The Business Times, 24 March 2008

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    24 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Singapore 85 cents online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg a Singapore press holdings publication co regn no *****2868E mica (p) 122/12/2007 Monday, March 24,2008
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  • Article
    Lock icon Business confidence takes a dive
    712 1  -  CHEW XIANG BT-UniSIM survey shows companies gloomy about next six months, despite strong orders [SINGAPORE] Business confidence in Singapore has slumped to its lowest level since end-2004, according to the latest business climate survey by The Business Times (BT) and SIM University (UniSIM). While sales
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    Lock icon S'pore investors buy up US equity in Q4
    760 1  -  CHUANG PECK MING Bargain hunters took advantage of turbulent situation [SINGAPORE] After dumping shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange for much of last year, Singapore investors did a sharp turnaround to snap up a net US$4.O billion worth of US
    AFP  -  760 words
  • MARKETS DIGEST
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      55 1 Weekly 2,824.91 lange -14.10 ST Index 1 COMP 1,189.06 -5.78 IIKKEI 225 12,482.57 +240.97 1ANG SENG 21,108.22 -1128.89 SET INDEX 803.32 -14.72 JAKARTA COMP 2,323.57 -59.85 1ANILA COMP 2,817.58 -88.95 ;eoulcomp 1,645.69 +45.43 iHENZHEN B 551.18 -21.43 IUMBAI IND 14,994.83 -765.69 )OW 12,361.32 +410.23 IASDAQ 2,258.11 +45.62 ;&p 500
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      Lock icon PRIME RATES
      29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.33 MALAYSIA 6.74 HONG KONG 5.25 INDONESIA 15.7826 TAIWAN 6.316 JAPAN 1.875 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 5.25 US 5.25 CANADA 5.25 SWITZERLAND 4.14 INDIA 12.25 Source:
      Bloomberg  -  29 words
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      37 1 IS$ (S$ )er US$) 1.383 (USS/SS per 2.033 2.811 ;uro(us: i/S: m 1.559 2.156 'EN 100.3 72.50 3.168 2.290 7.783 5.628 !AHT 31.41 22.71 IUPIAH 9,255 6,692 CENMINBI 7.086 5.123 INDIAN RUPEE 40.43 29.24 1.061 0.767
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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      68 1 V? BizlT VIEWS FROM I"~ ~M TAIWAN p~k DINING OUT "'^k^____L r 3l ____X> w^^m^ mm "^j» I mVit^^\ Samsung shoots for THE TOP 0 Way paved 9L j^ Wayne Wang's 1 iMM the bigger picture Coping with volatile II B for change culinary choices PAGE 32 times PAGES 10
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Singapore draws $3b of manufacturing investments
      797 2  -  RONNIE LIM Latest batch of projects promise sunrise era, queen bee buzz [SINGAPORE] Despite current global economic jitters, investment inflows here remain strong. In the first few months of 2008, Singapore has already attracted more than Ss3 billion of manufacturing investments. More importantly, many
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
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        Lock icon K-Reit feeling effects of financial crunch
        71 2 K-REIT Asia is going to find it a bit tough to raise the money it needs. The real estate investment trust is looking to raise up to $700 million in a rights issue, in part to repay some of the $942 million bridging loan
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        Lock icon Evraz enters lock-up deal for Delong shares
        51 2 EVRAZ Group, which has proposed to take over Delong Holdings, yesterday announced that it has entered into a lock-up agreement with majority shareholder Best Decade Holdings. The UK-listed Evraz Group also announced additional conditions following the completion of the deal. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE
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        Lock icon M1 launches new plans as portability deadline looms
        51 2 MOBILE telcos are continuing to pull cards out of their sleeves as the June deadline for number portability approaches. Ml, the smallest of the three listed telcos, has launched three new plans with enhanced benefits and per second billing. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE
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        Lock icon Nanyang Big school aims high
        42 2 NANYANG Business School dean Jitendra Singh has set his sights on a lofty target: to elevate the Nanyang MBA to the top 25 in the world by the end of his six-year term. SINGAPORE NEWS, PAGE 9
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        Lock icon FED, BOE deny mortgage security buyout plan
        44 2 THE Federal Reserve and Bank of England denied a report that they were in talks over possibly using public funds to make mass purchases of mortgage-backed securities to ease the global credit crisis. ECONOMY WATCH, PAGE 17
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        Lock icon China, Japan unlikely to sell US$ assets
        41 2 WITH the US dollar plunging and the Federal Reserve slashing interest rates, markets are on alert for any signs that foreign investors, particularly in Asia, are buying fewer US assets. ECONOMY WATCH, PAGE 17
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        Lock icon Moneylenders now entrenched as part of rural economy
        35 2 ALMOST every farmer across India's arid cotton-bearing central plateau is a hostage, in one way or another, to a profitable mega-business of illegal moneylending. INDIA, PAGE 18
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        Lock icon Rio Tinto eyes more JVS With China firmS
