The Business Times, 19 May 2015

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    34 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 2015 SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD■BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN■ S$1.00 $h A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg [3 I D@BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 05’!/O8/2014 Tuesday, May 19,2015
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    248 1 The chief economist of the Bank of Japan offers an upbeat assessment of the short-term prospects for the world’s third-largest economy.TOP STORIES 2 IF Singapore is to improve on its service standards, says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, all stakeholders companies, service staff and customers have to do
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    28 1 MARKETS Monday Change STI 3,459.57 -3.53 KL COMP 1,823.50 +11.58 NIKKEI 225 19,890.27 +157.35 HANG SENG 27,591.25 -231.03 SHENZHEN B 1,555.89 +24.42 DOW (11.45am EDT) 18,289.47 +16.91
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    Lock icon NODX growth eases to 2.2% in April
    641 1  -  Modest showing far cry from 18.5% rise in March, but still surprises as market had expected a 5% contraction By Chuang Peck Ming peckming@sph.com.sg @PeckmingB NON-OIL domestic exports failed to maintain their momentum of March, with year-on-year growth in April slumping back to
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    Lock icon Govt releases new developer rules on show units, sales data
    1100 1  -  By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore LEGISLATIVE changes to the Housing Developers (Control and Licensing) Act will now require developers to provide detailed sales data on a weekly basis and disclose the value of any benefits to buyers in transaction
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      122 1 8 "*****1 *****4 GIC IN SEOUL GIC to buy Seoul mall with Canadian fund for US$263m TOP STORIES 6 Carrier CALIBRE DE CARTIER DIVER MANUFACTURE MOVEMENT 1904 MC WATER-RESISTANT TO 300 METRES, THE CALIBRE DE CARTIER DIVER WATCH IS AN AUTHENTIC DIVING WATCH. FITTED WITH THE 1904 MC MOVEMENT, IT
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      23 1 CBRE HOTELS S’pore hotel market to stay challenging REAL ESTATE 12 STRATEGIC MOVE Digiland forms energy-trading joint venture in Malta COMPANIES MARKETS 7
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      11 1 SCCCI REACHES OUT SMEs told to adapt, be pro-active SME 26
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon BOJ chief economist optimistic about Japan’s short-term outlook
      699 2  -  Falling oil prices seen shaving over 10t yen from energy bill, more than the 8t yen hit from last year’s sales tax hike By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE chief economist of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Monday offered an upbeat
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      Lock icon EU reform is more than renegotiation
      878 2  -  By Hugo Dixon SM REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS V*. London REFORMING the European Union involves more than renegotiating the UK’s relationship with it. That may sound like a statement of the obvious, but in the British debate over staying in the EU, the two have virtually
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      Lock icon Greek endgame nears as bank collateral runs dry
      722 2 BLOOMBERG Athens GREEK banks are running short on the collateral they need to stay alive, a crisis that could help force Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ hand after weeks of brinkmanship with creditors. As deposits flee the financial system, lenders use collateral parked
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      Lock icon PM Lee: Make service part of S’pore culture, DNA
      766 4  -  Businesses, service staff and customers all have a role to play in transforming the service industry; nation’s service culture “not quite where we want to be yet” By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore IF Singapore is to improve on its service
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      Lock icon Enhanced Post-Diploma Certificate courses to start in October
      433 4  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore THE Ministry of Education (MOE) on Monday launched Enhanced Post-Di-ploma Certificate (PDC) courses in areas such as information and communication technologies (ICT), engineering and the applied sciences all designed to deepen the skills of those who
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      Lock icon Singapore signs MOUs on cyber security, trade marks
      408 4  -  By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore SINGAPORE on Monday signed two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) one on cyber security with France, and another on trade-mark cooperation with China. The former is the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore’s (CSA) first international MOU. It
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      Lock icon GIC, Canada pension fund to buy Seoul mall for US$263m
