The Business Times, 10 October 1977

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  • 10 1 BUSINESS TIMES M.C.(P) 300/1/77 MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1977 50 CENTS
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  • NEWS IN BRIEF
    • 86 1 UPI NEW YORK, Sun. More than US$l million (552.5 million) In federal savings deposits were placed in the National Bank of Georgia while its former president, Mr. Bert Lance, was Budget Director, the Long Island newspaper, Newsday, reported today. Citing records of the US Comptroller of the Currency,
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    • 69 1 AP TOKYO, Sun. About 30 helmeted student radicals stormed into the new Tokyo International Airport outside Tokyo early today and burned down a two-room guard quarter with fire bombs, police said. Police said more than 8,000 demonstrators gathered in a park outside the airport, at Narlta, 80
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    • 81 1 AP TAIPEH. Sun. Taiwan registered a US$452 million (Ssl,llo million) surplus during the first nine months of this year, compared with a surplus of $376.5 million for the same period last year, the government said today. Preliminary statistics from the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics showed
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    • 53 1 AFP LONDON, Sun. A confidential Commonwealth report has recommended United Nations oil sanctions against South Africa if Pretoria continues* to supply oil to Rhodesia,lnformed sources said. The report drawn up by the 11-nation Commonwealth Working Group on Sanctions was completed last week and will be submitted to Commonwealth
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    • 73 1 BENTONG, Sun. Army troops have killed four communist guerillas, Including two young women, during an attack on a communist camp in the Pahang Jungles. The Fourtn Malaysian Infantry Brigade commander, Brigadier-General Wan Ismail Salleh, said that his troops tracking a communist combat group, called the Sixth Unit
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    • 71 1 AP LONDON, Sun. Tesco, one of Britain's largest supermarket chains, has cancelled £2 million (SsB.s million) worth of orders from two leading coffee processing houses. The chain said It will boycott their coffee until they lower the price. The two brands Involved are Nescafe, produced by the Swiss
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    • 65 1 AP LONDON, Sun. A British Airways Concorde flew in from Bahrain yesterday with six passengers, a big improvement on Friday's empty outward flight. Six persons paid £489 (about 552,100) for the 5,600-km trip from Bahrain. The round trip cost BA £22,000 In fuel and landing charges,
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    • 71 1 UPI LONDON, Sun. Labour Party parliamentarian Reg Prentice, who stunned former socialist colleagues by Joining the Conservatives, said today that the Labour government must be "soundlv defeated" at the next election to stop a further swing to the Left. Mr. Prentice, 54, a one-time Minister for Overseas
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  • 116 1 THE following list of stocks gives the 10 most traded in on the Stock Exchange of Singapore last week. It gives the turnover in thousands of units, closing prices on Friday and the high and low for 1977. Company Turnover Price# High Low '000 Oct 7 1977
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  • LOCAL STOCK INDICES
    • 71 1 Oct 3 Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct 8 Oct 7 tt BT Index: 413.71 412.80 414.84 417.98 421.20 Industrials: 260.31 250.98 280.42 200.83 200.87 9 Finance: 430.51 429.50 430.70 431.08 430.01 #r Hotels: 170.10 170.10 109.95 170.31 170.50 Properties: 102.91 101.59 101.71 182.91 103.01 t Tins: 130.22 130.22 130.33
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    • 83 1 Oct J Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct Oct 7 ft BTlates: ImduatriAis: 458.15 450.00 450.27 407.35 470.03 'i 285.72 285.27 285.30 285.82 280.10 Flnaacc: 373.53 371.97 372.91 373.8S 375.51 .r Hotel*: 175.01 174.71 174.71 174.79 174.71 Propartiat: 148.71 148.50 148.40 150.02 150.08 t Tlma: 137.58 137.04 137.30 137.73 138.39
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  • 1287 1  -  PREPARE NOW SAYS DR GOH By RONNIE LIM SINGAPORE will have a respite of perhaps three or four years during which time it should lay the basis of a new economic strategy which will see it through the more difficult times which are bound to
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  • 905 1 THERE ARE already warning signs in the world economy that things are not going to be as easy as before. Protectionism, slowing down of foreign Investments due to inwardlooking policies of businessmen plus other more direct Influences on Singapore are the impending prospects ahead.
