The Business Times, 27 November 2014

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    29 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 S|jh A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg G C ©BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 051/08/2014 I Wednesday, October 8, Thursday, November 27, 2014G
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    27 1 Wednesday Change STI 3,349.66 +4.67 KL COMP 1,842.17 +3.61 NIKKEI 225 17,383.58 -24.04 HANG SENG 24,111.98 +268.07 SHENZHEN B 989.11 +3.98 DOW (9.30am EST) 17,815.56 +0.62
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    250 1 Cash-rich Singapore investors are confident about their financial future and save proportionately more than their peers around the world. But they are also reluctant to take risks, and typically seek guaranteed returns from their investments, a survey by BlackRock finds. TOP STORIES 3 Some family offices in the
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    Lock icon Small hopes for Big Oil meeting
    1094 1  -  Crude oil prices have tumbled by about a third to a four-year low since peaking in June By Joyce Hooi joyceh@sph.com.sg @JoyceHooiBT Singapore AT the meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) in Vienna on Thursday, tensions will be high behind closed
    Source: Bloomberg data; Source: ABN AMRO Group Economics, Thomson Reuters  -  1,094 words
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    Lock icon To Redas, on its 55th anniversary
    86 1 Singapore PAST Redas president Wong Heang Fine, current president Chia Boon Kuah, Minister for National Development Khaw Boon Wan, Hong How Group chairman Daniel Teo and City Developments group general manager Chia Ngiang Hong raising a toast to the Real Estate Developers’ Association of
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      176 1 *****1 *****4 SINGAPORE ECONOMY October factory output disappoints, up just 0.2% TOP STORIES 2 BOOK REVIEW Dissecting the global financial crisis IPO WATCH Keppel DC Reit lodges preliminary prospectus COMPANIES MARKETS 6 RESERVE LIST SITE No small strata office, retail units for Beach Road site OPINION 25 REAL ESTATE 10
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Singapore October factory output disappoints, up just 0.2%
      585 2  -  Pharmaceuticals output offsets contractions in the electronics and transport engineering clusters By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore THE first set of industrial output data for Q4 has underscored Singapore’s sluggish growth outlook. The manufacturing sector barely expanded in October, with factory output
      Source: Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)  -  585 words
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      Lock icon ANZ sees ‘continued sub-par performance’ for S’pore economy
      411 2  -  Uncertainty hampers rebound in consumer demand By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore SINGAPORE’S economy is expected to have a “continued sub-par performance”, suggested by a lack of visibility that will hamper any significant rebound in domestic consumer demand, even as Singaporean consumer
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      Lock icon Redas urges govt to intervene if property market turns volatile
      749 2  -  Redas chief echoes the property market’s concern over the effects of cooling measures By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore THE president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (Redas) Chia Boon Kuah on Wednesday urged the government to “stand
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      Lock icon Singapore investors – cash-rich and risk-averse
      578 3  - Singapore investors cash-rich and risk-averse BlackRock global survey finds that they typically keep more cash in their portfolio than they know is ideal and want guaranteed returns from investments By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore CASH-RICH Singapore investors are confident about their financial future and in the local stock market,
      Source: BlackRock  -  578 words
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      Lock icon New diagnostics development hub to improve treatment results
      320 3  -  The S$60m facility will cater to demand for devices for more immediate diagnosis By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore A S$60 million Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub was launched at Biopolis on Wednesday to cater to the rapidly growing demand for devices that
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      Lock icon Asia-Pac family offices put up weaker showing: survey
      474 4  -  Family offices in the region that missed expectations rose to 10 this year from none 12 months ago By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore FOR the first time in three years, some Asia-Pacific family offices have underperformed their investment benchmark, the first
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      Lock icon More LTA measures to improve taxi availability from Jan 1, 2015
