The Business Times, 20 January 2016

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  • 22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 039/08/2015 Wednesday, January 20, 2016
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  • 27 1 Tuesday Change STI 2,638.47 +45.47 KL COMP 1,629.22 +6.58 NIKKEI 225 17,048.37 +92.80 HANG SENG 19,635.81 +398.36 SHENZHEN B 1,194.70 +29.00 Dow (10.45 EST) 16,113.88 +125.80
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  • 191 1 The turbulence in financial markets does not displace the longer-term picture in Asia: that its markets are expanding faster than the rest of the world, says Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. TOP STORIES 2 Iran will give the beleaguered offshore marine sector a much needed boost, if the
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  • 861 1  -  Economists say plunge in oil prices and its impact on inflation could play a key part in any MAS policy shift By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore THE odds of an easing in monetary policy have risen, as heightened
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  • 891 1  -  Eyebrows raised at absence of RFP and in light of PwC’s long relationship with the group as its external auditor By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore NEARLY four weeks after announcing it would appoint a special auditor to investigate its corporate
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 699 2  -  Setting up of Entrepreneur First’s new international office in Singapore will boost technical startup talent here By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore THE current turbulence in financial markets does not displace the longerterm picture in Asia: that its markets are expanding
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    • 512 2  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore COMPUTER giant Dell on Tuesday opened its first dedicated Internet of Things (IoT) lab in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region in Singapore. Based in the Dell Solution Centre, the new facility, launched in collaboration
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    • 457 2  -  Investments will be made in education, helping firms to be more efficient and in developing growth areas By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore KEEPING Singaporeans at the core of the renewed economy this was the message emphasised
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    • 765 2  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore THERE are structural reasons why it is difficult to attract Central Provident Fund (CPF) monies to mutual funds, said an industry association representing asset managers in Singapore. They include relatively high guaranteed returns
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    • 684 3  -  Among them is its hopes of FDI amounting to US$100b to fund US$130b of projects in next 3-5 years NEWS ANALYSIS By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore IRAN will give the beleaguered offshore marine sector a much needed boost,
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    • 600 4  -  World’s second largest economy struggles with overcapacity, ailing manufacturing sector and indebted local governments By Virginie Mangin btworld@sph.com.sg Singapore CHINA’S economy grew 6.9 per cent in 2015 its slowest pace in 25 years, adding pressure on Beijing which is steering the country
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    • 517 4 Singapore SINGAPORE has taken the No 2 spot for the third straight year in Insead’s annual Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI), behind Switzerland. The study, released on Tuesday, measures a nation’s competitiveness based on the quality of talent that it
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    • 744 4  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo IS Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda on course to launch a new monetary easing “bazooka” at the end of this month as Japan’s economic recovery sputters, the Tokyo stock market crumbles, and
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    • 621 4  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday revised downwards global economic growth projections in the latest update to its flagship World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. But, at the same time, it forecast a continuing modest pick-up in
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 329 5  -  By haoxiang@sph.com.sg Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore EMBATTLED oil and gas player Ezra Holdings is proposing an eight to one consolidation of its shares. Shareholders will vote on the proposal at an extraordinary general meeting to be convened. The share consolidation
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    • 275 5  -  B y Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore THE aerospace arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering landed new contracts worth S$415 million in the fourth quarter of last year. The contracts for ST Aerospace include projects such as airframe maintenance and cabin interior reconfiguration,
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    • 500 5  -  Two directors chairman Wu Dingron and son-in-law Sun Lu on immediate leave of absence, stripped of authority By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore ORIENTAL Group said on Tuesday that two subsidiaries in China face legal claims over unauthorised guarantees that had
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    • 953 6  -  Woes faced by issuers amid challenging markets drive home the need for investors to do their homework HOCK LOCK SIEW By SIOW LI SEN lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT FIXED income or bond investors generally expect to have a quiet life. It’s why the typical asset allocation recommended for
