The Business Times, 25 October 1978

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1 18 The Business Times
  • 11 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) No. 21V1/78 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2S, 1178 50 CENTS
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  • BRIEFLY...
    • 63 1 AP. KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Asean nations have agreed on counter measures if Australian policies jeopardise Asean's trade, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Lew Sip Hon told Parliament today. Mr. Lew said that at a meeting in Singapore last year, Asean economic ministers agreed that each member country
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    • 51 1 SINGAPORE will provide training facilities for Fijians in port management and administrationas well as aircraft engineering. The visiting Fijian Minister of Tourism, Transport, and Aviation, Mr. Tomasi Vakatora, said advisors on airport ground handling services may be sent to Fiji by Singapore Aitrport Terminal Services, a Singapore Airlines
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    • 49 1 AFP. TOKYO, Tues.— An official indicator of economic trends shows that Japan is back on the road to expansion, the Economic Planning Agency announced. The agency's diffusion index, comprising 25 indicators, recovered to 50 per cent level in August, a level dividing economic expansion and retreat.— AFP.
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    • 74 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Tues.— Hongkong's trade deficit rose to HK$569 million (Ss2B4 million) in September from $27 million in August and a surplus of 562 million in September last year, according to Census and Statistics Department figures. Total exports (domestic exports plus re-ex-ports) fell to $4.94 billion from
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    • 57 1 AFP. CANBERRA, Tues.— Exports of Australian minerals from today would have to get specific approval from the Australian government, the deputy Prime Minister and Trade and Resources Minister, Mr Doug Anthony, said He announced to Parliament a stringent new set of rules to govern all future exports of
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    • 69 1 AFP. TOKYO, Tues.— Bank of Japan governor Teiichiro Morinaga today expressed sceptism about the advisability of sticking to the government-set target of achieving a 7 per cent economic growth this year. Mr Morinaga said he could not rule out the possibility of a continued appreciation of the yen
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    • 58 1 AFP. PEKING,Tues.— American Secretary for Energy James Schlesinger arrived today in Peking by special aircraft for a 10-day visit to discuss SinoAmerican energy cooperation, especially over oil. The American secretary, accompanied by a 15member delegation including experts and State Department officials, and also by his wife was greeted
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    • 52 1 AP. NEW YO&K, Tues.— The stock market gained ground this morning with the Dow Jones average of 30 industrials picking up 2.42 points to 842.08 in the first hour of trading. Advances outpaced declines by more than a two to one margin in the early tally of NYSElisted
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  • Chief Price Changes
    • 133 1 Rises Most octive Oriental Hldci CCM GuinneM 460 500 840 +44 +38 +20 S Darby Haw Par 2,478,000 555,000 M Banking 010 +20 UOL 162,000 Malaya waU 1 244 18 K L Kepong 145,000 S T P 1975 Nat Iron 720 945 15 15 Total Turnover: 9.32m
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    • 144 1 Rises Most active Hong Kong 17 00 .50 S Darby 1,009,000 H Par 316,000 C C M A HiUun Tin Matsushita 5.10 i 11.70 4.b6 -f -40 .40 .34 Consplant Kulim(M) 253,000 203,000 Malayan 14.80 .30 Total Turnover: 4.69m N Iron 6 50 .20 Total Value: MS13.92m
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  • 179 1 Reuter SINGAPORE Airlines will shortly sign a US$26O million SJ6OO million) contract with a Japanese syndicate of nine leasing companies to take four Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10-30 passenger jets on lease for 10 years, a Japanese spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman for the Orient
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  • 139 1 IN A surprise move, Bank Negara appears to have relaxed some of its guidelines on commercial bank lending to priority areas. In a circular to banks last weekend, it said that banks should maintain their lending to priority areas at the level as at June 30
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  • 624 1  -  SUPERMARKET BRANCHES By QUEK PECK LIM THE POST Office Savings Bank will gain a foothold in six of Singapore's biggest department stores and supermarkets when its planned new outlets open in the next four months. The first of these branches will very likely open
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  • 793 1  -  By JOHN TAN SIN GAP O R E manufacturers of television sets may soon be called upon to defend themselves against more protectionist pressure from the United States. An American labour union, representing electrical workers, plans to press for an orderly marketing arrangement
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  • 289 1  -  By SIVA ARASU THE CRITICAL sixth round oI air talks betweea Mag*pre and Malay si* aa aa air wrvka agreemeat are begged tows over Ike type of aircraft to be ased by each eaaatry'i —B—l airline. Saarees yesterday said that aaee this
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  • 449 1 COMMERCIAL sales of the US dollar for the Singapore dollar continued on the foreign exchange market yesterday. But the American currency strengthened against the Singapore dollar both in sympathy with gains it made against the yen and Deutschemark and from
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  • 42 1 A prominent Arab oil expert predicted on Tuesday that the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will adopt an oil price hike of up to 15 per cent, at its bi-annual meeting in Abu Dhabi in December.