      428 6  -  investment reflects confidence in long-term growth of Korean domestic demand, says GIC By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT GIC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) have bought the retail mall portion of South-Kore-an megacomplex D-Cube City for US$263 million,
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      Lock icon Insurers urged to seek solutions to low interest rates
      525 6  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT FACED with persistent low interest rates, insurers need to proactively seek solutions to beat the blues, said analysts, adding that they could either reprice products or adjust new business guarantees or bonuses to reflect the market
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      371 4 Broadcasthsia2B15 0ammuninnsia2II15 [ntErnriseMT2ai5 www.Broadcast-Asia.com LEVEL 4 5 www.CommunicAsia.comwww.goto-enterpriselT.com BASEMENT 2, LEVEL 1 &3 2 5 JUNE 2015 MARINA BAY SANDS, SINGAPORE Asia's most comprehensive showcase of innovative technologies in the ICT, Entertainment and Broadcasting industries Witness the most comprehensive and updated range of innovative technologies 3D Printing Cameras Lenses Lighting
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      297 5 (formerly known as CitySpring Infrastructure Trust) CREATING the flagship investment platform for SINGAPORE INFRASTRUCTURE KEPPEL MERLIMAU COGEN PLANT (Approved acquisition; expected to be completed by 3Q 2015) SENOKO WTE PLANT CITY GAS KEPPEL SEGHERS TUAS WTE PLANT Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT) is the largest Singapore infrastructure-focused business trust listed on
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Digiland forms energy-trading joint venture in Malta
      619 7  -  Partnership with Maltese agency to develop Malta into a Europe-Asia energy trading hub By Chan Yi Wen yiwenc@sph.com.sg @ChanYiWenBT Singapore DIGILAND International, an ailing IT company which a year ago announced plans to transform itself into an oil and gas player, has entered
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      Lock icon YuuZoo shares soar 21.4%, with volume to boot
      420 7  -  HOT STOCK Source: Yahoo By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore SHARES of mainboard-listed Internet stock YuuZoo surged in active trading on Monday, closing the day 21.4 per cent or S$0.037 up at S$0.21. The stock opened trading 0.1 Singapore cent higher at
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      Lock icon Ascott sets target of 10,000 apartment units in Europe by 2020
      344 7  -  By Jamie Lee, Jacquelyn Cheok leejamie@sph.com.sg jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT @JacCheokBT Singapore THE Ascott, CapitaLand’s wholly owned serviced residence business unit, on Monday said that it plans to almost double its apartment units in Europe by 2020, and that this could
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      Lock icon Singtel given stern warning for negative marketing campaign
      381 8  -  IDA says it will not tolerate tactics that may bring disrepute to the telco industry By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore SINGTEL on Monday was issued a “stern warning” by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) for the telco's role in
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      Lock icon Kenanga Investors favours small-cap stocks, especially exporters and builders
      757 8 BLOOMBERG Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S top-performing fund manager is adding to holdings of the nation’s small-cap stocks, betting that a bull-market rally will continue as earnings improve and valuations trail larger peers. Kenanga Investors Bhd favours exporters and builders as the US
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      Lock icon Ezion dismisses conspiracy suit as ‘frivolous’
      398 8  -  By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore EZION Holdings has rejected as “frivolous and without merit” claims that it was behind a conspiracy to induce an AP Moeller-Maersk unit to breach charter agreements. On Monday, Bloomberg had reported that Atlantic Marine Services BV (AMS) had
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Midas Holdings
        59 8 JILIN Midas Aluminium Industries a Midas Holdings subsidiary has secured contracts worth 328.9 million yuan (S$70.1 million) for the supply of highspeed train car body components in China. “Slated for delivery in 2015, the contracts are expected to contribute positively to Midas’ financial performance for the financial year
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        67 8 FRESHLY listed Boustead Projects has been awarded a S$34 million contract to design and build an integrated commercial and logistics facility for World Furnishing Hub. The seven-floor facility to be located in the Sungei Kadut Industrial Estate in Singapore will be completed in Q3 2016. Listed on the
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        Lock icon Keppel Corporation
        50 8 KEPPEL Seghers has handed over Phase 2 of the Runcorn Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facility in the UK to the client. Keppel Seghers comprising Keppel Seghers Belgium NV and Keppel Seghers UK Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Keppel Infrastructure group, which is a division of Keppel Corporation.
