The Business Times, 24 November 2014

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    29 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 S|jh A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg G C ©BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 051/08/2014 I Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Monday, November 24
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    244 1 South-east Asia is one of the fastest-growing sources of tip-offs on violations of US securities laws to the Securities and Exchange Commission, new figures released by the US regulator indicate.TOP STORIES 2 investors should avoid being overly cautious in the market and accept a little risk as the
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    25 1 Weekly Change STI 3,345.32 +29.65 KL COMP 1,809.13 -4.66 NIKKEI 225 17,357.51 -133.32 HANG SENG 23,437.12 -650.26 SHENZHEN B 967.36 -2.48 DOW 17,810.06 +175.32
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    Lock icon Falling value and output raise questions about S’pore chemicals hub
    1086 1  -  Chemicals’ value added has fallen from its peak of S$7.36 billion in 2004 to S$3.98 billion in 2013 By Teh Shi Ning tshining@sph.com.sg, @TehShiNingBT Singapore THERE has been a flurry of openings, ground-breakings and investment announcements on Jurong Island this
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    Lock icon SGX in race to launch derivatives for iron ore
    480 1  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore GLOBAL exchanges are battling for a share of the growing iron ore derivatives market, with the next wave of contracts coming online amid high price volatility for the key steel component. CME Group has just
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      206 1 *****4 OFFICE RENTS Rising on tight supply rather than demand TOP STORIES 6 ROGUE RETAILERS FUKU What more can be done to protect consumer interests? Where puffer fish is always on the VIEWS FROM THE TOP 14 15 TOPLINE MCC Land (S) keeps global horizon COMPANIES MARKETS 8 menu DINING
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon SE Asia fast-growing source of whistleblowing to US regulator
      783 2  -  The jump in number of tipoffs on wrongdoing ‘points to lack of in-house whistleblowing channels’ By Michelle Quah michquah@sph.com.sg @MichelleQuahBT Singapore WHISTLEBLOWING seems to be catching on in South-east Asia, and in Singapore and Malaysia in particular. The region has emerged
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      Lock icon Jaitley pledges ‘second-generation’ reforms to kickstart Indian economy
      284 2 AFP New Delhi INDIA’S Finance Minister Arun Jaitley promised on Sunday to unveil a series of “secondgeneration” reforms to try to kickstart the stuttering economy. In an interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency, Mr Jaitley said the reforms
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      Lock icon New plan, rethink for Jurong Island
      1092 4  -  With mega-projects of the past few years completed, new growth will come from speciality chemicals, where projects are smaller but more knowledge-intensive By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore JURONG Island version 2.0 has not yet run its full course, but the government is already
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      Lock icon Chemical reaction
      331 4 BT Infographics Specialty chemicals investments have been rising in Singapore, with two new “corridors” on Jurong Island for synthetic rubber and high-purity ethylene oxide. The Economic Development Board is targeting specialty chemicals investments in three areas: the automotive market, agro-chemicals, and plant-based chemicals. INTERESTING FACTS To allow ExxonMobil
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      Lock icon Value chain
      270 4 Explains Singapore has built up a long value chain in chemicals, with the refineries producing feedstock for crackers, and eventually, specialty chemicals. Refiners The Republic is among the world's top three export refining centres. The three main legs of the sector are fuels, lubricants and naphtha. Crackers Naphtha
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      Lock icon Tight supply rather than demand driving up office rents
      1244 6  -  JLL’s average Prime Grade A CBD office rent up 19.8% in 2014, double 2013’s gain; 7% rise seen in 2015 By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore SINGAPORE office rents have continued to rise this quarter, taking the full-year growth past that
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon China firm in Singapore keeps global horizon
      1185 8  -  MCC Land (S) is looking into two mixed-use developments in Malaysia. TT TOPLINE BY LYNETTE KHOO lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT MCC Land (Singapore), which is part of a large Chinese state-owned conglomerate, has been operating in Singapore for almost two decades. But its vision goes
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      Lock icon Time to tweak some measures?