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    • 119 1 BIRKART FREIGHT NEWS GBN CONTAINER LINE ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINER ALLOCATION PORT HARCOURT Following new container allocations The Nigerian Ports Authority has extended further facilities to GBN CONTAINER LINE for schedule berthing of their container vessels at Port Harcourt. Containers will be handled through the Container Terminal Company Port Harcourt. Commencing with
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    • 215 1 SINGAPORE BUSINESS "Now, thanks to Olivetti, the dub is fun and games again. Uti mul(\ UMHM 1 V V K* -JBL —r II 111 Mr. C Sivanathan. Club Secretary. Tasek Utara Golf Club. Johor Bahru "We used to have a problem' with our members' accounts. We were spending too much
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  • TRADE AND INDUSTRY
    • 417 2  -  By TSANG SAU YIN EXPLORATION and exploitation of mineral resources require multi-disciplinary knowledge which many developing countries do not as yet possess. These countries should receive help to learn and absorb such technology from advanced countries, suggested Mr. Goh Chok Tong, Senior
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    • 150 2 UPI. THE Japanese government on Tuesday rejected US demands to liberalise orange and beef imports, at the Tokyo round of the multinational trade negotiations (MTN) in Geneva. The two countries are scheduled to hold a series of bilateral and multilateral negotiations later this
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    • 260 2 OVERSEAS Union Securities received a total of 46,663 applications for its public offer of 11.25 million shares. Out of this total, 43,184 applications were for 1,000 lots, it was revealed by OUS at a balloting ceremony at the Mandarin Hotel yesterday. The balloting ratio for those who
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    • 242 2 THE Singapore Institute of Management will hold a series of courses and a talk session next month. On Nov 1, there will be a talk by Professor Thomas Kempner on The Next Ten Years, at the Shangri-La Hotel. This session is
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    • 94 2 Reuter PAN Overseas Corporation, the first big-scale trading conglomerate approved by the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs will be inaugurated on Nov 1, the Central News Agency reported vestecday. The organisation, incorporating 30 local and overseas companies, the United World Chinese Commercial Bank. Asia Trust and Investment Corp.,
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    • 409 2 THE National Trades Union Congiess expects to embark on further "socially-useful" enterprises.but certainly not in partnership with employers in new business ventures or with their proffeied management expertise, said its secretary-general, Mr.Devan Nair yesterday. The NTUC does not object to being more affluent,
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    • 165 2 AP. THAILAND will seek financial support from the Australian government for a large soda ash project during the coming meeting between Australian and Asean officials in Canberra next week. A spokesman for the Thai Foreign -Ministry yesterday said that Australia has indicated its
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    • 430 2 COURSES AND TALKS Oct 6-28: The effective executive, SIM, SIM Oct 17-31: Employee training and development, Holiday Inn, P.O.D. Oct 21 and 28: Telephone techniques and courtesies, SIM, SIM Oct 23-27: Work measurement and financial incentive schemes, SIM, SIM Oct 25-Nov 17: Business law, SIM, SIM Oct 26-27:
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    • 371 3 MALAYAN Railway has agreed to make special arrangements to transport logs of less popular species, in order to encourage greater use of Malaysia's timber resources. Its director of commerce, Encik A. Rahim Osman, has said that from Nov 1, additional logs of the less popular grades
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    • 297 3 MALAYAN Railway, working in close cooperation with Thai railway authorities, has started a container service between Malaysia and Thailand. The director of commerce of Malayan Railway, Encik Rahim Osman, said the first consignment of four contain- ers, each carrying 790 bags of flour, left
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    • 779 3  -  By SIVA ARASU ONE of the world's leading copier machine companies, Rank Xerox, has chosen Singapore for its regional headquarters. The office will officially open on Nov 1. The decision comes in the wake of the new corporate policy to decentralise. "Last
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    • 219 3 THE Asean overhaul and maintenance facilities project team currently surveying national airlines in Asean countries, will make recommendations on how airlines may help each other save on expenses. The recommendations will pertain to aircraft maintenance, spare parts and other relevant expertise. Only seven members
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    • 230 3 THE JAPANESE Chamber of Commerce and Industry has donated $100,000 to the Industrial Accident Relief Fund, set up by the Ministry of Labour, following the Spvros disaster. Announcing this yesterday. the president of the JCCI. Mr. H Shimazaki. said that councillors of the chamber met
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    • 89 3 AFP. SOUTH Korea's three automobile manufacturers are tooling up to boost their exports and increase annual production capacity to 1.2 million units by 1982, industry sources said. The Hyundai Motor Co. which has links with the Foid Motor Co. plans to boost its annual production capacity from
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • RAW MATERIALS
    • 498 4 THE Singapore market closed slightly easier with November One RSS buyers quoted at 252.00 cents per kilo, down one cent yesterday, dealers said. Morning prices were marked down two cents on lower London advices, some long releases and lack of support, they said. Reports of China
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    • 346 4 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. 246.00 247.00N 247.50 248.50N Int. 1 R.S.S. November 250.50 251.00. 252.00 252.50 Int. 1 R.S.S. December 254.25 254.75 256.25 256.75 Int. 2 R.S.S. 242.50 243.50N 244.00 245.00N
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    • 110 4 NOON SSR anil SMR piKfs yesterday KVS November D eeember (Carrei •t Mlk) (Fsrwwtf Mtk) Bnyrn> Sellers Bayers Seller* (rests per kg) (eeaU per kg) SSR 3) (l ion pallet) 232.00 234 00N 234 50 236.50N SSR 30 < l-l<>n pallet) 230 00 230 OON 232.50 234
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    • 70 4 C.I.F. North European ports, in US dollars per ton unless otherwise stated. LONDON: Monday Previous Malaysian 5%ffa bulk per tonne SlOslr December SlOslr Sumatra 5* ffa bulk October MSslr 647 .sir November 632'j 627' /sir December 620slr.620pd617' jslr January unch fllOslr March 595pd 595pd Nigeria 5% (fa bulk
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    • 29 4 Rubber: Oct 24 Singapore: Novem ber:2s2.oocen t s (down 1.00 ccnt) Malaysia November: 256.00 cents(unch) Tin: M 51,976 (up $6) Official offering: 180 tonnes (down 66 tonnes)
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    • 226 4 BANGKOK rice prices were quoted as follows on Tuesday: (In US dollars per tonne F. 0.8. basis Bangkok) Whit* rlee: 100 prt Ist class 402. 100 pet 2nd class 387. 100 pet 3rd ckiss 382. 5 prt 377. 10 pi t 352. 15 prt 347. 20 pet 342. 2S
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    • 299 4 COFFEE bean prices continued to ease in a generally quiet produce market in Singapore yesterday. The softer trend overseas and the withdrawal of buying interest were bearish factors. The fickleness of the US dollar also had its fair share of restraining influence on the market. Because coffee dealers
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    • 196 4 THE sugar market closed 0.09 to 0.14 US cents lower in fairly quiet trading, with seven lots traded yesterday, dealers said. The daily spot sugar price was 0.05 cents higher at 8.80. Sugar futures rioting prim: (Mi| PrrvtMn (M« Jan 8.75 885 8909 00 Mch 9.10 14 9.19
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    • 188 4 YARN and cotton in Hongkong dollars, spot exgodown: MttN yara (Mm: Blue pheonlx 20 s 1.9», 8* 2.710. 2.900 (per bale of 400 lbs) place gM* eMaa: buttterfly and globe brand unq; dragon head unq five lambs unq; (tower and buffet-fly unq Dying geese unq (per piece 36
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    • 384 4 LONDON raw sugar futures opened £0.35 to £1.25 per tonne down yesterday morning. Turnover totalled 697 lots. Dealers said the lower opening following the late sharp fall in New York and reflected some hesitancy in front of any move the US may make to bolster its domestic sugar price.
