The Business Times, 11 December 2015

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    36 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 2015 SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN S$1.00 q:h A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION wvvw.businesstimes.com.sg U D @BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO ’l*****868E MCI (P) 039/08/2015 Friday, December 11, 2015
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    248 1 Large companies in Singapore must build an upstart culture and be part of creating an innovative society, says Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. TOP STORIES 2 Japan’s ruling LDP has agreed to reduce corporate taxes to below 30 per cent from next year.TOP STORIES 4 Singapore Exchange has
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    29 1 MARKETS Thursday Change STI 2,848.46 -12.73 KL COMP 1,648.65 -10.71 NIKKEI 225 19,046.55 -254.52 HANG SENG 21,704.61 -99.15 SHENZHEN B 1,269.59 -0.10 DOW (10:45 am EST) 17,645.00 +152.70
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    Lock icon AccorHotels lands Raffles Hotel as part of maiden acquisitions in S’pore
    801 1  -  Purchase of Fairmont Raffles Hotels International covers 155 hotels and resorts worldwide, including Manhattan’s Plaza and London’s Savoy By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore THE ownership of Raffles Hotel is changing hands once again, this time to AccorHotels, which
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    Lock icon Global carriers cruise towards record year but profits remain fragile: Iata
    1041 1  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Geneva ROBUST travel demand and cheaper jet fuel have prompted the International Air Transport Association (Iata) to yet again revise projected profits for the global aviation industry this year upwards from US$29.3 billion to
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Wolfgang Baier abruptly quits SingPost
      802 2  -  Move sparks speculation that the postal services chief may have been poached by a global firm in a similar space By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore OVERNIGHT delivery: shock resignation from local corporate darling. Singapore Post’s (SingPost) head honcho Wolfgang Baier said on Thursday evening
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      Lock icon Big firms should embrace upstart culture to thrive: DPM
      461 2  -  By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore HISTORY tells stories of how the corporate mighty have fallen, as large organisations consistently miss disruption from new players. Against that, large companies in Singapore must build an upstart culture and, in doing so, be
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      Lock icon ‘Engaging industry’ a key priority in boosting S’pore as an R&D hub: NRF
      778 2  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore MORE can be done to boost industry R&D (research and development), and translate technologies into innovations for economic and societal benefit, Low Teck Seng, chief executive of the National Research Foundation
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      Lock icon S’pore office rents seen easing until 2016 at least
      1440 4  -  Office rents are ending lower this year, ahead of a big surge in office completions and a weakening in demand REVIEW 2015 By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore A YEAR ago, property consultants were predicting that Singapore office rentals would continue
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      Lock icon Abe buys support from Japanese business firms with early tax cut
      633 4  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controlling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Thursday agreed to reduce corporate taxes in Japan to below 30 per cent from next year, in the hope that this will stimulate
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      Lock icon Retail manpower study launched
      362 4  -  By Chuang Peck Ming peckming@sph.com.sg @PeckmingBT Singapore SPRING Singapore will launch a study to help the retail sector become la-bour-lean and create higher val-ue-added jobs under a manpower plan for the sector rolled out on Thursday at Clarke Quay Central. Announcing the “business model and job
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      Lock icon Monitoring mechanism, funding issue among major hurdles at climate talks
      738 5 Most expect a deal by the Friday deadline but the worry is that compromises will water down the agreement NYT Le Bourget NEGOTIATORS from nearly 200 countries have yet to resolve major issues, such as how and when pledged cuts
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      Lock icon Harvey Norman opens new superstore at Millenia Walk
      157 5 Singapore AUSTRALIA-based electronics retail chain Harvey Norman officially opened its new superstore at Millenia Walk on Thursday evening. The three-storey, 100,000 sq ft flagship outlet, which occupies the space previously used by Japanese department store Parco, offers the largest range of electrical,