      538 4  -  By Angela Tan angelat@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE’S Land Transport Authority (LTA) unveiled on Wednesday more measures to improve the availability of taxis in the city-state. It noted that while more taxis are plying the roads and getting hired, there is
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      Lock icon ECB’s policy of negative interest rates draws flak in Germany
      596 4 AFP Frankfurt THE European Central Bank (ECB) is under fire in Germany because of its policy of negative interest rates, which is prompting some banks to charge customers for holding money in their bank accounts. In Germany, where saving is
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      Lock icon October consumer spending up on oil price dip
      272 4 LATEST US DATA REUTERS Washington CONSUMER spending rebounded in the United States in October, suggesting some resilience in the economy at the start of the fourth quarter. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday that consumer spending increased 0.2 per cent last month
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      61 4 SALE 20% f pair 30% -2 nd pair Terms Conditions Promotion starts 22 November. Applicable on regular priced items only. Some exclusion of models apply. 30% discount applies on lower priced item. Promotion mechanics, dates and participating outlets may be subject to changes. While stocks last. Clarks Boutique Ion Orchard
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Suntec Reit up again as it joins SiMSCI
      486 5  -  Trust replaces commodity group Olam international as a component of the MSCI Singapore Index INDEX MOVERS By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore SHARES in Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust (Suntec Reit) extended their gains on Wednesday, hitting a new one-year high as
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      Lock icon Four stocks debut on MSCI S’pore Small Cap Index
      272 5  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore ACCORDIA Golf Trust (AG Trust) on Wednesday made its debut on the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Singapore Small Cap Index, along with three other companies. The other three are offshore support vessel provider PACC
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      Lock icon Global investor confidence slides in Nov
      306 5 Singapore GLOBAL investor confidence fell in November, with the decline paced by North American and Asian investors. According to the State Street Investor Confidence Index, the global index fell to 114.0, down slightly by 1.8 points from October’s revised reading of 115.8. The North
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      Lock icon SGX to launch bond trading platform
      494 6  -  Targeted for rollout by mid-2015, it will initially include Asian corporate bonds in G-3 currencies, followed by Asian currencies By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore SINGAPORE Exchange plans to roll out a bond trading platform by mid next year which will initially include Asian
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      Lock icon YuuZoo targets Nigeria in tie-up with Etisalat
      446 6  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore YUUZOO Corporation has signed a deal with Etisalat to bring its social e-commerce model to Nigeria, said YuuZoo on Wednesday evening, shortly after requesting a trading halt. The partnership targets Etisalat’s more than 20 million subscribers in
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      Lock icon Keppel DC Reit closer to IPO as it lodges preliminary prospectus
      475 6  -  By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore THE much-awaited Keppel DC Reit initial public offering came a step closer to fruition after the firm lodged a preliminary prospectus on Wednesday for an offer to raise between S$496.5 million and S$513
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      Lock icon Universal Terminal IPO likely to take form of stapled securities
      549 7  -  Offering of hybrid units akin to those of CDL Hospitality Trust may take place before year-end to raise up to S$1b By Chan Yi Wen yiwenc@sph.com.sg @ChanYiWenBT Singapore UNIVERSAL Terminal’s impending initial public offering (IPO) on the Singapore Exchange could
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      Lock icon Continental opens S$29.7m R&D extension building
      415 7  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore GERMAN automotive supplier Continental has opened a S$29.7 million extension building to its research and development (R&D) centre in Singapore, in line with its expansion plans against the backdrop of Asia’s growing automobile industry. Spanning 5,000 square metres,
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      Lock icon Growth expected to stay stable for IHH Healthcare
      413 7  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore DBS Group Research expects hospital operator IHH Healthcare to continue to post stable growth, fuelled by key markets Singapore and Malaysia, although growth in its Turkey operations could be partially impacted by the weaker Turkish lira.
