The Business Times, 22 December 2016

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    23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.20 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION businesstimes.com.sg fb.com/thebusinesstimes @BusinessTimes CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 037/12/2016 Thursday, December 22, 2016
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  • Article
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    27 1 Wednesday Change STI 2,901.70 -9.61 KL COMP 1,629.59 -4.93 NIKKEI 225 19,444.49 -50.04 HANG SENG 21,809.80 +80.74 SHENZHEN B 1,128.64 +3.45 DOW (11.45 EST) 19,957.91 -16.71
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    197 1 improving access to products and capital while strengthening disclosure and accountability form the main thrust behind a particularly eventful year for market regulations in Singapore. TOP STORIES 2 In a year of surprises for Singapore’s land transport sector, the biggest shocker was why COEs didn’t fall when they
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    Lock icon SME sentiment sinks past neutral point to all-time low of 49.8
    742 1  -  But pessimistic outlook is in line with recent economic indicators, say analysts By Vivien Shiao vshiao@sph.com.sg @VivienShiaoBT Singapore THE latest SBF-DP SME Index, which measures the business sentiment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has dipped to an all-time
    Source: SBF- DP SME Index Q1 '17-Q2 '17  -  742 words
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    Lock icon Has dry bulk bottomed out?
    361 1  -  The Baltic Dry Index’s rebound to an almost two-year high of 1,257 points in November from an all-time low of 290 in February has lifted market expectations that the worst may be over for the dry bulk shipping sector. But analysts are split on whether
    Source: Bloomberg; Source: BIMCO, Clarksons, Chinese customs; Source: Drewry’s Dry Bulk Forecaster; Source: Bimco, Clarksons, Chinese customs; Compiled by BT  -  361 words
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      175 1 "*****1 3000 1 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES The L.U.C Collection Each part is a masterpiece The mysteriously shaped date lever springs into action, commanding the date wheel to perform an instant 11.6129-degree jump corresponding to one day. Once its task is accomplished, it takes a 24-hour break. Like every component
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      12 1 ADVERTISERS’ FAVOURITE Advertisers give BT website thumbs up again TOP STORIES 3
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      20 1 OUTLOOK 2017 Blockchain: the next internet wave? TOP STORIES 3 A NEW ERA Trump: A disruptor or an ‘innovator’? OPINION/22
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Governance code review, dual-class debate point to more changes in 2017
      1743 2  -  Striking a balance in regulations to maintain competitiveness is key OUTLOOK 2017 By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore IMPROVING access to products and capital while strengthening disclosure and accountability formed the main thrust behind a particularly eventful year for
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      Lock icon Third ex-BSI banker to be sentenced on Thursday
      473 2  -  1MDB SCANDAL By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore THE sentencing of former BSI banker Yeo Jiawei for attempting to pervert the course of justice in connection with Singapore’s largest money-laun-dering probe linked to the massive 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal will take
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      Lock icon Car COE premiums bounce back up again
      450 2  -  By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore PASSENGER-CAR COE (Certificate of Entitlement) premiums bounced back up again after falling significantly a fortnight ago, although they still ended below the year’s highs. In the final bidding exercise of 2016, Category A for cars below 1,600cc and
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      Lock icon KL minister says 1MDB has paid bond coupon due this quarter
      559 2 BLOOMBERG Kuala Lumpur 1MALAYSIA Development Bhd has paid the interest on its bonds that were due this quarter after the debt’s Abu Dhabi co-guarantor was compelled to service the coupons earlier in 2016, which had led to the deepening
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      Lock icon Advertisers give BT website thumbs up – again
      421 3  - Advertisers give BT website thumbs up again The Digital Media of the Year survey by Marketing magazine shows that BT is tops for a second year By Chai Hung Yin chaihyn@sph.com.sg @ChaiHungYinBT Singapore FOR the second consecutive year, The Business Times’ website is the top local business finance choice for
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      Lock icon Blockchain: the next Internet wave?
