The Business Times, 7 December 2016

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    23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.20 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION businesstimes.com.sg fb.com/thebusinesstimes @BusinessTimes CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 037/12/2016 Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    186 1 South Korean President Park Geun-hye says that, if she is impeached, she will wait for a court to uphold the decision. TOP STORIES 2 Several current and former directors of Swiber Holdings have been hauled up for questioning by the CAD and are out on bail. TOP STORIES
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    Lock icon Amid challenges, insurers see silver lining in region’s low penetration
    1000 1  -  Interest-rate scenario a major concern; others include central bank policies, risk appetite, and region’s demographic changes OUTLOOK 2017 By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE hunt for yield in a low-interest-rate environment is now a constant in the insurance industry.
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    Lock icon S’pore bourse lags SE Asia peers in growth, but fares better in IPOs
    993 1  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore SINGAPORE’S total domestic market capitalisation has grown the most slowly among major regional bourses so far this year, but the local bourse came out ahead of its South-east Asian counterparts in
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    27 1 Tuesday Change STI 2,949.12 +6.07 KL COMP 1,629.73 +4.76 NIKKEI 225 18,360.54 +85.55 HANG SENG 22,675.15 +169.60 SHENZHEN B 1,156.79 +3.64 DOW (10.45am EST) 19,207.59 -8.65
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Park digs in; tycoons deny seeking favours
      810 2 Korean president says if impeached, she would wait for a court to uphold the decision REUTERS Seoul SOUTH Korean President Park Geun-hye, engulfed in an influence peddling scandal, said if she was impeached she would wait for a court to uphold the decision,
      REUTERS; PHOTO: BLOOMBERG  -  810 words
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      Lock icon Current, ex-Swiber directors questioned by CAD
      387 2  -  O&M UNDER SCRUTINY By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore SEVERAL current and former directors of Swiber Holdings have been hauled up for questioning by the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and released on bail. The directors interviewed by Singapore’s white collar-crime unit between Nov 30
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      Lock icon Pacific Radiance co-founder faces corruption probe
      433 2  -  By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore THE co-founder of mainboard-listed offshore support vessel (OSV) owner-operator Pacific Radiance has been arrested for suspected graft and is out on bail. Executive director Mok Weng Vai was arrested by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) on
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      Lock icon Tamil Nadu chief minister dies after prolonged illness
      623 4 Jayalalithaa’s death plunges one of India’s most economically powerful states into a period of political uncertainty AFP Chennai, India JAYALALITHAA Jayaram, the chief minister of south India’s Tamil Nadu state and one of the country’s most popular political leaders, has died after
      AFP; PHOTO: AFP  -  623 words
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      Lock icon China transforms frontier neighbours with cash for rails to power
      1018 4 BLOOMBERG Singapore CHINA’S investment is transforming its smaller South-east Asian neighbours like never before while helping turn Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar into bigger destinations for its exports. That’s driving some of the world’s fastest economic growth rates and providing Chinese
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      Lock icon Bank of England chief: gains in globalisation must filter down to all
      528 4 BLOOMBERG London BANK of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney has launched a defence of globalisation and set out a manifesto for central bankers and governments to boost growth and make the world economy more equal. He said bankers
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      Lock icon Economic growth not a zero-sum game: President Tan
      657 6 At the end of a 9-day state visit to Japan, he also urged Japanese companies to see Singapore as a pivot to expand into the region THE STRAITS TIMES Tokyo BOTH Japan and Singapore have a “strong sharing of minds” on economic
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      Lock icon SIA CEO bags Dwight D Eisenhower Global Innovation Award
      326 6  -  By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilun Singapore THE chief executive officer of Singapore Airlines (SIA), Goh Choon Phong, has been awarded the Dwight D Eisenhower Global Innovation Award, making him the first recipient from South-east Asia. The award, presented by the Business