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    • 123 4 LONDON terminal cocoa finished the first call lower by L 8 to LI per tonne against forecasts of a slightly steadier market in New York. Prices continued to ease in opentrading yesterday under hedging and speculative selling, gathering in stoploss orders at the decline. Cocoa futures in NEW YORK
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    • 177 4 CHICAGO soybean product futures closed mostly higher after earlier gains were trimmed in the final minutes on Monday. Meal futures ended up |0.10 to 11.50 a ton in all but the spot month, which was off 50.40 .Oil futures finished 0.02 to 0.15 cents a lb higher, with the
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    • 134 4 CHICAGO wheat futures lost eaAy gains at midsesskxi to post losses of three to 3/4 cents a bushel on Monday. Opening firmness was attributed to heavy buying by locals in the face of limited selling. The market broke in early trade when locals became heavy sellers. An export firm
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    • 232 4 THE Straits tin price in Penan# rose Ms 6 per picul to $1,976 yesterday. Values were marked higher on sustained local, Japanese and Eastern Europe support and a reduced volume of tin concentrates from miners contributed to the rise. Turnover fell to 180 tonnes from 246 tonnes and
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    • 113 4 LONDON silver lost 1.9 to two pence yesterday. Traders attributed the decline to the lower New York market, the trend in gold and some chart selling. Carries boosted turnover to 53 lots. Silver on the LME was down mostly 2.5 pence per troy ounce on Monday. The decline in
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    • 41 4 LONDON lead finished the morning up mostly seven sterling yesterday. The early uptrend on the premarket was aided by the strength in zinc and copper with some protective covering also reported against physical demand from the Soviet Union, dealers said.
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    • 47 4 LONDON zinc finished the ring up mostly £6.5 yesterday. Premarket values forged ahead on covering induced by the Vieille Montagne price rise to $720 per tonne from $675 and Threemonths traded upto $368 Some of the buying was also encouraged by market talk of Russian enquiry.
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    • 303 4 LONDON robusta futures opened Lll higher to LlO per tonne lower in a turnover totalling 429 lots yesterday. Dealers said the market was initially marked higher following gains in New York but soon ran into commission house selling which took values back to overnight levels. Dealer support at this
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    • 363 4 LONDON copper wiiebars finished the morning up L 9 for cash and L 8.5 for-Three-months yesterday. The early steadiness was prompted by modest covering. following overnight gains at New York on what appealed to be a somewhat ovei-sold mai-ket. Further advances were seen in the ring, under pricing operations.
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    • 20 4 LONDON Threemonths aluminium was £0.5 higher. Traders said the market held steady in quiet featureless dealings of 500 tonnes.
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    • 411 4 THE kilobar in Singapore opene4 at 5515,614 yesterday and closed higher at $15,597. The high and low were 5515.683 and 5515,586 respectively. The market was quiet. The London spot gold market opened at U*****.50 .80 and closed higher at U*****.25 55 .The high was U*****.50 80 while the low
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    • MONEY AND EXCHANGE$
      • 596 4 THE US dollar saw temporary reprieve on the foreign exchange market yesterday, pending the announcement of anti-inflationary measures by President Carter. In this mood, the dollar was traded up slightly against major currencies. However, dealers expect the dollar to resume its fall today, if the announcement does not
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      • 179 4 Asian rates ASIAN currency deposit Interbank rates as at close on Oct 24: US Dallara(Spot) Offer Bid 7<tejm 9 0 1 month OM 9W 2 month* #15/16 913/16 3 months 101V1610U/ Ml 6 months 11 10* 9 months 11 10H 13 months 11 10H 1 month 3 months 6 months
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      • 6 4 Source: National Discount Co Ltd
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      • 50 4 ZURICH nrkangn r tonne quotes on Monday US 1.511»-&t» StK J.tHMT77 CuU»BK Dm* M 3835-7115 Dfl 77 *15-78 1015 Ffr JS MIS-712 Bfr 5.3573-37tl Dkr 30 4575-SSS4 Nkr 31 *****673 Skr 36 0682-1137 UI 0.1898-1901 AIM BCh 11.5681-5019 Pari 3 3933-4207 Spain 2.2223-291 Arg 0 1646 YM 0 8347-83*
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      • 160 4 THE dollar opened firmer here yesterday as operators coveted their short positions ahead of President Carter's anti- inflation package, being announced later, dealers said. It opened nearly a pfennig higher against the mark at 1.8144/54 compared with 1.8057/72 overnight and over a centime firmer against the Swiss franc at
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      • 200 4 THE dollar closed generally firmer on Monday from its opening levels in cautious, nervous trading ahead of President Carter's anti-infla-tion programme announcement yesterday. They said trading was very quiet in the afternoon as most operators are reluctant to take substantial positions ahead of the announcement, although few expect
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      • 137 4 THE US dollar recovered moderately in light late trading on import- covering by Japanese traders and dollar- buying by Japanese banks to meet dollar conversion needs for a 40 billion yen syndicated loan to the Australian government after a firm opening, dealers said yesterday. Foreign banks sold dollar in
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      • 145 4 THE US dollar was quoted little changed yesterday against Continental currencies in late, featureless trading but firmer against the yen, dealers said. The dollar was unchanged at lAS/35 marks from New York's close but slightly higher than its 1.8110/20 opening here. Against the Swiss franc, the dollar eased marginally
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      • 133 4 Euro rates IX>NDON Eurodollar deposit rates were quietly firm at the opening reflecting continuing anxiety about the possibility of rising inteiest rates, dealers said yesterday. Period rates firmed 1 16 against Monday's closings on professional coveting but wete ssentially back to Monday's midday levels. Short dates had overnight 1 16
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      • 21 4 THE average rate at which Singapore banks are currently prepared to lead to their best customers is 7.25 per cent.