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        66 8 TAN Kim Han Raymond has resigned as the chief financial officer (CFO) and company secretary of SIIC Environment Holdings, with effect from May 15, 2015. While the company will appoint executive director Xu Zhan as CFO, it said it would “continue to find a suitable candidate to
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      Lock icon Yoma project ‘is 1st in Myanmar to have water-treatment plant’
      318 9  -  The plant, using Hyflux technologies, will supply drinking water to residents of Pun Hlaing Golf Estate By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore MAINBOARD-LISTED Yoma Strategic Holdings on Monday announced the opening of a potable water plant at Pun Hlaing Golf
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      Lock icon Larsen & Toubro ready to help infotech unit scale up in preparation for its IPO
      479 9 Larsen Toubro ready to help infotech unit scale up in preparation for its IPO BLOOMBERG Mumbai LARSEN Toubro Ltd, India’s biggest engineering company, is open to spending as much as US$1 billion on acquisitions for its software-services unit as the subsidiary prepares for an initial public offering. Buying companies will
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      Lock icon Cofco seeking bank proposals for possible restructuring: sources
      516 9 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong COFCO Corp, China’s largest food company, has invited investment banks to submit proposals for a possible group restructuring, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Beijing-based firm, which controls eight listed companies, will consider combining units and selling
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      Lock icon Market continues to languish
      721 10  -  HK slide contributes to weakness; traders latch on to situational plays such as Ezion, which falls 4.6% TTSTOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT THE main difficulty dealers have faced in the past year is finding suitable adjectives to describe the local market printable ones, that is.
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      308 10 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 250 unch 252/249 271 219 5.8 6321.9 CapitaLand 353 +3 353/346 379 293 12.9 2.5 *****.8 CapitaMall Trust 219 unch 220/218 228 188.5 4.9 7598.7 CityDev 1021 -1 1025/1015 1095 915 12.3
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      33 10 VOLUME Digiland Intl 270,881,000 Yuuzoo 70,973,000 Jaya 70,183,000 SinoConstruction 55,823,900 IHC 52,467,400 Market volume 1,919,646,000 VALUE Singtel 97,690,407 CapitaLand 42,123,378 Ezion 39,333,398 Keppel Corp 36,280,489 Genting Sing 31,343,274 Market value 971,860,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFS
      107 10 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS MS India US$ US745 +6 330 746/742 1000/696 746/747 93.1 STI ETF 350 213 351/349 355/319 349/350 UETF SSE50China 291 -4 62 295/289 318/140 290/294 90.9 ABF SG Bond ETF 114.4 -0.6 45 115.4/114.4 123.5/110.2
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      77 10 May 18 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -355.00 +130.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +34.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -36.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 789.52 +0.79 FTSE ST Small Cap 496.50 +2.36 FTSE ST All Share 830.09 -0.30 FTSE ST China Top 212.12 +0.62 FTSE ST China 248.07 +0.51 FTSE
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      75 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 179.8 0.6 *****/***** GLD US$ ***** 129.6 0.8 *****/***** DBXT S&P500 US$ 3591 47.6 1.0 3626/3097 Lyxor MS India US$ 1635 33.1 1.6 1840/1546 Lyxor LATAM US$ 572 21.2 2.9 773/519 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Metech Intl
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 10 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index May 18,2015 830.09 -0.30 (-0.04%) Current streak 1 day Day high 831.12 Day low 828.39 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 762.71 (OCt 16, 2014)
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      33 10 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index May 15,2015 1,949.49 +7.02 (+0.36%) Current streak 3 days Day high 1,955.51 Day low 1,940.31 52-week high 1,995.49 (July 3, 2014) 52-week low 1,697.01 (Jan 7, 2015)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 10 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 4 7 3 0 0 0 4 7 3 Manufacturing 53 40 40 8 13 9 61 53 49 Commerce 20 24 16 4 4 3 24 28 19 Tpt/Stor/Comms 15 16 10
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      123 10 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 12,837 12,837 59,194 59,194 Manufacturing 182,738 51,013 233,751 96,647 7,288 103,935 Commerce 364,360 63,035 427,395 38,791 2,874 41,664 Tpt/Stor/Comms 187,142 150 187,292 196,070 10 196,080 Finance 26,153 254 26,407 112,152 46 112,198 Construction 95,261 11,504