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Noble unit sells stakes in four UK power firms
      434 7  -  Move follows the recent completion of the disposal of Noble Americas Energy Solutions By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore A MAJORITY-OWNED subsidiary of commodity trader Noble Group has sold four UK-incor-porated power development companies to Drax Developments Limited, a unit of
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon XMH Holdings
        77 7 ENGINE maker XMH Holdings lost S$88,000 in the second quarter ended Oct 31, down from a year-ago net profit of S$2.8 million, as weak market sentiment dragged down project revenue. Overall revenue slipped 2.8 per cent to S$25.1 million. Administration expenses jumped 87 per cent to S$5.2 million
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        Lock icon Oriental Group
        100 7 STEEL trader Oriental Group said that it has not received any notice in writing by four persons who are being nominated as directors that they are willing to be elected; those persons would therefore be disqualified as directors under the company’s constitution, even if they were elected at
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        Lock icon Olam International
        72 7 COMMODITY trader Olam International has priced an upsized US$175 million of five-year notes at a coupon of 3.9 per cent, which is a spread of 199 basis points over five-year US Treasuries. Olam had initially offered just US$100 million of notes, but added a further US$75 million to
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        Lock icon China Environment
        87 7 A KEY subsidiary of China Environment, an industrial waste gas treatment specialist, faces two additional civil suits in addition to a number of suits and letters of demands. A suit by Fujian Tongyong Hengxin Electrical Engineering Co against China Environment’s Fujian Dongyuan Environmental Protection Co over a construction
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        Lock icon YuuZoo Corporation
        59 7 SOCIAL networking, e-commerce and entertainment company YuuZoo Corporation has introduced an electronic wallet service. The mainboard-listed company announced the launch of Yuuwallet, a proprietary electronic wallet, on Tuesday in a filing to Singapore Exchange. The e-wallet, designed for use in developing as well as developed markets with low
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      Lock icon Debt revamp: how issuers can better win noteholders’ support
      882 8  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY TAN HWEE HWEE hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT IT has come to surprise many seasoned financiers how badly issuers have been struggling to gain the support of noteholders in their restructuring exercise amid the protracted downturn in the offshore marine
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      Lock icon Oxley to acquire 40% stake in Aussie property group
      612 8  -  By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore MARKING its expansion Down Under by tying up with a local partner, Singapore developer Oxley Holdings Limited is taking up a 40 per cent stake in Australian property group Pindan Group Pty Ltd for A$32
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      Lock icon Del Monte Pacific’s Q2 profit down 57.8%
      575 8  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE closure of its North Carolina plant and severance expenses, which were part of the restructuring exercise started in FY2016 to optimise operations, weighed on mainboard-lis-ted Del Monte Pacific Limited’s (DMPL’s) second quarter net profit, which was
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      Lock icon ABN Amro to sell Asia, M-E private banking assets to LGT
      220 8 BLOOMBERG London ABN Amro NV has agreed to sell its private banking assets in Asia and the Middle East to Liechtenstein-based LGT to focus on its European operations. The unit manages about US$20 billion in Singapore, Hong Kong and
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      Lock icon ICAP glitch adds to yuan investor jitters
      514 8 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong YUAN investors already nervous about US President-elect Donald Trump’s focus on China’s currency policy got a shock on Tuesday when ICAP Plc data showed the currency sinking to 7.5 per US dollar. The decline, which traders said was an error,
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      Lock icon New margin rules from March to hike trading cost in HK, S’pore, Australia
      433 9 The global rules will require dealers to post and collect collateral or “margin” against OTC derivative trades REUTERS Hong Kong HONG Kong, Singapore and Australia will introduce strict new rules for trading over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives on March
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      Lock icon McDonald’s to keep up to 25% stake in China, HK stores: source