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      • 56 4 AUSTRAUA-NZ exchange* quote* oo Tuesday US dlr 1.1754 1.1706 Sterling 0.5879 0 5813 Ninety day air mail buying rate* SterUng 0.8000 us dks 1.2123 Ninety day forward buying rate* SterUng 0.5008 us dlr» 1.1746 New Zealand SterUng 0 .5306 0.5357 US dlr ***** 1 0736 Ninety day airmail buying
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      • 44 4 FRANKFURT nctaafn closing qinHf on Monday USfOOOO 96 Can 1 5310 30 Stg 3836 CM DO 92.01 U Sir 118 75 05 Lit 2.230 MS FTr 43.35 Dkr 35.90 00 Nkr 37.00 10 Btr (con) &JOO SO ni f Mil Yen 9.9095 19
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 465 5 Reuter WITH THE consumer sector of the US economy clearlyweakening, the only way a recession can be avoided in the coming months is for business spending to pick up sharply, says Financial Digest, a weekly economics publication of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. The publication notes
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    • 266 5 AFP. BRITISH Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Cabinet has rejected trade union calls for a scrapping of the 5 per cent ceiling on wage increases imposed under its "Phase Four" counter-inflationary programme. Reliable sources in London said the UK
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    • 756 5 RISKS FAIRLY WIDESPREAD Reuter. BANKS involved in ship finance will take further losses because of the continuing recession in the world shipping industry, according to several London banking and industry sources. "There are obviously loan losses still to be absorbed," one senior British
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    • 545 5 Reuter, UPI. CHEMICAL Bank, the sixth largest in the US, has boosted its prime rate another quarter-point to 10'/« per cent, reflecting surging demand for business loans and the banks' own cost of funds. No other bank in the US immediately followed suit but money
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    • 455 5 AUSTRALIAN flights are ranked the safest and Colombian the most risky in a new six-year survey of air transport safety by the magazine Flight International. Flight's latest issue also reports that world flight safety has been improving from around four fatal accidents per million flights at the
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    • WORLD IN BRIEF
      • 622 5 Agencies. NATO restrictions on technological exports to the Soviet bloc are not succeeding, but are hurting US producers, US representative Jonathan Bingham said on Monday. Mr.Bingham, chairman of an international relations subcommittee on economic policy, said he will work in the new Congress on revision of
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    • 115 5 Reuter INDIA hu gaM we reserves «f ahaat MS mllhw li—tf, •eewtog U the GeatogleaJ Sarvey sf ladia, GSI. GSl's taveitlytisi have yielded pravea mervei at abeat 243 rallllaa teaaes, the Press Trast sf Isdia (PTI) reported. Geatogtete have Ideatlfled a petcatlsl gaM hcarlag mm exteadlag aver
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    • 283 5 Reuter. THE AVERAGE effective yields on US Treasury bills fell to 7.9 per cent for threemonth bills and rose to 8.612 per cent for six-month bills at the latest weekly auction. The Treasury said the three-month yield was down from 8.209 per cent at the previous
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  • 351 6 IT IS ironic that in the Singapore banking market, the greatest innovations in retail banking should come from a statutory board. But in the Republic, that is exactly what Singaporeans have come to expect of their national savings bank. The Post Office Savings Bank's
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  • 264 6 CURIOUSLY, news of an impending complaint from an American electrical workers union against Asian television manufacturers comes not from the Americans themselves, but from a Japanese unionist. If one can believe that the leakage was a gesture of goodwill from the Asian
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  • 822 6  -  By CLYDE FARNSWORTH NYT THE CAKTER arfmlaistntfM's nM UUia/latioa pukage, liteaM to ekeefc wage sad prlee increases tknagh I variety rf saactieas Jut short d formal controls, has armed as •ptimism Irani aayeae, ad evea from its arehiteeta. "Yet, If this effort the admiaistraltoa's third try
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  • 1320 6  -  A* the multi-lateral trade negotiations move into the "final week" and the penultimate Dec 15 dateline for agreement (imposed by the United States) draws even closer, major blocs of the world's exporters are still unagreed as to what direction tariff-cuts should take. If this
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 64 6 OUTLOOK for Singapore from 6 a.m. to noon today: Isolated showers in the late morning. Report for 24 hours prior to 7JI p.m. on Oct 24 at the airport: Maximum temperature 30.6 C Associated humidity 70 Minimum temperature 23.7 C Associated humidity 100 Hours of sunshine 3.90 Rainfall in millimetres
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    • 229 6 SINGAPORE 5 PM Opening announcements followed by The Beverly Hillbillies Don't Marry A Frogman (Repeat)* Diary Of Events (Malay)* Bonanza Easy Come, Easy Go* Intermission Opening announcements followed by Petticoat Junction Selma Plout's Plot (Repeat)* News in Brief* Timang Tinggi Tinggi (Malay-Re-peat)* Candid Camera* News and Newsreel in Malay* Play
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  • 1341 7 Co-oper&tive banks In France provide finance fer the small businessman and even sponsor imaginative "business creators". Are there interesting applications here (or Singapore? THE SIZE OF THEIR DEPOSITS MAKES THE CO-OPERATIVE BANKS THE SIXTH LARGEST IN THE FRENCH HIERARCHY THE YOUNG
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  • 425 7  -  Letters to the Editor MD.NOR BIN BAHARUDDIN AS AN Interested observer of the stock markets both ia Malaysia and Singapore, and indeed also very much out of concern for the protection of public interest, 1 would like to refer to Subsection A of
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  • 216 7  -  LARRY KOH IT IS NOT unusual te hear whole families or offices appiylag for aew issaes aad aot being allotted a single share la retarn. 1 am not suggesting that there were aay malpractices, hat those aasuccessful apptleaats would Just woader if the precaatloas now takea
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  • 180 7 A MASSACHUSETTS cash register company is so pleased with its employees, it is reported, that it is sending all GOO of them on a week-long free trip to Rome. The company. Data Terminal Systems, has seen its profits and sales doubled from the past year's. According
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  • 908 7 FORUM. ...OD investment By JOHN TMI ONE OP THE more solid achievements brought back by the Asean team from the August Asean-US talks in Washington was the promise of a promotion mission from the US Overseas Private Invest ment Corporation (OPIC). This was good news
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

  • INTERNATIONAL STOCKS MARKETS
    • 378 8 Johannesburg OOLD shares were easier In small trade on a general lack of Interest on Monday Dealers noted there was no followthrough from London and issties supped from a few cents to 50 cents lower. Mining financial* retreated In lln* with producers. De Beers wa*'!S cents
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    • 354 8 Toronto SHARE prices closed lower In active trading on Monday. The composite Index was off nearly 13 points with declines in 11 of Its 14 component groups. Oil and gas. real estate, consumer products, transportation and financial services all fell more than 20 points. Losses
