The Business Times, 22 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 22, 2016
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  • Article
    Lock icon MARKETS
    26 1 Monday Change STI 2,816.67 -21.98 KL Comp 1,627.28 +3.48 Nikkei 225 18,106.02 +138.61 Hang Seng 22,357.78 +13.57 Shenzhen B 1,156.70 -2.44 Dow(10.45am EST) 18,900.60 +32.67
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    192 1 THE deep social divides laid bare by the recent US presidential election and the Brexit referendum must be avoided in Singapore by developing a sense of identity and togetherness, says PM Lee Hsien Loong and he notes that rebuilding such bridges will be very difficult. TOP STORIES 3
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    Lock icon Q3 business climate in S’pore better, but external prospects start to fray
    914 1  -  BT-UniSIM survey was conducted after Brexit but before Trump won US election; economists expect mood to turn more sombre By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore A survey among businesses here has found that conditions improved for them in
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    Lock icon Sustainable growth roadmap launched for hotel industry
    684 1  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore A TRANSFORMATION roadmap has been launched to help the hotel industry position itself for sustainable growth at a time when it is battling a competitive operating environment and manpower constraints. The four key pillars of the map
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    Lock icon SIA to reduce weekly services to Jakarta from Dec 1
    353 1  -  B y Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) will reduce its weekly flights to Jakarta by five from Dec 1as directed by the Indonesian civil aviation authorities, which cited runway maintenance works at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. As
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Shakeup in F1 may be behind Ecclestone’s U-turn
      1023 2  -  F1 boss’s tempering of his tougher words on Sunday comes amid change in ownership of the sport and question marks over the status of some race venues on the calendar NEWS ANALYSIS By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore MUCH has been said
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      Lock icon M’sia to host last F1 race in 2018: minister
      192 2 Kuala lumpur MALAYSIA will stop hosting the Formula One (F1) Grand Prix race after its contract ends in 2018. Confirming this, Tourism and Culture Minister Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz said this was because F1 had become too expensive to host
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      Lock icon GIC gets new CEO on Jan 1; group president Lim Siong Guan to retire
      588 2  -  By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore THE Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC will have a new chief executive officer (CEO) in Lim Chow Kiat, 46, from the new year. He is now the group’s chief investment
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      Lock icon Singapore must avoid deep social divides: PM Lee
      533 3 He notes rebuilding bridges will be very difficult; sense of identity and togetherness will help overcome divide APEC THE STRAITS TIMES Lima, Peru THE deep social divides laid bare by the recent US presidential election and the Brexit referendum must be avoided
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      Lock icon TPP ‘can go on without the US or consist of bilateral pacts’: Abe rival
      630 3  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo PARTNER countries in the Trans-Pa-cific Partnership (TPP) agreement still have ways to move forward with the ambitious economic cooperation scheme, even if president-elect Donald Trump’s opposition to it rules out US
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      Lock icon More bosses offering flexi-work plans, annual leave: MOM study
      617 4  -  Study of 3,800 firms with 1.3 million employees shows a fall in resignation rates; slight uptick in sick leave By Chuang Peck Ming peckming@sph.com.sg @PeckmingBT Singapore MORE bosses are becoming caring and family-friendly and this is winning the loyalty of workers.
