The Business Times, 8 November 2016

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BusinessTimes MCI (P) 052/08/2016 S$1.20 CO REGN NO *****2868E Tuesday, November 8, 2016
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  • Article
    Lock icon MARKETS
    27 1 Monday Change STI 2,800.95 +12.15 KL Comp 1,650.59 +2.35 Nikkei 225 17,177.21 +271.85 Hang Seng 22,801.40 +158.78 Shenzhen B 1,161.44 -2.28 Dow (10.45 EST) 18,158.63 +270.35
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    235 1 The proposed changes in the Elected Presidency is like providing a ship sufficient ballast, says Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean. TOP STORIES 2 Manulife US Reit exceeds its own forecast by 5.8 per cent in delivering a distribution per unit of 2.01 US cents for the period
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    Lock icon For Singapore firms, getting onboard Industry 4.0 is crucial
    821 1  -  They must shift with growing competition from low-cost countries and embrace digitalisation FUTURE MANUFACTURING By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore MOST Singapore manufacturers are not even at Industry 3.0, and market observers say they will need a leg-up to mount Industry
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    Lock icon GIC buys Europe’s leading warehouse business for 2.4b euros
    502 1  -  By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore SINGAPORE’S sovereign wealth fund GIC has embarked on the largest European property deal so far this year with the acquisition of a leading warehouse business for 2.4 billion euros (S$3.7 billion). GIC inked a definitive
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      15 1 *****1 *****1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Fostering a culture of strategic partnerships beyond government support SME/24
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      133 1 PARLIAMENT Retrenchments likely to go up this year, says Swee Say TOP STORIES 2 SUPER YIELD Sam Goi’s early cuppa nets S$222m stake COMPANIES MARKETS 6 BANKOFSINGAPORE Asia's global private bank What can we give a man who has everything? if 4 V A We give him the time to
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      14 1 FIRST MOVER OCBC pulls in 30% more deposits through 360 Account TOP STORIES 4
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Changes will provide stability to system: DPM Teo
      797 2  -  Dr Tony Tan says review aims to ensure the institution of Elected Presidency stays relevant with time, local context ELECTED PRESIDENCY By Chuang Peck Ming peckming@sph.com.sg @PeckmingBT Singapore MAKING the proposed changes in the Elected Presidency is like providing sufficient ballast to
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      Lock icon MOH to monitor managed-care providers
      394 2  -  PARLIAMENT By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE Ministry of Health (MOH) will monitor managed-care providers and third-party administrators (TPAs) and, where necessary, “take further steps to protect the interests and well-being of patients” and safeguard the integrity of Singapore’s healthcare system. The point was
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      Lock icon 2 Bills seek to boost S’pore as dispute resolution hub
      401 2  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore TWO draft laws introduced in Parliament on Monday are part of on-going efforts to strengthen Singapore’s position as a premier international commercial dispute resolution hub, to draw more legal work here. The Bills are
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      Lock icon Retrenchments likely to go up this year: Lim Swee Say
      446 2  -  By Chuang Peck Ming peckming@sph.com.sg @PeckmingBT Singapore THE number of layoffs this year is likely to be higher than last year’s, but there is no sign that “disguised retrenchments” are on the rise, Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say told Parliament
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      Lock icon Malaysian market unmoved by slew of deals with China
      813 2  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur THE inking of some 30 deals worth RM144 billion (S$47 billion) between Malaysia and China last week may have been an unprecedented triumph for bilateral relations, but analysts say the lack of details about these
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      Lock icon Clinton has the edge in latest polls
      1506 3 Polls give her a 3 to 4 percentage point lead over Trump; she is also gaining a slight edge in personal popularity US ELECTIONS WP BLOOMBERG REUTERS REUTERS Washington DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds an edge of 47 per cent to 43
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      Lock icon OCBC’s 360 Account pulls in 30 per cent more deposits
      689 4  -  The bank has stepped up its digital push to boost sales and productivity amid fierce competition: top official By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore DEPOSITS in OCBC’s headline 360 Account have jumped 30 per cent from a year ago, as
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      Lock icon S$350m push for social sciences, humanities research
      465 4 THE STRAITS TIMES Singapore SOCIAL sciences and humanities will receive a boost in support, with the Ministry of Education (MOE) setting aside S$350 million over the next five years for research in those fields. Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and
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      Lock icon Funding Societies gets regulatory nod for retail p2p lending
      587 4  -  By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore FUNDING Societies has clinched in-principle approval to offer peer-to-peer (p2p) lending to retail investors in Singapore, and expects to offer again its p2p loans to these non-accredited investors by the first quarter of 2017. It
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      Lock icon Wave of fake iPhone retail apps floods App Store ahead of X’mas
      696 4 NYTIMES San Francisco HUNDREDS of fake retail and product apps have popped up in Apple’s App Store in recent weeks just in time to deceive holiday shoppers. Counterfeiters have masqueraded as retail chains like Dollar Tree and Foot
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      Lock icon A holistic approach to giving
      636 4 COMPANY OF GOOD “IN giving, we also receive” that’s something Singtel strongly believes in. Over the past 15 years, through the Singtel Touching Lives Fund (STLF), the telco has contributed more than S$ 3 3 million in support of educational programmes for special needs children.