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      74 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low JMH USD 6153 -128.3 -1.6 6788/5700 DBXT MSTHAI US$ 2043 -96.5 -3.4 2300/1886 DBXT Vietam US$ 2250 -84.6 -2.8 3100/2250 DBXT China50 US$ 4001 -60.8 -1.1 4258/2795 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1889 -48.9 -1.9 2041/1280 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Innopac W*****0 0.1
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      81 10 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Infinio 15,985.1 0.003 +0.001 +50.00 PNE Industries 585.0 0.159 +0.024 +17.78 LifeBrandz 24,020.0 0.002 -0.001 -33.33 China Sports 23,138.3 0.022 +0.003 +15.79 OLS 31,472.0 0.007 +0.001 +16.67 Luzhou Bio-Chem 650.0 0.028 +0.005 +21.74 Kingboard Copper 1,335.7 0.176 +0.024 +15.79 Lizhong Wheel 260.0 0.335 +0.040 +13.56
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ TAKE
      453 10  -  Compiled by Jamie Lee Ezion Holdings Sell May 18 close: S$1.13 Target price: S$0.88 KGI Fraser Research, May 18 The deteriorating rig market from the oversupply has caused us to be more bearish on the offshore rig sector, especially owners of old assets. We see Ezion’s drilling rigs
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      Lock icon Greenback recovers from 4-month lows
      387 11 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE US dollar clawed its way higher on Monday, recovering from almost four-month lows reached late last week on another surprisingly bad round of US economic data. Against the euro, it rose 0.4 per cent to US$1.1404, taking back a small portion
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    • FOREX RATES
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        471 11 May 18 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.963 4.960 0.702 6.198 50.883 105.069 0.957 8.681 2.856 1.078 81.518 35.572 1.058 9.468 0.736 24.330 26.697 0.510 0.800 Canada 1.038 5.151
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 11 May 18 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0569 1.0584 0.7993 0.7998 Canadian dollar 1.0976 1.0989 0.8304 0.8301 Euro 1.5062 1.5076 1.1391 1.1393 NZ dollar 0.9805 0.9819 0.7415 0.7420 Sterling pound 2.0738 2.0759 1.5683 1.5687
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        23 11 May 18 S$ S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3227 1.3240 2-months 1.3231 1.3245 3-months 1.3237 1.3248 6-months 1.3251 1.3267 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES Most active
        205 11 May 18 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left WE Holdings Ltd W*****5 0.2 unch ***** 1 0 3 FTSEChinaA50 ***** MBeCW*****0 6.6 -1.5 3839 0.0 --2 KepCorp MB eCW*****1 8.7 0.1 3256 0.2 930 4
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        373 11 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr May 15 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1353.1 0.0 6.1 0.1 5.1 0.1 5.6 EAFE Preliminary 1094.3 0.2 10.9 0.4 9.4 0.4 9.8 Europe Preliminary 1527.5 -0.3 10.6
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        395 11 May 18 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES SPOT *****.45 *****.45 *****.09 May15 *****.00 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 *****6 *****8 Jun15 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 *****.50 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES SPOT *****.16 *****.27 *****.22 Jun15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****6 Sep15
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    • BANK RATES
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        36 11 May 18 1 mth 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 12 mths 1.***** SWAP Offer rates 1 mth 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** SOLIVCSI THDTHSOI7 RQUTGFS
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        154 11 May 18 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 0.03 1-month 0.6875 0.5625 2-months 0.75 0.625 3-months 0.8125 0.6875 Overnight mode: 0.03 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.17 0.07 1 month 0.23 0.13 2 months 0.28 0.18 3 months 0.40 0.20 6 months 0.60 0.40 9 months 0.70 0.50 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        67 11 May 18 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0Z 2.375 01-Apr-17 102.56 102.58 102.58 5-Year N*****0H 1.625 01-Oct-19 100.39 10-Year NY*****H 3.000 01-Sep-24 106.51 106.70 106.55 15-Year NY*****E 2.875 01-Jul-29 103.28 103.45 103.45 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 108.54 108.78 108.78