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times index NOV 26,2014 3,349.66 +4.67 (+0.14%) Current streak 2 days Day high 3,349.66 Day low 3,330.80 52-week high 3,374.06 (July 31, 2014) 52-week low 2,960.09 (Feb 5, 2014) FTSE ST Catalist index NOV 26,2014 793.16 +5.49 (+0.70%) Current streak 1 day Day high 793.50 Day low
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      75 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT ASX200 US$ 3869 -196.3 -3.8 4403/3647 JSH USD 3490 -33.8 -0.7 3810/3006 GLD US$ ***** -32.5 -0.2 *****/***** DBXT Vietam US$ 2810 -13.0 -0.4 3100/2384 DBXT S&P Short US$ 2233 -10.4 -0.4 2752/2233 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Ezion MBeCW*****2 0.2
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      Lock icon YuuZoo hotly traded as STI ends flat
      594 8  -  Stock rises 8% with more than 40 million shares changing hands before trading halt and Nigeria deal announcement TT STOCKS By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT AS investors await news from Thursday’s Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meeting for clues on where
      Source: Bloomberg  -  594 words
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      307 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 233 +2 234/230 250 206 6.1 5887.2 CapitaLand 332 -1 333/331 348 268 16.6 2.4 *****.2 CapitaMall Trust 199 +1 200/198 209 180 5.2 6901.9 CityDev 999 +11 999/984 1118 860 13.6
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      37 8 VOLUME MDR 75,020,000 IHC 72,322,000 SIIC Environment 67,228,000 Addvalue Tech 57,480,000 Memstar Tech 56,051,000 Market volume 1,816,416,000 VALUE Suntec Reit 85,862,205 SingTel 81,956,424 Global Logistic 61,157,330 DBS Grp 58,651,806 OCBC Bank 52,700,462 Market value 1,208,571,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs
      111 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS MS India US$ US780 +6 1521 783/774 790/541 778/780 97.5 UETF SSE50China 176 +4 502 176/173 176/140 175/176 55 DBXT CSI300 US$ US800 +16 78 803/784 803/613 801/804 ABF SG Bond ETF 116.8 +0.3 53
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      77 8 Nov 26 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -83.00 +47.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +22.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -8.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 755.92 +1.25 FTSE ST Small Cap 517.88 +0.02 FTSE ST All Share 806.08 +1.09 FTSE ST China Top 192.53 -0.54 FTSE ST China 227.33 +0.03 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index NOV 26,2014 806.08 +1.09 (+0.14%) Current streak 2 days Day high 806.08 Day low 802.29 52-week high 819.39 (July 31, 2014) 52-week low 722.35 (Feb 5, 2014)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE Index NOV 25,2014 1,842.26 +9.30 (+0.51%) Current streak 3 days Day high 1,842.59 Day low 1,830.36 52-week high 1,995.49 (July 3, 2014) 52-week low 1,714.64 (Oct 16, 2014)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 4 5 5 0 0 0 4 5 5 Manufacturing 44 40 41 11 6 8 55 46 49 Commerce 13 14 27 7 5 1 20 19 28 Tpt/Stor/Comms 16 12 13
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      119 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 13,762 13,762 66,520 66,520 Manufacturing 360,658 53,214 413,872 126,030 2,885 128,915 Commerce 105,247 30,789 136,036 107,648 1,846 109,494 Tpt/Stor/Comms 113,384 666 114,050 177,177 231 177,408 Finance 19,129 529 19,658 169,082 118 169,200 Construction 14,164 31,156
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      77 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low SPDR DJIA US$ ***** 391.3 1.7 *****/***** SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 106.6 0.4 *****/***** DBXT MSEurope US$ 5885 80.6 1.1 6492/5366 DBXT Nifty US$ ***** 68.9 0.4 *****/9759 DBXT iBoxxSing SG$ ***** 68.0 0.5 *****/***** BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Cedar Strategic
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      80 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Addvalue Tech 57,480.0 0.082 +0.013 +18.84 Amplefield 34,940.0 0.007 +0.001 +16.67 Europtronic 480.0 0.017 -0.010 -37.04 Enviro-Hub 694.0 0.058 +0.011 +23.40 Mann Seng Metal 35.0 0.100 +0.005 +5.26 Wilton Resources 5,790.0 0.097 -0.003 -3.00 L-Jacoberg 104.0 0.040 +0.005 +14.29 Sunright 95.0 0.160 -0.014 -8.05 Sapphire
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Suntec Reit
        135 8 BUY Nov 26 close: S$1.94 Target price: S$2.00 DMG Research, Nov 26 A HUGE volume of 129.3 million units in Suntec Reit changed hands just minutes after the 5pm closing on Tuesday, sending the counter to the top of the most actives list 180.2 million units were traded,
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        143 8 ADD Nov 26 close: S$1.895 Target price: S$2.16 CIMB Research, Nov 25 IHH’s Q3 2014 and first nine months of 2014 headline numbers were close misses to consensus and our forecasts. Core earnings for the nine months formed 70 per cent of our FY2014 estimate. The results would
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        190 8  -  Compiled by Claire Huang HOLD Nov 26 close: S$0.76 Target price: S$0.77 OCBC Research, Nov 26 EZRA’S share price has dropped by about 30 per cent since the start of September and has lost almost half of its value year-to-date. It has been one of the hardest hit
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        9 8 DATA I 8.30 am S’pore Business Receipts Index