      410 9 Hong Kong MCDONALD’S Corp is looking to raise US$1 billion to US$2 billion with the sale of its China and Hong Kong stores after the US fast-food chain decided to keep “a significant minority stake in the business”,
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      Lock icon China fund manager arrested after market crash admits to manipulation
      255 9 REUTERS Shanghai A WELL-KNOWN Chinese hedge fund manager detained last year in a crackdown on financial crimes in the wake of a stock market crash has pleaded guilty to manipulating the market, according to the court where he is standing
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      63 10 STI Catalist Straits Times Index Dec 6,2016 2,949.12 +6.07 (+0.21%) Current streak 2 days Day high 2,955.17 Day low 2,941.62 52-week high 2,960.78 (Apr 21, 2016) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist Index Dec 6, 2016 441.62 +0.01 Current streak 1 day Day high 442.26 Day low
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      78 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low DBXT E50 US$ 4418 275.1 4.6 4667/3918 DBXT Nifty50 ETF10 ***** 212.7 1.2 *****/***** DBXT MSKorea US$ 5537 119.1 1.5 6041/4629 GLD US$ ***** 119.1 0.8 *****/***** Jardine C&C 4156 119.0 2.9 4520/3160 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Far East 5 61.3
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      78 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low JMH USD 5408 -122.0 -1.6 6371/4500 DBXT Vietnam US$ 2192 -45.4 -1.4 2533/2017 IS ASIA HYG S$D 1511 -36.0 -2.3 1552/1407 DBXT S&P Short US$ 1890 -32.6 -1.2 2362/1890 DBXT MSJAP US$ 5014 -22.7 -0.3 5110/4031 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBS
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      82 10 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Yuexiu Prop 47.9 0.199 -0.021 -9.55 Far East 50.0 0.050 +0.019 +61.29 BH Global 78.7 0.230 +0.015 +6.98 Mun Siong Engg 822.0 0.071 +0.004 +5.97 EMAS Offshore 230.0 0.072 +0.007 +10.77 Intraco 10.3 0.245 -0.095 -27.94 Mirach Energy 58.0 0.080 -0.026 -24.53 Envictus 63.1 0.460
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      Lock icon Banks dominate in mixed session
      653 10  -  Turnover below post-Nov 8 levels at S$1.1 billion, with 74 per cent coming from trading in the ST Index components STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT A CONTINUED push on the banks helped add 6.07 points to the Straits Times Index (STI) at 2,949.12 on
      Source: Bloomberg  -  653 words
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      305 10 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 237 +1 237/234 257 209 6.5 6644 CapitaCom Trust 153 -1.5 154/151.5 164 127 5.6 4534.1 CapitaLand 310 +2 312/308 340 280 12.4 2.9 *****.2 CapitaMall Trust 194 unch 195/192.5 225 185
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      36 10 VOLUME Noble 178,486,300 China Med Intl 52,573,600 Yuuzoo 41,518,900 KrisEnergy 39,527,900 Golden Agri-Res 34,872,600 Market volume 1,750,039,000 VALUE DBS Grp 157,478,519 Singtel 91,043,497 OCBC Bank 70,547,307 UOB 66,336,884 Global Logistic 38,938,149 Market value 1,132,816,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFS
      107 10 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 300 +2 628 300/299 300/254 299/300 DBXT MSPHILS US$ US174.5 166 175.5/173.1 222.5/158.5 174.3/175 14 IS MS INDIA US$ US670 +3 155 671/665 772/441 672/674 83.8 DBXT MSINDO us$ US1337 +20 66 1344/1333 1534/1059
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      77 10 Dec 6 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -55.00 -27.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +1.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -6.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 688.86 -0.42 FTSE ST Small Cap 385.43 -0.39 FTSE ST All Share 719.72 +1.20 FTSE ST China Top 162.76 +0.10 FTSE ST China 205.53 +0.82 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 10 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index Dec 6,2016 719.72 +1.20 (+0.17%) Current streak 2 days Day high 720.81 Day low 718.35 52-week high 722.88 (Apr 21, 2016) 52-week low 625.37 (Jan 21, 2016)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 10 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index Dec 5,2016 1,637.16 +6.55 (+0.40%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,647.16 Day low 1,619.68 52-week high 1,734.72 (Sept 7, 2016) 52-week low 1,492.43 (Feb 12, 2016)
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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 7 9 2 0 0 0 7 9 2 Manufacturing 30 35 34 3 11 12 33 46 46 Commerce 15 20 9 3 2 5 18 22 14 Tpt/Stor/Comms 6 13 7
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 10 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 13,910 13,910 49,908 49,908 Manufacturing 81,638 44,990 126,628 95,091 3,112 98,203 Commerce 217,352 61,148 278,500 94,117 682 94,799 Tpt/Stor/Comms 96,568 69 96,637 175,471 6 175,477 Finance 27,768 27,768 310,052 310,052 Construction 5,853 2,011 7,864 655
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Ascendas Real Estate investment Trust Buy