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      Lock icon Fullerton Healthcare shelves plans for listing on SGX
      621 4  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore MANAGED care provider Fullerton Healthcare Corp has shelved its mainboard initial public offering (IPO), citing market uncertainty. It said its move to defer the listing plans on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) came “despite significant interest from
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      Lock icon Better to have no safeguards at all for dual class shares, says Aberdeen
      743 4  -  By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT Singapore Singapore FUND managers are against the idea of dual class shares (DCS) but if the authorities here were to allow companies with DCS structures to list here, then according to Aberdeen
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      Lock icon Much scope for Spanish firms to succeed in S’pore: MTI
      529 4  -  By Lee u-wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore MORE than 200 Spanish companies are now operating in Singapore, and the hope is that more of them will anchor their operations here and partner local firms to enter South-east Asia and the broader
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      13 3 Sneakers show limits of trade policy in reviving jobs for Trump, Page 19
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Jefferies upbeat on S-Reits in contrarian report
      677 5  -  Except for periods of high growth and low inflation, S-Reits historically outperform the market on a total return basis By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore JEFFERIES on Monday issued a report with a contrarian bullish view on Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (S-Reits),
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      Lock icon Reits put Singapore in top spot in S-EA IPO market
      476 5  -  By kenlim@sph.com.sg Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore A TRIO of real estate investment trusts (Reits) helped the Singapore initial public offering (IPO) market to bounce back from a dismal 2015 and capture South-east Asia’s largest share of proceeds in 2016,
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      Lock icon Noteholder group seeks fairer terms in KrisEnergy’s revamp
      636 6  -  Open letter acknowledges financial restructuring efforts but says offer is “inequitable” By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore KRISENERGY’S financial restructuring efforts have hit a roadbump. Some noteholders are demanding higher coupon rates and a shorter extension period, and also asking the company
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      Lock icon Swissco, subsidiary file for judicial management
      408 6  -  Meanwhile, Swiber unveils potential US$10.25m sale of vessel pledged to DBS By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore AS it had indicated, beleaguered vessel operator Swissco Holdings has filed for judicial management (JM), becoming the second Singapore-listed offshore and marine (O&M) company to take this
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Pacific Radiance
        130 6 MAINBOARD-LISTED Pacific Radiance announced after Monday trading hours the start of arbitration proceedings against two Chinese shipyard groups over two disputed shipbuilding contracts. The 50 per cent-owned joint venture of Pacific Radiance, CA Offshore Investment Inc (CAOI), issued two notices of arbitration on Nov 18 against Shanghai Waigaoqiao
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        Lock icon Lian Beng, KSH, KOP
        91 6 A CONSORTIUM comprising subsidiaries of Lian Beng Group Ltd, KSH Holdings Ltd, KOP Ltd and Centurion Global Ltd is looking to dispose the entire paid-up share capital of certain wholly-owned subsidiaries that are holding 17 strata office units in Prudential Tower, and also to settle a
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      Lock icon Bouste-ad Projects clinches J TC tender to build business park
      442 6  -  By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore BOUSTEAD Projects Limited’s wholly owned unit has clinched a contract from JTC Corporation to develop a multi-tenanted business park at the Mediapolis. BP-DoJo LLP was awarded the site based on its innovative development concept
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      Lock icon Fullerton Fund Mgt appoints chief investment officer
      316 6  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore TEMASEK Holdings’ wholly owned subsidiary Fullerton Fund Management has appointed Patrick Yeo as its chief investment officer (CIO) based in Singapore. Mr Yeo, who joined Fullerton in 2005 and has more than 26 years of investment experience,
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      Lock icon Online life insurance: jury still out on impact of MAS move
      704 6  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY CLAIRE HUANG huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT THE jury is still out on how much of an impact there will be with Singapore’s regulator moving to allow the full suite of life products to be sold online and
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      Lock icon SGX queries ISR Capital on valuation report
      399 6  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) on Monday queried mainboard-listed ISR Capital on its Al Maynard valuation report. It had questioned the company’s audit committee on the latter’s views about the consideration of S$40 million paid by ISR Capital
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      Lock icon Yields will rise, but by how much?
      884 7  -  US 10-year Treasury yields unlikely to exceed 3% in the next two years as Trump may not get his full way in spending policies, say Schroders fund managers BONDS By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT London THE sharp sell-off in bonds since the election