      1002 3  -  OUTLOOK 2017 By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore BLOCKCHAIN is likely to take centre stage in the discussions around fintech in 2017, especially as Singapore will test out the technology with the backing of the central bank. The pilot and ensuing dialogue, could also go
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      Lock icon Petronas to cut oil output by 20,000 barrels per day
      436 3  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur THE decision by Petronas Nasional to cut its oil production by 20,000 barrels per day (bpd), while largely symbolic, underscores its commitment to the joint effort by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
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      Lock icon No fast track for EU-Singapore trade deal: EU court adviser
      481 3 REUTERS Luxembourg A TOP adviser to the European Court of Justice said on Wednesday that a trade agreement between Singapore and the European Union cannot be fast-tracked into force, in a legal opinion that is likely to slow down ratification
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      Lock icon SMRT, Uber, Grab on commuters’ minds
      719 4  -  Cars and COEs were also in the spotlight this year REVIEW 2016 By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore IN a year when the main train operator was privatised, and ride-hailing apps revolutionised public transport, the bigger surprise for some was over a more private form
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      Lock icon Japan’s economic prospects rise; yen eyed to fall further on BOJ moves
      596 4  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo THE Japanese government on Wednesday upgraded its view of the nation’s immediate economic outlook for the first time in 18 months, echoing a similar upgrade the previous day by the Bank of Japan
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      195 4 NOTICES Tenders are invited by the Institute of Service Excellence at Singapore Management University (ISES) for 1. Data Collection On Companies’ Revenue Share for Selected Sub-sectors covered in the Customer Satisfaction Index of Singapore (CSISG) 2017 till 2019; 2. Data Collection On Incidence Study for Sub-sectors covered in the Customer
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Climate change at Natural Cool EGM
      825 5  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY MELISSA TAN melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Airconditioning firm Natural Cool’s extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Thursday, its second this month, might go quite differently from its first one on Dec 12 where its executive chairman managed to survive an ouster attempt by
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      Lock icon ComfortDelGro to buy out 49% stake in Australian venture for A$186m
      302 5  -  By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore COMFORTDELGRO Corp revealed before Wednesday trading hours an agreement to buy out the 49 per cent stake it does not own in its Australian venture, ComfortDelGro Cabcharge Pty Ltd (CDC), for A$186
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      Lock icon TDK agrees to buy InvenSense for about US$1.3b
      202 5 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong TDK Corp has agreed to buy InvenSense Inc in a deal that values the supplier of sensors to Apple Inc and other smartphone makers at about US$1.3 billion. The offer is worth US$ 13a share in cash for the
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      Lock icon Jason Hldgs in dilutive placement to raise S$1m
      315 5  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore BELEAGUERED flooring firm Jason Holdings on Wednesday said it has signed a binding conditional term sheet with its non-executive chairman and controlling shareholder Lim Chwee Kim to issue to him two billion new shares to raise
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      Lock icon Rickmers Maritime’s notes restructuring plan rejected again
      513 6  -  Financial adviser to one noteholder group denies claim the group sought to liquidate shipping trust By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore THE noteholders of Rickmers Maritime on Wednesday thumbed down a repeated attempt by the shipping trust to restructure S$100 million of
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      Lock icon European banks ceding share of int’l bond underwriting to US rivals
      1109 6  -  COMMENTARY By Mark Gilbert T Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg View columnist. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. BLOOMBERG London ANY conversation with a European bank executive
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      Lock icon Two Australian banks sanctioned by regulator over forex practices
      268 6 BLOOMBERG Sydney TWO of Australia’s largest banks vowed to toughen oversight of their foreign exchange practices and each pay A$2.5 million (S$2.6 million) to the nation’s financial literacy fund after a regulator found inappropriate conduct in their currency trading divisions. Commonwealth
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      Lock icon 2017 set to be another roller-coaster year for bonds: Schroders
      767 6  -  By Michelle Quah michquah@sph.com.sg @MichelleQuahBT Singapore 2017 is set to be another rollercoaster year for bonds, says Schroder Investment Management in Singapore (Schroders). And it intends to adopt “a more opportunistic investment strategy” to cope with this. Bob Jolly, head
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      Lock icon China sells 3-year, 7-year bonds at lower than expected yields
      138 6 REUTERS Shanghai CHINA’S Ministry of Finance on Wednesday auctioned 16 billion yuan (S$3.3 billion) of three-year bonds and another 16 billion yuan of seven-year bonds at an average yield of 3.0065 per cent and 3.1797 per cent, respectively, traders said,
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      Lock icon Fidrec doubles non-insurance related adjudicated claims limit to S$100,000
      292 6  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore TO GIVE more consumers access to an affordable dispute resolution process, the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre (Fidrec) on Wednesday said that the limit for non-insur-ance related adjudicated claims would be raised from S$50,000 to
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      Lock icon Europe tallies trades ahead of dark pool rules
      853 7 From 2018, each dark pool will only be able to handle 4% of overall trading in a security BLOOMBERG London OPERATORS of European stock markets are finding that bigger is better. In the New Year, regulators will be counting every European stock
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon Huationg Global
        29 7 HUATIONG Global has secured new civil engineering contracts totalling about S$87.1 million. These bring the total value of Huationg’s new projects secured in FY16 to S$113.7 million.