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      900 3 A SPECIAL ADVERTORIAL FEATURE A u A Gaining The GLOBAL EDGE With LEARNING SUPPORT A Starting out in a tertiary institution can be a little daunting, with many challenges to face both in terms of academic learning and navigating the wider world of possibilities. At SIM Global Education (SIM GE),
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Manulife Reit beats own DPU forecast by almost 6%
      908 5  -  Reit manager’s CEO says future acquisitions will likely be in the range of US$100m to US$150m By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore MANULIFE US Reit, the only pure US office play here, exceeded its own forecast by 5.8 per cent in
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      Lock icon CNMC Goldmine’s Q3 profit slips 3.6% on stop-work order
      389 5  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore A TEMPORARY stop-work order eroded results for CNMC Goldmine Holdings (CNMC) in its third quarter. The firm’s net profit shrank 3.6 per cent from the previous year to US$1.76 million for the three months ended
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      Lock icon CapitaLand CFO leaving, ex-HSBC banker to replace him: sources
      326 5 BLOOMBERG Singapore CAPITALAND Ltd plans to appoint former HSBC Holdings Plc dealmaker Andrew Lim as chief financial officer to replace Arthur Lang, who is leaving South-east Asia’s biggest developer, people with knowledge of the matter said. Mr Lang is planning to
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Tiger Airways
        60 5 TIGER Airways Holdings will be delisted from the Singapore Exchange mainboard on Tuesday following the redemption and cancellation of all outstanding securities. The budget carrier, whose delisting follows its privatisation by Singapore Airlines, said it has fully redeemed the S$219.7 million 2 per cent perpetual convertible capital securities
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        73 5 CRANE rental firm Tat Hong Holdings is expected to report a loss for its Q2 ended Sep 30, according to a filing to the SGX. The group said this is due to challenging market conditions in Singapore and Australia. However, it is expected to record a strong
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        70 5 WONG Fong Academy Pte Ltd (WFA) has been appointed as a public training organisation under the workforce skills qualifications framework for construction sector. The appointment by Skills Future Singapore allows WFA to conduct new courses for a period of five years. WFA currently conducts 10 workforce skills
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        Lock icon Eucon Holdings
        53 5 EUCON Holdings widened its Q3 FY16 net loss by 40 per cent to S$5.07 million. Revenue rose 23 per cent to S$14.17 million but gross margin plunged to negative 17.3 per cent from negative 4 per cent. Loss per share for Q3 was 0.89 Singapore cents compared to
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        74 5 BOWSPRIT Capital Corp, the manager of First Real Estate Investment Trust (First Reit) said a conditional sale and purchase agreement was entered through an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reit in Indonesia for the acquisition of Siloam Hospitals Labuan Bajo at S$20 million. Bowsprit projected a rental
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        Lock icon C Star Food Group
        68 5 C STAR Food Group was back in the black with a profit net of tax of 17.07 million Chinese yuan (S$3.5 million) for Q2, a reversal from a loss of 50.30 million yuan from last year. Revenue was up by 13.3 per cent to 120.72 million
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      Lock icon Negative yields in Japan not looking so bad with deflation