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      196 4 THE BUSINESS TIMESMAYBANK KIM ENG IM PACT #INVESTASIA2016 OPPORTUNITIES CHALLENGES The ASEAN Economic Community The AEC encompassing 10 countries more than 600 million people, is targeted to come into effect this year. How will it change the region? What are its implications for politics and economics? What will it mean
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Boosting liquidity: fundamental rethink needed
      734 6  -  SGX could reconsider its removal of the cap on clearing fee; some observers believe that longer trading hours are counter-productive HOCK LOCK SIEW BY R SIVANITHY IT WOULD not be an exaggeration to describe conditions in the local stock market as extremely dire, possibly the
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      Lock icon SGX launches OTC platform for trading of Asian bonds
      386 6  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) has launched SGX Bond Pro, its over-the-counter electronic trading platform for Asian bonds, the market operator announced on Thursday. The platform currently allows trading of Asian corporate bonds denominated in the G3
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      Lock icon Tiger’s independent adviser says SIA offer is ‘fair and reasonable’
      439 6  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore THE independent financial adviser to the board of Tiger Airways Holdings has given a “fair and reasonable” opinion on the offer by Singapore Airlines for shares in the budget carrier that it does not
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      Lock icon CityDev embarks on A$275m Brisbane residential project
      533 7  -  It is partnerning Abacus Property Group and KPG Capital to develop two 30-storey towers By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore CITY Developments (CDL) on Thursday announced its re-entry into the Australian residential sector after more than a decade since its last project there
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      Lock icon GLP completes two billion-yuan stake buy in China logistics firm
      367 7  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore SEVERAL months after it was initially scheduled to close the deal, logistics provider Global Logistic Properties (GLP) has completed its acquisition of a stake in China’s largest state-owned warehouse logistics provider for two billion
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      Lock icon Goldman upgrades Singapore market, expects 7% return
      421 7  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore A YEAR after it downgraded the Singapore market to “underweight” due to concerns over the energy and property sectors in Singapore, investment bank Goldman Sachs has upgraded the market back to “market weight” with a 12-month Straits
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon OUE Limited
        113 7 AN indirect associate of mainboard-listed property firm OUE Limited has raised its stake in Hong Kong-listed real estate developer Gemdale Properties and Investment (GPI), the group said in a Singapore Exchange filing on Thursday, adding that this would boost its access to China’s property market. OUE Lippo has
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        108 7 PRIVATE education firm TMC Education has found a potential buyer for two strata-titled lots at Peninsula Plaza but will have to book a S$1.21 million net loss on the sale. it said in a Singapore Exchange filing on Thursday that it has inked option agreements with Foundation of
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        91 7 SEMICONDUCTOR equipment maker UMS Holdings has inked a deal with a Malaysian aerospace metallic component maker as it seeks to diversify beyond its semiconductor segment. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with All Star Fortress (ASF), under which it will make a preliminary cash injection of rm
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      Lock icon Market weighed down by bank stocks
      697 8  -  Sentiment hit by a combination of adverse factors, resulting in ST Index suffering its third consecutive fall TTSTOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT THE Straits Times Index (STI) on Thursday drifted to a 12.73-point loss at 2,848.46, amid low volume of 990.4 million units
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      306 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 228 cd -10 228/221 271 213 6.4 5773.5 CapitaLand 318 -4 322/316 379 267 11.6 2.8 *****.9 CapitaMall Trust 189.5 -2.5 191/185.5 228 184.5 5.7 6585.7 CityDev 715 -3 720/711 1095 711
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      38 8 VOLUME China Env 67,334,300 New Silkroutes 62,219,100 Ascendas Reit 33,368,600 Noble 26,625,400 HPH Trust USD 26,413,000 Market volume 1,172,951,000 VALUE DBS Grp 84,165,302 Ascendas Reit 74,637,153 Singtel 60,887,445 OCBC Bank 57,005,527 UOB 38,497,747 Market value 889,837,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFS
      111 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 291 -1 432 292/290 355/280 290/292 IS MS INDIA US$ US647 +6 95 650/642 1000/641 645/647 80.9 DBXT MSRussia US$ US169 +1 78 169/169 235/140 171/172 DBXT MSINDO us$ US1112 -4 56 1113/1108 1492/911