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  • 190 1 AFP TOKYO, Sun. Central banks from some Asian and West Asian countries have turned to the Tokyo money market for exchange gains and are playing an increasing role In the current monetary unrest, banking sources said here. With no end to the dollar s decline
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  • 96 1 Reuter LONDON, Sun. British financier Jim Slater told a radio audience today that he had been very frightened during the Singapore Government's recent bid to extradite him. In an Interview about his autobiography "Return To Go," being published next Thursday, he said that onlv an "extremely low level
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  • 294 1 PEOPLE who argue against the gradual or absolute removal of tariff barriers in the Asean region bare CITCd. The Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs), Encik Rahim Ishak, said that the idea that the more advanced economies would flood those less advanced with
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  • 507 1 THE NATIONAL Bank of Brunei will re-open Its doors for business today, after a temporary suspension last week following a massive run by depositors. This comes after reassurances by the government and the bank over the weekend that rumours leading to the run
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  • 130 1 MORGAN Grenfell (Asia) Ltd has arranged financing under two-loan agreements for a new 125-tonne per day coconut oil milling complex to be built for the l»-tonne Sulu Agro Industrial Development Corporation on Jolo Island In the southern Philippines. The first is a US$3.2 million (Ss7.B million) export
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  • REVIEWS
    • 551 2 IT is doubtful If last week's powerful surge In the value of the Yen did a great deal of harm to anyone. A realignment through the market had looked on the cards for some weeks and few, if any, traders will have been caught out by the sharp
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    • 1454 2  -  By HAROLD SCHONBERG NYT NEW YORK: Strange how we always return to Mozart. Fashions change, but the little man from Salzburg remains a constant. Even during the last six years, when Pierre Boulez carefully avoided the overworked Beethoven symphonies and concertos, the New York Philharmonic
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    • 636 2  -  By CKT NO doubt about It that Beethoven is big at the box office and the record shops, with the bulk of listeners musically hidebound as they are But Hans Werner Henze is slowly getting where Beethoven is. Henze, I figure, knows how the power
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    • 855 2  -  By ANTHONY PARISI NYT NEW YORK: The market for high-fidelity audio cassettes is In technological turmoil. In the last two years, the original high-performance tapes that helped make cassette recorders serious equipment among audlophlles have lost a lot of ground to a newer
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    • 1104 3  -  By JANET MASLIN NYT NEW YORK: It was late afternoon, and the shoppers were beginning to straggle in. In twos and threes they strolled through the lobby of the small, elegant mid town hotel, walking into the bar and sitting down to order. Then
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    • 864 3  -  By PETER DAVIS NYT NEW YORK: On Sept 12, four days before Maria Callas died In Paris at the age of 53, Scrlbners published a book by John Ardoln entitled "The Callas Legacv," a painstakingly complete analysis of the soprano's recordings. Quite unexpectedly, the book is
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    • 483 3  -  By RITA RELF NYT NEW YORK: It will surprise no one with an eye for fashion that Pierre Cardin's furniture collection is shimmering and sartorial and the last word In chic. Furthermore, the French designers first Americanmade, mass-produced furnishings are safe and solid but never
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    • 1080 3  -  By i ALINE MOSBY UPI PARIS: The latest French cuisine expert to write a cookbook Is pretty, darkhaired, 2? and already famous as the daughter of the President of France. Valerle-Anne Giscard d'Estalng and Sylvia PlerreBrossolette, daughter of Giscard's former chief aide (he has since turned
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    • 437 3  -  By ANGELA TAYLOR NYT NEW YORK: Ira Nelmark. Bergdorf Goodman's president, was having a busy evening. At 5:30 he gave a party for the store? employees to celebrate the biggest September In the store's history, one that included the two best days and the best week of sales
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 51 2 THE WEATHER WEATHER report for 24 hours prior to 7.30 p.m. on Oct. 9 at Singapore airport. Maximum Temperature 30.2° C Associated Humidity 68 Minimum Temperature 23.9° C Associated Humidity 96 Hours of Sunshine 6.00 Rainfall in Millimeters trace Rainfall for the Month 21.8 Total Rainy Days for the Month
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    • 284 2 RADIO TV SINGAPORE 5 3.00 PM Opening announcements followed by Kudumba Malar (Tamil-Repeat)" 3.30 Diary Of Events (Tamil) 3.35 Afternoon Matinee What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Pt.l) Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono 4.25 Intermission 6.00 Opening announcements followed by Inquiry Speaking Of Essay Writing 6.30 News in
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    • 456 3 TWO-IN-ONE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC PUZZLE ACROSS DOWN I A figure in woven velvet! 7 Trophy that keeps coming round, we hear (5, 3) 8 Scottish Instrument? (4) 10 Its use Is plane sailing (6) II Don't accept such rubbish (6) 14 Cry down? (3) 16 Entrances often barred (5) 17 Need
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  • 2468 4  -  Today is the 10th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, perhaps the modern world's most famed revolutionary. UPI correspondent GUY GUGLIOTTA travelled to Bolivia and talked to many people who knew him or knew of him.'This is how Che is remembered.