      261 5 BLOOMBERG Singapore IF YOU thought Japan’s negative yields don’t offer any value, take a look at the country’s fall back into deflation. The 10-year Japanese government bond yield of minus 0.065 per cent turns into a real yield of about
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      Lock icon Sam Goi’s early cuppa in Super yields S$222m stake
      596 6  -  Popiah king started buying into the coffee mix maker 21 years ago, to help a friend and also because he thought it was undervalued By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore WHEN “Popiah King” Sam Goi made his first investment into Super
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      Lock icon Moderating demand for private healthcare insurance
      659 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY CLAIRE HUANG huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT A LOT has been said about the recent Health Insurance Task Force’s (HITF) recommendations on managing claims escalation, which in turn can help moderate the rise in Integrated Shield Plan (IP) premiums. The proposal to set
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      Lock icon Singapore has the chops to be global fintech leader
      821 6  -  Its international status, conducive business environment, Asia-Pac gateway position, access to China, rigorous corp governance standards and legislation are big pluses FINTECH CONSIDERED By Alvin Yap T The writer is the managing director of CapBridge, an online platform that enables growth
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      Lock icon ICICI Bank’s Q2 profit falls 13% on higher provision
      418 6 Singapore INDIA’S ICICI Bank saw its secondquarter net profit plunge 13 per cent to 29.79 million rupees (S$620,400) on flat net interest income and higher provisions. Earnings per share for Q2 FY2017 were 5.12 rupees compared to 5.89 rupees in Q2
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      Lock icon Nirvik Singh to also head Mideast, Africa at Grey Group
      308 6  -  By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore NIRVIK Singh, the Singapore-based chairman and CEO of Grey Group Asia Pacific since 2009, will take on the additional role of chairman and CEO for the New York-headquartered advertising and marketing group's Middle
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      Lock icon Folger Hill teams up with Schonfeld for Asia push
      228 6 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong FOLGER Hill Asset Management, started by former SAC Capital Advisors’ chief operating officer Sol Kumin, has attracted money from Steven Schonfeld’s investment firm to expand its fledgling Asia business. Investors including Schonfeld Strategic Advisors and Leucadia National Corp
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      Lock icon F&N on hunt for new business after slow year
      668 7  -  Net profit dips 5.6% in ‘16 after having notched up substantial gain on disposal in ‘15 By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore Singapore BEVERAGE group Fraser and Neave is sitting on a cash pile and will be on the hunt for
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      Lock icon YHS posts 45.8% fall in Q3 profit, sees F&B margins coming under pressure
      424 7  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore YEO Hiap Seng (YHS) warned that food beverage (F&B) margins would come under pressure in the next one year as the drink manufacturer reported that net profit for Q3 FY16 fell
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      Lock icon SGX, IBF launch certification programme for securities professionals
      282 7  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Singapore have launched a certification programme for securities professionals. Targeted at trading representatives, the Certified Securities Professionals Programme will be run through SGX Academy.