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      Lock icon Private bank incentives for bond deals come under pressure
      645 7 I FR Singapore CONTROVERSIAL private bank rebates in Asian bond issues could soon become a thing of the past, after UBS stopped indulging in the practice and banks in Singapore started disclosing details of the incentives they receive. Bookrunners routinely offer
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      69 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index NOV 21, 2016 2,816.67 -21.98 (-0.77%) Current streak 1 day Day high 2,839.60 Day low 2,816.67 52-week high 2,960.78 (Apr 21, 2016) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) 3,100 2,900 2,700 2,500 FTSE ST Catalist Index NOV 21, 2016 455.35 +1.73 (+0.38%) Current streak 1
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      75 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low GLD US$ ***** 99.9 0.6 *****/***** DBXT MSTHAI US$ 1868 24.3 0.9 2107/1419 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1343 20.0 1.1 1442/999 DBXT S&P500 US$ 3810 17.1 0.3 3810/3126 DBXT MSTaiwan US$ 2213 14.3 0.5 2345/1667 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low SinoCloud 0.2 100.0
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      72 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT Nifty50 ETF10 ***** -299.6 -1.7 *****/***** JMH USD 5544 -218.3 -2.7 6371/4500 DBXT E50 US$ 4304 -122.7 -2.0 4797/3918 DBXT MSKorea US$ 5334 -55.7 -0.7 6041/4629 JSH USD 3351 -40.0 -0.8 3605/2524 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low MYP R 0.3 -70.0
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      81 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE China Jishan 152.0 0.030 +0.005 +20.00 Hoe Leong 1,281.0 0.013 -0.002 -13.33 TA 304.0 0.210 -0.055 -20.76 Metech Intl 52,935.1 0.004 +0.001 +33.33 Ziwo 311.0 0.019 +0.003 +18.75 AA 5,956.0 0.089 +0.009 +11.25 TCIL HK$ 5,526.0 2.450 +0.100 +4.26 Asian Micro 250.0 0.010 -0.003 -23.08
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      Lock icon Trump rally loses momentum
      623 8  -  ST Index falls almost 22 points, with Singtel providing the biggest drag and Genting giving the biggest support TTSTOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT THE Straits Times Index rose 24 points last week in tandem with a Wall Street banking on US President-elect Donald Trump being
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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 229 -2 231/226 257 209 6.7 6419.4 CapitaCom Trust 147 -3 150/145 164 127 5.9 4356.3 CapitaLand 298 -3 303/297 340 280 11.9 3 *****.3 CapitaMall Trust 188.5 -6 195/188 225 185
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      35 8 VOLUME Equation 110,433,700 Noble 101,333,500 Genting Sing 94,679,000 Golden Agri-Res 59,923,900 Metech Intl 52,935,100 Market volume 1,786,216,000 VALUE Singtel 120,701,875 Genting Sing 91,793,051 DBS Grp 90,351,093 UOB 62,296,470 ComfortDelGro 59,447,393 Market value 1,261,659,000
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      Lock icon OTHER SINGAPORE INDICES
      77 8 Nov 21 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -354.00 -182.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -79.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -35.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 673.11 -6.83 FTSE ST Small Cap 379.00 -0.93 FTSE ST All Share 692.59 -5.50 FTSE ST China Top 156.46 -0.11 FTSE ST China 193.48 -0.61 FTSE
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs
      107 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS MS INDIA US$ US642 -11 263 654/642 772/441 642/644 80.3 STI ETF 288 189 289/287 300/254 287/288 ABF SG Bond ETF 115.5 -0.2 69 115.8/115.4 120.1/112.1 115.5/115.6 527.2 DBXT MSRussia US$ US217 +4 63 217/214
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      36 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index NOV 21, 2016 692.59 -5.50 (-0.79%) Current streak 1 day Day high 697.67 Day low 692.59 52-week high 722.88 (Apr 21, 2016) 52-week low 625.37 (Jan 21, 2016)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index NOV 18,2016 1,614.17 -18.49 (-1.13%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,629.31 Day low 1,614.17 52-week high 1,755.96 (NOV 26, 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 3 6 6 0 0 0 3 6 6 Manufacturing 31 41 24 10 12 9 41 53 33 Commerce 13 26 11 5 5 5 18 31 16 Tpt/Stor/Comms 9 17 5
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 13,969 13,969 43,191 43,191 Manufacturing 94,464 264,970 359,434 86,939 4,871 91,810 Commerce 136,519 17,813 154,332 97,761 301 98,061 Tpt/Stor/Comms 154,848 101 154,949 264,647 8 264,655 Finance 42,280 365 42,645 235,311 55 235,365 Construction 18,737 12,497
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Singapore Hospitality | Neutral
        129 8 Singapore Hospitality Neutral OCBC Investment Research, Nov 21 For the hospitality counters we cover, Q3 2016 DPU growth ranged from -2.5 per cent to -7.4 per cent year on year, after adjusting for one-off items and equity financing. Looking ahead to FY2017, with a forecast 6.1 per cent growth in
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        Lock icon Small mid-caps
        143 8 DBS Group Research, Nov 21 Can buybacks drive better returns? While there are proponents both for and against the use of share buybacks, we believe that in times of macro uncertainty, buybacks if executed properly, could provide some support for share prices as they send positive signals about
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        Lock icon Thai Beverage | Add