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    • 546 8 EUROPEAN MARKETS MOST European bourses closed lower with the exception of Brussels which finished mixed. Amsterdam closed lower following the further decline In the dollar and Wall Street. All Dutch Internationals declined, with Unilever losing 2.50 and Royal Dutch 1.10 guilders. HVA dropped 4.30, KLM 4.10 and ABN
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    • 185 8 oct a Francs Actions Suisse* 285 1 AlusulsseBr MS -5 Alusutsse Reg MS unch Brown Boverl Br 1535 >5 Ciba Oelgy Br 965 -10 Ciba Oelgy PC 735 5 Ciba Oelgy R» 579 +3 Credit Suisse Br 2175 -20 Credit Suisse Ret 417 •2 Elektrovmtt Br 1770 -10 Oeorge
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    • 211 8 oct n Fto ABN 368.50 -3.5 Ahold 112.10 -0 9 Akio 29.80 -0 8 AMEV 88 80 -1.4 Amf&£ 103 00 -5.5 Am rot Bank 74.00 -09 Bergoai 82 70 unch Berk 93 00 unch Bob 72.00 -0 8 BorsumlJ ***** unch Burhmann 73.80 unch Byenkorf 96 00 -08
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    • 230 8 OCT Pr» Air-Liquid* 362 -6 BS NOenraU 000 -36 CSF(ThomsonC»f) 981 -9 Cte PrtDctUc 136.60 -2.1 Compacnle Cocnpacnle 400 •1.1 Credit Ponder 422 -6 Hachette 296.90 ♦0 9 Machines Bull S3.79 -0 89 1260 -43 208.60 -0.4 Pechlney Clfine 93.26 -2.7 901 -6 Philips (Nv Ocm 93.36 -1.06 122
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    • 90 8 OCT B rr» FOItWAKO MAUCT Acer 41* ♦6 Arbed 2300 -15 Aslur 780 -46 Brascar. 471 -i Bru-Lamb 1500 20 Canpac -It Cock 424 -1 De Beers 204 -7 Ebes 2323 uncti Qeclrobet 6740 -10 Qb-Inno-Bm 2480 -20 Oev 134« -4 Hobo* 2790 -90 Petro 3305 15 Ryl Dutch
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    • 162 8 ocr a Dm A*f-Tfl»l*funk*n at to i Akm n 4S TTJ -1 Alls Vera 514 -3 BASF 140 00 -1.0 Bay H T Wbank Bay Vbtnk no -4 ***** -I S BBC 307 SOB-3 BMW 200 SO +30 S Caaaelka 422 *2 Chcm Verw *71 -2 roniMRtenk 234 40
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    • 172 8 Oct 14 ■ate Bangkok Bank Bank of Ayudhajra Ltd m 280 Thai D&nu una Thai Fanners Bank 354 Thai Commercial Bank 771 Bangkok Metropolitan Bank una Industrial finance Corp J,575 General Finance 4M First Trust 544 Raja Finance 1.330 Lee K wan« Mine Trust M3 Thai Insurance unq Jalaprathan
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    • 1230 8 NEW YORK A LATE technical rally on Monday left stocks mixed In active trading as the market attempted to repair the damage of Its worst one-week slide in history. But analysts said Investors remain worried about rising interest rates and President Carter's anti-Inflation message due last night.
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    • 1420 8 October 23 CHICAGO Board Options Exchange volume eased mj loo.vrr contracts on Monday rrom sa,zw on Friday. OPTIONS JAN APL JLT STOCK Alcoa UNTRD UNTRD NOL 1/4 Alcoa ft ft 1/1 UNTRD a V4 Alcoa t 1/3 1 1/1 UNTRD a V4 Alcoa 11/16 VI UNTRD a
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    • 472 8 TOKYO THE market wu bearish yesterday. centrlnc on forerunning Issues, since most Investors turned cautious owtng to the recent sharp rtae in stock prices. High-priced pharmaceutical and bffht-etectrlcal issues dropped sharply, since Individual Investors switched to HmHy and low-priced chemical and spinning Issues. Turnover was relatively heavy. In
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    • 361 8 THE market firmed yesterday, with selected uraniums and blue chip Industrial stocks leading the rise, dealers said. Queensland Mines rose 20 cents to A 83.20 and Kathleen Investments 15 to 2.59 following reports that final agreement has almost been reached with the Northern Land Council on the Nabarlek uranium
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    • 330 8 Source: SHK Sec FOLLOWING the announcement that China Provident Is to develop Its north point wharfage site Into a HKBI. residential/commercial complex, the market yesterday found added strength and moved up accordingly. Continued buying for HK Wharf (up another dollar In heavy trade) and O I Cement also buoyed
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    • 47 8 OCT M Pm 0106 4-0.OOM 10 00 -C 9 BafutoOoM Oil +OOOM MM ♦0.8 CDCP >1.00 Landotl LawtoB 100* ■O.M propB 1 OS -0.1 Plonm PLOT PodcoB Poa« SanlflcueiA San Mtfud B Saa front Uttphll Vulcan •O.M .MM +0.MM 35 7# inch 012 +0M00 Oil ttneh
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    • 64 8 FINANCIAL TIMES INDU8TRIAL8 Monday 406.6 Friday 500.2 Week Ago 494.6 DOW JONE8 AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Monday... 839 66 Friday 836 01 Week ago 875.17 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Monday 1/4 to 7® 3/4 Friday 903/4 to 811/4 H.K.HANG SENG Tuesday 666.75 Monday.. 662.01 Week ago 638.57 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Tueaday 462.35
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 281 8 Jardines Anticipate Increased 1978 Earnings Dividends" 44 Net profit for the first six months was 5555.6 million (1977: 5551.9 million), an increase of 7.1%. Prospects for the rest of the year indicate that the same level of earnings growth will be maintained for full year. 44 Interim dividend equivalent to
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 318 9 Reuter PAN AMERICAN World Airways said in testimony filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) that it proposed to merge with National Airlines Inc because of its "urgent need" for a domestic airline system. PanAm said it cannot afford the billion-dollar cost or
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    • 75 9 Reuter CITICORP said its Citicorp International group unit signed a US$2O million syndicated term loan to the Industrial Credit and Investment Corp of India Ltd. The loan is guaranteed by the government of India and will run for seven years at one per cent over
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    • 641 9 N.AMERICAN Reuter EXXON Corp. reported third quarto* earnings per share of US$l.2l ($1.42) on net profit $540 million (1635 million). Revenue was $15.91 billion vs $14.45 billion Nine months earnings per share came to $4.30 ($4.14) on net profit of $1.92 billion vs $1.85 billion.
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    • 891 9 CHEMICAL New York Corporation, the holding company of Chemical Bank, has announced a third quarter operating income of US$32 million, an increase of 19.2 per cent from $26.9 million earned in the third quarter of 1977. Earnings per common share were $2.02 compared
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    • 360 9 S. AFRICA FT THE FIRST public offer of a non-mining company in Johannesburg since the flotation of Darling and Hodgson, the construction arm of Union Corporation, in 1973 comes with the prospectus of Kimet, a pyramid company controlled by Mr. Natie Kirsh, a
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    • 295 9 f 1 EUROPEAN FT CONTINENTAL GUMMIWERKE's (ContiGummi) hopes of resuming dividends were dashed by its interim report. The company, however, did not utterly rule out the prospects of a renewed payout after six barren years but it gave no grounds for optimism. The executive board of
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    • 224 9 FT FROM SALES ahead at 19.1 per cent to £21.48millkm, profit at Kalamazoo, the business and office systems group, before Kalamazoo Workers Alliance (KWA) bonus and tax climbed 12.9 per cent from £3.29 million to £3.72 million for the year ended Aug. 1, 1978, with £1.27 million
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    • 254 9 Reuter AMERICA'S Chrysler Corporation and Mitsubishi Motor Corporation have reached basic agreement to allow the Japanese firm to take a one third stake in its Australian subsidiary, Chrysler Australia Limited (CAL) to help it reconstruct business. The president of the Japanese company Mr.