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    • 677 6  -  Ignoring asset divestment, Q4 earnings are S$32.5m higher at S$44.5m By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore DATA-CENTRE and logistics provider Keppel Telecommunications Transportation (Keppel T&T) on Tuesday reported a 77.6 per cent drop to S$44.51 million in fourth-quarter
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    • 401 6 REUTERS Singapore SINGAPORE’S Sembcorp Industries may inject funds into Sembcorp Marine or buy full control of the drilling rig builder to replenish finances strained by a collapse in oil prices, people familiar with the matter said. Sembcorp Industries almost half-owned by
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    • 658 6  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore MAINBOARD-LISTED First Reit (real estate investment trust) has posted a 2.5 per cent rise to 2.09 Singapore cents in distribution per unit (DPU) for the fourth quarter of 2015, lifted by revenue from
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    • 352 7 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong STARWOOD Capital Group, the property investment firm, and Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang’s Fosun International Ltd are weighing bids for Ascendas Hospitality Trust (A-HTRUST), people with knowledge of the matter said. Starwood Capital, which manages about US$45 billion of assets, and
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    • 237 7  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore CITY Developments Ltd’s (CDL) chief financial officer has quit to join another listed company. The property developer on Tuesday said it has accepted the resignation of Goh Ann Nee, and her last day with the company will be
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    • 595 7  -  Sete Brasil has six semi-submersible drilling units on order at Keppel O&M and seven drillships with SembMarine By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore THE market will be waiting for indications from the release of the FY2015 report cards of two large-cap
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      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index Jan 19,2016 2,638.47 +45.47 (+1.75%) Current streak 1 day Day high 2,638.47 Day low 2,582.31 52-week high 3,539.95 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 2,593.00 (Jan 18, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist index Jan 19,2016 455.08 +0.64 (+0.14%) Current streak 1 day Day high 456.01 Day low
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    • 76 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 129.2 0.5 *****/***** Jardine C&C 3479 111.0 3.3 4258/2636 DBXT MSKorea US$ 4774 68.9 1.0 6246/4478 JSH USD 2747 67.5 1.7 3693/2524 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1162 56.0 3.5 2055/1123 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low KepCorp MBeCW*****3 3.3 94.1
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    • 81 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT MSEurope US$ 4965 -297.0 -4.0 6300/4965 DBXT MSINDO us$ 1125 -27.3 -1.7 1492/911 Lyxor World US$ 153.1 -21.4 -8.9 183.5/150.8 DBXT S&P Short US$ 2277 -20.1 -0.6 2393/2086 IS Asia BND US 1022 -20.1 -1.4 1096/1010 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low
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    • 81 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Travelite 41.0 0.200 -0.050 -20.00 China Haida 962.6 0.020 +0.003 +17.65 China Flexpack 8.7 0.520 +0.070 +15.56 Hengyang Petro 0.7 0.110 -0.065 -37.14 NutryFarm 20.6 0.179 +0.014 +8.49 Koyo Intl 15,073.5 0.068 +0.012 +21.43 Europtronic 4,771.1 0.006 +0.001 +20.00 Ascendas-hTrust 11,764.6 0.755 +0.050 +7.09 Tye
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    • 632 8  -  ST Index up amid strong comeback in HK and Shanghai and positive opening in Europe STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT A200-point rise in the Dow futures on Tuesday and the release of weak economic data in China helped the Straits Times Index
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    • 303 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 224 +9 225/216 271 209 6.5 5883.9 CapitaLand 309 +7 310/300 379 267 11.3 2.9 *****.4 CapitaMall Trust 196 +4 196/191.5 228 184.5 5.5 6811.5 CityDev 728 +10 728/707 1095 695 8.8
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    • 35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index Jan 19,2016 649.74 +10.29 (+1.61%) Current streak 1 day Day high 649.74 Day low 637.51 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 639.45 (Jan 18, 2016)
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    • 33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE Index Jan 18,2016 1,547.87 -17.37 (-1.11%) Current streak 3 days Day high 1,563.91 Day low 1,546.52 52-week high 1,949.49 (May 15, 2015) 52-week low 1,547.87 (Jan 18, 2016)
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    • 34 8 VOLUME Ezra 80,729,500 Noble 52,101,100 ChinaSports 48,485,500 Rex Intl 40,978,700 Singtel 35,150,000 Market volume 1,417,339,000 VALUE DBS Grp 162,973,536 Singtel 122,064,785 Keppel Corp 89,346,058 OCBC Bank 81,879,637 UOB 63,546,987 Market value 1,283,509,000
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    • 77 8 Jan 19 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -1029.00 +134.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +175.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -103.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 637.85 +12.39 FTSE ST Small Cap 383.79 +6.06 FTSE ST All Share 649.74 +10.29 FTSE ST China Top 157.81 +4.27 FTSE ST China 190.39 +2.92 FTSE
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    • 186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 9 4 3 1 0 0 10 4 3 Manufacturing 62 23 26 5 5 13 67 28 39 Commerce 22 11 12 2 2 6 24 13 18 Tpt/Stor/Comms 21 13 4