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      77 8 Dec 10 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -412.00 -69.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -134.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -41.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 666.28 -5.47 FTSE ST Small Cap 401.42 -2.64 FTSE ST All Share 688.21 -3.89 FTSE ST China Top 170.53 -0.79 FTSE ST China 205.20 -1.45 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index Dec 10,2015 688.21 -3.89 (-0.56%) Current streak 3 days Day high 690.54 Day low 687.29 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 676.13 (Sept 29, 2015)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index Dec 9,2015 1,713.39 +3.61 (+0.21%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,722.22 Day low 1,701.77 52-week high 1,949.49 (May 15, 2015) 52-week low 1,609.50 (Sept 29, 2015)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 6 5 3 0 1 0 6 6 3 Manufacturing 22 46 30 10 9 8 32 55 38 Commerce 11 20 13 2 6 7 13 26 20 Tpt/Stor/Comms 14 17 6
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      123 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 12,546 6,956 19,502 29,890 2,549 32,439 Manufacturing 100,223 40,376 140,599 82,847 5,579 88,426 Commerce 112,519 21,155 133,674 47,120 1,324 48,444 Tpt/Stor/Comms 125,969 1,371 127,340 172,343 115 172,458 Finance 18,576 18,576 199,658 199,658 Construction 35,300 3,407
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      72 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low Lyxor Indonesia US$ 7065 98.3 1.0 9182/6250 Jardine C&C 3492 30.0 0.9 4258/2636 Great Eastern 2020 20.0 1.0 2600/1870 DBXT MSBrazil US$ 259 14.0 4.0 409/226 Hotel Royal 360 11.0 3.2 388/300 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low IP Softcom 4.9 122.7 2.7
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      76 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT DBCDJUBS US$ 1825 -186.7 -6.8 2279/1825 DBXT MSJAP US$ 4860 -164.2 -2.4 5277/4433 SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** -162.8 -0.6 *****/***** JMH USD 4861 -110.9 -1.6 6788/4502 GLD US$ ***** -44.9 -0.3 *****/***** BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Charisma W*****3 0.1 -50.0
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      83 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE IP Softcom 82.1 0.049 +0.027 +122.73 Enviro-Hub 14,735.5 0.085 -0.007 -7.61 Xyec 63.0 0.225 +0.030 +15.39 China Taisan 91.1 0.083 -0.005 -5.68 Full Apex 40.0 0.028 -0.016 -36.36 Raffles United 205.0 0.200 +0.010 +5.26 IPCO Intl 5,801.1 0.005 +0.001 +25.00 Imperium Crown 6,323.9 0.067 -0.010
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ TAKE
      442 8  -  Compiled by Kenneth Lim Ascendas Real Estate investment Trust Buy Dec 10 close: S$2.28 Target price: S$2.50 OCBC Investment Research, Dec 10 ASCENDAS Real Estate Investment Trust (A-Reit) has proposed an equity fund raising exercise (private placement and preferential offering) to raise gross proceeds of about S$408.3 million.
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      10 8 DATA I 9.30 am (Dec 12) China Industrial Production
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      Lock icon Swiss franc hits one-week high against euro
      418 9 CURRENCIES London THE Swiss franc rose against the euro on Thursday after Switzerland’s central bank kept interest rates on hold at record lows, defying some expectations that it might act to weaken an overvalued currency. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) kept its target
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 Dec 10 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.988 4.692 0.663 5.650 48.694 101.743 0.887 8.609 3.106 1.081 75.683 34.399 1.023 10.966 0.718 23.947 26.271 0.480 0.729 Canada 1.012 4.748
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 Dec 10 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0228 1.0236 0.7287 0.7292 Canadian dollar 1.0352 1.0356 0.7377 0.7375 Euro 1.5433 1.5439 1.0995 1.0999 NZ dollar 0.9467 0.9471 0.6745 0.6747 Sterling pound 2.1297 2.1307 1.5173 1.5179
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 Dec 10 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4048 1.4050 2-months 1.4064 1.4065 3-months 1.4075 1.4078 6-months 1.4100 1.4105 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        205 9 Most active Dec 10 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Ntegrator Intl Ltd W*****3 0.2 -0.1 ***** 1 1 6.00 35 Rowsley Ltd W*****3 3.1 -0.2 ***** 1 18 10 DBS MB eCW*****4 12.5 -0.1 6490 0.1
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        365 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Dec 9 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1279.7 -0.3 0.3 -0.4 3.5 0.0 -2.3 EAFE Preliminary 1005.5 -0.6 1.9 -0.1 2.3 0.2 -3.5 Europe Preliminary 1398.8 -0.5 1.2