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        Lock icon China Auto Electronics Group
        107 7 CHINA Auto Electronics requested a trading suspension before the market opened on Wednesday as its shares held by the public have fallen below 10 per cent. On Dec 12, the listed group announced a loss of its free float on the Singapore bourse. This came as
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        70 7 CHINA Environment has lodged a report to the commercial Affairs Department of the Singapore Police Force against its former executive chairman Huang Min and its former chief financial officer Chiar Choon Teck in respect of non-existent receivables. The company said on Sept 21 that its appointed Chinese legal
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        Lock icon SIA Engineering
        70 7 SIA Engineering has inked a S$250 million services agreement with SIA Cargo. This is a renewal of an existing services agreement with SIA Cargo that expires this year. The new agreement, commencing Jan 1, 2017, is for three years, with options to renew for three years and a
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        Lock icon Golden Agri-Resources
        102 7 GOLDEN Agri (GAR) has, through its unit Belino Investments, subscribed for a limited partnership interest in a technology investment fund called RMDV Fund I. Its contribution and commitment towards the fund will be up to US$125 million by the injection of non-cash assets (US$104.8 million) and US$20.2 million
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        Lock icon Singapore Press Holdings
        126 7 with effect from Jan 1, 2017, Bahren Shaari will step down as chairman and member of Singapore Press Holdings’ (SPH) audit committee. Current member Quek See Tiat will be appointed chairman and Andrew Lim will be appointed as a member. On the same date, Ng Yat Chung,
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      Lock icon Coca-Cola to buy out AB InBev from Africa JV for US$3.15b
      289 7 BLOOMBERG London COCA-COLA Co will pay US$3.15 billion to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev NV out of an African bottling joint venture after the Budweiser brewer’s takeover of the US beverage company’s partner in the region. Wednesday’s announcement comes just over
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index Dec 21,2016 2,901.70 -9.61 (-0.33%) Current streak 3 days Day high 2,924.42 Day low 2,901.70 52-week high 2,960.78 (Apr 21, 2016) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist Index Dec 21,2016 435.74 +1.49 (+0.34%) Current streak 1 day Day high 437.40 Day low
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      74 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low JMH USD 5477 72.2 0.9 6371/4669 Hyflux 6% CPS 9475 49.0 0.5 *****/9100 JSH USD 3255 36.1 0.8 3605/2524 DBXT China50 US$ 2970 26.0 0.6 3268/2355 China Mining 57 17.0 42.5 68/14.5 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low China Haida 4 100.0 2.0
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      Lock icon LOSERS
      72 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Jardine C&C 3990 -70.0 -1.7 4520/3160 DBXT Vietnam US$ 2100 -33.2 -1.1 2533/2017 DBXT MSTHAI US$ 1894 -31.8 -1.1 2107/1419 UOB 2070 -16.0 -0.8 2135/1680 DBXT MSTaiwan US$ 2235 -14.4 -0.4 2345/1667 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Advanced Systems 0.2 -33.3 -0.1
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      82 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE China Mining 107.3 0.570 +0.170 +42.50 Intraco 142.4 0.330 +0.080 +32.00 San Teh 187.2 0.220 +0.020 +10.00 Artivision Tech 22,647.3 0.019 -0.002 -9.52 VibroPower 10.8 0.220 -0.025 -10.20 CEFC Intl 92.0 0.135 +0.020 +17.39 Transcorp 51.2 0.033 -0.006 -15.39 YHI Intl 20.0 0.280 -0.045 -13.85
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      Lock icon ST Index slips as early gains fizzle out
      637 8  -  Brokers cite upcoming holidays and withdrawal of capital from emerging markets as reasons for dull session TTSTOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT TRADING on Wednesday was quiet with turnover amounting to a low 1.4 billion units worth S$789.4 million. Rises in the
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      304 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 228 -2 231/225 257 209 6.7 6396.3 CapitaCom Trust 148.5 -1.5 151/148.5 164 127 5.8 4400.8 CapitaLand 299 -1 301/298 340 280 12 3 ***** CapitaMall Trust 189 -3 191/188.5 225 187