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  • 951 4  -  By GRAHAM HEATHCOTE AP LONDON: Britain Is suffering a fame drain. Some of this country's top actors, entertainers, athletes and writers have left, saying they cannot afford the income tax. The latest to go Is film actor Michael Calne who says he Is looking for
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  • 951 4  -  By R.W. APPLE JR. NYT ABERDEEN (Scotland): Not too many years ago, Lord Laurence Olivier, commuting between .London and his home at Brighton on the Channel coast, was appalled to find that the dining car could not produce a kippered herring for his breakfast.
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  • INTERNATIONAL COMPANY NEWS
    • 162 5 Reuter ZURICH, Sun. Citicorp earnings growth will be below average this year as the bank is still caught up in the aftermath of recession, executive committee chairman Edward Palmer said here. He told analysts at a firesentation to mark the isting from last Friday,
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    • 74 5 NEW YORK. Sun. Some business and government offices will be closed for the Columbus Day holiday tomorrow, but all US stock markets will maintain normal trading hours. Among US commodities exchanges, only the New York Cocoa Exchange and the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange will be closed.
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    • 410 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. The Bank of England announced a new £600 million 1981 3 per cent Exchequer stock, priced at £92 per £100 nominal and payable in full on application. List will open and close on Oct 13. Gross yield to final redemption is 5.32
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    • 239 5 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. The American Stock Exchange said it is forming the Amex Commodities Exchange Inc. a separate corporate entity which will handle options and spot trading in gotd and silver bullion. The Amex said the commodities exchange is scheduled to start next spring,
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    • 63 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. The Republic of Panama plans to issue US$2O million of Eurobonds with an expected coupon of 9 per cent, lead manager First Chicago (Panama) said. The bonds are redeemable at par in 1982, but holders have the option to defer naturity for a further
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    • 118 5 Reuter SYDNEY, Sun. Steamships Trading Co said it received a statutory notice of substantial shareholding by nominees of John Swire and Sons Pty., who have acquired two million shares, equal to 13.5 per cent of Steamships' 14.82 million nominal 50 toea par Issued capital.