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        395 9 Dec 10 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Dec15 *****.50 *****.00 *****.50 *****.50 *****9 *****6 Jan16 *****.00 *****.00 9990.00 *****.00 4058 ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****0 Mar16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****2 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 9 Dec 10 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 0.02 1-month 0.9375 0.8125 2-months 1.0 0.875 3-months 1.1875 1.0625 Overnight mode: 0.30 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.25 0.15 1 month 0.40 0.20 2 months 0.45 0.25 3 months 0.55 0.35 6 months 0.85 0.65 9 months 1.05 0.85 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        69 9 Dec 10 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Oct-17 100.6 100.65 100.65 5-Year N*****0S 2.000 01-Jul-20 100.55 100.80 100.60 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 99.46 99.70 99.55 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 101.64 102.05 101.85 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 108.13
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        193 9 Dec-9 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Dec-9 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 876.75 unch 0.00% 14/01/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 30.86 -0.37 -1.18% 14/12/2015 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 478.00 7.25 1.54% 14/12/2015 Dec-9 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2265.00 10.00 0.44% 14/12/2015 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1526.00 -5.00 -0.33%
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        Lock icon PALM OIL
        57 9 Dec 10 KLCE Palm Futures (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Dec 15 2154.0 2160.0 2155.0 2154.0 30 1834 Jan 16 2284.0 2280.0 2288.0 2273.0 1401 ***** Feb 16 2377.0 2377.0 2379.0 2350.0 ***** ***** Mar 16 2429.0 2436.0
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1748 10 Transaction date: Dec 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net 153 131.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 134 -1 759 136 134 1 8.3 850.4 High 175.5 115 ARA Asset Mgmt 116
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      394 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High 3.6 1.1 t Adventus Low Div 25 4.5 t Alliance Mineral 14.6 -0.3 ***** 15.2 14.5 57.5 GrYld Net 15.5 5 t AsiaMedic MCap 35
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      91 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale vol C000) 409 226 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US259 +10 24 259 259 Low Div C'vr 233.2 178.2 DBXT MSPHILS US$ US183.1 -1.8 20 183.1 183.1 14.6 Net 2392
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      Lock icon Apple Pay finds it tough persuading Aussie banks
      807 11 With no deal yet with the four main Australian banks who have their own sophisticated apps Apple is cut off from 80 per cent of the payments market Down Under REUTERS Sydney APPLE Inc is struggling to persuade Australia’s big banks to
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      Lock icon US probing possible rigging in agency bond market, say sources
      478 11 BLOOMBERG Washington THE US Justice Department is examining possible manipulation in the trading of agency bonds US$9 trillion or more in debt issued by the likes of German states, government entities and the World Bank according to three people familiar
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      Lock icon Islamic finance body goes global in quest to fill speciality-skills void
      665 11 BLOOMBERG Kuala Lumpur A MALAYSIAN institute set up seven years ago to improve education standards for Islamic finance professionals is going global as it seeks to fill a void of professionals with specialities such as insurance and law. The
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      Lock icon Belgium dumps Deutsche Bank as primary dealer
      428 11 IFR London BELGIUM’S debt management office has axed Deutsche Bank as a primary dealer for 2016 after conducting a performance review of all its market makers. With the decision, Deutsche Bank becomes the second big bank to drop out of a sovereign primary
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Cloud focus lets Canada’s top stock float above commodity fray
      832 12 Kinaxis, which has posted steady growth in sales and profits, has more than tripled from its June 2014 IPO price BLOOMBERG Ottawa IN A stock market where everything’s going wrong, Kinaxis Inc is doing everything right. The Canadian cloud software
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      Lock icon ‘Micropayments’ news site to launch in US
      422 12 Dutch-based Blendle allows users to make small payments to read individual articles AFP New York ONLINE news startup Blendle, which allows users to make small payments to read individual articles, announced plans on Wednesday to launch next year in the United States. Blendle,
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      Lock icon Mayer has a year to fulfil Yahoo’s potential
      773 12 NYT San Francisco YAHOO remains stuck in the deal cycle, putting off what looks like an inevitable sale for another year. Still, a year gives its chief executive, Marissa Mayer, another chance to increase a price tag on the once-great Internet company.