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      34 8 VOLUME Spackman 107,031,500 Noble 54,149,700 QT Vascular 41,845,600 Ezra 35,242,100 LionGold 30,000,000 Market volume 1,365,874,000 VALUE Singtel 82,182,138 DBS Grp 66,490,234 OCBC Bank 34,720,419 UOB 30,485,583 Ascendas Reit 27,324,262 Market value 784,211,000
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      77 8 Dec 21 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -409.00 -64.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -48.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -41.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 676.76 -2.20 FTSE ST Small Cap 377.94 -0.75 FTSE ST All Share 708.21 -1.85 FTSE ST China Top 159.15 -0.43 FTSE ST China 204.57 -0.02 FTSE
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs
      114 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 297 +1 212 298/296 303/254 296/298 DBXT MSRussia US$ US246 +4 127 246/245 253/129 246/247 Phll Ap Div Reit S$D 125.5 +0.5 70 125.5/125.5 131/119.9 125.1/125.4 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US350 +4 31 350/349 422/190
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index Dec 21,2016 708.21 -1.85 (-0.26%) Current streak 3 days Day high 712.51 Day low 708.21 52-week high 722.88 (April 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 Dec 20,2016 1,670.71 -3.74 (-0.22%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,674.71 Day low 1,666.45 52-week high 1,734.72 (Sept 7, 2016) 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 5 6 4 1 0 0 6 6 4 Manufacturing 27 35 30 3 10 9 30 45 39 Commerce 15 17 7 3 5 4 18 22 11 Tpt/Stor/Comms 7 8 12
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      123 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 10,372 792 11,164 36,124 120 36,244 Manufacturing 58,894 115,976 174,870 59,813 4,450 64,263 Commerce 85,618 8,887 94,505 62,477 143 62,620 Tpt/Stor/Comms 87,340 452 87,792 131,424 41 131,465 Finance 14,683 441 15,124 146,766 63 146,829 Construction
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        488 8  - Singapore Airlines HOLD Compiled by Kenneth Lim Target price: S$10.10 Dec 21 close: S$9.75 UOB Kay Hian, Dec 16 PARENT Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) load factor decline accelerated in the peak season. SIA’s passenger loads fell 1.9 percentage points (versus a 1.6 percentage point decline in October 2016) on the back
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      Lock icon Dollar retreats from 14-year high, Swedish kronor soars
      462 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE dollar took a breather on Wednesday after reaching a 14-year high the previous day, while the Swedish kronor chalked up its biggest rise in six months after the Riksbank voted to ease policy further only by the narrowest
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 Dec 21 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.969 5.039 0.697 5.627 49.201 97.542 0.853 8.654 3.247 1.047 75.993 36.219 1.047 10.131 0.745 23.221 26.105 0.586 0.725 Canada 1.032 5.199
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 Dec 21 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0469 1.0480 0.7248 0.7251 Canadian dollar 1.0803 1.0813 0.7482 0.7479 Euro 1.5026 1.5037 1.0403 1.0404 NZ dollar 1.0001 1.0014 0.6924 0.6929 Sterling pound 1.7851 1.7871 1.2359 1.2365
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 Dec 21 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4445 1.4457 2-months 1.4445 1.4457 3-months 1.4446 1.4458 6-months 1.4445 1.4460 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        380 9 Dec 21 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Dec16 9915.00 *****.50 9910.00 *****.50 *****8 *****7 Jan17 9955.00 *****.00 9947.50 *****.50 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Mar17 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****5 Jun17 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 62 328 MSCI TAIWAN
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        209 9 Most active Dec 21 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left DBS MB eCW*****0 9.5 1.2 2765 0.1 1950 7 Innopac Holdings W*****0 0.1 unch 1800 1 1 11 UOB MB eCW*****1 11.6 -0.6 1784 0.1 2250 11