      434 8 SOME government policies targeted at the property market are better tweaked than left alone, MCC Land (Singapore) managing director Tan Zhiyong argued. Rather than having the intended effect of taming residential prices, Mr Tan believes that the reverse has taken place. One example is the
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      Lock icon Restructuring Reits
      887 8  -  Some feedback on recent proposals by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to enhance Reit regulations. BY ANDY TAN T The writer is a member of the Governing Council of the Singapore institute of Directors. SINGAPORE has a young but very successful Reit market. Thir-ty-three Reits are listed with
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      Lock icon Buybacks continue surge, sales stay low
      1877 9  -  TT INSIDE MARKETS By Robert Halili T The writer is managing director, Asia Insider Ltd UYBACK activity surged for the second straight week. Buying went up as well, while selling among directors was low for the third straight week, according to Singapore Exchange filings
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      64 10 STI Catalist WEEKLY Straits Times Index NOV 21,2014 3,345.32 +29.65 (+0.89%) Current streak 1 day Week high 3,345.32 Week low 3,288.67 52-week high 3,350.17 (July 25, 2014) 52-week low 3,013.15 (Feb 7, 2014) FTSE ST Catalist index NOV 21,2014 794.50 +11.46 (+1.46%) Current streak 1 day Week high 794.50 Week
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      307 10 Stock name Close Change Wk high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 226 -3 231/225 250 206 6.3 5710.4 CapitaLand 327 +2 330/320 348 268 16.4 2.4 *****.5 CapitaMall Trust 197 unch 199.5/195.5 209 180 5.2 6832.5 CityDev 997 +46 998/948 1118 860 13.5
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      83 10 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Advance SCT 50,020.0 0.001 -0.001 -50.00 Enviro-Hub 430.0 0.080 +0.037 +86.05 BlueSkyPower 1,615.0 0.095 +0.005 +5.56 TPV Tech 69.0 0.300 +0.040 +15.39 Wilton Resources 1,432.0 0.109 -0.005 -4.39 Swiber 7,157.0 0.345 +0.035 +11.29 ASL Marine 435.0 0.490 -0.045 -8.41 Linc Energy 3,889.0 1.140 +0.125 +12.32
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      Lock icon Month-end, year-end window-dressing likely
      641 10  -  TT STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT LAST week’s column suggested that apart from the banks there was nothing to suggest a drastic departure from the low-volume, low-volatility trading which has been a hallmark of daily market life for about 8-9 months now. This was indeed
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      36 10 STI FTSE ST All-Share WEEKLY ftse ST All-Share index NOV 21,2014 804.56 +6.06 (+0.76%) Current streak 1 day Week high 804.56 Week low 792.35 52-week high 816.11 (July 25, 2014) 52-week low 733.83 (Feb 7, 2014)
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      71 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low GLD US$ ***** 450.0 3.1 *****/***** JMH USD 6218 360.5 4.7 6460/4934 Hyflux 6% CPS ***** 190.0 1.8 *****/***** DBXT iBoxxSvEu US$ ***** 150.4 0.4 *****/***** JSH USD 3566 112.8 2.5 3810/3006 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Digiland Intl 0.2 100.0 0.1
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      78 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT Chia50 US$ 3073 -138.8 -3.4 3367/2577 DBXT MSKorea US$ 5550 -85.6 -1.2 6735/5550 DBXT Vietnam US$ 2850 -61.0 -1.6 3100/2384 DBXT MSCHINA US$ 1286 -46.7 -2.7 1401/1119 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1440 -44.1 -2.3 1570/1221 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low CN7600MBeCW*****7 2
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      36 10 VOLUME IHC 290,057,000 Golden Agri-Res 241,309,000 Genting Sing 215,367,000 ThaiBev 197,323,000 Charisma Energy 189,126,000 Market volume 7,218,396,000 VALUE SingTel 438,806,415 DBS Grp 313,011,220 OCBC Bank 257,930,400 UOB 255,670,031 Genting Sing 233,802,187 Market value 5,333,124,000
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      110 10 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Wk high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS MS India US$ US778 +11 962 778/761 779/541 775/778 97.3 STI ETF 337 +2 922 338/332 343/298 337/338 DBXT MS SING US$ US131 430 -/-140.1/119.3 131.6/131.9 6.6 UETF SSE50China 165 -6 358 173/160 173/140 164/166