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    • 110 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 271 +5 1245 271/265 355/264 270/271 IS MS INDIA US$ US625 -1 537 630/620 1000/620 625/627 78.1 Lyxor Japan US$ US115.6 +0.3 233 115.7/115.3 135.4/114.6 115.5/115.7 18.5 Lyxor World US$ US153.1 -14.9 190 153.1/150.8
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    • 123 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 38,049 6,722 44,771 134,284 1,292 135,576 Manufacturing 218,875 51,072 269,947 101,162 3,917 105,079 Commerce 90,512 31,839 122,351 70,346 1,067 71,412 Tpt/Stor/Comms 200,076 1,038 201,114 225,410 76 225,487 Finance 34,723 26 34,749 339,718 4 339,722 Construction
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
      • 111 8 Keppel Corp Neutral Target price: S$5.05 Jan 19 close: S$5.18 Nomura, Jan 19 We upgrade Keppel Corp from a non-consensus Reduce rating (since Oct 8, 2014) to Neutral. We believe the market has misinterpreted the extent of provisions needed to be made by Keppel and SembMarine, if Sete Brasil eventually
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      • 107 8 Keppel Corp Buy Target price: S$8.08 rhb, Jan 19 Keppel’s stock has slid to a point where its offshore and marine (O&M) division is valued below zero. It trades below the book value of its property division alone. Our SOP-based TP of S$8.08 (from S$10.00, 67 per cent upside) includes
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      • 115 8 M1 Buy Target price: s$2.95 Jan 19 close: S$2.50 OCBC Investment Research, Jan 19 M1 declared a final dividend of 8.3 S cents/share versus 11.9 s cents a year ago, bringing its total dividend to just 15.3 S cents (versus 18.9 s cents a year ago). We suspect the market
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      • 162 8  - M1 Hold Compiled by Melissa Tan Target price: S$2.60 DBS Group Research, Jan 19 The stock has declined 35 per cent from its peak in April 2015. The stock has declined in anticipation of the potential entry of a fourth mobile player. Our bear-case TP is S$2.20 while bull-case TP
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    • 18 8 DATA I Jan 20 (4pm) Singapore COE Bidding Results I Jan 20 (8pm) US MBA Mortgage Applications
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    • 403 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE safe-haven yen fell on Tuesday on relief that China’s fourth-quarter economic growth had matched forecasts and as expectations of further monetary easing there boosted risk appetite. China’s GDP grew 6.8 per cent in October to December from
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    • FOREX RATES
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      • 471 9 Jan 19 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 1.000 4.551 0.636 5.400 46.724 95.949 0.815 8.338 3.022 1.069 72.558 32.964 0.993 11.510 0.697 23.206 25.100 0.484 0.692 Canada 1.000 4.551
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      • 155 9 Jan 19 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 0.9922 0.9934 0.6914 0.6919 Canadian dollar 0.9925 0.9933 0.6919 0.6917 Euro 1.5591 1.5603 1.0865 1.0868 NZ dollar 0.9280 0.9292 0.6467 0.6472 Sterling pound 2.0496 2.0512 1.4283 1.4287
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      • 22 9 Jan 19 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4362 1.4371 2-months 1.4376 1.4384 3-months 1.4387 1.4397 6-months 1.4420 1.4429 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
      • 208 9 Most active Jan 19 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left FTSEChinaA50 ***** MBeCW*****8 8.9 1.1 ***** 0.0 3 KepCorp MB eCW*****1 10.3 2.1 ***** 0.2 600 10 SHS Holdings W*****6 7.8 0.2 ***** 1 20 -1 3.59
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      • 377 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Jan 18 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1167.5 -0.3 -8.6 -0.5 -7.6 -0.5 -8.9 EAFE Preliminary 919.0 -0.6 -9.3 -1.2 -8.5 -1.1 -9.8 Europe Preliminary 1285.2 -0.5 -9.0
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      • 386 9 Jan 19 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Jan16 9172.50 9490.00 9150.00 9480.00 *****0 *****2 Feb16 9080.00 9352.50 9020.00 9347.50 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Mar16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****2 *****6 Jun16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 175 3740 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
      • 154 9 Jan 19 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 Par 1-month 1.125 1.000 2-months 1.1875 1.0625 3-months 1.2500 1.1250 Overnight mode: 0.25 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.45 0.35 1 month 0.48 0.38 2 months 0.65 0.45 3 months 0.75 0.55 6 months 1.00 0.80 9 months 1.20 1.00 12
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      • 67 9 Jan 19 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Oct-17 100.42 100.49 100.45 5-Year N*****0S 2.000 01-Jul-20 100.46 100.75 100.55 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 99.66 99.95 99.60 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 101.72 102.30 101.80 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 108.56
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
      • 249 9 Jan-18 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Jan-15 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 879.00 -3.25 -0.36% 14/03/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 29.65 -0.10 -0.34% 14/03/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 473.75 5.00 1.07% 14/03/2016 Jan-18 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2114.00 -1.00 -0.05% 14/03/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1372.00 -22.00 -1.58%