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        193 11 May-15 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural May-15 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 953.25 -3.75 -0.39% 14/07/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 33.07 -0.27 -0.81% 14/07/2015 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 511.00 -3.25 -0.63% 14/07/2014 May-15 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2068.00 19.00 0.93% 16/07/2015 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1701.00 -3.00 -0.18%
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        Lock icon PALM OIL
        57 11 May 18 KLCE Palm Futures (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position May 15 2180.0 2189.0 2195.0 2177.0 1666 ***** Jun 15 2175.0 2187.0 2193.0 2172.0 8362 ***** Jul 15 2175.0 2182.0 2188.0 2169.0 ***** ***** Aug 15 2181.0 2184.0
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon CBRE Hotels: Singapore hotel market to stay challenging for buyers
      548 12  -  It cites high prices and limited asset supply, adding that investors turned more cautious in Q1 By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore THE Singapore hotel market will likely remain challenging for buyers in the short term due to the high
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      Lock icon Investors pouring into London student housing as values rise
      1316 12 NYT London JOYCE Ge, a student from China who is studying business management at King’s College, pays £880 (S$ 1,830) a month to live in a pint-size, stylish studio apartment in the far reaches of east London, in a building with
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      486 12 Kips Bay Show House looks like a million bucks make that US$35m WP New York STEPPING onto the cool champagne marble floor in the octagonal foyer of the seven-storey townhouse at 58 E 66th St, you can’t imagine that you’re going to feel at home. But wait is that red
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      628 15 BLOOMBERG New York IT WAS supposed to be so easy. Borrow in euros as the European Central Bank kept interest rates near zero and use the proceeds to invest in the economies where rates are higher, pocketing the difference and generating
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      755 16 It comes amid claims that world’s biggest miners are flooding market to drive smaller competitors out of business AFP Sydney THE huge iron ore industry in Australia faces the threat of a parliamentary inquiry amid claims the world’s biggest miners, including
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      446 16 BLOOM BERG London THE World Bank’s private lending arm is targeting investments in natural gas companies in China, the largest growing market for the fuel. The International Finance Corp (IFC) is investing US$150 million in gas distribution company China Tian Lun Gas Holdings Ltd
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      400 16 BLOOMBERG New York SPECULATORS are losing faith in the oil rally, judging that Opec will keep increasing supply from the highest level since 2012. Their net-long position in West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 2.1 per cent, as long wagers fell
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      311 16 REUTERS Kuala Lumpur IRAN hopes its crude oil exports will return to pre-sanctions levels within three months once a deal with major powers to lift an oil embargo is finalised, the country’s deputy oil minister said on Monday. “We hope
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      895 17 US administration faces end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in case before US Supreme Court REUTERS San Francisco THE Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high-profile litigation between two American technology
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      668 17 NYT MOSCOW FEW people looking to buy a trendy, state-of-the-art smartphone anywhere in the world today would even think about a Russian model, but the makers of the YotaPhone aspire to change that. The startup’s quest to break into the
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      483 17 NYT New York FOR many of the largest Silicon Valley technology companies, location software undergirds numerous applications and features in their products. For Apple, it has been a game of catch-up. To that end, Apple confirmed on Sunday that it had purchased Coherent
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      860 18 Last year, it took in almost US$6 billion in sales in the US and made up 40 per cent of the company’s global revenue NYT New York FOR years, Stefan Larsson was Gap’s worst nightmare, as he led
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      211 18 REUTERS Shanghai CHINESE e-commerce giant JD.com Inc has tied up with leading Chinese drugmaker Shanghai Pharmaceuticals Holding Co Ltd to develop its online healthcare business, the drugmaker said in a filing on Monday. The move reflects a growing rivalry between Chinese e-commerce