        191 8  - Thai Beverage Add Compiled by Jamie Lee Target price: S$1.14 Nov 21 close: S$0.88 CIMB Group Research, Nov 18 We think this is a quarter where we are seeing an element of slightly overstocked channels impinging spirits sales, yet still elevated levels of expenses as ThaiBev continues to invest in
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      Lock icon Political developments push euro higher vs US$
      392 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE euro rose from an 11-month low against a broadly weaker US dollar on Monday, with political developments seen by some as making next year’s French and German elections less uncertain, giving some support to the currency. Former French president
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 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 0.988 5.063 0.691 5.695 50.054 98.640 0.815 8.698 3.246 1.045 76.944 36.640 1.048 10.554 0.741 23.478 26.079 0.595 0.734 Canada 1.012 5.124
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 NOV 21 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0475 1.0481 0.7341 0.7343 Canadian dollar 1.0602 1.0606 0.7431 0.7430 Euro 1.5164 1.5173 1.0627 1.0630 NZ dollar 1.0015 1.0029 0.7019 0.7026 Sterling pound 1.7604 1.7614 1.2337 1.2340
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 NOV 21 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4268 1.4276 2-months 1.4267 1.4274 3-months 1.4269 1.4277 6-months 1.4266 1.4279 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        380 9 Nov 21 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Nov16 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****8 *****2 Dec16 *****.50 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****9 Mar17 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 1047 8218 MSCI TAIWAN
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        209 9 Most active Nov 21 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 17 3.00 9 FTSEChinaA50 ***** MBeCW*****9 8.8 0.7 3532 0.0 1 OCBC BK MB ECW*****6 6 -0.6 3193 0.1
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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 18 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1316.1 -0.2 3.0 0.2 2.7 -0.6 2.1 EAFE Preliminary 980.0 -0.1 -3.3 -0.4 -5.4 -1.1 -5.9 Europe Preliminary 1380.8 -0.4 -2.3
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    • BANK RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK RATES
        154 9 Nov 21 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.03 0.01 1-month 0.75 0.625 2-months 0.875 0.75 3-months 1.0 0.875 Overnight mode: 0.02 US$ 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
        69 9 Nov 21 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****A 4.000 01-Sep-18 105.05 105.04 105.02 5-Year N*****0Z 1.250 01-Oct-21 97.71 97.75 97.70 10-Year NX*****F 2.125 01-Jun-26 98.13 98.20 97.85 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 101.97 101.65 101.55 20-Year NZ*****X 2.250 01-Aug-36 92.11
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 9 Nov-18 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Nov-18 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 993.75 4.25 0.43% 13/01/2017 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 34.05 0.35 1.04% 14/12/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 408.00 5.00 1.24% 14/12/2016 Nov-18 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2057.00 26.00 1.28% 13/12/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 2201.00 -19.00 -0.86%
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1846 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High Day Low 149 127 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 127.5 -0.5 1191 130 127 0.9 8.9 812.5 C'vr 172.5 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 170.5 unch 5292
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      330 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Last vol Day Div 5 1.7 t Acesian Partners 2.3 unch 1300 2.3 2.3 3.2 8.6 Net 0.5 0.1 t Advanced Systems 0.2 unch 0 0.2 0.2 5.3 46.5 29.5 t
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      145 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale 905 736 CIMBASEAN40 US$ US814 -2 0 814 814 127.7 ('000) 422 190 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US363 +7 43 363 361 1388 995 DBXT MSCHINA US$ US1275 +3
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon CLSA Capital Partners bags 77 Robinson Road for S$530.8m
      686 12  -  SEB ImmoInvest fund sells the property for S$1,810 psf; site has 76-year balance lease By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore Singapore THINGS have come full circle for CLSA Capital Partners at 77 Robinson Road. BT understands that it has inked a
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      Lock icon China’s Anbang in talks to buy up to US$2.3b of Japan homes
      246 12 REUTERS Tokyo CHINA’S Anbang Insurance Group Co is in talks to buy as much as US$2.3 billion in Japanese residential property assets from Blackstone Group, two people involved in the discussions said, in what would be Japan’s biggest
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      Lock icon Homegrown Kingsland Global making waves in regional markets
      773 12  -  It has hospitality projects in Cambodia and an industrial park in iskandar Malaysia’s Nusajaya By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore HOMEGROWN but Australia-listed real estate developer Kingsland Global wants to accomplish more with its development business in emerging markets. Perhaps, when it
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      Lock icon Malaysia’s ringgit moves evoke 1998 comparison
      768 14 KL’s attempts to cajole traders to stop selling down its plunging currency remind investors of earlier measures BLOOMBERG Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S attempt to cajole currency traders to stop selling down its plunging ringgit is evoking memories of 1998 capital controls among global banks a