        243 10 Target price: S$2.65 Dec 6 close: S$2.37 DBS Group Research, Dec 6 Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) continues to deepen its exposure to the business parks/science parks space with an acquisition of three properties at a price of S$420 million. The acquisition ticks
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        Lock icon Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Buy
        213 10  - Keppel Telecommunications Transportation Buy Compiled by Kenneth Lim Target price: S$2.53 Dec 6 close: S$1.715 UOB Kay Hian, Dec 6 Alpha DC Fund (ADCF) had on Nov 11, 2016 made its maiden acquisition of a data centre in Frankfurt for about 76 million euros (S$116 million). The data centre comes
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      Lock icon CALENDAR
      17 10 DATA I Dec 7 S’pore Purchasing Managers Index S’pore COE bidding results US MBA Mortgage Applications
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      Lock icon Euro steady; A$ dips as interest rates stay intact
      402 11 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE euro held steady near a 3-week high on Tuesday while bets on market volatility stayed close to their highest since June’s Brexit vote ahead of this week’s European Central Bank meeting. The Australian dollar dipped about a
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 11 Dec 6 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.987 5.117 0.691 5.772 50.571 99.513 0.848 8.706 3.307 1.043 77.928 36.945 1.056 10.178 0.748 23.772 26.497 0.583 0.744 Canada 1.013 5.185
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 11 Dec 6 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0554 1.0562 0.7442 0.7444 Canadian dollar 1.0694 1.0704 0.7544 0.7541 Euro 1.5274 1.5284 1.0771 1.0772 NZ dollar 1.0112 1.0132 0.7131 0.7141 Sterling pound 1.8094 1.8111 1.2759 1.2764
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 11 Dec 6 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4179 1.4189 2-months 1.4178 1.4188 3-months 1.4177 1.4188 6-months 1.4175 1.4189 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        207 11 Most active Dec 6 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Equation Summit LimitedW*****2 0.5 unch 7898 1 1 36 2.20 8 Charisma EnergyServicesW*****8 0.3 unch 2790 1 0 -50 2.00 59 DBS MB eCW*****0 11.9 2520 0.1
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        377 11 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Dec 5 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1330.2 0.5 4.1 0.6 3.6 0.6 3.4 EAFE Preliminary 990.2 0.2 -2.3 0.4 -4.4 0.4 -4.6 Europe Preliminary 1386.1 0.7 -1.9
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        389 11 Dec 6 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Dec16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****1 *****6 Jan17 *****.00 *****.50 *****.50 *****.50 2584 6238 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****1 *****6 Mar17 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** ***** MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK RATES
        154 11 Dec 6 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 0.01 1-month 0.75 0.625 2-months 0.875 0.75 3-months 1.0 0.875 Overnight mode: 0.03 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.65 0.55 1 month 0.80 0.70 2 months 0.90 0.70 3 months 1.05 0.85 6 months 1.40 1.20 9 months 1.55 1.35 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        65 11 Dec 6 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****A 4.000 01-Sep-18 104.8 5-Year N*****0Z 1.250 01-Oct-21 97.41 97.52 97.43 10-Year NX*****F 2.125 01-Jun-26 98.00 98.05 97.90 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 101.88 102.08 101.85 20-Year NZ*****X 2.250 01-Aug-36 92.09 92.30 91.83
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 11 Dec-5 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Dec-5 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 1043.50 16.00 1.56% 13/01/2017 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 37.49 -0.02 -0.05% 14/12/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 389.25 1.75 0.45% 14/12/2016 Dec-5 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 1861.00 -40.00 -2.10% 13/12/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 2064.00 unch 0.00%
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1813 12 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High Day Low 149 124.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 132.5 +1 346 133 131.5 0.9 8.6 844.4 C'vr 172.5 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 169.5 -0.5 3356
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      294 12 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Last vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High LOW 16 4.5 t Alliance Mineral 9.2 unch 4961 9.4 9.2 44.2 Sale 19.9 8.3 t Anchor Resources 9.1 +0.1 357 9.2 8.9
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      127 12 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale vol 3268 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US3102 +16 6 3105 3095 8.5 422 190 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US354 +2 14 354 354 Low 6041 4629 DBXT MSKorea US$