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      Lock icon Pipe dream for many in rural Indonesia
      679 7  -  This is the last of a three-part series on the impact of water shortages around the world WATER IS LUXURY By Arlina Arshad Indonesia Correspondent The Straits Times Jakarta HOUSEWIFE Tatihar runs a household of 12, and her last task before turning in
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      Lock icon 140m in S-E Asia do not have clean water
      312 7  -  By Arlina Arshad MORE than 140 million people in South-east Asia lack access to safe drinking water, while nearly a billion have no access to basic sanitation, according to official figures last year. Regional governments need to put in more effort
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index NOV 7,2016 2,800.95 +12.15 (+0.44%) Current streak 1 day Day high 2,815.43 Day low 2,793.45 52-week high 2,997.72 (NOV 9, 2015) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist index NOV 7,2016 467.81 +7.29 (+1.58%) Current streak 1 day Day high 467.81 Day low
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      73 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 258.5 0.9 *****/***** SPDR DJIA US$ ***** 173.8 0.7 *****/***** DBXT MSKorea US$ 5644 95.9 1.2 6041/4629 DBXT ASX200 US$ 3472 70.9 1.5 3621/2900 DBXT Nifty50 ETF10 ***** 69.5 0.4 *****/***** BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Infinio 0.2
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      76 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low JMH USD 5718 -246.0 -3.0 6371/4500 GLD US$ ***** -234.9 -1.4 *****/***** DBXT MSEurope US$ 5210 -111.2 -1.5 5637/4770 Lyxor Nasdaq US$ 1861 -95.9 -3.6 1930/1557 JSH USD 3430 -75.1 -1.5 3605/2524 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low SingPost MBeCW*****5 1.7 -46.9 -1.5
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      82 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Ryobi Kiso 500.0 0.230 +0.030 +15.00 NSL 622.6 1.550 +0.120 +8.39 Qian Hu 286.6 0.081 -0.018 -18.18 Blumont 32,718.7 0.004 +0.001 +33.33 Valuetronics 4,417.4 0.545 +0.050 +10.10 Mary Chia 641.0 0.068 +0.001 +1.49 Old Chang Kee 404.2 0.740 +0.025 +3.50 Banyan Tree 523.3 0.405 +0.025
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      Lock icon FBI’s email clearance triggers relief rally
      645 8  -  ST Index sees 27-point gain at intraday high before closing just 12.2 points up STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT NEWS that the FBI has cleared US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing over her use of a private email server sent
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      307 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 231 +1 233/230 257 209 6.6 6470.6 CapitaCom Trust 153.5 -0.5 154.5/152 164 127 5.6 4549 CapitaLand 304 unch 308/303 340 280 12.2 3 *****.7 CapitaMall Trust 198.5 -1 199/197 225 185
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      36 8 VOLUME Noble 125,164,300 Genting Sing 82,181,900 LionGold 80,568,500 Geo Energy Res 48,121,400 SingPost 45,385,100 Market volume 1,844,718,000 VALUE DBS Grp 98,523,783 Genting Sing 72,626,379 SingPost 70,380,733 Global Logistic 67,779,298 UOB 62,697,182 Market value 1,156,931,000
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      77 8 Nov 7 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -217.00 +42.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +103.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -22.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 682.92 +3.98 FTSE ST Small Cap 388.88 +3.30 FTSE ST All Share 692.67 +2.71 FTSE ST China Top 159.01 +1.83 FTSE ST China 196.34 +0.29 FTSE
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs
      109 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 286 +2 873 287/284 307/254 286/287 DBXT MS SING US$ US110.5 315 -/-116.2/97.5 110.5/110.9 5.5 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US401 +9 264 405/395 422/190 400/402 IS MS INDIA US$ US710 +7 209 713/710 772/441 709/710
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index NOV 7,2016 692.67 +2.71 (+0.39%) Current streak 1 day Day high 695.33 Day low 690.64 52-week high 726.74 (NOV 9, 2015) 52-week low 625.37 (Jan 21, 2016)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      34 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index NOV 4, 2016 1,639.26 -13.35 (-0.81%) Current streak 4 days Day high 1,654.28 Day low 1,633.43 52-week high 1,757.35 (NOV 19, 2015) 52-week low 1,492.43 (Feb 12, 2016)
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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 7 2 3 0 0 0 7 2 3 Manufacturing 37 28 31 8 9 8 45 37 39 Commerce 21 10 19 6 2 3 27 12 22 Tpt/Stor/Comms 16 5 5
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 16,523 16,523 49,497 49,497 Manufacturing 134,827 154,308 289,135 122,231 3,120 125,352 Commerce 176,280 32,299 208,579 123,134 420 123,554 Tpt/Stor/Comms 172,110 274 172,384 195,431 25 195,456 Finance 24,821 564 25,385 200,259 84 200,343 Construction 43,722 24,147