        70 2 RIO Tinto, fighting a takeover bid by rival Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton, would like to work with Chinese state firms to develop mining projects around the world, chief executive Tom Albanese said. The partnership offer could draw some of the sting from
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        Lock icon Tokyo may reap rich dividends with a 'sukuk'
        64 2 TOKYO could bolster its position as a centre for Islamic finance, ahead even of London, New York and some Asian centres, if the government-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation succeeds in launching a ground breaking Islamic bond or sukuk that promises to
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        Lock icon Wall St traders feel that worst may be over
        51 2 BEAR Steams may be history on Wall Street, but that doesn't mean that the bear market is, too. That's the cautious sentiment traders were expressing as they breathed a deep sigh of relief at the end of last week. WORLD, PAGE
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      Lock icon Top 3 investment choices: China, Vietnam and India
      325 2  -  CHEW XIANG BT-UniSIM business survey China was top across all sectors but commerce [SINGAPORE] China, Vietnam and India are the three most popular investment destinations for firms, according to the latest BT-UniSIM quarterly survey of business activity. A poll of 128 companies
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      Lock icon Pledge of closer China ties seen stoking economy
      740 4 Bloomberg AIWAN PRESIDENTIAL POLLS Bush congratulates Taiwan on successful election and KMT's Ma on his victory [TAIPEI] Ma Ying-jeou's victory in Taiwan's presidential election heralds a new willingness to cooperate with China that voters overwhelmingly approved as a way to boost the
      – Bloomberg; AFP  -  740 words
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      Lock icon Ma wants to resume FTA talks with S'pore
      207 4 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou yesterday said that he wanted to resume negotiations with Singapore on signing a free trade agreement and would be flexible over what name to call the island. Talks had started before 2000 but broke off under
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      271 2 2008 bumper investment pipeline Jan 11 Oerlikon Solar invests in Singapore to 100 build up Asia business Jan 15 Nestle Oil to build its world's largest 100 NExBTL Renewable Diesel Plant in Singapore Feb 5 Pfizer's new facility in Singapore NA exemplifies its commitment to research I and development in
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  • COMPANY NEWS
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      Lock icon K-Reit feeling effects of financial crunch
      777 5  -  UMA SHANKARI K-REIT Asia is going to find it a bit tough to raise the money it needs. The real estate investment trust (Reit) is looking to raise up to $700 million in a rights issue, in part to repay some of the $942
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      Lock icon Evraz enters lock-up deal for Delong shares
      502 5  -  VINCENT WEE Agreement made with Best Decade, a majority shareholder EVRAZ Group SA, which has proposed to take over Delong Holdings, yesterday announced that it has entered into a lock-up agreement with majority shareholder Best Decade Holdings. The UK-listed Evraz Group also announced
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      Lock icon M1 launches new plans as portability deadline looms
      411 7  -  VINCENT WEE But rival Star Hub says the per second billing feature is nothing new MOBILE telcos are continuing to pull cards out of their sleeves as the June deadline for number portability approaches. Ml, the smallest of the three listed telcos,
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      Lock icon Bio-Treat shares sink to near all-time low
      547 7  -  LYNETTE KHOO Doubts remain about firm's ability to redeem bonds 810-TREAT Technology shares have sunk to just two cents shy of their all-time low as the company remains bedevilled by doubts over its ability to redeem Ss2o6 million in bonds. Noting the challenges
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      Lock icon CAO pays off debts early, says parent
      148 7 Xinhua [BEIJING] The Singapore unit of China's major jet fuel provider China Aviation Oil Group (CAO) has recovered from losses, according to CAO sources. From 2006 to 2007, the Singapore unit made U5569.7 million of profits through the oil business and returns on
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      Lock icon PRIME LENDING RATES
      404 7 Mar 2 o BANKS ABN Amro Bank NY 5.5 Agricultural Bank Of China 5.5 ANZ Banking Group 6 American Express Bank 5.75 Arab Bank PLC 5.5 BaorancnßOma.:. Sin9aP°re 6.5 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya BaS B nk 6 Bangkok Bank 6 lS"l'"? Baef L Bank of America NA 5
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
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      Lock icon Overcoming fear conditioning and picking a bottom
      775 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS EXCESSIVE greed and excessive fear usually lead markets to behave excessively in a particular manner that sometimes takes months before normalcy returns. This kind of conditioning was evident throughout the months of August to October last year when it was
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1238 6 Payment (cts) Ex Books Pay date close date Action Asia ak 0.500 06-May 08-May 20-May Jvance jva Cor; bn 0.550 13-Ma^ 15 Mi 30-Mi Alii ireen ak 5.000 05-Maj 07-M; 21 Mi ARA Asset Mgt JL 3.800 06-May 08-May 16-May isia Dekor bb 18.800 28-Mar 01-At 11 Auric
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      Lock icon Gold, oil prices hit new highs before tumbling