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon MCL Land tops bids for Margaret Drive residential site with S$238.4m
      649 14  -  Analysts say the aggressive bidding for the 99-year leasehold land signals that developers are reading the market positively By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore MCL Land has emerged top in a fierce contest among 14 bidders for a residential
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      Lock icon Top Dalian Wanda executive resigns
      350 14 REUTERS Hong Kong THE chief architect behind Dalian Wanda Group’s US$4.4 billion buyout to take its flagship Hong Kong-listed property arm private and relist it in China has resigned without seeing the plan through, according to an internal memo. The resignation of Lu Xiaoma from
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      Lock icon Cash-rich Chinese opt for Seattle, Toronto homes after Vancouver slaps 15% housing tax
      945 14 BLOOMBERG Toronto JUST a few days after Vancouver announced a tax on foreign property investors, Seattle real estate broker Lili Shang received a WeChat message from a wealthy Chinese businessman who wanted to sell a home in
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      201 14 REUTERS Montreal CANADA’S commercial real estate market hit a record C$11.16 billion (S$ 11.9 billion) in quarterly transaction volumes and is on track to reach new highs for the year, as investors’ hunt for yield and gains in the oil-pro-ducing province of Alberta bolster
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      455 14 BLOOMBERG New York NEW YORK visitors are going to have another choice for a high-altitude view of the city. SL Green Realty Corp has announced that 1 Vanderbilt, the office skyscraper it’s building just west of Manhattan’s Grand Central
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      970 16 The companies operate under close bureaucratic controls that hinder their ability to respond to market forces WP Washington FOR the three titans of Latin American oil Pemex, PDVSA and Petrobras last week’s Opec-driven price rally won’t be enough to halt a
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      1071 16 NYTIMES Mexico City THE international oil industry on Monday agreed to pay billions of dollars to the Mexican government for rights to drill in the country’s portions of the Gulf of Mexico. The companies made a big bet
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      495 16 Trump’s team supports project, will review it after president-elect takes office REUTERS Cannon Ball, North Dakota THOUSANDS of protesters in North Dakota celebrated the federal government’s ruling against a controversial pipeline but girded for a protracted struggle as President-elect Donald Trump’s
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Uber drivers in Taiwan face NT$25m in fines
      764 18 Such large fines are unprecedented for Uber; key legislative hearing on the draft rules will be held on Wednesday BLOOMBERG Taipei INVESTORS and companies are getting a preview of how the Taiwan government’s plan to become “Asia’s Silicon Valley” might fare. Uber
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      445 18 BLOOMBERG Paris FRENCH billionaire Xavier Niel wants thousands of technology entrepreneurs, investors and inventors to base themselves in the Station F megacampus for startups he’s building in downtown Paris and he’s starting his search for them in London. The 34,000-square-metre venue
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      Lock icon Tech investors say UK must clarify Brexit immigration stance
      489 18 REUTERS London LONDON could lose its position as the leading destination for startups in Europe if it does not remain open to the best talent after the British vote to leave the European Union, investors warned on Monday. Six months after
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      433 18 REUTERS San Francisco SALES of the Apple Watch to consumers set a record during the first week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track to be the best ever for the product, Apple Inc chief executive Tim
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      Lock icon S Africa startup set to be first firm to make smartphones in Africa
      491 18 BLOOMBERG Johannesburg A JOHANNESBURG startup is set to become the first company ever to manufacture smartphones in Africa, taking advantage of low costs and growing local demand to build handsets, tablets and other devices based on Google
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  • CONSUMER
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      691 19 Seattle concept store with automated checkout will open to the public early next year BLOOMBERG New York AMAZON.COM Inc unveiled technology that will let shoppers grab groceries without having to scan and pay for them in one stroke eliminating the checkout
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      Lock icon McDonald’s revamps McCafe brand as it lags Starbucks