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    • 278 5 Reuter NEW YORK, Sun. The New York Stock Exchange said its board of directors has approved changes in exchange margin rules to conform with recent amendments to the Federal Reserve Board's RegulatlonThe exchange said Its rules changes would create uniformity In initial margin requirements
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    • 225 5 Reuter PITTSBURGH, Sun. US Steel Corp expects lower third quarter and 1977 year earnings, a spokesman for the corporation said. The spokesman, who was speaking in response to an enquiry, declined however, to estimate the decline. In the 1976 third quarter. US Steel earned US$l.3B
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    • 119 5 Reuter SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. BankAmerlca Corp earnings for the nine months will exceed the 12 per cent increase reported for the six months period, president A. W. Clausen told a meeting of Investment analysts here. Mr. Clausen said he expects a 15 per cent
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    • 355 5 SUMITOMO Electric Industries chairman Isamu Sakamoto said the company is still expecting increases of 15 per cent and 37 per cent respectively in non-consolidated sales and net income for the current year ending March 31, 1978 despite a slower than anticipated recovery
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    • 115 5 Reuter LONDON. Sun. British Petroleum said the Attorney General of Zambia is seeking 5.5 billion kwacha damages from BP and 16 other defendants, including four other major international oil companies. The claims, set out in a writ issued by the High Court for Zambia Include
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    • 68 5 Reuter MANILA, Sun. Security Exchanges Commission chairman Angel Limjoco said he hopes that Manila's three stocks exchanges will be linked into a single system within two years. In an Interview with the Times-Journal newspaper, he said the Intention was not to merge the markets which operate in
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    • 205 5 Reuter NEW YORK. Sun. The Municipal Assistance Corp for New York City said it is studying possible methods of re-financing some of its and the city's outstanding debt. On re-financing of its own bonds, MAC said it is currently considering alternatives to refunding up to
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    • 157 5 Reuter LONDON, Sun. Bank of Tokyo president Yasuke Kashlwagi said here his bank has reached agreement with its three partners in Western American Bank (Europe) Ltd to take a controlling 51 per cent stake in the bank, with Bank of Tokyo's San Francisco subsidiary, California First
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  • OVERSEAS
    • 378 5 Upi WASHINGTON, Sun. Some big oil companies get so many tax breaks that the government in effect provides them "hupe welfare payments," Senator Edward Kennedy charged over the weekend. Sen. Kennedy released a report by the Library of Congress which examined the tax benefits
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    • 197 5 AFP TOKYO, Sun. Japan is ready to limit its steel exports to the American market in exchange for a curtailment of the Japan—US arrangement restricting colour TV shipments from three years to one year, it was reported here yesterday. The report, carried by the
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    • 186 5 AFP TOKYO, Sun. Prolonged negotiations between Japanese sugar refiners and Australian sugar growers over the refiners' request for a price cut are now In the final phase, according to the Australian chief negotiator. Mr. John Laurie, sugar manager of CSR Limited, sales agent for
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    • 177 5 AP LIMA. Sun. Peru's leftist military rulers yesterday unveiled the final version of an ambitious plan to stimulate the country's lagging economy and decentralise the government before power is given back to a civilian government in 1980. The plan, known as Tupac Amaru after a
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    • 100 5 AFP NEW YORK. Sun. Sixtythree ships were blocked yesterday In Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico ports as a result of a week-old strike by 50,000 dock workers. The US Federal Maritime Administration (FMA) said the hardest hit port was New Orleans, the largest after
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    • 476 5 NYT PARIS, Sun. European monetary officials were taken by surprise on Friday when the president of the Common Market Commission publicly launched a new drive to give the nine member countries a single currency that could rival the dollar as a pillar
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    • 267 5 AFP VILLER LE TEMPLE (Belgium), Sun. The entry of Greece, Portugal and Spain into the European Economic Community (EEC) would cost the existing nine members between US$l,3OO and $2,200 million (553.172 and $5,368 million) a year, Informed sources said here yesterday. Experts reportedly gave these figures
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  • INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS
    • 448 7 TOKYO: The market fell sharply on heavy liquidations on Saturday, with Investors discouraged by the ven's strong overnight rise, dealers said The Dow Jones average fell 50.55 to close at 5,181.06 with volume 210 million shares The New Index closed at 382.23. down 2.78. Export-orientated shares led the fall,
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    • 318 7 AMSTERDAM: Shares closed generally firmer on Friday, with Hoogovens and Unilever each 1.40 guilder higher and Royal Dutch 0.50 guilders up in Dutch internationals while Akzo and Philip* were unchanged, bourse sources said. Elsewhere, HAL was very firm, closing almost five guilders higher Ballast-Nedam was 4.70 guilders higher, to
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    • 162 7 BRUSSELS: Belgian shares were mostly higher In quiet trading on Friday, following Wall Street, bourse sources said. Cobepa, Asturienne, Hobo ken, Wagons-Lits and UCB all rose, but Clabecq, St Roch and CBR fell. UK shares were tended lower, most German and Dutch rose, Canadian and French were mixed. and
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    • 166 7 MILAN: The market closed mixed in selective, moderate trading on Friday, dealers said The Bourse Commission confirmation of carryover reporting requirement by bourse operators as from Dec 15 strengthened cautious sentiment, they added. Pirelli Spa, Snia Viscosa were leading industrials to show gains while Fiat, both Olivetti, Pirelli EC
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    • 326 7 ZURICH: The market closed very steady in selectively active turnover on Friday, dealers said. The Credit Suisse index rose 1.4 points to close at 245;4. Major banks were mixed with a firmer undertone after Thursday's strong gains. Kreditanstalt and beaerr lost an initial gain and edged lower on balance,
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    • 302 7 FRANKFURT: The market closed slightly higher on Friday, although profit-taking trimmed earlv gains, and operators are fairly confident the firm tone will continue next week, dealers said. Siemens was again stronger, gaining 2.40 marks while engineerings rose up to two marks. Karstadt led stores up to 3.80 marks firmer.