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    • 1819 10 Transaction date: Jan 19 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Last Vol Day Div GrYld 153 128.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 130.5 +1 258 130.5 129 1 8.5 828.2 MCap 175.5 106 ARA Asset Mgmt 107 -1
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    • 310 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale Vol ('000) 1 0.3 t Advanced Systems 0.4 unch 800 0.4 0.4 10.5 Day Low Div C'vr GrYld Net P/E MCap 35 10 t 3Cnergy 10.1 29.5 18
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    • 122 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale vol 4258 2498 DBXT China50 US$ US2532 +34 0 2532 2520 7 409 199 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US202 +2 26 202 201 Low 6246 4478 DBXT MSKorea US$
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    • 1326 11  -  The primary purpose of macroeconomic forecasts is to convey the degree of uncertainty facing an economy, says SMU Associate Professor Anthony Tay AnthoT1y Tay convey SMU Associate Professor EXPECTATIONS regarding future economic conditions play a central role in economic decisions. For guidance in forming these expectations, many
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  • REAL ESTATE
    • 1266 12  -  The new high was boosted by big purchases by GIC and GLP, though mid-sized and smaller buys also figured in the tally By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore SINGAPORE-BASED investors purchased a record US$26.31 billion in overseas real estate in
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    • 370 12 REUTERS Hong Kong GROWTH of investment in China’s property sector continued to decline in December, dropping to one per cent, the slowest growth in nearly seven years even as national sales improved, official data showed on Tuesday. Real estate
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    • 263 12 Pictet-Absl Rtn Fxd Inc-HP EUR 14/01/2016 EUR 102,78 Pictet-Absl Rtn Glo Div-P EUR 14/01/2016 EUR 115,68 Pictet-Asian Equities Ex Japan-P USD 15/01/2016 USD 164,37 Pictet-Asian Local Currency Debt-P USD 15/01/2016 USD 140,25 Pictet-Biotech-P USD 15/01/2016 USD 626,01 Pictet-Clean Energy-P USD 14/01/2016 USD 65,20 Pictet-Digital Communication-P USD 14/01/2016 USD 213,59
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    • 602 12 BLOOMBERG Dubai DUBAI’S biggest landlord has a message for the city’s developers: get ready to rethink your budgets and building plans repeatedly this year or be engulfed by a topsy-turvy market. Companies need to be “more agile to sustain their businesses and survive
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • 377 15 Popular communications service also expects in coming months to offer complete encryption of messages REUTERS Munich THE world’s most popular messaging service, WhatsApp, is dropping its token US$ 1 fee still levied on some users as it experiments with making businesses
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    • 704 15 NYT Taipei WITH its offices sporting wood flooring, a roof painted bright orange and conference rooms named after target markets in South-east Asia, AppWorks, one of Taiwan’s few startup accelerators, has the look and feel of the American counterparts it’s modelled on. But its
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  • CONSUMER
    • 383 16 BLOOMBERG London FOR all the buzz in recent months surrounding Kasper Rorsted’s next move, his switch of top jobs from Dial soap-maker Henkel AG Co to sneaker-outfitter Adidas AG still caught investors off guard. That’s because Henkel initially didn’t explain
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    • 738 16 A key emerging risk, especially for Singapore, is the advent of e-commerce, says an analyst about the plight of brick-and-mortar retailers BLOOMBERG Singapore FAMILIES buying televisions are getting lower borrowing costs than the stores selling them, a
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    • 732 16 BLOOMBERG Tokyo THE acquisition of Sprint Corp was supposed to help Masayoshi Son realise his vision of transforming SoftBank Group Corp into the world’s most-valuable company. Instead, the 2013 deal has become his biggest setback so far, dragging
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    • 196 16 AFP The Hague DUTCH food and cosmetics giant Unilever on Tuesday posted a 5 per cent fall in 2015 profit from the previous 12 months, saying it had been a “challenging year” amid the economic slowdown. Turnover was up 10 per
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  • TRANSPORT
    • 455 17  -  Compact SUV a Japanese domestic model accounts for nearly half of total 8,534 PI cars sold here last year By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore THAT the Honda Vezel would be the standout parallel import (PI) model in 2015 wasn’t going to
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    • 672 17  -  Amid weak global economic conditions and structural changes in the maritime sector, MPA and PSA have implemented help measures for container lines STRAIT TALK BY DAVID HUGHES LAST week’s column touched on the parlous state of the container-shipping industry. It so happened that it was published
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    • 618 17 BLOOMBERG Dublin BRITISH Airways owner IAG is evaluating whether to add a batch of five or six used Airbus A380 aircraft to the 12 it has on order after deciding that buying more superjumbos outright isn’t feasible. While BA
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
    • 609 18  -  Amid these deals, govt-level trade delegations are being planned as Iran’s economy prepares to reawaken By Neil Behrmann btworld@sph.com.sg London EUROPEAN companies are racing ahead of their US counterparts in forging post-sanctions deals with Iran, and China and Russia are