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    • 162 9 Reuter WARNER Communications reported a third quarter profit from operations of US$l9.B million, or $1.35 a share, compared with a profit of $15.6 million, or $1.16, a year earlier. Warner, a major entertainment concern, said all five of its operating divisions had gains during
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    • 195 9 FOLLOWING the excellent first half when profit rose £770,000 to £930,000, the Dawnay Day Group, merchant banker, said pre-tax profit more than doubled to £2.18 million for the year ended June 30, 1978. After a charge for tax of £323,000 against £194,000 aftd an extraordinary
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    • 422 9 r i ASIAN b 4 Reuter HONGKONG Land said about one-third of the net proceeds of its HK$6OO million loan stock issue will be used to refinance debt on more favourable terms. The net proceeds will amount to about $584 million and
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    • 236 9 FT TOYOBO, one of Japan's leading textile concerns, has decided to sell its whollyowned and financially troubled Canadian subsidiary, Bruck Mills, to Consolidated Textile Mills, the second largest textile producer in Canada which is 64.7 per cent owned by Carrington Viyella of the UK. The Osaka-based
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    • 144 9 Reuter ASHTON Mining said its public issue of 28 million A5O-cent par shares opened and closed fully subscribed yesferday. The company, the float-off of part of Malaysia Mining Corp. Bhd.'s stake in the Ashton diamond exploration joint venture, said share certificates will be mailed in about
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    • 160 9 Reuter CARLTON and United Breweries Ltd. said it intends to bid for the 64 per cent of the issued ordinary capital it does not already hold in North Queensland hotel owner and operator, Samuel Allen and Sons Ltd. It will offer one Carlton share plus
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    • 179 9 Reuter NIGERIA Oil Company of Japan has announced that it has pulled out of oil development following its abandonment of commercial oil production in oilfields off Nigeria. The company said it has spent about 20 billion yen since 1971 on 16 test drillings in
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    • 91 9 Reuter GENERAL Sekiyu KK said it will issue 30.89 million new shares to increase its capital to 3.26 billion yen from 1.72 billion. Subject to Japanese government approval, it will allocate all the new shares to Esso Eastern Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Exxon Corp. of the
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    • 107 9 UPI SAN MIGUEL of Hongkong reported net HKJ114.7 million for the first eight months of 1978. The figure is up 7 from the 1106.8 the same period last year; Income after tax .#»s $23.18 million compared, with $22.18 million last year, up 5 per cent.
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    • 36 9 MITSUKOSHI Ltd said it expects after-tax profit in the year ending Feb. 28 to rise to about 11.30 billion 'yen from 10.30 billion yen last year on sales of 471.00 billion yen (451.15 billion).'
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 232 9 Why Elmer? We'd be the first to admit that Elmer sounds rather like a faded Hollywood star! But actually our name is PerkinElmer. And we're one of America's biggest minicomputer companies. Perkin-Elmer might still sound a mouthful, but what we have to offer will make you gulp. We provide important
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  • DEALS DONE ON THE SES AND KLSE
    • 1354 10 BID ud offer prtaaa offlctth bated and buatnca* In and reported to Um Mock Kxchanyt of Bmapow yesterday with Um number of Arm traded (town in bracket* In lou of 1.609 unite unlaw other* la* (pacUted All Tim* Battlement Contract* arc quoted after Um word "tett." Bte Board
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    • 81 10 4 1/4% li/l/N (290,000) (M.908 100 058) (3) 90.00 5* T P 1/5/81 (250.000) (100.198 100.308) 5 V 4% T P IWII-M (290.000) (102.008) 7 1/4% 15/16/86 (290.000) V 0 16/4/66 (290.000) 5 1( S» B T P IVW (290.000) (100.558) 7 1/4% 1/1/87 (250,000) (100.70B) (1) 101.05
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    • 80 10 BTRIJCINO prices of the slock options officially listed on Um Stock Exchange of Singapore, the periods, bid and offer prices and business done yesttrday with the number of options traded shown In brackets. C and C (Dec M 50) (1 60S) Inchcape (Dec $1.65) (0.278 0.375) Prima (Dec
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  • 150 10 SINGAPORE UNIT TRU (Managers' prices tar Out The Commerce 2.37 The Saving Fund 1.4 S pore Prog Fund 1.08 S'pore Sec. Fund 1.97 S pore Invest Fund 1J 8T 2.52 1.58 1 14xd 2 09 1.48 INCOME BOM (Carrest prl Income Bond MABA BI MIPtT EtUNIT lees) 107
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  • 2475 10 1974 High Low Company Last Sale +arGr'i Dfrr Dhr Ctt Or* YH Not P/E Vol Day C8M) Higk Low SECTION ONE INDUSTRIALS 272 238 178 219 275 111-. 278 328 248 66» 132 123* 112 133 195* 80* 182 173* 140* 258 Ac ma Alcom Allied Choc
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  • 1787 10 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. MOUSTBtALS Aama 45.458). A|tna«nata (J.TIB 2.908). Ataani (2.01 V) <•) 2.00 43)
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  • 748 10 PROM all Mctuti yesterday's trading 11m Stock Exchaage sf Stagapore, It wnM appear that the market is boaaetag back after aheat six weeks of almwt eoattaams deetiae. Galas were recorded a wMe fraat wttk seme evideaee of tradtag activity spreadtag eat as the kalis
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  • 506 10 IMPROVED trading on the Kuala Lumpur stock market yesterday saw prices closing marginally higher. The better sentiment, however, attracted moderate profit-taking in the last stages of trading to push prices off the day's best. Brisk trading activity during the first session brought prices forward by a
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 378 11 GROWTH at Eu Yan Sang Holdings came almost to a standstill in the first-half of the cuirent year with group pre-tax earnings edging a mere 3.3 per cent higher to $496,191. Group turnover during the period to June 30, 1978 actually slipped 1.9 per
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    • 133 11 DINLOP Malaysia Industries Berhad (DMIB) has installed a 36-metre high self-supporting chimney at its tyre factory complex at Petaling Jay a t* combat ill-effects of pollution oa the environment. Weighing 28 tonnes aad costing Ms7B,Mt the 1.5mctre diameter chimney was constructed in view of environmental experts'