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    • 394 7 JOHANNESBURG: Gold shares were mixed on Friday, dealers said. Local support moved selective shares higher while other issues were lower on lack of interest. Financial minings were generally unchanged. Elsewhere, De Beers declined to 497 cents (503). Platinums were mixed, asbestos easier, while coppers were at previou levels. In
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    • 323 7 TORONTO: Prices ended firmer in fairly busy trading on Friday, despite the negative influence of US prime rate increases and softer Wall Street prices. The composite index was up almost two points and advances outnumbered declines 187 to 154. The metals index was up more than six points following
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    • 1254 7 On Oct 7 TRADING in options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange came to 09,386 contracts on Friday, compared with 72,450 contracts on Thursday. OPTION OCT JAN APL 8TOCK Alcoa 40 NOL 5 UNTRD 44 3/4 Alcoa 4S 1/2 21/8 3 44 3/4 Alcoa 50UNTRD 9/16 11/8
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    • 1077 7 NEW YORK: A round of prime rate increases on Friday, although expected, cut short a morning rally and sent the market to a lower finish in very light trading. The market began the day on an upbeat, encouraged by the news that US unemployment unexpectedly dropped to 6
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    • 392 7 PARIS: The market tended firmer In moderate activity on Friday, encouraged by the National Statistics Institute forecast of a fall of 7 per cent year-on-year Inflation later this year or early next and by the unchanged call money rate, dealers said. Banks, property, electrlcals, investments and foods, notably Carrefour
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    • 63 7 FINANCIAL TIMES INDUSTRIALS Friday 517.2 Thursday 518.7 Week Ago 520.7 DOW JONES AVERAGE INDUSTRIALS Friday 840.35 Thursday 842 08 Week Ago 847.11 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM Friday 91% to 92% Thursday 92 to 92 Vi H.K. HANG SENG Friday 423.48 Thursday 425.42 Week Ago 417.00 SYDNEY INDUSTRIALS Friday 362.58 Thursday
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    • 366 7 NYT STOCK prices on the New York Stock Exchange formed a sawtooth pattern last week and finished on a weakening trend, while prices In the bond market the ultimate refuge for a growing army of Investors also moved lower. The Dow Jones Industrial average finished at 840.35,
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    • 271 7 Reuter THE Sydney share market ended the week on a mixed note with the All Ordinaries Index showing an improvement. The metals and mining slipped back to near the year's Tow set early last week. Federal election speculation cannot be held to blame for the falls,
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    • 337 7 AFP TOKYO stock prices, dampened by the yen's steep appreciation threatening to cut deep into export earnings of Japanese business, fell sharply In fairly active trading last week. The Dow-Jones average of 225 selected issues plunged 200.16 yen to 5,181.06 yen, almost wiping out its heavy 117.56 gain
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  • COMMODITY REPORTS AND PRICES
    • 210 8 LONDON, Sun. Market talk of an Impending US strategic stockpile announcement sent terminal rubber sharply higher at mid-afternoon on trade and shortcoverlng, dealers said on Friday. Prices closed at or near the day's highs at 0.20 pence up from Thursday to 0.15 pence lower. The official tone
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    • 159 8 THE Straits tin price in Penang on Saturday was down $85 dollars to $1,760 on an official offering down 23 tonnes to 177 tonnes. In LONDON on Friday, tin finished the day with losses of £60 for Cash and £42 for Three Months while high grade fell by
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    • 372 8 CHINESE PRODUCE EXCHANGE, SINGAPORE NOON CLOSING PRICES PER PICt'L ON SATURDAY. Coconut Oil Bulk WO sellers, old drum $85 sellers, new drum $90 sellers. Copra Mixed (loose) UK/Cont $51 buyers Pepper Muntok ASTA white f o b. 100% NLW $425 sellers. Sarawak white f ob 96% NLW $405
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    • 49 8 Oct 3 Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Tin $1781 $1,796 $1,818 $1,830 $1,845 $1,760 Tonne 195 211 211 200 200 177 Rubber(S) 212.00 214.00 214 25 215.75 214.75 I f Rubber(M) 213.50 216.00 216.00 219.25 217.50 f cents per kilo perpicul
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    • 254 8 LONDON, Sun. Copper wlrebars on the day gained £6.50 for Cash and £5.50 for Three Months on Friday. The market erased earlier losses on pre-weekend shortcoverlng prompted by the sharp advance at New York, dealers said, with three months trading up to £709 per tonne in late ring dealings.