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    • 376 18 AFP Brussels THE top US and European trade groups have warned their leaders of enormous fallout for businesses and customers if the two sides fail to reach a new deal on data transfers by end-January. The
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    • 576 18  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S economy is forecast to grow 3.6 per cent this year as its growth engines are stuttering while Putrajaya’s policy responses will be limited owing to high levels of public and private indebtedness, according to
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    • 384 18 REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo is considering a regulation that would prohibit Indonesians from joining radical groups overseas, in an effort to prevent a deadlier attack than last week’s militant assault on Jakarta. At a meeting on Tuesday at the
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    • 440 18 Long-term strategy includes filling dams to capacity by tapping into rivers along its border with Myanmar REUTERS Bangkok THAI authorities are rushing to drill thousands of wells across the country to ensure enough water for drinking and washing, as
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    • 967 19 Central bank will keep its US$2.5t hoard, a legacy of the QE programme, till interest rates are higher BLOOMBERG New York IF YOU were under the impression that the Federal Reserve was done buying Treasuries, think again. While the central bank won’t be expanding
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    • 698 19 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong VENTURE capitalists poured a record US$37 billion into China startups last year, more than double the previous year’s tally, as the country emerges as a legitimate challenger to the US for leadership of the technology industry.
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    • 319 19 BLOOMBERG New York SOVEREIGN wealth funds from ener-gy-producing countries are exacerbating a global market rout by selling off assets to meet their financial commitments amid slumping oil prices, according to Jefferies LLC. The sales mark a new phase for the countries, after they tried
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  • OPINION
    • 573 20 EDITORIAL IT is now well and long established that rising inequality is one of the scourges of our time. But even the most ardent champions of greater egalitarianism might be shocked by the latest estimates of the dimensions of the
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    • 1377 20  -  Climate change, along with other threats, will cause massive disruptions, and nations must develop policies to manage waves of dislocated people. BY RICHARD D LAMM people.BY RICHARD D LAMM TThe writer was governor of Colorado from 1975 to 1987 Denver THERE is an ancient, perhaps
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    • 824 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Frank Ching T The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. Follow him on Twitter: @FrankChing1 THE consternation in Hong Kong over the case of five missing booksellers especially the most recent case of the apparent
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    • 1057 21  - Don’t just help the poor eradicate inequality first COMMENTARY By Winnie Byanyima T The writer is executive director of Oxfam International THE Asian continental “economic tiger” after more than a quarter-century of sustained economic growth is now confronting a defining challenge of inequality. Many Asian countries have prospered and created
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    • 816 21  -  By David Owen T The writer, a former UK foreign secretary, is a member of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum advisory board. This is an abridged version of a speech given in Berlin on Jan 14 to
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    • 1387 21  - Who are the biggest killers terrorists, cars or furniture? Americans exposed to images of death and damage from terrorist attacks do not share the sentiments of Obama the Man of Reason By Leon Hadar Washington SO the images of death and destruction perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
    • 411 23 REUTERS Melbourne ROGER Federer called for “concrete” facts while Novak Djokovic spoke of his team once being offered US$200,000 to fix a match as the multiple grand slam champions reacted to claims of widespread match-rig-ging in tennis on Monday. The opening day
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    • 688 23 Together with drummer Don Henley, he founded the band and collaborated with him to write many of its biggest hits and help create the freewheeling soundtrack of 1970s America REUTERS Los Angeles GLENN Frey, the prolific guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member
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    • 926 23 NYT Delhi WHEN midnight approaches in Old Delhi and a thick, freezing fog settles over the city, the quilt-wallah Farukh Khan sits on his corner, watching the market for his services come to life. They shuffle up one by one, men desperate
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  • EXECUTIVE MONEY
    • 996 24 Economists say that they are taking seriously some of the signals that they see in markets NYT New York IT may be time for everyone to take the markets seriously again. As stock prices started tumbling in the first trading days of the
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    • 1223 24 Valuations is a big reason for long-term investors to be in the developing world NYT New York WHILE most forms of investing require a leap of faith, betting on emerg-ing-markets stock funds this year Chinese stocks have already had dou-ble-digit declines may
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