      685 19 BLOOMBERG Chicago MCDONALD’S Corp, losing ground in its battle for the nation’s coffee drinkers, is planning to shake up its McCafe brand part of a bid to challenge Starbucks Corp and Dunkin’ Donuts. The company will reintroduce the McCafe concept next year,
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      Lock icon Tyson starts US$150m VC fund aimed at meat substitutes
      451 19 REUTERS Chicago TYSON Foods Inc has launched a US$150 million venture capital fund that will target investments in companies commercializing meat substitutes, deepening the largest US chicken producer’s foray into alternative sources of protein. The fund also will invest in companies
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      Lock icon Vietnamese brewer Sabeco’s shares jump 20% on debut
      344 19 REUTERS Hanoi SHARES of state-controlled Sabeco, Vietnam’s biggest brewer, jumped the maximum allowed 20 per cent upon listing on Tuesday as investors wanted exposure to the dominant player in one of Asia’s most soughtafter beer markets. The shares of Sabeco, or Saigon
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      65 19 Whither Indonesia? “I think I left Indonesia in much better shape a decade later than when I first took oath in 2004. But I will leave it to history to judge.” Susilo BambangYudhoyono, former president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014. Read what veteran Indonesian watcher John McBeth has to
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  • TRANSPORT
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      Lock icon The future for bunker trading looks even murkier
      932 20  -  The OW Bunker case may be an argument for dropping bunker agents from the supply chain, but agents with market knowledge have their place STRAIT TALK BY DAVID HUGHES BUNKER trading can, to the outsider at least, appear to be a bafflingly
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      710 20 The homes-on-wheels see buying boom in US with a shift towards young buyers BLOOMBERG New York THIS autumn, one of the hottest things in outdoor gear wasn’t a new drone or motorised skateboard. The tech tastemakers from Outside Magazine to Gear
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      Lock icon Citi Bike under pressure to expand to low-income neighbourhoods
      1190 20 NYTIMES New York CITI Bike stations have cropped up this year in brownstone Brooklyn and on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Next year, the blue bicycles will inch farther afield into Harlem and Astoria in Queens. Back from the verge
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      Lock icon Ford sells US$2.8b in auto debt to boost tech spending
      488 20 BLOOMBERG Southfield, Michigan INVESTORS piled into Ford Motor Co’s first automotive borrowing in almost four years, allowing the company to slash interest rates on a US$2.8 billion debt sale as it boosts spending on self-driving cars, mobility services and electrified
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
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      Lock icon RBA holds key rate due to commodity upswing
      705 21 But central bank governor notes that “some slowing in the year-ended growth rate is likely” BLOOMBERG Sydney AUSTRALIA’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged as a global commodity upswing eases the impact of a weaker economy at home. Governor Philip Lowe left
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      Lock icon China-led Asia trade pact should wrap up fast, says ADB
      507 21 Trump’s protectionism gives China leeway to push along timetable for RCEP BLOOMBERG Jakarta THE death knell for a US-led Pacific trade pact creates a vacuum that a separate Asia deal being championed by China should quickly fill, according to the
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      Lock icon Heavy flooding in Thailand kills 14, inundates tourist isles
      276 21 REUTERS Bangkok FLOODS in Thailand have killed 14 people and badly affected southern holiday islands as the country heads into the December-January high season for tourism, authorities said on Tuesday. A low pressure system has brought heavy rain to parts of
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      Lock icon Generals dominate new Thai king’s Privy Council
      603 21 AFP Bangkok THAILAND’S new King Maha Vajiralongkorn appointed top army brass to his powerful advisory body on Tuesday, including three generals linked to the ruling junta. The move illustrates the close mil-itary-royal alliance that has defined Thai politics for the last five decades,
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      400 21 BLOOMBERG Washington THREE US central bankers speaking on Monday left little doubt that they favour interest rate increases, though they indicated the pace of monetary tightening is uncertain amid questions about the impact of Presid-ent-elect Donald Trump’s fiscal policies. Speaking
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon Despite falling private property prices, market stability is priority