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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 Dec 20 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1376.7 0.3 7.7 0.0 7.9 0.1 5.9 EAFE Preliminary 1039.7 0.3 2.6 -0.4 -0.8 -0.2 -2.7 Europe Preliminary 1463.0 0.4 3.6
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 9 Dec-20 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Dec-20 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 1005.25 -16.25 -1.59% 13/01/2017 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 36.06 -0.50 -1.37% 13/01/2017 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 403.25 -1.75 -0.43% 14/03/2017 Dec-20 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 1844.00 -19.00 -1.02% 16/03/2017 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 2141.00 -17.00 -0.79%
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    • BANK RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK RATES
        154 9 Dec 21 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.03 Par 1-month 0.75 0.625 2-months 0.875 0.75 3-months 1.0 0.875 Overnight mode: 0.25 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.80 0.70 1 month 0.95 0.75 2 months 1.00 0.80 3 months 1.10 0.90 6 months 1.40 1.20 9 months 1.60 1.40 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        63 9 Dec 21 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****A 4.000 01-Sep-18 104.4 5-Year N*****0Z 1.250 01-Oct-21 96.84 96.90 96.80 10-Year NX*****F 2.125 01-Jun-26 96.95 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 101.15 101.35 101.01 20-Year NZ*****X 2.250 01-Aug-36 91.97 92.15 92.15 30-Year NA*****H
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1662 10 Transaction date: Dec 21 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High Day Low 149 124.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 129 unch 216 129.5 128.5 0.9 8.8 822.1 C'vr 172.5 101 ARA Asset
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      292 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Last Vol Day LOW Div GrYld Net MCap 46.5 29.5 t Advancer Global 36 -0.5 30 36 36 14.3 62.3 LOW Company Sale 19.9 8.3 t Anchor Resources 9 +0.2 276
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      160 10 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E 120.1 112.1 ABF SG Bond ETF 114.1cd +0.4 29 115 113.7 520.8 Last Sale vol 3268 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US2970 +18 6 2970 2951 8.2 High 422 190 DBXT MSBrazil
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      2560 7 NOTICES FRASERS CENTREPOINT TRUST (CONSTITUTED IN THE REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE PURSUANT TO A TRUST DEED DATED 5 JUNE 2006 (AS AMENDED AND RESTATED)) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 8th Annual General Meeting of the unitholders of FRASERS CENTREPOINT TRUST (“FCT”, and the unitholders of
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon US hotels ride trend of patients travelling for care
      1025 11 Developers are situating accommodation near major medical centres, many in hotel-starved outskirts NYTIMES New York WHEN out-of-town patients used to travel to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, some would find that their best option for staying close to the hospital for early-morning surgery involved
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      599 11 COMMENTARY BLOOMBERG ONE OF the least-discussed challenges of the incoming Trump administration may also be among the most economically consequential: What to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-controlled entities that own or guarantee about half of all
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      Lock icon UK home-price growth to slow, transactions to decline in 2017
      207 11 BLOOMBERG London UK house-price inflation will slow in 2017 as affordability stretches potential buyers, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said. Values will rise just 3 per cent and the number of transactions will see a moderate decline, RICS
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      Lock icon US tycoon plans to use shipping containers to house the homeless
      1013 12 Developer John Sobrato wants to build 200 micro-apartments for homeless and low-income renters in Santa Clara BLOOMBERG New York TINY houses have emerged in the past decade as a promising way to house more homeless people for less money.