      426 6 -AFP COMMODITIES [LONDON] Gold and oil prices scored fresh lifetime peaks last week as investors snapped up commodities in favour of the weak dollar and sought safety from falling equity markets. Oil approached US$ll2 per barrel and gold rocketed beyond US$l,O3O an
      -AFP  -  426 words
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      Lock icon Dollar jumps against euro before holiday
      131 6 -AFP CURRENCIES [NEW YORK] The dollar climbed sharply against the euro last Thursday ahead of the long Easter holiday weekend, as oil, gold and other commodities tumbled in fading speculative fever. The single European currency was at U551.5436 around 2100 GMT, down from 1.5618
      -AFP  -  131 words
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      Lock icon BROKERS' RECOMMENDATIONS
      1937 6 Reuters Source: Consensus No. of Forecast Mean Fri's recommendation esti- EPS PE target price This wk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price Company name advance SCT Ltd 2.50 1.50 2 7.15 3.64 0.50 0.23 .llco Commercial REIT 2.25 1.75 4 5.16 15.51 1.20 0.73 .llgreen Properties Ltd 2.22
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      Lock icon STRAITS TIMES INDEX
      4 6 WEEKLY
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      54 6 Mar 20 VALUE CLOSE -1375.00-205.00 BT OB/OS BT CADI -*****.00-217.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00-138.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 703.03 -15.37 FTSE ST Small Cap 590.11 -10.69 FTSE ST All Share 716.93 -6.04 FTSE ST China 379.20 -12.31 UOB Catalist 143.23 -0.86 SiMSCI 352.59 -2.18 SiMSCI Future 350.80
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
      57 6 VOLUME Golden Agri 314,195,000 Jasper 196,652,000 Sing Tel 146,473,000 CoscoCorpMßl_eCWoBoBol 142,662,000 Yanqzijianq 116,753,000 Synear 105,613,000 Firstßes 95,185,000 Gent Intl 91,322,000 Cosco Corp 90,111,000 China Honqxinq 89,518,000 VALUE(S) Sing Tel 569,893,152 SGX 435,091,916 DBSGrp 419,875,730 Capita Land 370,205,049 UOB 350,495,360 Keppel Corp 288,039,955 Cosco Corp 264,370,880 Golden Agri
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      Lock icon RISES
      116 6 Closing prices are in trading currencies, but absolute difference is in Ss. BY CENTS CLOSE UP 2946 285.7 7.5 JMH UOB 1814 90.0 5.2 JSH 1610 55.5 2.5 UOBMBLiCW*****0 567 54.0 10.5 Asia Pac Brew 1340 40.0 3.1 Venture Con 1002 37.0 3.! S I A 1448 36.0 2.5
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      Lock icon FALLS
      106 6 CLOSE DOWN 9240-845.9 -6.2 GLD 10US$ China H 10US$ 1386-202.5 -9.! Jardine C&C 1640-120.0 -6.8 Shani .a Asia 1760-119.5 -27.' Creative Tech 625 -80.0 -11.3 IS MSCI India 100 655 -74.9 -7.6 Cifr 975 -65.0 -6.3 Kej T&T 390 -59.0 -13.1 Korea 10US 436 -52.7 -8.0 lux 277 -51.0
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      Lock icon CURRENCIES Where S$ stands
      85 6 Reuters Source: Mar 20 CHNG CLOSE FRMar19 YR 2008/07 S$ LOW S$ HIGH USS 1.3882 -0.53 1.5479 1.3757 Euro 2.1555 0.96 2.2064 1.9913 Pounds 2.7504 0.71 3.1194 2.7390 AS 1.2633 1.71 1.3555 1.1741 Yen* 1.3917 0.93 1.4484 1.2285 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.53 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.4366 -0.15
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      Lock icon Four portfolios retreat amid uncertainty
      1524 8  -  TEH HOOI LING IS IT the bottom, or is it not? That's the question that a lot of people in the market are grappling with now. On the "yes" camp, the arguments include: All the efforts by the US Federal Reserve are taking effect. In
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      Lock icon Selling slows to a crawl but buying stays high
      1484 8  -  ROBERT HALILI INSIDE MARKETS Fund manager sentiment remains positive, buyback activity also stays high, with SIA emerging as top buyer THE buying remained high while the sales activity slowed to a crawl last week based on filings on the Singapore Exchange
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
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      Lock icon Nanyang Biz School aims high
      883 9 New dean wants its MBA to be among world's top 25 by 2013, reports LEE U-WEN BEING part of a school with a flagship graduate programme ranked 46th in the world is something that new Nanyang Business School (NBS) dean Jitendra Singh is hardly used
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      Lock icon MOH clarifies stand on aesthetic treatments
      237 9 THE Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday said that it was not advocating a hard regulatory approach to aesthetic treatments. Instead, its focus is on patient safety, particularly for highly invasive procedures such as liposuction, through making sure that they should only be carried out
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      Lock icon Another JI member held under ISA
      221 9 THE Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) yesterday announced that Rijal Yadri Jumari, 27, another member of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group, has been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA). Rijal was arrested in February for his JI involvement. He was known then
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon ADAPTING TO VOLATILE TIMES
      3510 10  -  Mike Sim THIS WEEK'S TOPIC: What would be the impact of increasingly higher energy prices and a weakening US dollar and hence a sharply stronger Singapore dollar on businesses here? What can be done to combat the negative impact, and exploit the opportunities, of these twin
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  • FOCUS
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      Lock icon Carbon trade: To invest or not to invest?