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      575 18 AFP Washington JET.COM has yet to launch its online retail site to the public, but has already drawn attention as a would-be game-changer that could take on Internet giant Amazon. Jet has raised US$220 million so far for an e-commerce service with
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      1122 19 James Tobin’s Q ratio indicates equities in US are valued about 10% above cost of replacing their underlying assets BLOOMBERG New York IF you sold every share of every company in the United States and used the money to buy
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      428 19 Jiangsu province auctions 52 billion yuan of three to 10-year municipal bonds REUTERS Shanghai CHINA’S Jiangsu province auctioned 52.2 billion yuan (S$11.2 billion) of three to 10-year municipal bonds on Monday at close to sovereign yields, offering some reassurance that
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      452 19 REUTERS Yangon UP to five companies are expected to list on Myanmar’s stock exchange when it opens in October, according to an official overseeing the creation of a market that will help develop an economy stifled by 49 years of military rule.
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      636 20 Overseas investors who have experienced Chinese corporate failures feel they are treated like a nuisance; uptick in filings seen as country’s slowdown continues REUTERS Hong Kong AS China’s economy slows and Beijing becomes more relaxed about letting its companies fail, a rising number
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      420 20 AFP Seoul INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Seoul on Monday for a two-day visit heavily focused on economic ties with Asia’s fourth-largest economy and beefing up investment from South Korean firms. Following talks with President Park Geun-Hye,
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      257 20 REUTERS Hong Kong FOREIGN investors have welcomed assurances by China’s securities watchdog that their shareholding rights are recognised in the country, in a development that should boost trading on a landmark Hong Kong-Shanghai trading link. The so-called Stock Connect project went live in November,
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      1249 20 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong IN its quarterly report, the People’s Bank of China questioned the merits of transparency, saying too much openness could lead to “pressure from various sides”. Such a stance and its unscheduled policy moves come as governor Zhou
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      773 21 Key to increasing economic growth above current 2.5% pace is investment by firms outside resource industry BLOOMBERG Sydney AUSTRALIA retains scope to lower interest rates further, the central bank’s second in command said, while warning against spurring a debt-fuelled
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      478 21 BLOOMBERG Bangkok THAILAND’S economy barely grew last quarter as rising government spending failed to counter falling exports and weakening local demand. The outlook for the rest of the year isn’t that much better. Gross domestic product rose 0.3 per cent in the
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      843 21 Three of country’s five biggest banks report increase in soured assets for year ended March 31 BLOOMBERG Mumbai STRESSED assets of Indian lenders are seen rising to the highest in at least 14 years and Bank of Baroda’s chief executive officer
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      912 21 NYT Kiev, Ukraine THE country is on the cliff of bankruptcy. A spate of politically motivated killings and mysterious suicides of former government officials has sown fear in the capital. Infighting has begun to splinter the pro-Eu-ropean majority coalition in
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  • OPINION
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      517 22 ACCORDING to an NBC News/Wall Street journal opinion poll conducted in 2014, 42 per cent of Americans picked Bill Clinton as the president they admired the most, followed by current president Barack Obama at 18 per cent. EDITORIAL
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      781 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Robert J Samuelson THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP THIS is no time to get all worked up over China’s currency manipulation. To use it as an excuse to resist the Obama administration’s pro-trade posture is perverse. This opposition
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      1347 22  -  The legislative process of the US Congress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership bill is likely to be long and very messy and ugly, with no guarantee that it will actually be passed in the end By Leon Hadar THE legendary German Chancellor Otto von