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      Lock icon Debt backing UBS’s trading floor complex in Stamford up for sale
      388 12 BLOOMBERG New York THE distressed US$149.4 million loan that backed UBS Group AG’s giant trading floor complex in Stamford, Connecticut, is up for sale, according to a person with knowledge of the offering. CWCapital Asset Management, the servicer that
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      1549 12 Property transactions for selected districts with contract dates between Nov 9 and Nov 15,2016 PROJECT NAME/ STREET NAME PROP TYPE CONTRACT DATE TENURE BUILT-IN/LAND AREA*(SQ FT) PRICE (S$’000) PSF (S$) District 1 NON-LANDED Marina Bay Residences Apt 11/11/2016 99 1227 3000 2445 District 2 NON-LANDED Icon Apt 10/11/2016 99
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      Lock icon Deutsche Bank ramps up equity-derivatives unit
      640 13 It wants to capitalise on expected rise in Asia-Pac demand for quantitative strategies BLOOMBERG Hong Kong DEUTSCHE Bank AG is beefing up its Asia-Pacific equity-derivatives unit, as it looks to capitalise on an expected rise in demand for quantitative strategies from local investors. David
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      931 13 NYTIMES Shanghai CHINESE officials cheered on the country’s stock market when it reached heady new highs, offering hope that it could become a new source of money to fix China’s economic problems. Then, last year, the market crashed. Now, another fast-growing
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon Foreign firms locked out of Fukushima clean-up
      1148 14 independent investigators criticise the opaque bidding process for contracts BLOOMBERG Tokyo CLEANING up the Fukushima nuclear plant a task predicted to cost 86 times the amount earmarked for decommissioning Japan’s first commercial reactor is the mother of all salvage jobs. Still, foreign firms
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      Lock icon Old Mutual-JPM Natural Resources Fund reaps rewards of metals rebound
      891 14 The fund run by JPMorgan Asset Management delivers 79% return after holding on to mining firms BLOOMBERG New York WHEN shares of mining companies including Freeport-McMoRan Inc to Glencore plc were collapsing last year, a small fund run by JPMorgan
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      Lock icon Asian thermal coal prices hit by China’s steps to curb pollution
      437 14 REUTERS Singapore ASIAN thermal coal prices are set to come under pressure as a mild December in the Northern Hemisphere caps heating demand and China shuts power stations, factories, and even ports in a desperate fight against rampant smog.
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Twitter’s chief technology officer joins exodus of top executives
      621 15 His high-profile exit again raises questions about the stability of the company’s executive bench NYTIMES San Francisco TWITTER’S streak of executive turnover is continuing. Adam Messinger, Twitter’s chief technology officer, said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that he was leaving
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      Lock icon Not so easy for Verizon to walk away from its US$4.8b Yahoo deal
      1274 15  -  By Steven Davidoff Solomon NYTIMES New York IT’S time that we stopped beating up on Yahoo. With the recent disclosure of another hacking of Yahoo, one potentially affecting more than one billion accounts, Verizon Communications has reiterated
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      Lock icon Russian ring steals US$5m daily selling ads on fake sites
      860 15 Cyberforgery ring has created more than 500,000 fake Internet users and 250,000 fake websites NYTIMES San Francisco IN a twist on the peddling of fake news to real people, researchers said that a Russian cyberforgery ring has created more than
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      588 15 THE BUSINESS TTMES NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF SHANNON ENGINE SUPPORT SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Reg No. *****1819R ("the Company") NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held on 16
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
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      Lock icon EU to boost border checks on cash, gold to tackle ‘terrorism financing’
      808 17 German police also launches manhunt for Tunisian suspect responsible for Christmas market attack REUTERS AFP Brussels THE European Commission proposed tightening controls on cash and precious metals transfers from outside the European Union on Wednesday, in a bid
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      Lock icon Indonesian police kill three terror suspects, foil suicide bomb plot
      486 17 REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIAN anti-terrorism police killed three suspects in a gunfight on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and foiled a suicide bomb plot, a police spokesman said. The raid was the latest in a series over recent