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      Lock icon Pound dips after weaker UK investment data
      373 9 TT CURRENCIES REUTERS London STERLING hit a day’s low against the US dollar and a five-day low against the euro on Wednesday after data showed that British business investment fell in the third quarter of the year. The pound dipped 0.2 per cent
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    • FOREX RATES
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        471 9 Nov 26 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.963 5.250 0.686 6.632 52.916 104.022 1.007 9.464 2.862 1.090 87.029 38.422 1.112 9.374 0.825 26.428 28.042 0.544 0.855 Canada 1.038 5.451
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 NOV 26 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1116 1.1122 0.8550 0.8554 Canadian dollar 1.1540 1.1547 0.8881 0.8876 Euro 1.6215 1.6217 1.2472 1.2473 NZ dollar 1.0194 1.0199 0.7841 0.7844 Sterling pound 2.0422 2.0430 1.5708 1.5713
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        22 9 NOV 26 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3005 1.3008 2-months 1.3006 1.3009 3-months 1.3007 1.3010 6-months 1.3008 1.3011 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        368 9 Nov 26 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES SPOT *****.97 *****.57 *****.99 Dec14 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****3 Mar15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 169 5355 MSCI TAIWAN INDEX FUTURES SPOT 340.39 341.03 339.64 Nov14 340.10 341.10 339.20 340.20 *****7 ***** Dec14 340.20
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        217 9 Most active Nov 26 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left STI 3150 MB ePW*****7 3 -0.1 2950 0.0 --3 OCBC Bk MB eCW*****3 10 0.6 2660 0.2 1060 5 Rowsley Ltd W*****3 4.3 -0.1 2250 1 18
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        373 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Nov 25 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1287.3 0.1 8.7 -0.1 8.2 0.2 4.9 EAFE Preliminary 1000.1 0.3 4.6 0.3 -0.9 0.5 -3.8 Europe Preliminary 1406.9 0.3 3.8
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        154 9 Nov 26 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.02 0.00 1-month 0.4375 0.3125 2-months 0.4375 0.3125 3-months 0.4375 0.3125 Overnight mode: 0.05 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.18 0.08 1 month 0.25 0.15 2 months 0.30 0.20 3 months 0.40 0.20 6 months 0.50 0.30 9 months 0.60 0.40 12
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        36 9 NOV 26 (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 12 mths 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** Source: Thomson Reuters
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        65 9 Nov 26 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****F 3.75 01-Sep-16 105.57 5-Year N*****0H 1.625 01-Oct-19 100.67 100.75 100.70 10-Year NY*****H 3.000 01-Sep-24 106.29 106.40 106.38 15-Year NY*****E 2.875 01-Jul-29 102.93 103.00 102.80 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 108.51 108.70 108.70
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        212 9 NOV-25 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Nov-25 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 1051.00 17.25 1.67% 14/01/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 33.42 0.22 0.66% 12/12/2014 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 551.50 9.25 1.71% 12/12/2014 Nov-25 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 1895.00 -21.00 -1.10% 12/12/2014 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 2095.00 -2.00 -0.10%
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        57 9 NOV 26 KLCE Palm Futures (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Dec 14 2206.0 2205.0 2216.0 2200.0 301 3865 Jan 15 2212.0 2239.0 2243.0 2210.0 5789 ***** Feb 15 2216.0 2240.0 2243.0 2206.0 ***** ***** Mar 15 2222.0 2243.0
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon No small strata office, retail units allowed for Beach Road site
      838 10  -  URA says at least 70 per cent must be for offices; it has put a cap on space for retail. Consultants say price will go past S$1,000 psf ppr By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore A MINIMUM 70 per
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      Lock icon Property developers sell bonds to fund projects, spurn shadow banking
      924 10 Financing through sale of notes boosts transparency in sector flagged as the No 1 risk to the economy CHINA WATCH BLOOMBERG Singapore CHINA’S builders are selling more bonds and spurning shadow banking, boosting transparency in an industry flagged by regulators
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      Lock icon PBOC interest rate cut seen halting home sales slide as sentiment turns
      733 10 Cut is equivalent to 2.5% reduction on a 1m yuan apartment BLOOMBERG Beijing CHINA’S first interest rate cut since 2012 is set to halt a slide in property sales, reducing developers’ stock of unsold homes that has weighed
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      Lock icon Vietnam relaxes foreign property ownership rule
      525 11 It expands criteria for foreigners to buy homes with the aim to create favourable conditions to draw foreign investment BLOOMBERG Ho Chi Minh city VIETNAM’S Parliament approved a law allowing broad foreign ownership of property, as the government seeks to boost an ailing real-estate