      1042 12 THE carbon markets, whether you choose to praise or vilify them, have grown over the last two years, and today form a critical part of the Kyoto Protocol's mechanisms. According to the United Nations, abatement projects in the developing world have prevented
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      Lock icon What it takes to be a carbon hub
      669 12 SINGAPORE has made clear its ambition to be a regional carbon hub. What does this entail? According to the Economic Development Board (EDB), the "carbon services ecosystem" includes a variety of different firms. It involves not just project developers, verification and monitoring
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      Lock icon Carbon credits: How they help reduce GHG
      571 12 What are carbon credits? Each carbon credit allows the holder to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent. Carbon credits have no physical underlying product unlike derivative contracts like oil or grain futures, which are written on the actual commodities. Rather, credits are
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  • DINING OUT WITH citibank
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      Lock icon Food is pivotal in his movies
      854 13  -  JAIME EE POWER Lunch AS an auteur who made his name with films documenting the Chinese immigrant experience in American society, Wayne Wang understands the important role that food plays in the stories he tells. "The dinner table is where most family interactions take
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      Lock icon Reinventing S'porean classics
      594 13  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon NEW DISHES Wild Rocket 10A Upper Wilkie Road Tel: 6339-9448 WHEN lawyer-turned-chef Willin Low first started Wild Rocket, it was generally seen as an eatery serving a contemporary Western menu with Asian accents. There were a handful of East-West fusion dishes, notably the laksa pesto
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  • DINING OUT
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      Lock icon Thai favourites from Penang
      867 14  -  Cheah Ui-Hoon NEW RESTAURANT Yellow Light Thai Food 95 East Coast Road (opposite Katong Village and Katong Mall) Tel: 6345-7324 ONCE upon a time, there was a restaurant in Penang that was perched on a hill, in an extension behind a semi-de-tached house which didn't have
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      116 15 j^^-v. /JB a fj9< I j ,W; i A Toast to A New Beginning! Welcome to BT Frontline Frontline is pleased to announce that we will be known as BT Frontline with immediate effect. Wholly owned by British Telecommunications pic (BT), we are now part of BT Global Services, the
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS' FORUM
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      Lock icon Understanding commodities
      969 16 They serve as a good diversified portfolio of investment, reports QUAH CHIN CHIN COMMODITIES have been hogging the headlines recently. Before last Thursday's sell-off, they were largely seen as safer bets in the wake of the plunging US dollar and volatile performance of other asset classes. According to
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      Lock icon On target with stock analyses
      792 16 CAMPUS LIFE Quad Investment's contrarian 'sell' calls win SMU quartet CFA award, WEE JUN KAI reports ON Oct 31, 2007, Quad Investment initiated a "sell" call on Sing Tel shares with a target price of $3.68, which represented a discount of 9 per cent to
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      Lock icon Be smart with your finances
      204 16 FANCY becoming the next Warren Buffett or George Soros? Or even the famous Robert Kiyosaki? Then read on. The Young Investors' Forum, part of the BT-Citibank Tertiary Outreach Programme, isn't another dry page out of your financial textbook. To complement our editorial content, we have
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      46 16 citibank THE Business Times-Citibank Young Investors' Forum is published every Monday in The Business Times. It aims to raise the financial awareness of university and polytechnic students and cultivate a better understanding of business issues. The series is part of BT and Citibank's tertiary outreach programme.
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
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      Lock icon Fed, BOE deny mortgage security buyout plan
      488 17 Reuters Bank of England, however, says it's considering other options to address financial market turmoil [LONDON/WASHINGTON] The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England (BOE) denied a report on Saturday that they were in talks over possibly using public funds to make
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      Lock icon Financial crisis: A look at history for solutions
      816 17 -AFP Parallels to Japanese stagnation, Great Depression seen [WASHINGTON] As the US economy stumbles, experts are looking at past crises in an effort to better understand the current predicament and find a way to avert contagion infecting the rest of the world.
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      Lock icon China, Japan unlikely to sell US$ assets
      509 17 -AFP Such a move will depress US$ and hit their forex reserves [TOKYO] With the US dollar plunging and the Federal Reserve slashing interest rates, markets are on alert for any signs that foreign investors, particularly in Asia, are buying fewer US assets.