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    • 478 11 Current Ex Books Date Total for Total for Payment Date Close KLK Deb •jyr Int. Oct 6 Oct 18 Oct 25 Temerioh 12% Oct 6 Oct 18 Oct 25 12% 11'i Alcom 6% I Sept 27 Oct 7 Oct 27 6% 15% S. Finance 9% Oct 10 Oct
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    • 228 11 Company Particular* Ex Date Books Close MBS Bonus Issue of 1 for 5 Oct 16 Oct 26 Harimau Rights issue of 1 loan stock for 2 ord .shares Oct 17 Oct 24 Rothmans Bonus Issue of 1 for 4 Oct 16 Oct 26 Carlsberg Bonus Issue of 1
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    • 1179 11  -  FINANCIALLY HEALTHY By MANO SABNANI SIME Darby Holdings is brimming with confidence that the current year ending June 30, 1979 will be another year of growth and development for the group. Chairman Tun Tan Siew Sin says in the company's 1977 78
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    • 486 11 PAPER Products (Malaya) has been asked to provide additional information to the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange i-egarding its recent announcements to rationalise the group's operations. Last week. PPM released a package of proposals intended to improve its overall position. Included in this package is
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    • 182 11 INTEREST warrants for holders of 19 million United Motor Works (M) per cent convertible unsecured loan stock *****960 for the payment of interest for the period May 1 to Oct 31 will be despatched to loan stockholders on Oct 28. In a statement
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    • 151 11 SINGAPORE Finance Lid: AGM to be held at 45-47 Robinson Road, Singapore at 12 noon on Oct 25. Mega Chemicals Bhd: AGM to be held at Wisma Mega, 2nd Mile, Jalan Batu Tiga Lama, Klang, at Lla.m. on Oct 26. Khong Gum Flour Milling Ltd: AGM to be
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    • 368 11  -  By SUSAN THAM UK-INCORPORATED Ma laysiam Tin Limited, which is engaged principally in tin mining under tribute in Malaysia, \*as able to benefit substantially from the increased output and higher tin prices realised last year. Pre-tax profit of the company rose nearly
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 344 11 OVERSEAS UNION SECURITIES LIMITED Issue of 12,500,000 Ordinary Shares of $1.00 each at par The Directors are pleased to announce that at the close of the application list at 12 noon on 23 October 1978, total applications received for the 11,250,000 shares available for public subscription amounted to S9O million
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  • 428 12 A US investment mission will be in Singapore next week to examine the investment climate in the Republic and other Asean countries. The mission, under the auspices of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic), will be in •Singapore from Nov 1 to 5. Although their
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  • 483 12 AFP. A CONSORTIUM of 22 Japanese banks and a Japan-Brazil-Italy steelmaker group have signed an agreement on a huge •US$7OO million (Ssl.4 billion) loan for the joint venture's mill, the biggest coastal steel plant in Brazil. The bank loan will be extended in three
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  • 109 12 Reuter. CHEMICAL New York Corp chairman Donald Platten said he expects that the Federal Reserve Board will ultimately approve the proposed free trade banking zone for New York City. The proposal is currently before the board, following the New York state legislature's approval earlier
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  • 698 12 LONDON, Tues. Share prices closed little changed from overnight levels today, after early small gains were generally erased, dealers said. At 3 p.m., the Financial Times index was up 0.2 at 495.8. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, excluding stamp duty, were: TIN LONDON. Tues. Morning officials: Spot
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  • 228 12 Reuter. DEVELOPING countries are likely to remain the major borrowers on the commercial Euro-currency market this year despite paying more for their loans than industrialised countries, a United Nations report said. Developing countries are expected to raise US$22 to $23.5 billion (Ss47 to
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  • 338 12 SINGAPORE will soon have its first Australian offshore bank. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has granted an offshore license to the Bank of New South Wales, which will begin operations early next year. Announcing this yesterday, Mr. Robert White, the bank's chief general manager, said
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  • 467 12  -  By COLIN CHEE THE US dollar is undervalued against the world's major currencies but it is not likely to recover until confidence in its strength is restored among dollar holders. The problem is basically a psychological one. said Mr. Gabriel Hauge,
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 132 12 IT PAYS TO CONSULT INDCSUEZ BEFORE MAKING A DECISION ON YOUR CASH BALANCES Today we are quoting the following for Singapore Dollar term deposits up to *****.000 1 month 5V2% p.a. 3 months 5%% p.a. 6 months 6% p.a. 9 months 6% p.a. 12 months 6%% p.a. Savings 4¥«%p.a. We
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    • 188 12 If you are only covered against loss or damage by fire, who is protecting your profit, your staff and your business? m i 111 >s9 i The Overseas Assurance Fire and Consequential Loss Policies for businesses. Most businessmen have taken the elementary precaution of obtaining fire insurance coverage. But comparatively
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  • SHIPPING TIMES
    • PORTSIDES
      • 56 13 THE 8,200-ton Taiwanese freighter Good Harvest, carrying sugar from Indonesia to India, was badly damaged when it hit a reef outside Colombo harbour on Sunday. The ship had sprung a leak after it left Goa and was coming into Colombo for repairs. The 10,000-tonne cargo of sugar was
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      • 82 13 AN INDONESIAN freighter with 28 Indonesian seamen onboard was reported listing and sinking in Bashi Channel, about 610 km east/southeast of Hongkong. Hongkong's marine department said the 2,772tonne Apollo 1 was on its way to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from Indonesia with a cargo of timber when it started listing.