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      Lock icon COMPANY MEETINGS
      94 10 COMPANY MEETING PLACE DATE TIME Keppel Reits E Raffles City Conv Centre Stamford Ballroom (Level 4) 80 Bras Basah Road 24-Nov 11.00am Fujian Zhenyun E 6 Battery Rd #10-01 25-Nov 10.00am Keppel Telecom E Raffles City Con Ctr Atrium Ballroom (Level 4) 80 Bras Basah Road 25-Nov 2.30pm
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      77 10 Nov 21 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -195.00 +157.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +108.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -20.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 751.39 +4.75 FTSE ST Small Cap 518.58 +4.29 FTSE ST All Share 804.56 +6.78 FTSE ST China Top 192.02 +1.33 FTSE ST China 225.72 +0.75 FTSE
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      34 10 STI MSCI EAFE WEEKLY MSCI EAFE index NOV 21,2014 1,831.20 +18.01 (+0.99%) Current streak 1 day Week high 1,831.20 Week low 1,805.14 52-week high 1,993.20 (July 4, 2014) 52-week low 1,737.51 (OCt 17, 2014)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 10 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 7 8 2 0 0 0 7 8 2 Manufacturing 71 78 25 17 15 8 88 93 33 Commerce 31 28 12 7 10 5 38 38 17 Tpt/Stor/Comms 15 23 5
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      123 10 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 101,015 101,015 362,500 362,500 Manufacturing 1,127,533 249,907 1,377,440 658,269 26,119 684,388 Commerce 358,764 232,917 591,681 355,947 19,581 375,528 Tpt/Stor/Comms 443,511 6,608 450,119 811,099 2,416 813,515 Finance 117,438 650 118,088 908,178 139 908,317 Construction 139,434 204,281
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      Lock icon ‘Double dose’ of stimulus gives markets a boost
      789 10 TT COMMODITIES AFP London COMMODITY markets last week mostly rallied as China cut Interest rates for the first time in more than two years, boosting the demand outlook in the Asian powerhouse. Prices also won support after European Central Bank chief Mario
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      Lock icon Yen hits 7-year low as Abe seeks new mandate
      395 11 TT CURRENCIES BLOOMBERG New York THE yen slid to its lowest level in seven years versus the US dollar last week, after Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called early elections seeking to renew his mandate for economic stimulus as the nation
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    • FOREX RATES
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        3 11 WEEKLY
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 11 NOV 21 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.976 5.285 0.688 6.694 53.375 104.774 1.015 9.596 2.892 1.095 87.673 38.824 1.119 9.447 0.827 26.669 28.269 0.550 0.863 Canada 1.025 5.415
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        155 11 NOV 21 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1191 1.1198 0.8630 0.8631 Canadian dollar 1.1463 1.1475 0.8845 0.8839 Euro 1.6267 1.6276 1.2544 1.2545 NZ dollar 1.0215 1.0226 0.7877 0.7882 Sterling pound 2.0339 2.0350 1.5684 1.5685
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 11 NOV 21 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.2969 1.2977 2-months 1.2971 1.2978 3-months 1.2971 1.2979 6-months 1.2970 1.2979 Source: OCBC
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        2 11 WEEKLY
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        3 11 COMPOSITEWEEKLY
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        371 11 Nov 21 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES SPOT *****.72 *****.59 *****.20 Dec14 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****7 Mar15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 508 4531 MSCI TAIWAN INDEX FUTURES SPOT 339.88 339.90 338.14 Nov14 339.60 340.20 338.40 339.30 ***** *****7 Dec14 339.80
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        210 11 Most active Nov 21 Prem Expiry Wk Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Rowsley Ltd W*****3 4.3 0.3 ***** 1 18 23 DBS MB eCW*****2 12.9 0.5 ***** 0.1 0 7 OLS Enterprise W*****5 0.5 0.1 ***** 1 1