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      1810 17 IN THE MATTER OF I THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND tSt/'i IN THE MAnER OF i WJ "gt W.W. INVESTMENT HOLDINGS PTELTD (IN MEMBERS'VOLUNTARY ETLA LIMITED CO REGQNO A?994OS26OE (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant,., (Company Registration No.: *****2325G) Section 308(1) of the Companies
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  • INDIA
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      Lock icon India plays catch-up in wooing Africa for resources, influence
      582 18 -AFP Seeking to match Chinese clout, it is organising business, political meetings [NEW DELHI] India is wooing oil and mineral-rich Africa, seeking to match the clout enjoyed by China, as it seeks to fuel its energyhungry economy and boost its global
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      Lock icon Moneylenders now entrenched as part of rural economy
      495 18 Reuters [PANDHARKAWDA, India] Almost every farmer across India's arid cotton-bearing central plateau is a hostage, in one way or another, to a profitable mega-business of illegal moneylending. Families have lost land, farmers have been asked to prostitute their wives to pay off
      – Reuters; REUTERS  -  495 words
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      Lock icon Nuke deal: Indian minister in US
      244 18 -AFP [NEW DELHI] India's foreign minister will visit Washington this week for talks with US leaders, a statement said last Saturday, amid uncertainty over a nuclear deal between the two countries. Pranab Mukherjee will "review all aspects of the India-US bilateral relationship" during talks
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      2573 18 SINGAPORE COSCO CORPORATION (SINGAPORE) LIMITED (Company No.: *****0159G) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at Marina Mandarin Singapore, Level 1, Taurus Leo Room, 6 Raffles Boulevard, Marina Square, Singapore *****4 on Tuesday, 15 April 2008 at
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  • MALAYSIA
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      Lock icon Venturing into uncharted territory
      585 19  -  S JAYASANKARAN MALAYSIA INSIGHT The Terengganu imbroglio requires a swift compromise HAT we have now is m\ M a right royal constitutional crisis," said Shad Saleem Faruqi, a senior law professor at University Technologi Mara. Indeed. Last Saturday, Terengganu's palace issued a statement appointing Ahmad Said,
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      1050 20 -AFP Ferrari denied 1-2 finish with Massa spinning off; Hamilton placed sth [SEPANG, Malaysia] Defending drivers world champion Kimi Raikkonen finally kicked off the defence of his crown yesterday when, a week after a dreadful day in Melbourne, he won the Malaysian
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      Lock icon M'sian GP will switch to night race
      187 20 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] The Malaysian Grand Prix will switch to a night race in 2009, Formula One chief executive officer Bernie Ecclestone said in an interview. Mr Ecclestone, 77, said that Grand Prix organisers at the Sepang circuit outside Kuala Lumpur had agreed
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      314 20 -AFP [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is considering making it illegal for lawmakers to switch sides amid reports the Opposition was trying to lure ruling party defectors in an attempt to unseat the government, a minister said. "To me, these (defectors) have no integrity
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      397 21 -AFP GCC countries to discuss with IMF and EU ways to tackle problem MANAMA] Abundant liquidity, triggered by sharply higher oil revenues, and the effect of currencies pegged to a weakening US dollar ire fuelling inflation in the Gulf region, economists say.
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      533 22 Reuters Partnership offer could draw sting from bitter iron ore contract talks [BEIJING] Rio Tinto, fighting a takeover bid by rival Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton, would like to work with Chinese state firms to develop mining projects around the world, chief executive
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      545 22 Reuters They flee rising costs and loss of tax breaks, leaving behind unpaid wages [QINGDAO] Scores of South Kore-an-owned factories are closing surreptitiously in eastern China as their owners flee rising costs, leaving behind embittered workers such as
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      738 23  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY Such a bond issue could put it ahead of US and UK as an Islamic finance hub By J By in Tokyo TOKYO could bolster its position as a centre for Islamic finance, ahead even of London, New York and
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      230 23 Reuters [ZURICH] ÜBS shareholders will consider a proposal for a fresh capital hike of 10 billion Swiss francs (5513.7 billion) next month, according to a Swiss newspaper report yesterday. The Sonntagsßlick newspaper quoted Herbert Braendli, head of Swiss pension fund Profond, as