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    • 36 8 LONDON, Sun. Lead rose by mostly £2.75 per tonne on Friday. Moderate shortcoverlng was prompted by the firmer tone in copper with three months trading up to £349.50 per tonne on sales of 1475 tonnes.
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    • 37 8 LONDON, Sun. Zinc rose by £4.75 for Cash and £4 for three months on Friday. Values were marked up in line with copper and lead although trading was slow. Sales of 2525 tonnes were mainly carries.
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    • 372 8 BANGKOK, Sun. The rice market was again inactive during the week, trade sources said. The Commerce Ministry has agreed to sell to South Yemen on a government-to-government basis 6,000 tonnes of parboiled rice 10 per cent for Oct/Nov delivery. The deal is worth US$l.7 million and the agreement would
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    • 124 8 LONDON, Sun. Coffee prices on Friday morning opened the morning £4 higher to £4 lower In light trading with a turnover of 196 lots. Volume totalled 1232 lots. Traders said the market was nervous following two days of very wide price swings. In NEW YORK on Friday, coffee futures
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    • 581 8 Source: Singmes Source: Swiss Bank Corporation, Zurich FOLLOWING the higher closing in New York, the kllobar in Singapore opened higher at 5512,212. Prices proceeded to move higher and closed at 5512,245. In the London market, the metal opened at U*****.10/ 30, with good support In Hongkong. The metal drifted
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    • 132 8 LONDON*, Sun. Silver on the day lost 0.7 to 0.6 pence per troy ounce on Friday. The steadier trend In gold helped support the market around end-morning levels although trading was thin at only 31 lots. Spot silver closed at 263.00/264.00 pence per ounce, slightly lower than Thursday's 263.50/264.50
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    • 136 8 LONDON, Sun. Terminal opened L' 2.25 to £0.90 per tonne down on Friday. Sales totalled 688 lots. Futures closed £2.75 down to unchanged in sales of 2,875 lots. Dealers said the market generally remained depressed In the nearer positions due to the ample nearby supply situation. In NEW YORK
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    • 149 8 LONDON, Sun. Weekend shortcoverlng lifted cocoa futures late on Friday morning and values finished at or near the session's highs with gains of £37 (near Dec at £2,507 bid) to £7.50. Near Dec traded to £40 limit up levels at £2,510 without actually sustaining the limit movement. The turnover
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    • 71 8 CHICAGO, Sun. Soybean futures recovered from a mldsesslon slump on Friday to close with gains from Thursday of 3V4 to V 4 cents a bushel. Trade sources said rain through the midwest was the major supporting factor on the opening and at day's end. In between, volume thinned and
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    • 755 8 THE world coffee market crashed last week under selling pressure prompted by a series of bearish developments which could well have a far reaching effect on the Internationally accepted beverage at the breakfast table, to say nothing of lunch, dinner and supper.