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      Lock icon India overtakes Britain as world’s 6th largest economy
      367 17 WP London INDIA’S economy has reportedly overtaken the United Kingdom’s for the first time in over 100 years, and now stands as the world’s sixth largest economy by gross domestic product (GDP) after the United States, China, Japan, Germany and France. The
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      Lock icon Existing home sales in unexpected rise to near 10-year high
      370 17 LATEST US DATA REUTERS BLOOMBERG Washington US home resales unexpectedly rose in November, reaching their highest level in nearly 10 years, as buyers rushed into the market to lock in low interest rates in anticipation of further increases in borrowing
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      Lock icon Australia set for strong M&A year
      630 18 But government-imposed limits on foreign investment could bring down valuations REUTERS Sydney AUSTRALIA’S privatisation drive is set to draw billions of dollars of acquisition funds in 2017 adding to what corporate advisers expect to be a strong year for dealmaking, albeit one tempered by
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      652 18 Downing Street wants smooth exit that works for all sectors of UK economy AFP London PRIME Minister Theresa May on Tuesday said she was planning to negotiate both Brexit and Britain’s future relationship with the European Union by 2019,
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      Lock icon Sao Tome and Principe ends ties with Taiwan
      471 18 REUTERS Taipei TAIWAN on Wednesday accused China of using Sao Tome and Principe’s financial woes to push its “one China” policy after the West African state ended ties with the self-ruled island, with Taiwan saying that China’s action would not help relations
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      Lock icon Olympics: Tokyo 2020 slashes budget to US$17 billion
      394 18 AFP Tokyo TOKYO Olympics organisers unveiled a smaller budget of up to US$17 billion on Wednesday after coming under pressure to cut ballooning costs. The figure, down from last month’s pledge to cap spending at US$17.78 billion, follows warnings that the bill
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      Lock icon Thailand holds rate as Fed hike pressures Asian currencies
      430 18 BLOOMBERG Bangkok THAILAND held its key interest rate near a record low for a 13th straight meeting, opting for stability as the prospect of higher US borrowing costs weighs on Asian currencies and clouds the outlook for growth. The Bank of
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      Lock icon South Korea seeks arrest of daughter of president’s friend
      565 18 REUTERS Seoul SOUTH Korea on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for a daughter of the woman at the centre of President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal and investigators raided the National Pension Service (NPS) over possible links to the scandal. A special
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      Lock icon Swiss watchdog fines seven banks US$100m for rate-rigging
      645 19 Offenders operated cartels to influence Libor and Euribor benchmarks BLOOMBERG Geneva SWITZERLAND handed out about US$100 million in antitrust fines against seven United States and European banks for participating in cartels to manipulate widely used financial benchmarks. JPMorgan Chase Co was fined
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      Lock icon Reliance on tax breaks hits Puerto Rico economy
      1349 19 But the entrepreneurial spirit in the US territory lives on despite its descent into the largest municipal debt crisis in American history REUTERS Arecibo, Puerto Rico PRUDO Jimenez was born on a sugar farm here in 1941, when agriculture ruled Puerto Rico’s
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      Lock icon China takes island-building skills to Duterte’s backyard
      915 19 Chinese investors to spend US$200m to raise three islands to create new port BLOOMBERG Manila AMONG the first to gain from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s China pivot could be the people who live on rickety wooden stilt-houses in a waterlogged area of his
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  • TRANSPORT
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      Lock icon Emissions scam: Volkswagen to pay another US$1b
      858 20 in a settlement with US govt, the carmaker agrees to buy back or fix 80,000 diesel cars and also pay compensation NYTIMES New York VOLKSWAGEN agreed on Tuesday to buy back or fix the remaining diesel cars caught up in its emissions cheating
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      Lock icon NY metro in largest expansion in 50 years