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      Lock icon Al-Futtaim to invest US$700m in Egypt
      223 11 REUTERS Cairo DUBAI-BASED conglomerate Al-Futtaim Group said on Tuesday it would invest US$700 million in Egypt over three years and pay the government US$30.5 million as part of a settlement reached last week over a long-stand-ing land sale dispute. Mohamed al-Makkawi, Al-Futtaim’s Egypt CEO,
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      Lock icon Rockefellers to give up office occupied since 1933
      245 11 WP New York DESCENDANTS of John D Rockefeller Jr will vacate office space at 30 Rockefeller Plaza that the family has occupied for more than 80 years. The Rockefeller family will leave Room 5600, the full-floor space on the tower’s 56th storey,
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      Lock icon US luxury home sales slowing from Miami to Los Angeles
      837 12 Rising prices, strengthening currency discourage foreign investors, who helped lead the recovery, from buying BLOOMBERG Boston GROWTH in million-dollar home sales is slowing in areas including Miami, Las Vegas and Los Angeles as rising prices and the strengthening US dollar
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      1207 13 Vacancy rates have become acute as its problems reflect the broader issues in the Russian economy MOSCOW TROUBLES NYT MOSCOW IN the coveted corner office, a bearded man in sweatpants scrambled eggs at a kitchenette, all the while taking in the
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      449 13 BLOOMBERG Moscow THIS week’s opening in Moscow of Europe’s biggest shopping mall comes at an inopportune moment for investors backing the project. The Aviapark mall opens its doors on Friday, just as Russia is headed towards recession and its businesses are
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      590 14 Potential homebuyers are pulling back before next year’s elections, regulators have tightened financing CONTRASTS IN EUROPE BLOOMBERG London BRITAIN’S biggest mortgage lenders face faltering earnings growth as potential homebuyers pull back before next year’s general election, regulators tighten financing and the economy slows. Nationwide
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      492 14 BLOOMBERG Rome AS home prices in Italy fall for the seventh year, buyers have stopped waiting for the bottom. Sales of existing homes will increase 3.7 per cent this year, marking the first gain since 2006, researcher Nomisma Institute said in
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      684 15 SEC extracts US$12.5m penalty from the bank, which like Credit Suisse acknowledged wrongdoing NYT New York THE United States’ crackdown on Swiss bank secrecy gained steam on Tuesday, as HSBC’s private banking unit in Switzerland settled an investigation into how it had
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      384 15 REUTERS London BAD behaviour that has cost British banks £38.5 billion (S$78.7 billion) in fines and compensation over the past 15 years will take a generation to fix, an independent think tank said on Tuesday. Britain’s banks have been
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      537 15 Investors are sceptical about prospects, workers worry about loosening govt grip REUTERS Mumbai INDIA’S state-run banks face major obstacles in their plans to raise as much as US$60 billion in new capital over the next few years, with investors sceptical
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      978 16 Petroleum exporters’ decision at Thursday summit will have global consequences, especially for countries that rely largely on imported oil BLOOMBERG New Delhi INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi has oil to thank for helping an economic revival in his country. Whether his luck holds
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      921 16 BLOOMBERG Houston NO matter what Opec countries decide on Thursday about cutting oil output, US producers already know what they’re going to do: drill on. As Saudi Arabia and its 11 fellow members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
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      284 16 REUTERS Sydney THE number of resource projects reaching financial commitment in Australia has fallen as sagging minerals and energy prices lead companies to tighten their belts, the government’s chief commodities forecaster said on Wednesday. In the six months to October, just three
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      221 16 Reuters Bangkok AROUND 50 Thai rubber farmers gathered outside Bangkok’s Government House on Tuesday, in defiance of martial law, to protest a draft rubber law and to demand the government buy their produce at higher prices. Farmers in the world’s top rubber producer have threatened
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      413 17 REUTERS San Francisco HEWLETT-PACKARD Co (HP) said its quarterly revenue fell in almost every business segment over the year, highlighting weaknesses ahead of the company’s planned 2015 separation of its enterprise services from its traditional computer and printing units. Sales fell