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    • 171 8 CHICAGO, Sun. Wheat futures closed lower on Friday. failing to respond to late rallies in the corn and soybean pits. At the close, prices were mostly 3-3/4 to three cents a bushel down. Trade sources reported good amounts of spreading between the corn and wheat pits during the session,
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  • MONEY AND EXCHANGES
    • 180 8 US Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal's prediction of a massive deficit on current and trade accounts weakened the dollar especially against the mark and yen in the Singapore forex market last week. The dollar touched a new low of 258.05 against the yen and a low of 2.2870/80 against the
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    • 316 8 Asian rates THE market was generally nervous throughout week. Earlier, a rise of 3/16 1/4 per cent in periods was seen after a prime rate increase of 1/4 per cent to 7 1/2 by a west coast bank which started off possible. Increases by other large US banks. Rates however
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    • 335 8 Source: International Discount Co Ltd. THE money market remained generally steady throughout the week. Overnight was mainly traded around the 5 to 6 per cent level while the three and six months deposits were steady at 5-11/16 9/18 per cent and 5-13/16 5-11/16 per cent respectively. Discount houses
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    • 40 8 FOR the week ended Friday Oct 7 the range of call rates received from Short Deposits (M) Berhad was as follows: BANK FUND 3% to 4* GENERAL FUNDS 3*H to 4fc%. Movements of funds totalled $604 million.
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    • 615 8 Source: Swiss Bank Corp. Zurich. ZURICH, Sun. The Japanese yen showed a sharp upward movement during the last week and In "its wake European currencies strengthened too. The yen increased from 264.50 to 258.25 against the dollar, and the dollar/ Sfr. rate fell from 2.3390 to an all time
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    • 210 8 NEW YORK, Sun. The dollar closed generally lower than opening levels In quiet trading, after it was unable to sustain a brief mid-day recovery, dealers said on Friday. It opened sharply down on concern about US trade and payments deficits and extended its losses before a round of
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    • 84 8 Source: Astley Pearce RATES opened firm last week In a rather cautious market. Day to day funds were Initially traded at the 7 6 per cent level but after mid week saw overnight rates slacking off. In the periods, one month was quite active with a keen lender
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    • 252 8 LONDON. Sun. The dollar recovered slightly In late trading responding to the generalised V* point rise In leading US prime rates while sterling weakened and the yen came off Its highs, dealers said on Friday. Sterling closed lower at $1.7587/ 89 compared with Its mld-sesslon $1.7598/ 1.7600 after the
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    • 169 8 Euro rates LONDON, Sun. Eurodollar deposit rates closed little changed from opening levels after a quietly steady session ahead of the long US holiday weekend, dealers said on Friday. An additional factor dampening trade was that settlement today is effective for the same day as Thursday because of the holiday
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    • 43 8 FRANKFURT exchanges closing quotes on Oct 7 US 2 2897/ 2907 Can 2.1068/ 88 UK 4.028/ 035 Neth 93.80/ 90 Swltz 99 10/ 20 Italy 2.595/ 605 France 47.00/ 10 Japan 0J8905/ 25 Belg com 6.45/ 47 Belg fin 6.45/46 Norw 41.78/86
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    • 484 9 US ATHLETES NYT NEW YORK. Sun. One year after the United States Olympic Committee decided to pursue the intricacies of sports medicine, dramatic results have been uncovered to assist America's amateur athletes. In some cases, the dlcoveries are likely to reshape entire training procedures leading
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    • 116 9 DR. TAN ENG LIANG, Senior Minister of State for National Development and Chairman of the Singapore Sports Council will officiate at the opening ceremony of the first Pan Pacific C o ng ress in Sports Medicine at the Singapore Hilton on Tuesday, Oct 11, 1977 at 9
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    • 493 9  -  By E. FRIDA TALIB Haron, the most experienced amateur golfer In Singapore, effortlessly retained the Keppel Oolf Club title for the sixth year running at Buklt Course yesterday. Stocky Talib won the championship wlh eight strokes to spare with a three-round aggregate
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    • 497 9 UPI ENGLAND. Sun. Australian Graham Marsh crushed American Ray Floyd 5 and 3 yesterday in a relentless march to his first-ever world match play gold title and the U5552,500 first prize. It was a fitting end to four days of flawless golf
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    • 1137 9 LONDON, Sun. When lone yachtsman Prasanta Mukherjee was winched abroad a Royal Air Force helicopter recently from his sinking. 40-year-old sloop Chlnta. an English Coastguard officer was asked why he was ever allowed to sail for Calcutta. "We did try to dissuade
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    • 93 9 NEW JERSEY, Sun. China and the Cosmos, champions of the North American Soccer League, played to a 1-1 tie yesterday at the Giant's Stadium. After a scoreless first half, Giorgio Chlnaglla took a pass from Tony Field in the seventh minute of the second
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    • 350 9  -  By HUGH McILVANNEY The Observer CELEBRATION, not competition had to be the essence of the occasion when Peie, who ia for all, but a pedantic minority, the greatest footballer ever to hick a ball, aaid hia farewell to the game in New York laat week.