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      881 23  -  COMMENTARY By Dominic Montagu T The writer is associate professor of epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco THIS week, health ministers from around the world gather in Geneva for the annual meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO). While
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      904 23  -  By Tan Siang Hee T The writer is executive director of CropLife Asia, a non-profit society and regional arm of CropLife International, the voice of the global plant science industry. FOR many businesses in Singapore and the region, Earth Day on April
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      1277 23  -  If his recent charm offensive in China works, he could bring in more Chinese investments into Indian manufacturing.BY GIRIJA PANDE manufacturing.BY GIRIJA PANDE T The writer is chairman of Apex Avalon Consulting, Singapore, and ex-chairman of Tata Consultancy in
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      Lock icon Japan carmakers break links with airbag maker
      867 24 More vehicles recalled with no agreement between Takata and carmakers on cost split REUTERS Tokyo AIR BAG manufacturer Takata Corp and Japanese carmakers including Honda Motor Co are locked in the commercial equivalent of a bad marriage; not entirely happy in each other’s
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      822 24 BLOOMBERG Beijing THE horrific incident shocked the country when it went viral in China earlier this month: a woman dragged from her car, thrown to the ground and kicked repeatedly in the face and head in a case
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      Lock icon GM looks for most powerful Camaro to overtake Mustang
      455 24 BLOOMBERG New York THERE’S nothing like a good old Detroit bragging contest. General Motors Co’s (GM) bread-and-butter Chevrolet brand took the wraps off its new Camaro, revealing a performance version that tops the Ford Mustang’s by 20 horsepower. GM is boasting
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      Lock icon Amtrak crash raises again question of seat belts on trains
      854 24 NYT New York IT IS a natural question, one that many people have raised before, and have raised again since Tuesday’s fatal Amtrak crash in Philadelphia: Should trains have seat belts? Transportation experts have asked that question, too, in studies
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      1176 26  -  SCCCI also wooing young entrepreneurs by changing public perception that it’s a solely Chinese-speaking organisation. BY FIONA LAM BY FIONA LAM fionalam@sph.com.sg IN today’s business environment, small and medi-um-sized enterprises (SMEs) must bite the bullet and adapt or risk being phased out. That is
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      1085 26  -  Winning brands thrive because they are aligned with strategic objectives and adapt over time. BY MARTIN ROLL COMMENTARY BY MARTIN ROLL T The writer is a business brand strategist, and the founder of Martin Roll Company T This article first appeared on INSEAD Knowledge WHEN
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      1190 27  -  It’s time they treat prospective employees like prospective customers, says consultant Danny Lai. BY KELLY TAY kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT FOR years, companies have spent their research money on efforts to analyse consumers the products they like, the reasons behind those preferences, and their
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      1088 28 Children of founder of Olayan Group help to run the company with interests in oilfield services, steel and fast food among others BLOOMBERG London IN HER Saudi Arabia homeland, Lubna Olayan can’t drive, show her hair in public or leave
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      615 28 AFP Lagos GILES Peppiatt, from Bonhams in London, had good reason to make the trip to Nigeria’s financial capital, Lagos, for the auction house’s next sale of African art a glut of potential buyers. On a recent visit, he described Africa as
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      541 28 WP Washington THERE are certain television tropes about computer scientists that just drive programmers nuts. They include the portrayal of coders as sun-starved and soft-bellied nerds who spend long hours alone in front of their computers. And, almost always,
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      302 28 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 A doctor tucking into mother’s curry (6) 5 Marxist film offers nothing before starting course (4,4) 9 Food on board ship for a horse (10) 10 Time for fruit (4) 11 Pest is hidden by shade (8) 12 Perfect surface texture (6) 13 Fine Greek character
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