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      • 91 13 TRAFFIC at the main French ports is seriously disrupted by a strike called by dockers and seamen. The dockers stopped work on the basic issue of wages while the seamen were protesting against low wages paid to foreign crews on French ships. First reports indicated that
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    • 945 13  -  By RAHIM KASSIM MARINE underwriters in Singapore are growing increasingly alarmed over the recent spate of sinking ships. These have cost them an estimated $22 million in cargo claims. More than a dozen vessels carrying cargo to or from Singapore have been reported to have
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    • 489 13 S«pp*«* P*S® CM. Aconas ra 2 ACS n 5 Afea IV 2 Alpac IV 5 ANL i 1 APL ra 2 Anhsing n 5 Arya Nat n 5 ASCL m 5 Angkutan m 4 Aust.Cont IV 5 Bank n 5 BBS n 2 Ben Asia ra 3 Ben EAC
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    • 158 13 THE Far Eastern Freight Ceafereaee (FEFC) uaeaaeed yesterday aa iarreaee la the Siagapere/ Malaysia currency adjustment factor (CAF) frem tli per eeat to per ceat, effective frem Friday. Ills faitows a review eI carresey vaiaes aa Oct 17,18 aad 19 which resetted la
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    • 456 13 THE SINGAPORE Institute of Shipping Management has submitted a draft syllabus for a diploma course in shipping management to the United Nations Escap office in Bangkok. This is the latest development in the Institute's determined attempt to upgrade the level of professionalism
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    • 55 13 THE Australia Northbound Shipping Conference has said it will raise its Australia to Japan Korea bunker surcharge to 5.18 per cent from 5.11 per cent on Nov 1. On the same date. It will lower its Australia to the Philippines, Hongkong and Taiwan surcharge to 8.45 per
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    • 3730 17 SCHEDULE A guide to ships loading at Singapore for Ports around the World The list below tabulates, by port of destination, the name of the ship, the shipping line involved and the estimated dates of arrival and departure from the Port of
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    • 123 17 The major shipping consortia operat- 1 ing between the Far East/Europe" and Straits ports/Australia and the* member lines. ACE (FAR EAST/EUROPE): Franco Belgian Services. •K' Line Korean Shipping Corporation Neptune Orient Lines Orient Overseas Container Line ANRO (STRAITS/AUSTRALIA): Australian National Line Australia/Straits Container Line Nedlloyd Lines Neptune Orient
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    • 1201 18 IMPORT FCL CONTAINERS EX CONTAINER VESSELS AT CONTAINER TERMINAL 2ET Vessel's Voy Date/Time Of Date/Time Mode Of Name No. Completion Of Store Rent Operations s Discharge Due Varda 26E 14.10.78 (f, 0355 17.10.78 fe 0700 vc HK Express 32/478 14.10.78 <a 0027 17.10.78 fe 0700 VC Nedlloyd Dejima
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    • 782 18 Lloyd's List. THE SECONDHAND price of semi-submersible drilling rigs has now reached such a low level that a purchase deal can be justified as a healthy investment, according to Norwegian brokers R. S. Platou. They point out that, even with current North Sea
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    • 657 18 AFP FREIGHT rates as reported in London moved further ahead last week as activity increased particularly in the grain trades, with the Chinese and Japanese providing much of the interest in both the single voyage and period markets. In the time section, the Chinese were reported to have
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    • 320 18 FT. A RATHER noisy drama in a corner of South West Japan could have decisive significance for Japan's shipbuilding industry. Japan's first and only nuclear powered ship, the 10,400 tonne Mutsu, arrived at the dockyard of Sasebo Heavy Industries (SSK) in Kyushu for repairs
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      328 18 EXPECTED ARRIVALS TODAY KEPPEL WHARVES Bunga Seta war (0500 after Bunga Mas) 19 Kim Ann (1500 after Car Liner No. 1) 33/34 Kimko Stork (0400 after Zak) 13/14 Lica Maersk (0600) 6/7 May Sky (1100) 29/30 Perak (1800) 21 East Protomaehos (1000 46 Song Traly (0600) 27/28
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    • 174 18 UPI THE Soviet merchant shipping fleet is expanding at the rate of about a million tonnes a year and with a gross carrying capacity of 20.8 million tonnes retains its place as sixth largest in the world, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 466 13 DIRECT DIVERSIFIED DEPENDABLE ,SERVICES TO/FROM USA AND CANADA Agents Barber Lines Singapore Pte Lid Tel ***** Harrisons A Croslield Kuala Lumpur Tat: MtHI/l Pemas-MiSC Penang Tel ***** \K I) 1\ I W I \H Orient Overseas Co*dai*t&i Line FU.LT CONTAKRBED SERVICE TO HMKCOni QCVMJD PHI 13W ocvMons u« KTOMKM 12W
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    • 200 13 f SEALORD ANTAH N UASC UNITED ARAB SHIPPING CO (SAG) L 11 All vessels ***** DWT, 105 TON H .L. Derrick 288 TEU Capacity, Long Length Capability. '■ARABIAN GULF WEEKLY SERVICE! S'pore Loading for BN QUTABAH 16/12 PKelang Dubai (11/11). A Dhabi (14/11). Doha (16/11), a Bahrain (18/11), Damm (20/11).
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    • 494 13 SEA y a LAND FULL CONTAINER SERVICE TO JEDDAH BOOKING TEL: *****22 Fpf uS Pacrfic. QuM Atlantic and East Canada (Also accepting lor Hongkong Taiwan Japan and Korea) FULLY CONTAINERIZED FAST DIRECT WEEKLY ftartKatong EZ >•* R* Last Asa (Heafkeat M. Mini Hwtiun) Ma* (Tallin. Kate YateMaa. Ikpn Osaka. Sh
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 787 14 Hapag-Uoyd FUIY CONTMOBO) TO EUMK EXPRESS (MHHI TOBMPI fpn PJMMI PM Ma* (MI F<nwala*i 27/10 24/10 13/11 ton* 13/11 5/12 30/11 MeritaSe 27/11 21/11 21/12 17/12 Mwiliilwd 1/12 9/12 3/1 30/12 FULLY CONTMOBO) TO GENOA/TRKTE fpn P. Mm GMM M»iaita 30/10 1/11 22/11 IMiUptm 10/11 12/11 3/12 KUT CONTMOHD TO
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    • 391 14 ES barber blue seoC Fmk US AIUHIK IB ttli I EAST CANADA v« l/l I 22 tm3B 124 tan in Nb 11 F*« 121 Nk 13 F* 12 FSEfI SIX 12-13/12 27-21/ 14-15/12 I 21/12 15-17/12 11-19/12 19-11/12 22-23/12 24-21/12 14-IVI 27 21/11 12-13/12 29-31/11 14-15/12 39-2/12 15-17/12 34/12 11-19/12
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    • 416 14 EVERGREEN LINE 'EVERGRFEN MARINE CORPORATION, FAR EAST/RED SEA. MEDITERRANEAN SEA EXPRESS FULL CONTANER SERVICE ALSO ACCEPTHG CARGO FOR GENOA. LATTAAIA, BE RUT ALEXANDRIA. BENGHAZI. TMPOLI (LBYA) rpM 'MM tat Sat LMmM fm 1 lb* 11 Nh 14 Mm lIMm 21Nm 8h Ikc IS IM« tt IM* 2J Mm IDK iOk
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    • 668 14 Everett Lines "BURMESEJjIATIONAL LINE' B.F.S.S.C. Acents hi Malaysia TEPS MALAYSIA Port ReUng Tel (38) 7355 Penang Id. *****/***** rw 9 CMena de Navagacion Intarocaanica d 4 "CHILEAN NATIONAL LINE" (k FM WT/GMU, PBRE CCMM MB HUM WW "a* CCM BaaM M MN|~ IOAOBK FOR OMTAQUL CttUO. MCA, «Wt ANFOFAGASTA. VM.PARMSO
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