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      68 12 cc Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema…The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.” Speech at the Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Haji celebrations at Joo Seng Community Centre in 1970 Catch these and other piquant
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      593 16 AFP BLOOMBERG Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday defiantly rejected calls to step down over a political funding scandal as the ruling party doubled down on its support for him in the face of an uncertain electoral outlook. Mr
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      605 16  -  Malaysia’s growth is seen moderating to 4% in 2016 with a further 4.5% downside to the ringgit By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur GLOBAL banking group Nomura is projecting even choppier growth in Asia ex-Japan next year with GDP (gross domestic product) expansion
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      322 16 LATEST US DATA REUTERS Washington US IMPORT prices fell in November as the cost of petroleum and several goods continued to decline, suggesting that cheaper crude oil and a strong dollar will keep imported inflation pressures subdued for a while. The Labor Department
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      419 16 He says Osaka was given the event in such circumstances REUTERS London WORLD athletics head Sebastian Coe said on Thursday the award of the 2021 world championships to the US city of Eugene without a bidding process was perfectly legitimate, after French prosecutors
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      703 17  -  Anchor tenant Challenger Technologies says impact on business is reduced due to its digital push By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore NEARLY five months after announcing that it was exploring options for Funan DigitaLife Mall, CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) said that it would redevelop
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      259 17  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore THE Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore (Redas) SG50 exhibition is ongoing at the URA Gallery Atrium at The URA Centre. The exhibition, launched by National Development Minister Lawrence Wong on Thursday, showcases Singapore’s built history, the evolution
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      1046 18 Losses make up 11.4% of the bank’s CMBS deals, 80% of which were done when property prices were at the peak London CHANCES are that if you bought bonds backed by European real estate before the global financial crisis, you’ve lost money.
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      613 20 EDITORIAL IF market expectations are correct and the US Federal Reserve decides to raise interest rates on Dec 16, it will be the start of what could be a long road to normalisation whatever that is. For
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      758 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Robert Samuelson THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP Washington WHEN it comes to cyberwar and cyberterrorism, we need to think the unthinkable, says veteran TV journalist Ted Koppel. His unthinkable is this: Someone hacks into the nation’s electric power grid and causes large
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      1301 20  -  Nativist sentiments were directed against incoming Irish and German Catholics in the 1830s By Leon Hadar A STRONG anti-immigration sentiment was sweeping America. Americans who were born and raised in the United States were concerned that with hundreds of thousands of foreigners arriving on
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      1032 21  -  COMMENTARY By G Panicker IN the global climate war, India plays a consequential role. The world’s fourth-largest emitter will see a whopping increase in greenhouse gas emissions as its economy gains further momentum. Such a prospect is raising global disquiet, even though India’s carbon
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      688 21  -  By Cass R Sunstein BLOOMBERG VIEW DO you think that this is a profound statement? “Intention and attention are mystery’s manifestation.” What about this one? “Hidden meanings transform unseen beauty.” Both statements are, of course, bullshit, understood in a particular sense:
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      1127 21  -  Fiscal policy if followed now will increase public debt, augmenting net interest payments and forcing the trap to snap. BY JOERGEN OERSTROEM MOELLER snap.BY JOERGEN OERSTROEM MOELLER T The writer is visiting senior fellow at ISEAS Yusof ishak institute, Singapore, and adjunct professor
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      689 23  -  Expect the unexpected at the various off-the-grid locations during January’s Singapore Art Week as the National Arts Council has commissioned several site-specific works in places one might not think to find art.BY CHEAH UI-HOON art.BY CHEAH UI-HOON IT will be hard enough to drag art lovers
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      521 23  -  By Cheah Ui-hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg No Man’s Land by Open House WITH art walkabouts in Niven Road, Marine Parade, Tiong Bahru, even Marina Bay corporate boardrooms and Joo Chiat since 2009, you could say that Open House is a veritable Pied Piper for art
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      630 23 Death by a Thousand Cuts by Vertical Submarine AFTER recreating a gruesome murder carried out by an expatriate, the next “scene” that art collective Vertical Submarine wants to explore is the mind of a man who suspects his wife of infidelity. Based
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      527 23  -  By Cheah Ui-hoon uihoonAsph.com.sg PPC: A Public Living Room by Hyphen AS the tallest residential space and largest mixed-use building with residential, office and carparking facilities back in the 1970s, People’s Park Complex still towers iconically over Chinatown. Since earlier this year,
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        561 24  -  By Geoffrey Eu LOVE the Coopers is the latest in a long line of movies that examine the chronic dysfunction afflicting a “typical” American family. They and others of their ilk show up on our cinema screens a couple of times each
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        564 24 By Geoffrey Eu THE very first scene in Bone Tomahawk where a man’s throat is slit sets the tone for this grim and gut-wrenchingly gruesome Western by director S Craig Zahler, whose debut feature makes The Wild Bunch (1969) look tame in comparison.