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      445 23 -AFP 7 carmakers have proposed projects to Investment Board [BANGKOK] Incentives from the Thai government to encourage carmakers to produce fuel-efficient "eco-cars" have yielded a raft of major investments and started to change how Thais drive, experts say. Tax breaks for carmakers and car buyers
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      740 24  -  ANDREW MARKS WALL STREET INSIGHT Moves by Fed lead to turnarounds for stocks, US dollar, commodities By, in New York BEAR Steams may be history on Wall Street, but that doesn't mean that the bear market is, too. That's the cautious sentiment traders
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      552 24 -AP Moody's says it'll continue to rate the two investment banks with stable outlooks [NEW YORK] Standard Poor's Corp, in a continuing sign of loss of confidence in investment banks' eroding profitability, put Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on
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      293 24 Bloomberg [WASHINGTON] Bank of America Corp, the second biggest US bank by assets, may take a record US$6.5 billion provision in the first quarter to cover possible future losses in its home equity and mortgage portfolios, Punk Ziegel and Co analyst Richard Bove
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      2751 24 Transaction date: Mar 21 For a full listing of the closing prices, log on to BT online at http://business-times.asial.com.sg after 11.30pm every trading day Vol ■000 HK$ \eon Stores \ngang Steel \nhui Conch \nhuiexpressway \sia Satellite \sm Pacific Sank Of E Asia Seida Jade Bird Seijing Airport Seijing
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      123 24 Stock name Close Change Caj i Land 5.680 -0.040 Caj iMall 3.110 +0.010 Citi 9.750 -0.050 Cosco Cor| 2.970 +0.020 DBS Gr| 17.100 -0.280 FSN 4.490 -0.010 Gent Intl 0.565 -0.005 HKLand 3.860 -0.080 JSH 16.100 -0.140 Jardine CSC 16.400 Stock name Close Change Kei Con
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      97 24 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 3 12 2 OOP 3 12 2 Manufacturing 41 160 38 29 48 189 46 Commerce 60 10 11 15 71 15 'St. >r/Cc ms 10 28 11 31 Finance 27 28 Construction
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      123 24 TURNOVER C000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE ('000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 99.555 99.555 474.477 474.477 Manufacturing 1.317.299 90.598 1.407.897 1.192.067 12.015 1.204.082 Commerce 294.949 8.887 303.836 479.977 913 480.890 477.547 726 478.273 1.325.635 189 1.325.82' Finance 183.810 23 183.833 1.578.652 1.578.655 Construction 180.341 61.391 241.732 38.145
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      350 25 -AP Trucking firms to be responsible for maintaining fleet to emissions standards [LOS ANGELES] Commissioners at one of the US's major seaports last Thursday unanimously approved a final prong of a landmark plan intended to clean up some of America's dirtiest air. The
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      2430 25 AIRLINE CODES: AA American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), Al Air India (AIC), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bourac -irhnes (BOU), BR
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      391 25 Bloomberg [NEW YORK] FedEx Corp has announced that profit fell for the second straight quarter and will decline in the current period as soaring fuel costs and an economy teetering on the brink of recession reduced demand for US package shipping. Net income
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      140 25 Reuters [FRANKFURT] A group of German business people may enlist financial investors as allies to help buy TUl's Hapag-Lloyd container shipping unit, one of the executives said last week. "It is being debated whether a private equity investor will come on board with us,"
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        99 25 '000 CH Offshore Chuan Hup Hldgs Cosco Corp CWTLtd Ezra Hldgs First Ship Lease Freight Links Grand Banks laya Hold Ltd KiVentures Keppel Corp MTQCorp NOL Pacific Shipping Pan-United Corp Rickmers Mari Samudera Ship Sembcorp Indust Sembcorp Marine Spore Ship 0.51 0.36 2.97 0.82 1.62 1.07 0.06 ....unch 1.41
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        37 25 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings Nepline Bhd PDZ Holdings 0.70 7.95 8.15 3.80 3.10 0.22 0.15 unch 0.10 unch unch -0.02 unch 0.01 70 98 139 1210 16 61 5
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        12 25 ■oo ■recious Ship Jegional Cont .23.30 .24.10 0.20 0.30 35: 9:
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        12 25 '000 lar Doil iingamas Cont 41.65 1.91 0.15 -0.03 1431 614
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        17 25 '000 Aboitiz Equity Intl Container Keppel Marine 6.80 33.50 unch 0.20 1.50 unch 731 1286 0
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        24 25 lar Evergreen Marine ....29.35 :irst Steamship 65.60 /Van Hai Lines 28.20 r"ang Ming Marine ..23.00 -0.55 0.60 0.05 -0.50 4( i 3' 31
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        40 25 '000 (awasaki Hvy Ind ..227.00 8.00 ***** (awasaki Kisen 884.00 -36.00 6549 Mitsubishi Hvy 437.00 26.00 ***** Mitsui Eng&Sbldg ..262.00 8.00 ***** Mitsui Osk Lines ...1146.00 -37.00 ***** Mippon Express 563.00 23.00 5228 MipponYusen 856.00 -6.00 5673 iource: Reuters