      663 20 AFP New York NEW YORKERS who ride one of the world’s busiest subways have been waiting for this moment for close to a century: three new stations will open in eastern Manhattan on Jan 1. The Second Avenue subway is the largest
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      Lock icon American Airlines wins antitrust case against Sabre
      366 20 REUTERS New York AMERICAN Airlines Group on Tuesday won about US$15.3 million in an antitrust lawsuit that accused airline booking service Sabre Corp of harming competition and charging grossly inflated booking fees. The Manhattan federal jury awarded nearly US$5.1 million, a fraction of
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      Lock icon Michigan challenges Silicon Valley’s lead in self-driving tech
      821 20 NYTIMES New York IN THE race to develop self-driving cars, Michigan is suddenly aiming to give Silicon Valley a run for its money. The Motor City has been the centre of the United States auto industry for more than a century. But
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon SGX’s watch list tweak replaces one inadequate rule with another
      576 22 EDITORIAL THE quality of a company is rarely, if ever, measured on a single metric. It is therefore unfortunate that the Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) minimum trading price amendment has merely replaced one single-facet test with another. SGX puts mainboard-listed companies
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      1535 22  -  A businessman, he would probably have to do what he does best negotiate and make a deal By Leon Hadar Washington SO I HAVE these two Best Friends (BFs) in Washington whom I really trust when it comes to politics and policy. Like me,
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      Lock icon Time to push ahead with Asean Economic Community
      839 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Joseph Incalcaterra T The writer is an economist at HSBC. THE year started with a bang for Asean. After eight years of preparation, leaders of the 10-nation regional association launched the ambitious Asean Economic Community (AEC), a treaty
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      Lock icon Blockchain: Opportunities and challenges
      773 23  -  COMMENTARY By Lionel Lim T The writer is vice-president and managing director, Asia Pacific and Japan, Pivotal. LAST month’s inaugural Singapore FinTech Festival the first to be held in Asia and the world’s largest brought together some 11,000 participants from more than 50 countries. The financial-technology
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      Lock icon Cyber security in S-E Asia needs collective response from stakeholders
      704 23  -  By Kane Lightowler T The writer is managing director, the Asia-Pacific Japan, at Carbon Black. AT the inaugural Singapore International Cyber Week in October, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlined plans to strengthen cyber security in Singapore, as well as
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      Lock icon Berlin attack threatens Merkel’s liberal stance
      448 23  -  By Michael Stürmer T The writer is chief correspondent of Die Welt, a former adviser to chancellor Helmut Kohl and a member of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum Advisory Board. OMFIF Berlin GERMANS, since time immemorial, have loved their trees. They love
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      Lock icon Russia cosies up to Japan in a pivot to Asia
      1358 23  -  It is trying to profit from the delicate balance of power among the United States, Japan and China. BY TAEHWA HONG BY TAEHWA HONG T The writer is a student and Huffington Post blog writer from Seoul, South Korea. His
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      Lock icon Indonesia aiming to be weightlifting giant
      828 24 Nation wants to increase medal haul at Asian and Olympic Games by modernising the old-fashioned sport AFP Pringsewu, Indonesia INSIDE a spartan weightlifting gym in Indonesia, teenagers chalk their hands, grit their teeth and thrust faded metal barbells above their heads, hopeful of Olympic
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      Lock icon With champagne, big can be beautiful, too
      1272 24 NYTIMES New York OVER the past 15 years, the rising appeal of grower champagne, wine produced by small farmers who grow their own grapes, has transformed our notion of what the region’s wines can be. These farmers demonstrated that champagne could be as
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      355 24 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Gloomy American’s angry about graduate physician (6) 4 Solicitor’s unexpected approach? (4,4) 10 European country backed by money from Yorkshire eatery (9) 11 Female pinched by many in the air (5) 12 Leader of Tories with excuse for disloyalty (7) 13 Synthetic hair worn by mother
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