      567 22 EDITORIAL FOR industry players and others holding out hope of a reprieve soon from the Singapore property market cooling measures amid current moribund market conditions, the government has reiterated its stand: The curbs will stay for a while. In its latest
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      812 22  - Jobless by choice or pain? THE BOTTOM LINE By Robert Samuelson THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP Washington THE work ethic is such a central part of the American character that it’s hard to imagine it fading. But that’s what seems to be happening in one important part of the labour
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      1349 22  -  Trump dismisses TPP, but could draw on his deal-making strength to pursue another big opportunity the US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty. BY STEPHEN S ROACH Treaty.BY STEPHEN S ROACH T The writer, a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley
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      Lock icon Five trends in payments for 2017
      887 23  -  COMMENTARY By Jeremy King T The writer is international director, PCI Security Standards Council THE inaugural Fintech Festival in Singapore in November called attention to the immense rate of change taking place in the financial services sector due to innovations in financial technology or
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      517 23  -  By Desmond Lachman T The writer is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly a deputy director in the international Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney OMFIF
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      Lock icon Time to review and modify property cooling measures
      292 23 LETTER TO THE EDITOR WHILE Singapore’s property cooling measures will continue (“Central bank backs keeping property cooling measures in place”, BT, Nov 30), a review of some of its features is in order, with appropriate adjustments made. Cooling measures were introduced progressively
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      1080 23  -  But accept that it almost always has room for compromise. compromise.BY KEMAL DERVIS T The writer, former minister of economic affairs of Turkey and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, is a vice-president of the Brookings Institution PROJECT SYNDICATE
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      905 25 Makoto Shinkai’s animated film Your Name has become Japan’s third-highest-grossing movie NYTIMES Tokyo WHEREVER the Japanese animated filmmaker Makoto Shinkai goes these days, he gets some variation on the question of what it’s like to be the Next Big Thing. Specifically, Shinkai whose Your
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      880 25 NYTIMES Belvidere, New Jersey IN 1850, Charles Dickens published A Christmas Tree. The short story opens with a description of the tree “lighted by a multitude of tapers” and decorated with ornamental guns, pincushions, pen wipers, sugarplums, “teetotums” and “hum-ming-tops”. Despite the fertility of his
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      737 25 NYTIMES New York WHICH branch of science has the worst trouble with names? You might think it’s physics, which has bestowed whimsical-sounding names like quarks, neutrinos, selectrons and bosons on the most elemental constituents of nature. But in astronomy, the confusion can be, well,
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      325 25 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Winning deputy, good and respectable (10) 6 Struggle with scene (4) 9 In love, you and me after a second run out (7) 10 Judge arrives carrying grip (7) 12 Hi-tech duo’s ATM fiddling shows a gift for making money (3,5,5) 14 Pack in place in
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  • EXECUTIVE MONEY
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      899 26  -  With fiscal expansion likely and bond yields set to rise, a focus on dividend growth could offer both income and attractive returns. BY RICHARD TURNILL T The writer is Global Chief investment Strategist at BlackRock. EVEN if the Federal Reserve raises rates, dividend growth
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      Lock icon Flash Boys writer pens story of brilliant psychologists
      813 26  -  By Barry Ritholtz BLOOMBERG New York MICHAEL Lewis is the poet laureate of the financial world. Each of his deeply researched, beautifully composed books causes a stir when published. Recall the brouhaha that erupted when Lewis, discussing his 2014 book Flash Boys
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      Lock icon Commodity bulls’ 5 years of pain nears end as gains are on the cards
      483 26 Goldman Sachs goes overweight on commodities while Citigroup projects global pick-up in 2017 BLOOMBERG New York FOR commodity bulls, relief from five years of pain is in sight. The Bloomberg Commodity Index is set for its
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