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      167 25 NOTICE BY FEEDER OPERATORS 1 CURRENCY ADJUSTMENT PASIR GUDANG TRADE I EFFECTIVE 10 April 2008 Due to further appreciation of Singapore Dollar and Malaysia Ringgit against US Dollar which escalated the operating cost to a higher level, the following feeder operators have no other alternative but to review Currency Adjustment
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      312 25 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD ACROSS I Anchor by source of current i I Fj I [j I R I pi I p I Is 5 Female luvvie getting part f^^^H^l j^l f^fl 9 Control journalists on booze I 10 Golfer ricochets gripping —p^ II 'Income', posh Tory leader jflj HJ MVJ I
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      6845 26 Week ended: Mar 20 Hi. !-wks Tel Low Code Com| Sale ('OOP) Hil Low B'l Seller C'vr P/E Sinii 5716 1st Software 22 6.5 3148 STelecom S fc s F °s n& 71] is i£u c°:<:. 42 18.8 2101 APOil 141 54.5 5550 ARA 22 4 3100 ASAGrp
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      76 26 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) Week ill Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCa| C'vr P/E $mi Com _Hm 200 116 6065 Diamonds 6200 5000 6095 IS DJ US Tech 1000 1000 6097 IS MSCI Spore ***** ***** 6101 ISS&P5OO ***** *****
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      2129 26 52-Wk Tel High Low Code Last Sale Vol C000) Week Last Quote Div GrYld Net MCap |h Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E $mil Corn] >am Hii 30 11.5 1181 s AAGrp 41.5 18 5000 s ABR Hldgs 31 18.5 8538 s APStrategic 16.5 2.5 1501 s Advanced System
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      259 26 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum
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      Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
      371 27 In local curr In S$ In USS %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Mar 21 World Index Preliminan 977.2 0.2 -13.7 0.2 -14.5 0.2 -11.. EAFE Prel liminan 918.6 0.4 -18.0 0.4 -16.4 0.4 -13.3 Euri Preliminan 1271.2
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      137 27 As at 9am Mar 20 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2590 1.2750 Can dollar 1.3590 1.3760 Euro 2.1510 2.1760 Malaysian ringgit* 0.4361 0.4369 NZ dollar 1.0980 1.1220 Sterlin mnd 2.7350 2.7671 US dollar 1.3810 1.3960 Local dollars to
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      163 27 Mar 20 *i Offer Bid Overnight 3/4 1-month 1 1/4 2-months 1 1/4 3-months 1 5/16 Overnight mode: 1 1/8 USS Offer 5/8 1 1/8 1 1/8 1 3/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months SFr 2.90 2.65 2.65
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      20 27 Mar 21 STI SIMSCI Mar closed Taiwan Mar 327.2 334.7 334.6 Source: MF Global (S) Pte. Ltd
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      21 27 Mar 20 Bid Offer 1-month 1.3848 1.386 2-months 1.3832 1.3845 3-months 1.3823 1.3837 6-months 1.3792 1.3807 Source: OCBC
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      Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
      152 27 Mar 20 Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2666 1.2681 0.9134 0.9138 Canadian dollar 1.3623 1.3638 0.9824 0.9828 Euro 2.1598 2.1618 1.5575 1.5578 NZ dollar 1.1125 1.1142 0.8023 0.8029 Sterlim ind 2.7457 2.7481 1.9800 1.9803 US dollar 1.3867 1.3877
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      272 27 Mar 21 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES [closed; Jun08 Sep08 Dec08 Mar09 EUROYEN FUTURES Jun08 99.255 99.255 Sep08 99.345 99.345 Dec08 99.330 99.340B Mar09 99.315 99.315 Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 99.255 99.330 99.330 99.310A 99.270A 99.255 99.340 99.335 99.315 99.270 99.215 99.190 99.130 502
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      291 27 Mar 20 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 1 (S cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (tonnes) Open Interest Apr 08 May 08 Jun 08 Jul/Sep 08 Oct/Dec 08 Jan/Mar 09 382.25 383.75 384.00 384.25 384.25 386.00 RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month Hig ah Low Sett Volume (tonnes)
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      468 27 Mar 20 AS Rmb Euro HKS Ind Rs Ru Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound USS Australia 0.930 6.445 0.587 7.106 36.992 83.914 0.907 9.226 2.903 1.138 57.470 37.892 1.267 7.422 0.916 28.029 28.573 0.461 0.914 Canada 1.076 6.932 0.631
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      104 27 Mar 20 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low May 08 1207.00 1257.00 1235.00 1207.00 Jul 08 1222.00 1272.00 1249.00 1222.00 Aug 08 1216.00 1266.00 1238.00 1216.00 Sep 08 1190.00 1240.00 1217.00 1190.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low May 08 54.40 56.40 55.50
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      76 27 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Mar 20 CRUDE (FOB origin) USS/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 99.15 -2.67 WTI (Near Mth) 102.52 -1.42 Dubai (1-Mth F) 94.26 -4.65 Tapis blend 105.75 -5 Minas 101.4 -5 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Chanqe Naphtha Jet Kerosene 94.17 124.97 -3.63 -5.38 USS/barrel Opec Oil