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      535 14 Policymakers mulling over letting lenders use their UK-approved internal risk models for the time being BLOOMBERG London FINANCE executives planning to shift operations out of the UK because of Brexit have been told by European Central Bank (ECB) officials not to
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      487 14 The move also fulfils a regulatory requirement to make banks easier to break up in a crisis BLOOMBERG Zurich CREDIT Suisse Group AG’s Swiss unit began life as a legally independent company, enabling the bank to pursue plans to sell
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      Lock icon Day of reckoning arrives for balance-sheet basket cases
      386 14 BLOOMBERG London IT’S a new era for Europeans who for eight years got accustomed to watching companies with the worst balance sheets do nothing but rally. Now those stocks are getting crushed by rising bond yields, a trend strategists see continuing. Companies
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      411 14 THE BUSINESS TIMES NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL GAS EQUIPMENT PTE. LTD. (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) Reg No. *****9984D NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 57 Ubi Avenue
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      2244 15 NOTICES Tel 6289-8822 I Email notices@sph.com.sg I www.sphclass.com.sg ASIA FASHION HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in Bermuda) (Company Registration No. *****) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting (this “Annual General Meeting”) of Asia Fashion Holdings Limited (the “Company”) will be held at Maxwell Chambers
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      172 15 In the Matter of The Companies Act, Cap. 50 And In the Matter of (1) CAPITARETAIL VS INVESTMENT PTE. LTD. (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) (Co. Reg. No. *****3375K) (2) CAPITAMALLS JAPAN FUND PTE. LTD. (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) (Co. Reg. No. *****4533C) NOTICE OF FINAL GENERAL MEETINGS NOTICE IS HEREBY
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Microsoft spending big to build quantum computer
      850 16 Such a machine could tackle problems beyond the reach of today’s digital computers NYTIMES San Francisco MICROSOFT is putting its considerable financial and engineering muscle into the experimental field of quantum computing as it works to build a machine that could tackle problems
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      Lock icon Snow, Asia’s Snapchat clone, sets sights on global expansion
      404 16 BLOOMBERG Seoul SNOW, a Snapchat clone that’s conquering Asia, is now setting its sights beyond the region, betting that it can attract users with stickers that sometimes border on the bizarre. While Snow, based in Bundang, South Korea, mostly replicates Snapchat’s
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      1159 17 NOTICES Tel 6289-8822 I Email notices@sph.com.sg I www.sphclass.com.sg IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF TONG GARDEN HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. (In Members’ Voluntary Liquidation) (Company Registration No. *****2686E) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held pursuant to Section
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      1681 17 deoloor DECLOUT LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) (Company Registration Number: *****7764W) NOTICE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Unless otherwise defined or the context otherwise requires, all capitalised terms herein shall bear the same meaning as used in the circular dated 22 November 2016 issued by the Company (the “Circular
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      472 17 IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF INOVA VENTURE PTE LTD (IN MEMBERS’ VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) (Co. Reg. No. *****6767H) NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At the Extraordinary General Meeting of Inova Venture Pte Ltd duly convened and held on the 16th day of November 2016,
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  • TRANSPORT
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      619 18 It sees bumpier future as president-elect translates his promises into new policies on trade, tariffs and regulation BLOOMBERG Southfield, Michigan FORD Motor Co, cutting its 2017 profit forecast for the second time in three months, said it sees a bumpier
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      Lock icon Fed-up families of MH370 victims to hunt for seaborne debris in Madagascar
      480 18 AFP Kuala Lumpur RELATIVES of MH370 passengers will travel to Madagascar next month in hopes of re-kindling efforts to find and recover seaborne debris from the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet, next-of-kin association Voice370 said on Monday. The Boeing
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      Lock icon Use of chargebacks to resolve disputes rising in travel industry
      1073 18  -  But observers frown on bad-faith practices, which increase long term costs By Christopher Elliott T The writer is a consumer advocate, journalist and co-founder of the advocacy group Travelers United. WP Washington FOR better or worse, travellers are turning to
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      1033 19 Most lost manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back to the US, but higher costs for consumers could REUTERS Washington AMERICAN companies from appliance makers to car parts suppliers have queued up to offer a quiet caution to President-elect Donald Trump