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      306 17 AFP Montreal CANADIAN smartphone maker BlackBerry is wooing Apple customers with a cash offer for trade-ins of iPhones for its new square-screened, keyboard-equipped Passport. The promotion was announced late Monday and will be available starting next month until Feb 13, in Canada and the
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      770 17 New division under CEO is developing products and services that don’t fit the mould of group’s existing businesses BLOOMBERG Tokyo SONY Corp is developing a watch made out of electronic paper for release as soon as next year
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      604 18  -  Platform, which will also be rolled out to other Asian markets, will allow easy purchase of insurance products By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE United States’ largest life insurer, MetLife Inc, on Wednesday rolled out a new digital platform in
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      657 18 BLOOMBERG New York AN estimated 140 million US shoppers will hit stores and the Web this weekend in search of post-Thanksgiv-ing discounts, kicking off what retailers predict will be the best holiday season in three years. While the number of customers
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      Lock icon US market for seasonal work at its most favourable since 2007
      796 18 821,000 workers will be hired for retail jobs this year, up 11% from a year ago BLOOMBERG Atlanta WANDA Tucker was hired on the spot for a part-time job with Gap Inc’s Banana Republic chain earlier this month after
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      666 18 AFP London AS Christmas nears, British television screens are filled with heart-warming tales of lonely penguins, family reunions and homesick soldiers in an attempt to get customers to part with their cash. More and more retailers are ditching traditional
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      1212 20 Airlines merging and consolidating operations in fewer hubs have left four big carriers controlling about 80% of airlines’ seat capacity, down from 11 in 2005 NYT New York THANKSGIVING weekend has traditionally been the busiest time of the year for air travel, but
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      Lock icon MH370 search: Australia tries new drift modelling
      309 20 REUTERS Sydney AUSTRALIA is working on new drift modelling to expand the geographical area in which wreckage from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may come ashore, the Australian search coordinator said on Wednesday. Initial analysis had suggested that the first debris from the
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      Lock icon Sale of Port of Melbourne seen drawing 3 bidders
      239 20 REUTERS Sydney THREE of Australia’s largest infrastructure funds plan to bid for the country’s largest container terminal in a sale expected to fetch about A$5 billion (S$5.5 billion) for Victoria state, a source with knowledge of the process said on Wednesday.
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      Lock icon Boeing plans strategic partnerships with Indian defence firms
      590 20 BLOOMBERG New Delhi BOEING Co, the world’s largest planemaker, is considering investing in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi eases rules for foreign investment in the defence sector and expedites arms contracts. The Chicago-based aerospace company is in the process of identifying
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      704 21  -  UN report says the positive effects of the affirmative-action New Economic Policy (NEP) have faded. It has instead skewed distribution of wealth and bred dependency and graft By Pauline Ng Kuala Lumpur DESPITE continuing economic growth, Malaysia’s middle class remains small at 20
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      401 21 AFP Hong Kong HUNDREDS of Hong Kong police on Wednesday cleared a pro-democracy protest camp, arresting Joshua Wong and another student leader and reopening a main road that has been blocked for almost two months. Pushing back protesters, police with
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      610 22 EU Commission chief wants the world to know that ‘Europe is back in business’ AFP Strasbourg NEW EU Commission chief JeanClaude Juncker on Wednesday unveiled an eagerly awaited US$392 billion investment plan to “kickstart” the economy, saying it would show the world that Europe
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      Lock icon Consumer spending drives UK economy to 7th quarter of growth as exports, investment decline
      384 22 Household spending increases 0.8% in Q3, the most since Q2 2010 BLOOMBERG London THE biggest increase in consumer spending in more than four years drove the UK economy to a seventh straight quarter of growth, as
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      Lock icon Merkel coalition to require more women on German boards
      371 22 BLOOMBERG Berlin CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel’s coalition has agreed to move forward with a plan to mandate that more women fill non-executive posts at German companies. The governing Christian Democrats and Social Democrats will require listed companies to allocate 30 per cent
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      Lock icon Anti-TTIP activists hijack EU’s online public consultation