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      89 27 Mar 20 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hii Day's ill Low 3-Month BQ*****H 19.06.08 1-Year BY*****A 29.09.08 0.83 0.94 0.73 0.73 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 2-Year N*****0F 2.625 5-Year N*****1E 2.500 7-Year NX*****F 3.625 10-Year NY*****F 3.750 15-Year
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      76 27 Mar 20 (US$) (SS) 2.***** 1.***** 1 mth 2 mths 2.***** 1.***** 3 mths 2.***** 1.***** 6 mths 2.***** 1.***** 9 mths 2.***** 1.***** 12 mths 2.***** 1.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 1.***** 2mths 1.***** 3mths 1.***** 6 mths 1.***** 9 mths 1.***** 12 mths 1.***** SWAP
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      60 27 Mar 21 Delivery Month Opening Range Sett Av Price Price Hii Vol Open Done Position Low Apr 08 3240 3335 3400 3234 197 1597 MayO8 3199 3349 3410 3199 1469 ***** JunO8 3225 3330 3409 3197 8532 ***** Jul 08 3129 3330 3400 3210 1560 4815 Total o/p:
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      138 27 Mar 20 GOLD (USS/oz) Mar 20 Mar 19 Hong Kong London 920.00 991.30 921.00 992.30 Mar 19 Mar 20 943.30 922.70 944.00 923.60 Source: Reuters CAST BAR (SS) Mar 20 Buying Sellini Kilobar "44,849.05" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (SS) Sellinq Buying Igm 5gm lOgm 20gm 50gm lOOgm 1
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      71 27 Mar 20 minimum, 99.7 jrity (USS/tonne) Co Close Previou: Cash 2802.00 2880.80 3 months 2843.00 2920.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months 7972.00 7840.00 8103.00 7979.00 Lead (USS/tonne) Cash 2700.50 3 months 2714.00 2824.20 2835.00 Nickel (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (USS/tonne) Cash
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      83 27 Mar 20 COCOA (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low May 08 1268 1334 1319/1200 Jul 08 1298 1361 1340/1235 Sep 08 1246 1311 1290/1185 Dec 08 1232 1301 1270/1183 COFFEE (USS/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Mar 08 2294 2485 2528/2210 May 07 2294 2485 2554/2208 Jul 08 2250 2345 2400/2200 Sep
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      3139 27 BONDS WARRANTS Pel lode Company Last Sale Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear- Mths +or- ('000) Ratio Price ing Left 3779 ASL Marine Hldgs W*****1 >036 Advance SCT Ltd W*****9 42 2.5 1 35 -1 154 1 53 1 87 -1 2.29 289 9.20 1 29 ArianeCorp Ltd W*****9
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      950 31  -  AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY IDC survey shows 12% of Singapore SMBs are top-notch in IT sawiness By THE most important factor influencing software investments by small and medi-um-sized businesses (SMB) in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) is the high level of expertise and support
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      622 31 By AMIT ROY CHOUDHURY SMALL and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Singapore are set to invest more than US$37 million this year to strengthen their UC (unified communications) infrastructure, up 15 per cent over last year's level. And by 2012, SMB spending
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        Lock icon Fuji Xerox holds seminar
        75 31 FUJI Xerox will hold DocuWorld 2008 at the Shangri-La Hotel on March 25 and 26. The two-day event will feature seminars conducted by industry experts like eMarketing Strategy president Ruth Stevens and Big' Ant CEO David Tan. Topics to be covered include using customer databases for
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        72 31 CISCO will hold its Unified Communications Summit 2008 on March 28 at the Suntec Convention Centre. The conference will showcase the latest collaboration, communication, mobility and unified messaging technologies from Cisco and its stable of partners. Specifically, participants will gain insights on areas like improving information
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        Lock icon StarHub goes family-friendly
        100 31 STARHUB has launched a new Share Plus mobile plan which allows subscribers to share their air time and SMS bundle with family and friends. Customers with post-paid plans like Power Talk Ultimate and Power Connect can sign up for a maximum of two Share Plus lines and
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        85 31 LAW firm ATMD will be organising a half-day intellectual property seminar at the FTSE Training Room in Capital Tower on April 10. The event will feature presentations from the company's intellectual property lawyers on issues pertaining to privacy and the protection of information. Participants can expect
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        Lock icon Ladies-only e-business course
        74 31  -  WINSTON CHAI FEMALE executives looking to hone their e-business and technology know-how will get a chance to do so at APEC Women's e-Biz Training 2008. To be held on April 17 and 18, the inaugural event will help participants develop their business acumen and tech knowledge so
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      Lock icon Samsung shoots for the bigger picture in digicams
      713 32 Korean tech giant aims to be market leader in two years, reports WINSTON CHAI HAVING gained a strong foothold in mobile phones, consumer electronics and music players, Samsung is now turning its gunsights on the digital camera segment and has set a
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