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    • 690 9 NYT NEW YORK. Sun. Speedo has an advisory board of 36 coaches and pays them up to US$2O,OOO a year. For that money, the coaches advise on swim suits, give an occasional clinic and make sure their swimmers wear speedo suits in
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  • 1011 10 GLOOMIER U.S. ECONOMIC FORECASTS NYT WASHINGTON, Sun. New, gloomier economic .forecasts are under review by the Carter Administration in an exercise that could lead to shifts In tax and budget policies. The new forecasts, discussed In a meeting of President Carter's top economic policy
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  • 106 10 UN SOON HUAT Pte Ltd (As ordered $1.3 million jiprth of welding equipment and electrodes from Lincoln Australia. •'lts managing director, Mr Peter Lim, said that this •rder is part of a large consignment that will cater for Se continuous demand by refineries, rig builders, •hipyards,
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  • 85 10 AP HONGKONG, Sun. A wholly-owned merchant banking subsidiary of the Mitsui Bank of Japan will be set up In Hongkong on Oct 17 to serve the roughly 360 Japanese companies and joint ventures operating here, the bank announced. The new bank, Mitsui Finance Asia, will
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  • 1050 10 BRITISH brokers James Capel have come out strongly with recommendations to buy shares of Jardlne Matheson and Co the largest of the Hongkong hongs. In an 18-month study which spans the huge conglomerate's trading and manufacturing activities in Asia, Australia, Europe and America, the
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  • 285 10 AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A wide range of Malaysian manufactured goods have now been added to the list of exports eligible for export credit financing facilities offered by Bank Negara. The wider coverage of goods was in response to appeals by Malaysian manufacturers
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  • 76 10 AFP LONDON, Sun. The Funeral Workers' Union will meet the National Association of Funeral Directors again today to try to end a strike which caused the postponement of 200 funerals In London over the weekend. The strike started last Monday in support of a
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  • 47 10 THE Singapore Technical Institute Is having an open house today and tomorrow from 9 am to 5 pm. Course projects made by the trainees will be on display and talks will be given on technical career opportunities, training programmes and facilities available at the institute.
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  • 242 10 RUBBISH WHAT A LOAD OUTPUT of Singapore's dally refuse now 2,000 tonnes will increase tnree times to 6,000 tonnes by the year 2000. Out of the 6,000 tonnes, 50 per cent will be from domestic and trade premises while the remainder will be from Industries and other sources. This was
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  • 506 10 DEALS WON by British firms exhibiting at IMAC '77 could herald an era of sharply Increased British Investment in Singapore and a growing volume of trade between the two. The once battered British economy is now on the road to recovery. The country
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  • 231 10 THAILAND'S Investment and business climate has Improved since last year, according to Mr. Wlra Srlratana. legal adviser to the Thai Board of Investment. He said: "This Improvement has resulted from the fact that prospective Investors and businessmen have gained greater confidence In the political and economic
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  • 173 10 A BRITISH computer expert, Mr. Michael Braithwaite, has suggested that medium-sized Singapore firms should now consider using computers for their operations. This Is because the cost of computer equipment has dropped at "such a dramatic rate" that It would be practical for these firms
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  • 399 10 AP MANILA, Sun. The Philippines registered a balance of payments surplus of US$lB7 million (***** million) during the first nine months of this year, compared to a deficit of $98 million for the same period In 1976, the Central Bank announced. While the economic outlook
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