or as costly. The world's most expensive new private car, a goldplated Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Landaulette, today awaited collection by its millionaire buyer. Dubai businessman
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    • 189 9 AP LONDON Tues. Great Lakes rate stability was maintained by further trans-Atlantic grain business yesterday. Evidence of steadiness was contained In the September-October fixture of two vessels to the Antwerp-Hamburg range. Both received US$l2 for Great Lakes loading and $5 for St. Lawrence "top-off" up to total
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    • 285 9 THE International Air Transport Association's (lATA) 33rd annual general meeting will be held in Madrid from Nov 8 to 11 at the Palaclo Naclonal de Congresos y Exposlclones. More than 300 senior executives, including many chairman and presidents, from the association's 110 member
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    • 378 9 AFP NEW YORK, Tues. New York appeal court president Irving Kaufman, criticising the New York Port Authority yesterday over Its attitude on Concorde landings,said he will decide on the authority's appeal very soon. The Port of New York Authority (Ponya) which has steadfastly
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    • 304 9 Reuter SYDNEY. Tues Transport Minister Peter Nixon has criticised President Carter for his decision to allow Continental Airlines to operate across the Pacific from the United States to Australia. "I regard these matters as serious and ones which may well have to be taken
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    • 582 9 BRISKER activity last week still could not stir up real Improvement on the low rates fixed earlier on, largely due to the huge open tonnage prevailing in the Far East. The US Gulf to Japan grain movement secured better rates for owners when three medium bulkers received
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    • 597 9 ARRIVALS Service Local Operator Number Time From TMA TL304B 0530 TPE MAS MH682 0810 KCH PAN PA847 0810 SFP/HNL/GUM CPA CX710 1000 HLP GIA QA980 1030 HLP THAI TG423 1035 BKK SLA SQ211 1045 HLP THAI TG981 1050 BKK GIA GA944 1055 PKU GIA GA908 iioo MES
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    • 419 9 JOHORE BARU, Tues. The 417,000-ton supertanker, Berge Emperor will be the 51st ship to call at the Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering Sdn. Bhd., for repair today since its opening late last year. The shipyard administration manager, Enclk Salim Abdul Rahman, in a press briefing said the
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  • 1114 10 NYT IN a recent telephone conversation, a caller asked Michael Evans if he still considered himself one of the most bearish among the nation's prominent economic forecasters. The soft-spoken, 39-year-old president of Chase Econometrics Associates laughed and said he would like to make a
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  • 1592 10  -  By COLIN BICKLER Reuter MANILA: The Philippines enters its sixth year of martial law this week with President Ferdinand Marcos firmly entrenched and with no sign of when the emergency rule will be lifted. The President has announced that he is now embarked
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  • 801 10 UPI LENINGRAD: It was a pleasant Sunday morning with a nip In the air. On the outskirts of Leningrad, a group of young men and women milled around a grove of trees by a railroad. Most carried bulging shopping bags advertising foreign boutiques and products.
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  • 1107 10  - Banking Italian style Small change in Italy can mean a lot of things, including a sticky boiled sweet, a telephone token, some other small gift or an enormous row in a bank but very seldom does it mean small coinage. "The thing is, explained an Italian businessman, "the Japanese took
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  • 650 11 Reuter AFP TOKYO, Tues. The Cabinet Council of Economic Ministers has decided on measures Japan should consider to curb Its payments surplus as a follow-up to reflatlonary measures adopted this month, the Economic Planning Agency said. The measures for tariff cuts, Import promotion,
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  • 222 11 UPI TOKYO, Tues. Japan and Australia are expected to resume negotiations soon on their sugar price dispute following the return to Tokyo last Saturday of Mr. John Laurie, chief negotiator for Queensland sugar growers. Japanese sugar Industry sources interpreted Mr. Laurie's return as
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  • 99 11 A FOUR-DAY Singer seminar on audio visual technical service, attended by 16 participants from Asia, started here on Monday at the Hotel Summit. The participants are Singer distributors and customers from Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei. Malaysia and Singapore. The seminar Is conducted by Mr. Harry Davis,
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  • 252 11 UPI TOKYO, Tues. Japan will introduce a bond insurance system soon to facilitate exports of plants, construction and consulting services. According to Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Mltl) officials, the government Is Introducing the system in compliance with a custom among developing countries to call