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        373 11 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Nov 21 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1284.1 0.8 8.4 0.5 7.5 0.7 4.6 EAFE Preliminary 995.3 1.2 4.1 0.7 -1.8 0.9 -4.4 Europe Preliminary 1401.4 1.8 3.4
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 11 Nov 21 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.04 0.02 1-month 0.4375 0.3125 2-months 0.4375 0.3125 3-months 0.4375 0.3125 Overnight mode: 0.15 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.18 0.08 1 month 0.25 0.15 2 months 0.30 0.20 3 months 0.40 0.20 6 months 0.50 0.30 9 months 0.60 0.40 12
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        36 11 NOV 21 (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 12 mths 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** Source: Thomson Reuters
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        67 11 Nov 21 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****F 3.75 01-Sep-16 105.67 105.71 105.71 5-Year N*****0H 1.625 01-Oct-19 100.6 100.75 100.68 10-Year NY*****H 3.000 01-Sep-24 105.92 15-Year NY*****E 2.875 01-Jul-29 102.3 102.35 102.35 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 107.8 107.95 107.95
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        212 11 NOV-21 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Nov-21 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 1039.00 18.50 1.81% 14/01/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 32.69 0.02 0.06% 12/12/2014 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 547.25 0.00 0.00% 12/12/2014 Nov-21 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 1894.00 -1.00 -0.05% 12/12/2014 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 2076.00 1.00 0.05%
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        Lock icon PALM OIL
        57 11 NOV 21 KLCE Palm Futures (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Dec 14 2230.0 2215.0 2231.0 2208.0 318 4669 Jan 15 2223.0 2226.0 2242.0 2218.0 5063 ***** Feb 15 2229.0 2235.0 2249.0 2223.0 ***** ***** Mar 15 2239.0 2244.0
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      Lock icon Don’t be overly cautious, taking a bit of risk is the ‘new normal’
      649 12  -  Equity holds promise, rising interest rates a key concern for 2015 but Reits will still give better returns By Raphael Lim Singapore INVESTORS should avoid being overly cautious in the market and accept a little risk as
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      Lock icon Fishmeal operations lifts Pacific Andes profit
      500 12  -  By Teh Shi Ning tshining@sph.com.sg @TehShiNingBT Singapore FULL-YEAR net profit for global frozen fish supplier Pacific Andes Resources Development (PARD) has jumped 27.5 per cent, thanks to the expanded Peruvian fishmeal operations at its subsidiary, industrial fishing company China Fishery. PARD’s net attributable profit
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      Lock icon DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
      1289 12 Payment Ex Rec Pay Ann (cts) date date date date Ace Achieve Info bn 0.200 12-Nov 14-Nov 28-Nov 05-Sep AIMS Property ag 0.109 26-Sep 30-Sep 19-Dec 23-Sep AIMSAMP Cap Reit (1 Jul-30 Sep 2014) ct 2.770 05-Nov 07-Nov 23-Dec 30-Oct Ascendas Hospitality Tr (9 Apr-30 Sep 2014) ag
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ RECOMMENDATIONS
      1643 12 Consensus No. of Forecast Mean Fri’s recommendation esti-EPS PE target price Company name This wk Last mth mates (cents) (ratio) price AIMS AMP Capital Industrial REIT 2.00 2.00 3 10.30 13.98 1.56 1.44 ARA Asset Management Limited 2.00 2.00 4 10.45 16.08 1.97 1.68 Ascendas Hospitality Trust Mgt
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      266 12 NOV 21 BANKS Agricultural Bank Of China 5.50 .5.50 Bangkok Bank Public Co. Ltd 6.00 .5.50 Bank of Communications................... 5.50 Bank of East Asia Bank of China Limited 5.50 Bank of Communications Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd 6.00 Banque Internationale a Luxembourg .6.00 .5.75 Bank of Singapore
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon Lack of pizzazz rings death knell for US mall