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        545 25  -  The M1 Fringe Festival gets wild with its ‘animal’ theme.BY theme.BY HELMI YUSOF helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT According to Freud, we all have animal instincts. They form what he describes as the “dark, inaccessible part of our personality a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations”. We
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        228 25 FESTIVAL director Sean Tobin picks out three highlights. THE SHAPE OF A BIRD By Jean Tay and Saga Seed Theatre (Singapore) JEAN Tay is one of Singapore’s bestknown playwrights, lauded for her dramas Boom and Everything But The Brain. Her new play is expected to be
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        544 25  -  DANCE By Helmi Yusof helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT WHEN artist Loo Zihan picked up lindy hop in junior college, it never occurred to him that the dance would take him on a decade-long journey of self-investigation into his ethnic Chinese identity and what it means
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        674 25  -  CINEMA By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT THOMAS Morgan doesn’t just make documentaries the former real estate developer and investment banker’s works have been labelled “filmanthropy” because they have a ripple effect, going on to create movements and calls to action. In the award-winning Waiting
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        1036 26  -  Burgundy is now almost the de rigueur wine to accompany meals.By meals.By NK YONG I WAS asked recently: “Do you drink every day?” My reply was, “I try to”. A glass or two of red wine, usually from the balance of a bottle or bottles drunk within
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        599 26  -  MUSIC By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT IN a week where the music world is still reeling from the unexpected death of ex-Stone Temple Pilots frontman and vocalist Scott Weiland, veteran rocker Glenn Hughes considers himself lucky to be alive. “Let’s just say you’re
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        523 26  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT NATHAN Hartono has come a long way since he took to the stage for ChildAid in 2006 an experience he remembers fondly and vividly. “It was surreal and one of my first big shows in a proper
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        984 27  -  Virtual reality allows travellers to visit a destination before booking a holiday. BY AVANTI NIM avantin@sph.com.sg HOW would you like to nip out to see Tokyo’s famous Shibuya district during your lunch hour? What about the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns? There’s actually enough time to
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          351 27  -  By Dylan Tan Timepieces: G-Shock x VEIL x adFunture Master of G Designer Collection CHRISTMAS comes early for local G-Shock collectors Casio Singapore has just released a special Master of G collection in collaboration with cult Hong Kong designer toy company adFunture Workshop and
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          240 27  -  DINING By Tay Suan Chiang IF you have been put off by the long queues at Nan Hwa Fishboat along North Bridge Road, there is now a second outlet to go to. Located at Owen Road, this branch is quieter and has a wider menu. Nan Hwa
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          170 27  -  COMEDY By Dylan Tan DREAM Academy’s annual all-star Yuletide laugh-fest, Crazy Christmas, is back with Kumar, Broadway Beng (Sebastian Tan) and more joining resident comedians, the Dim Sum Dollies (Selena Tan, Pam Oei and Denise Tan). Coinciding with the theatre company’s 15th anniversary, the song-and-dance extravaganza
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          219 27  -  ART By Cheah Ui-hoon IF you want to view one of the biggest commissioned collections of local artworks in Singapore, book a free tour at One Farrer Hotel Spa. Hotel operator The Farrer Park Company has commissioned more than 700 pieces of original
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          229 27  -  THEATRE By Helmi Yusof ALFIAN Sa’at is one of the best political playwrights of Singapore theatre. His plays such as Cooling-Off Day, Cook A Pot of Curry and Hotel examine the social and political landscape in ways few local plays have done. His latest play GRC
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      320 26 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 An early tea is arranged by head of press box (7,4) 9 Work, and note state of light (7) 10 Rationale of About a Boy (6) 12 Peak time with virtually all following surgical procedure (7) 13 Dog with no tail snaffling new meat dish (7)
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