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Venture Corp | Buy
        177 8 Venture Corp Buy Nov 7 close: S$9.54 Target price: S$10.36 OCBC Investment Research, Nov 7 VENTURE Corporation Ltd’s (VMS) Q3 2016 revenue grew 1.8 per cent year-on-year to S$705.7 million, mainly driven by the Test Measurement/Medical Life Science/Others (TMO) segment. As Q3 2016 operating expenses increased at a slower pace
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        Lock icon Singapore Post | Hold
        100 8 Singapore Post Hold Nov 7 close: S$1.535 Target price: S$1.76 UOB Kay Hian, Nov 7 SPOST’s H1-FY2017 net profit (underlying net profit -19 per cent year on year) was below our and market expectations on elevated transformation costs. While we are optimistic on its long-term prospects, the recent outperformance since
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        Lock icon Valuetronics Holdings | Buy
        212 8  - Valuetronics Holdings Buy Compiled by Claire Huang Nov 7 close: S$0.545 Target price: S$0.62 KGI Securities Singapore, Nov 7 THIS set of results works as a confirmation signal for us that VALUE is firmly on the rebound in terms of its company fundamentals. Its cheap valuation and sustainable dividend yield
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      Lock icon Dollar jumps on Clinton reprieve as all eyes focus on US election
      467 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE dollar rose more than half a per cent on Monday after US presidential contender Hillary Clinton got an elev-enth-hour boost ahead of Tuesday’s election from news that she would not face criminal charges related
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 NOV 7 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 1.029 5.206 0.695 5.960 51.277 100.544 0.803 8.785 3.236 1.053 80.480 37.393 1.068 10.392 0.751 24.169 26.919 0.619 0.768 Canada 0.972 5.061
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 NOV 7 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0678 1.0690 0.7682 0.7687 Canadian dollar 1.0382 1.0390 0.7472 0.7469 Euro 1.5365 1.5377 1.1054 1.1058 NZ dollar 1.0143 1.0154 0.7297 0.7302 Sterling pound 1.7246 1.7257 1.2407 1.2410
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 Nov 7 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3896 1.3904 2-months 1.3894 1.3901 3-months 1.3891 1.3899 6-months 1.3884 1.3893 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        384 9 Nov 7 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Nov16 9912.50 9972.50 9890.00 9947.50 ***** *****2 Dec16 9915.00 9990.00 9912.50 9952.50 1151 5716 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****1 Mar17 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 46 4614 MSCI TAIWAN
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        209 9 Most active Nov 7 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Equation Summit LimitedW*****2 0.4 unch ***** 1 1 27 2.75 9 DBS MB eCW*****1 7.9 1 4109 0.1 1550 3 STI 2800 MB ePW*****0 4.8 -0.6 3627
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        377 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Nov 4 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1271.0 -0.1 -0.5 0.0 -2.2 0.0 0.3 EAFE Preliminary 952.1 -0.9 -6.1 -0.7 -6.7 -0.6 -4.3 Europe Preliminary 1356.7 -0.7 -4.0
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 9 Nov 7 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.03 Par 1-month 0.625 0.375 2-months 0.8125 0.6875 3-months 0.875 0.75 Overnight mode: 0.08 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.55 0.45 1 month 0.65 0.55 2 months 0.85 0.65 3 months 1.00 0.80 6 months 1.30 1.10 9 months 1.50 1.30 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        67 9 Nov 7 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****A 4.000 01-Sep-18 105.65 5-Year N*****0Z 1.250 01-Oct-21 99.63 99.70 99.66 10-Year NX*****F 2.125 01-Jun-26 101.33 101.50 101.30 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 106.36 106.90 106.10 20-Year NZ*****X 2.250 01-Aug-36 97.2 97.90 97.10
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 9 Nov-4 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Nov-4 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 981.50 1.75 0.18% 14/11/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 34.71 -0.39 -1.11% 14/12/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 414.25 2.25 0.55% 14/12/2016 Nov-4 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2103.00 -89.00 -4.06% 13/12/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 2245.00 22.00 0.99%
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1853 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High Day Low 149 127 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 134.5xd unch 336 135.5 134 0.9 8.4 857.2 C'vr 149.5 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 149.5 halt 1.7