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  • 113 11 UPI TOKYO, Tues. Secretary of Commerce Juanlta Kreps will visit Japan soon to confer with government and business leaders over bilateral trade Issues, the US embassy In Tokyo announced yesterday. During her stay In Tokyo starting Sept. 26, Mrs. Kreps Is scheduled to call on
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  • 412 11 AFP Reuter TAIPEH, Tues. Taiwan's foreign trade In the first eight months of this year totalled US$l 1,402.6 million, (527.936.3 million) an Increase of 12.9 per cent over the corresponding period last year, according to figures given by the Directorate of Budget,
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  • 126 11 AFP TAIPEH, Tues. Taiwan companies with foreign and overseas Chinese Investment earned profits amounting to US$7OO million (551.715 miUlon) in 1976, informed sources here reported. Quoting official statistics, the sources said that exports by foreign and overseas Chinese companies last year accounted for 29.3 per
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  • 343 11 Singapore can dominate the "exhibition conference medium" in the Far Eaat through establishing better facilities, said Mr. Saul Poliak, president of Clapp and Poliak Inc. Clapp and Poliah are coorganisers with Singapore Exhibition Services of Chemasia, the Asian international chemical and process engineering
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  • 357 11 LONDON, Tues. Singapore Is fast becoming the convention centre of the Far East. More and more regional and International organisations are holding their meetings, conferences, exhibitions and trade fairs In the Republic because of the wide range of facilities It can offer. According to
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  • 176 11 Reuter MANILA, Tues. A survey conducted by the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines claims that inflation is rising at a faster rate outside of Metropolitan Manila than in the capital. It said that by the end of June inflation was running at an annual rate
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  • 324 11 Reuter SEOUL, Tues. South Korea's gross national product (ONP) crew by 8.6 per cent during the first half of this year over the same period last year, governor Kim Sung-Hwan of the Bank of Korea announced today. This Is a sharp decline from a 17.3
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  • 302 11 AFP HONGKONG, Tues. A Norwegian hydrofoil company, Westermoen, has filed a HKfl.s million (*****.000) claim against Hongkong Resort Co. Ltd which was earlier this year rescued from financial trouble by a consortium of firms. Westermoen's solicitors have informed the high court that the company expects
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  • 363 11 AFP BANGKOK. Tue3. The Soclete d'Etudes et d'Exploration Minlere de L'lndochlne (SEEMI), a company explotlng the Phontlou tin mine In central Laos, has been nationalised with no compensation, Bangkok banking circles reported today. SEEMI, formerly a French company, became partly Lao owned In 1975 to
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  • 332 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The new Indian government has reiterated its full support for Asean and will Intensify Joint business ventures with individual countries In the region. India had followed closely the recent Asean summit held here and was happy with the outcome. The
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  • 462 11 WORMALD International, the Australian manufacturer of fire-fighting equipment, expects the turnover of Its Singapore plant In Jurong Industrial estate almost to double this year. Mr. William Addison, Its regional general manager told Business Times that the market for such equipment was good when It first
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  • 95 11 BEHN Meyer and Company (Pte) Ltd, which has juat been appointed sole distributor in Singapore for Nippon Electric Company products, is launching a series of 16 new NEC audiovisual products. These range from radio cassette recorders and tape decks to colour television sets and professional hi-fi
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  • 32 11 Reuter KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malaysian Government said It raised the total export duty on rubber to 18 cents per pound from lflVi cents, effective Sept 15.
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  • 187 11 SIX teams from four of Singapore's vocational institutes were yesterday chosen for the finals of the woodworking and upholstery section of the "Top of the Trade" competitions. The section, sponsored by the Timber Industry Board (which has given a grant of $10,000), is one
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  • 64 11 THE Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research will conduct a course on statistical design of experiments for quality control and quality improvement commencing on Oct 7. The 15-lecture course will «c be conducted by SISIR staff every Tuesday and Friday from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm.