      407 22 REUTERS Brussels EUROPEAN campaigners against an EU-US accord have held up progress towards the world’s biggest free trade deal by deluging an online public consultation that European Union officials had hoped would help them unblock a key issue. Of almost 150,000 submissions to
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      Lock icon BOJ hikes governor’s pay after 9 years
      231 22 REUTERS Tokyo THE Bank of Japan has given its governor something the government wishes all private-sector employees in Japan could get a pay rise that might help make the policy dubbed “Abenomics” work. The pay-hike is the first in nine years for BOJ’s
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      Lock icon Obama: Don’t let frustrations turn into violence
      456 22 Anger over shooting should be directed into political action to change system, he says BLOOMBERG Washington US President Barack Obama acknowledged the anger of minority communities over their treatment by police and urged them not to let their frustrations boil over into the
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      651 23 Leaders of the eight South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries are meeting for the first time since the election of a new government in New Delhi AFP Kathmandu SOUTH Asian leaders met in Kathmandu on Wednesday with regional superpower India seeking
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      Lock icon Najib: Malaysia needs new law to counter risks posed by ISIS
      577 23  -  By S Jayasankaran Kuala Lumpur THE growing risk posed by returning Malaysians allied to the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and proselytising its cause locally has prompted the Malaysian government to propose a new law to counter
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      Lock icon Singapore disinflation not a concern for now
      536 24 EDITORIAL WHETHER Singapore is experiencing disinflationary pressures and what that might mean for the economy were the inevitable questions that followed Monday’s inflation release showing that consumer prices in October barely rose 0.1 per cent from a year ago. This was the lowest
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      832 24  -  TT THE BOTTOM LINE By Frank Ching T The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. Follow him on Twitter: @FrankChing1 THE frosty handshake between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic
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      1282 24  -  Even the strongest Republican critics of Obama’s proposals don’t have an alternative plan for what to do with the millions of illegal immigrants and their children who grew up in the US By Leon Hadar Washington FOR most of the decades that followed
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      Lock icon Europe’s German ball and chain
      881 25  -  TT COMMENTARY By Daniel Gros T The writer is director of the Centre for European Policy Studies Brussels A STORM-TOSSED ship near dangerous cliffs needs a strong anchor to avoid finishing on the rocks. In 2012, when a financial storm engulfed the eurozone, it was
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      365 25  -  TT LETTER TO THE EDITOR Bey Mui Leng (Ms) Director (corporate communications) Monetary Authority of Singapore WE refer to the article by R Sivanithy, “Reinvent rules for remisiers” (BT, Nov 18). He mentioned that trading representatives (TRs) of broking houses are prohibited from
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      2210 25  -  Martin Wolf offers a masterly post-mortem of the Great Recession and after By Vikram Khanna DURING an interview with me in June 2007 (published in BT on July 7), Timothy Geithner, then chief of the New York Fed, which regulates Wall Street banks, didn’t seem
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      445 27  -  Under their partnership, fans of mixed martial arts or MMA across the world can watch and comment on the fights hosted on FB in real time By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore SOCIAL networking platform Facebook has formed a partnership with Singapore-based
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      864 27 NYT New York ERNIE Button, a photographer in Phoenix, found art at the bottom of a whiskey glass. Howard A Stone, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at Princeton University, found the science in the art. Eight years ago, Mr
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      665 27 Friendsgiving a new American tradition WP Washington SHAUNA Alexander’s Friendsgiving story began in the traditional way: She was avoiding her family. “I was having some tough times with my parents as one does when they’re 25,” she recalls. “It was just growing pains with the folks.” So, instead of going
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      331 27 AFP Manila A FILIPINO woman has been reunited with her dog a year after the pet went missing in the chaos of the country’s deadliest ever typhoon, she told AFP on Tuesday. The nine-year-old mongrel named Bunny survived giant
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      341 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Sham trial (5) 4 Frank reveals personal facts about writer without permission (9) 9 Beastly creatures emerge in a cast (9) 10 Unusual time Lawrence’s initially spent making bouquet (5) 11 A centre for Libyans in poor housing, offering places of refuge (7) 12 Particular keys
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