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      314 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Last vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap 46.5 29.5 t Advancer Global 35 -1 375 36 35 13.9 60.6 LOW 16.2 4.5 t Alliance Mineral 10.2 +0.4 ***** 10.4 9.9 49
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      157 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last 84.2 69.1 CIMB APAC Div US$ US76.2 +0.3 90 76.2 76 8 1211 1061 CIMBASEAN40 S$D 1181 -23 0 1181 1181 vol 3268 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US3093 +38
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      572 12  -  COMMENTARY By Andy Mukherjee BLOOMBERG Singapore WHEN pro-market authorities tamper with prices to cool asset bubbles, economists speak of “throwing sand in the wheels of finance.” Having emptied its bucket of sand without stanching the desire to own property, Hong
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      329 14 BLOOMBERG Seattle CHINA may give Wall Street firms long-sought permission to run their own investment-banking arms on the mainland, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people briefed on the talks. Officials in Beijing are considering the move amid discussions
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      597 14 WP Tokyo SOFTBANK Group reported bet-ter-than-projected second-quarter profit, with the wireless and Internet businesses in Japan bringing in cash while Sprint Corp shows signs of improvement. Net income was 512.1 billion yen (S$6.8 billion) in the period ended Sept
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      480 14 BLOOMBERG Mumbai ASIA’S highest bond returns, the lowest currency volatility in eight years and the world’s fastest growth among major economies are burnishing the appeal of the region’s best carry trade India. The rupee’s Sharpe ratio, which gauges
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      823 15 REUTERS London A SWITCH to cleaner fuels in the world’s ships in 2020 could double the profits of the world’s most advanced oil refineries but threatens to put older ones out of business and punish those countries, including prominent Opec members, that produce the
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      440 15 BLOOMBERG Dubai RUSSIA, the world’s biggest energy producer, is “on board” with an Opec (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) agreement to limit crude oil production to help rebalance the market, according to Opec secretary-general Mohammed Barkindo. Opec producers
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      471 16  -  Called i5Lab, the accelerator will aim to help startups fast-track their development into Huawei’s partners By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), in partnership with China’s telecommunications equipment company Huawei, has
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      825 16 NYTIMES New York WHEN Chris Blackford started pitching Sky-Futures, the drone company he had co-founded, to oil and natural gas companies, there was not much interest. The London-based startup flies unmanned aircraft around offshore platforms, oil rigs and other sites,
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      526 16 BLOOMBERG Seoul SAMSUNG Electronics Co plans to equip its next Galaxy S smartphones with a Siri-like digital assistant, seeking to make a comeback after the global debacle that precipitated the death of its flawed Note 7 lineup. Samsung, which last month acquired
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      476 16 BLOOMBERG New York WOMEN in UK technology jobs are offered less money than men at every level, making the size of the gender pay gap multiply as they advance, according to a study of more than 10,000 employment offers by
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      1056 18 German prosecutors suspect Hans Dieter Poetsch, former chief financial officer at Volkswagen, violated securities laws NYTIMES Frankfurt THE investigation into emissions fraud at Volkswagen (VW) reached the very top of the company on Sunday after the carmaker said the chairman
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      252 18 REUTERS Frankfurt A US regulator found software in some Audi vehicles that lowered their carbon dioxide emissions if it detected that they were being used under test conditions, Bild am Sonntag reported. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) discovered the
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      344 18 REUTERS Tokyo TOYOTA Motor Corp is looking at mass producing long-range electric vehicles (EVs) that would hit the market around 2020, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, in what would be a dramatic reversal of strategy for the world’s top-selling carmaker.