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      605 19 REUTERS BLOOMBERG London PRIME Minister Theresa May pledged on Monday to address business concerns that Britain could fall off a “cliff edge” into uncertain trading conditions after leaving the European Union (EU) as part of her “Brexit” negotiation. It was the
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      268 19 Fiscal policies that improve output can help address some disappointing aspects of current recovery, he adds AFP Washington PROPERLY directed government spending including infrastructure spending as US President-elect Donald Trump has promised can boost the economy’s productive capacity, Federal Reserve vice-chair Stanley
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      378 19 BLOOMBERG Tokyo JAPANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is pushing for a greater role for fiscal policy next year, according to draft guidelines for the 2017 budget seen by Bloomberg. The government handed over the document for Japan’s initial
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      Lock icon Thai Q3 GDP momentum cools, but exports show signs of recovery
      483 19 REUTERS Bangkok THAILAND’s economy grew less than expected in the third quarter on slower consumption and government spending but early signs of an export recovery may help put growth on a firmer footing next year. The central bank is
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon TPP’s impasse paves the way for China to take lead on global trade
      675 20 EDITORIAL THERE appears to be a glimmer of hope for the stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. Just when it seemed that the mega free trade pact involving 12 Pacific Rim nations was dead in the water after
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      Lock icon Welcome to the Age of Trump
      1569 20  -  he many critics of the US president-elect need to stop demonising him and his supporters By Leon Hadar THE folks at the hip Rolling Stone magazine sounded a bit hysterical last week. They ran the headline “Trump Ditching Reporters Is a Terrifying Red Flag”
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      696 20  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Robert J Samuelson THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP Washington ELECTIONS regularly inspire an orgy of hype and so it is with this one. The Democrats are in disarray, it’s said. Unless they’re enormously skillful or lucky, they risk becoming a minority party indefinitely. Be
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      1059 21  -  COMMENTARY By John Prescott, Andrew Hammond T The writers are respectively a former UK deputy prime minister and Europe’s chief negotiator for the Kyoto Protocol, and an associate at the Centre for International Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy at the London School of
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      Lock icon Globalisation thrown into reverse gear: What this could mean
      746 21  -  By Anthony Rowley GLOBALISATION a term which implies integration of the global economy rather than any universal brotherhood of man was in trouble even before Donald Trump notched his upset victory in the US presidential election, and now it is in
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      Lock icon Far more thought must go into international law
      1345 21  -  Institutions must be overhauled to be recognised by all parties; govts must accept the concept despite short-term strategic interests. BY HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY BY HUMPHREY HAWKSLEY T The writer is formerly the BBC’s Beijing bureau chief and author of The Third world war:
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      998 22 THE BUSINESS TIMES Shipping times FOONG SUN SHIPPING (PTE) LTD INDONESIA SUMATRA PORTS VESSEL VOY ETA ETD DESTINATION BERJAYA I 16/16 25/11 27/11 BELITUNG/PKL BALAM SRIJAYA 8 30/16 24/11 26/11 JAMBI/PEKAN BARU CARAKA JN 3 II 17/16 23/11 25/11 PALEMBANG/PANJANG FAJAR MAS 12/16 23/11 25/11 BELAWAN/MALAHAYATI INDONESIA JAVA SULAWESI PORTS
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      Lock icon Fantastic Beasts is a hit, and a critic’s darling for Warner Bros
      1195 23 Movie collects a solid US$75m in ticket sales in N America and an additional US$143.3m in partial release overseas; reviews are strong NYTIMES Los Angeles WARNER Bros and JK Rowling pulled off an exceptionally difficult magic trick over
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      736 23 Ariana Grande wins the top award of Artist of the Year; rapper Drake, up for a record 13 awards, bags four AFP Los Angeles GREEN Day led a furious chant against Pres-ident-elect Donald Trump on Sunday at the American Music Awards,
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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      323 23 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Easiest word that may be misspelt (8) 6 It’s not intended for the understanding of our betters (3-3) 9 Undaunted, he leads or retreats in command (6) 10 Clear new translation for writer, one associated with Arabia (8) 11 Leg bound to be broken by heavy
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  • SME
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      Lock icon Innovation and family firms do go together
      1031 24  -  The best way family-run enterprises can safeguard their assets from turning into liabilities is to institutionalise innovation. BY MORTEN BENNEDSEN BY MORTEN BENNEDSEN T The writer is The André and Rosalie Hoffmann chaired professor of Family Enterprise at insead and academic director of
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      1024 24  -  By Kelvin Teo T The writer is the co-founder of Funding Societies. Singapore IN August, the Ministry of Trade and Industry narrowed the economy growth forecast to between one and 2 per cent, down from between one and 3 per cent. Singapore
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