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  • 1256 12 Ready soon DBS Pandan housing project 25-YEAR FINANCING OFFER THE largest single private condominium project undertaken here In one phase will come onto the market early next month when DBS Realty launches Its $100 million 605-unlt Pandan Valley project. Scheduled for completion by the first quarter of next year, the
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  • 550 12 TOKYO, Tues. Datuk Hussein Onn, who arrived In Tokyo on Sunday for a six day state visit, spoke today of the urgent need as well as potentials for cooperation among countries in the Pacific Basin for their mutual benefit. "I do
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  • 296 12 Uncertainty over Aussie grows Reuter CANBERRA. Tues. Uncertainty about the strength of the Australian dollar grew today as the country's foreign reserves slid down a further AS2IO million (***** million) over the past fortnight. The international reserves of gold and foreign currency have fallen steadily since last April by $1.29
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  • 169 12 Reuter TOKYO. Tues. Australian Ambassador John Menadue said today that It offended Australia's national aspirations to act merely as a supplier of raw materials to the Japanese Industrial machine. In a speech prepared for delivery tonight to the Management Research Institute here, Mr. Menadue said
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  • 200 12 AT MALAYSIAN registered cars will be given permits to enter Singapore for periods shorter than five days with effect from Oct. 1. Malaysians residing In Johore who have proven employment In Singapore may also apply to the Registrar of Vehicles for a special licence
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  • 296 12 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Tun. The appeal of former Bank Rakyat chairman, Datuk Haji Harun Idris and two other former executive*, Datuk Abu Manaor Basir and Ismail Din starts in the Federal Couit here on Thursday. Three weeks had been fixed for the appeal before
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  • 69 12 NOEE Ann Technical College will organise a course leading to the Certificate of Industrial Management awarded by the Institute of Works Managers (UK). The course will be parttime and will be conducted twice a week for two years. Management and supervisory personnel particularly from the manufacturing sector may
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  • 352 12 SALES of Italian fabrics In Singapore have fallen by about 20 per cent since last year. One of the main reasons for this, according to Mr. Olampaolo Panzerl, head of the Italian textiles and scarves trade mission now in Singapore, Is the
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  • 187 12 AFP LONDON, Tues. China has obtained lines of credit exceeding £1,000 million (554,260 million) from West Oerman, French, British and other West European banks, the publication Metal Bulletin reported today. It said the banks Involved were willing to make available a great deal more than
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  • 179 12 UPI TOKYO, Tues. Many workers In China will receive the first pay raise In 14 years In October, the Kyodo News Agency said today. Kyodos report from Peking said the planned wage hike ranging from 15 to 20 per cent was revealed
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  • 172 12 A PACIFIC travel mart meeting to bring together suppliers of travel from the East Asian region with wholesalers from other countries will be held for the first time In Manila next June. This was decided at the recent 10th PATA East Asia Regional Conference
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  • 75 12 Reuter JAKARTA, Tues. Home Minister General Amir Machmud today dismissed the Regent of Tegal in central Java. Raden Samlno, for Involvement In Illegal levies. The minister In a letter of dismissal dated Sept 20 named the central Java governor Supardjo Rustam as acting Regent of Tegal, a
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  • 780 12 LONDON, Tues. Prices closed mostly firmer, although equities and government stocks finished below the day's highs in quiet trading, dealers said. At 3 pm the Financial Times Index was up 5.1 at 522.0. The early rally In equities was extended In cheap buying but shares came off the
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  • 167 12 BRUSSELS, Tues. Britain has agreed to increase the quota of pullovers Imported from Singapore above the previously set figure of 1,410,000 pieces. Also France has withdrawn its demand for restrictions on imports of trousers from Morocco and Tunisia for the last five months of 1977.
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  • 138 12 Reuter TOKYO, Tues. The Tokyo Stock Exchange said it will delist General Telephone and Electronics (GTE) Corp of the US, subject to approval by the Finance Minister. GTE applied for delisting because of a decrease In the number of Its shareholders in Japan. Subject
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  • 51 12 Reuter JAKARTA, Tues. Indonesia will export one million tonnes of cement within the next two years, a Cabinet spokesman said today. It will also export two million motorcycle tyres next year, the spokesman said after a Cabinet meeting led by President Suharto to discuss the country's export drive.—
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  • 331 12 Reuter HAMBURG, Tues. World tin prices, which reached record levels last month, are likely to rise again, the Hamburg Economic Research Institute said In its latest report. A renewed Increase is possible In the short-term if "he expected tightening of supplies occurs in the
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  • 204 12 Reuter CANBERRA, Tues. Federal Treasurer Phillip Lynch told Parliament today there was no evidence to support charges that an A 510.000 (5526.930) bribe was paid to a Treasury official to approve a Joint venture by Japanese and Australian companies. Mr. Lynch said Investigations by senior
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