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      790 18 WP Washington WITH the shipping world rattled by its biggest-ever bankruptcy and major players seeking safety through mergers, a family-run company from landlocked Bavaria is braving the turbulence by financing fresh vessels. With two new ships, MST Mineralien Schiffahrt Spedition Transport
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      550 18 BLOOMBERG London BRITISH Airways owner IAG SA said that it is reviewing outstanding orders for the latest Boeing Co and Airbus Group SE wide-body jets while keeping older planes for longer and adding more seats to others in a
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      823 19  -  UK businesses also expected to ink £1b worth of deals during May’s trip to India By Neil Behrmann btworld@sph.com.sg London UK Premier Theresa May is aiming to boost trade and investment with India and is offering improved entry
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      226 19 REUTERS Manila PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Monday ordered the cancellation of Philippine’s purchase of police rifles from the United States, after US senatorial aides said last month that Washington was halting the sale due to concerns about human rights violations. “We will not
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      646 19  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo FINANCIAL markets have “misunderstood” the modified monetary framework introduced by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) in September and taken it as a signal of retreat by the central bank from its strong deflation-fighting resolve, a senior
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      523 19 REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIA’S economic growth weakened in the third quarter, hurt by a slowdown in major trading partners and a slump in government spending, suggesting the economy could struggle to mount a solid rebound over the next year. South-east Asia’s largest economy
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      686 19 Law grants Beijing access to foreign firms’ technology and may hamper their operations BLOOMBERG Beijing CHINA has approved a sweeping and controversial law that may grant Beijing unprecedented access to foreign companies’ technology and hamstring their operations in the world’s second largest economy.
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      546 20 EDITORIAL IT was supposed to be an American version of Game of Thrones: The House of Clinton versus the House of Bush, a presidential race in which two political dynasties would compete in a lively but civilised election campaign, focusing
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      1261 20  -  Research reveals how brain works to trust the advice from total strangers.BY strangers.BY GEMMA CALVERT T The writer is director for research development at the institute on Asian Consumer insight and professor of marketing at the Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore. She is a
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      800 20  -  COMMENTARY By Frank Ching T Frank.ching@gmail.com Twitter: @FrankChing1 CHINA’S chief official newspaper, the People’s Daily, is gloating over the discomfort Washington finds itself in after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte visited China and publicly said that he was leaving the
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      969 21  -  COMMENTARY By Thomas L Friedman NYTIMES THIS is my last column until after the election, so I’d like to address the people least likely to read it: Donald Trump voters. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get lucky and a few of them will buy fish
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      569 21  -  COMMENTARY By Brian Reading T The writer is a member of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum advisory board and a former economic adviser to UK prime minister Edward Heath OMFIF ON Nov 3, three judges in the High Court
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      1152 21  -  For Clinton to win, every American should cast her or his vote as nothing can be more disastrous than to believe she will win in any case. BY DERWIN PEREIRA case.BY DERWIN PEREIRA T The writer is CEO of Pereira International,
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      284 23 AFP Beijing CHINA passed a restrictive and long-discussed film law on Monday banning content deemed harmful to the “dignity, honour and interests” of the People’s Republic and encouraging the promotion of “socialist core values”. Booming box-office receipts have drawn Hollywood studios and a growing
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      746 23  - End of China’s one-child policy fails to ignite baby boom one year on The high cost of living, healthcare and education are main stumbling blocks By Virginie Mangin btworld@sph.com.sg Beijing EVER since the birth of her first child 10 years ago, Xiao Chen, a 35-year-old sales manager of a furniture
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      615 23 Big winners were teen star Shawn Mendes and Canadian R&B sensation The weeknd AFP Rotterdam, Netherlands POP superstar Justin Bieber pipped Lady Gaga at the MTV Europe Music awards on Sunday, snapping up the lion’s share as megastar Beyonce was left empty-handed. In
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      607 23 AFP Seoul THE Michelin food guide unveiled its first Seoul edition on Monday, with two upscale Korean restaurants receiving the coveted three stars, but recognition also for a more humble diner serving up vegetarian temple food. A total of 24 restaurants
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      62 24 Celebrating Singapore´s Enterprising Spirit 2016 This series is part of the Enterprise 50 Educational Project between the E50 partners and the NUS Business School. Chee Fatt Co was among the winners in 2015. The annual E50 ranking is co-organised by The Business Times and KPMG, sponsored by OCBC Bank, and
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