      800 13 Concord, New Hampshire’s Steeplegate is one of 300 malls in US facing a choice between reinvention and oblivion WP Concord, New Hampshire ON a crisp Friday evening in late October, Shannon Rich, 33, is standing in a dying American mall. Three
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      Lock icon Shopping malls: sign of Angola’s rising middle class
      631 13 AFP Luanda “IT’S a great joy for Angolans,” said Luciano Manuel, nudging his trolley through a huge supermarket in the Angolan capital of Luanda. During almost 30 years of civil war, “we’ve never had a supermarket like this it’s an undeniable gain
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      Lock icon Upstart NY broker banks on technology
      619 13 Urban Compass aims to bring scientific efficiency to opaque world of real estate sales BLOOMBERG New York KYLE Blackmon, the real estate agent who handled the most expensive apartment purchase completed in New York City, has joined Urban Compass Inc as the latest high-profile
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  • VIEWS FROM THE TOP
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      Lock icon TACKLING ERRANT RETAILERS
      3137 14 THIS WEEK’S TOPIC What can be done to weed out rogue retailers and further protect consumer interests? Joshua Yim CEO Achieve Group ON a national level, such rogue retailers give Singapore a bad name, especially when tourists are involved in such disputes. The small proportion of these
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  • BT-CITIBANK YOUNG INVESTORS’ FORUM
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      Lock icon Not just Some Retirement Scheme
      1708 16  -  Beyond the tax carrot, think of the SRS as insurance against having no income TT MONDAY MULTIPLE By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sh.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT ‘IHAVE finally set up my SRS account!” I texted some friends and colleagues excitedly after putting some money in the Supplementary Retirement Scheme
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      Lock icon How Supplementary Retirement Scheme works
      1054 16  -  With the carrot of tax deferment, substantial savings will result if SRS participants’ tax rates in the future are lower than their current tax rates By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT SINGAPORE’S Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS) is what is known as a tax-deferred savings plan. These
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon Miners’ billions at stake as China’s peak steel nears
      875 18 World Steel Association sees output reaching its zenith in three years, prompting plant closures WP London CHINESE President Xi Jinping obviously wasn’t speaking for the world’s iron-ore producers when he pronounced this month that the risks from his country’s slowing growth
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      Lock icon After nuclear phase-out, Germany mulls coal exit
      730 18 AFP Berlin AFTER deciding to scrap nuclear power, Germany is pondering saying goodbye to coal, its biggest energy source but also its top polluter and main threat to ambitious climate goals. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is split on the issue, which pits a
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      Lock icon Opec divided on oil output before crucial meeting
      490 18 AFP London THE Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) will hold one of its toughest and most significant meetings in recent years as, faced with sliding prices, its members must contemplate whether to reduce output. Ahead of Thursday’s Opec meeting in Vienna,
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      1101 19  -  Cybercriminals will carry out long-term attacks on entities in 2015 to collect secret personal, govt data: Trend Micro By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore THE Asia-Pacific region is likely to see an increase in the number of online targeted attacks next year
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      951 19  -  By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore MICRO-BLOGGING site Twitter is hoping that two advertising tools that it introduced recently will help it reach out to more businesses, particularly small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), in the Asia-Pacific region.
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      Lock icon Uber exec hanging on despite quip backlash
      542 20 That’s because the 42-year-old has been central to start-up’s growth, say sources BLOOMBERG New York EMIL Michael, the Uber Technologies executive whose criticisms of journalists led to calls for his firing, is so far withstanding that pressure. That’s because the 42-year-old executive has
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      488 20 BLOOMBERG Frankfurt MERCEDES-BENZ won’t abandon traditional car components like steering wheels and brake pedals even as vehicles develop the ability to take control. Contrary to Google Inc’s vision of completely automated transport pods, the Daimler AG unit wants to
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      607 20 NYT Tokyo NINTENDO may have stopped its sharp fall. To start climbing again, the video game company is expanding its playbook. Last Friday, Nintendo released two products. One, the video game Super Smash Bros, follows the company’s traditional strategy of updating a top-selling
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  • CONSUMER
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      778 22 Trend of making news personal to continue as younger readers shun print for digital, mobile platforms: analyst AFP Washington FACEBOOK’s move to fulfil its ambition to be the personal “newspaper” for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more woes for the ailing
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      665 22 NYT New York A US federal judge has approved a settlement in which Apple could begin paying US$400 million to as many as 23 million consumers related to charges that it violated antitrust law by conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices
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      982 22 Making Change at walmart campaign plans record Black Friday mobilisation WP Washington CONSIDER a box of donated food placed out for workers to help their colleagues put a festive meal on the table at Thanksgiving, which happened over the
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  • TRANSPORT
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      261 23 with How do you sieve through the huge number of listed companies and find quality companies worth investing in? You can attempt to look through the fundamentals and technicals of each company, but that will waste a lot of time and you may waste precious buying opportunities. The ShareInvestor Market
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      777 25  -  LDP coalition hopes to come back to power with reduced majority By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo JAPAN'S Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will this week kick off campaigning for what some are calling a “double or quits” snap election which could either
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      478 25 Several top fund managers say they don’t expect stocks to do much in 2015 REUTERS New York US stock investors head into the Thanksgiving holiday thankful for the market’s recent strength, which puts major indices on track for another year of
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      869 25 NYT Jakarta JAKARTA, the sprawling Indonesian megacity of 10 million people, has a new governor with a difference. It’s not just Basuki Tjahaja Purnama’s hard-charging style that sets him apart from his predecessors. It’s also the fact that he is Christian and ethnic
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      839 25 Advantage Japanese exports gain from weak currency makes life difficult for firms such as Hyundai AFP Seoul AS Japan slips into recession, South Korea is keeping an increasingly wary eye on its export rival’s free-falling currency, which is honing a
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      712 26 AFP Brussels NEW European Commission chief Jean Claude Juncker has made a 300-billion-euro (S$483 billion) investment plan a centrepiece of his five-year agenda, but days before a highly awaited unveiling doubts are rife that it can deliver. Two years after the eurozone debt crisis,
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      828 26 PBOC will act to shore up demand as weakest growth since 1990 is likely: economists BLOOMBERG Beijing CHINA is poised to deliver deeper interest rate cuts after last week’s unexpected decision to reduce borrowing costs for the first time
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      285 25 Trend Following with Michael Covel As Featured on: How does Trend Following work? Trend following is a very straightforward trading strategy that can extract profits from up, down and black swan markets (rare or surprise events). For example, pretend you have no idea what way a market will go or
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      314 27  -  By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT S-t-r-e-t-c-h for charity A MASS yoga session will be held on the Green Roof at the Marina Barrage on Nov 29 to raise funds for O’Joy Care Services, a non-profit body which provides counselling and psycho-social therapy to the elderly. The organisers are
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      1189 27 They are trimming the number of full-time staff and relying on freelance musicians to cut costs NYT New York COMPOSERS have long dreamed of bigger orchestras. In Mozart’s day, when orchestras were small by modern standards, he boasted in a letter of hearing
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      531 27 AFP Abu Dhabi LEWIS Hamilton clinched his second drivers’ world championship and became the first British multiple champion for 46 years when he won Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 29-year-old Englishman, who took his first title in 2008 with McLaren, won not only
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      354 27 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Military force calling for withdrawal (10) 6 I make an offer in place of a previous quotation (4) 10 dna unit takes time to find cat-like creature (5) 11 The best parts of holidays in mountains? (4,5) 12 Reforged inferior poker, perhaps? (4,4) 13 One may
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  • DINING OUT
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      1021 28  -  From shabu shabu to karaage to hiresake, the poisonous puffer fish is the focus of interest at Fuku. BY JAIME EE Fuku.BY JAIME EE jaime@sph.com.sg @JaimeEeBT NEW RESTAURANT Fuku 14 Mohamed Sultan Road #01-01 Tel: 6235 8216 Open for dinner only Mon to Sun: 6pm
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