The Business Times, 23 August 1995

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  • 11 1 SINGAPORE Business Times V^NOWASIA. Wednesday August 23 1995 MITA(P) 194/12/94 %5*
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  • 69 1 Reuter NEW YORK Stocks were slightly mixed yesterday as Wall Street paid close attention to a key Federal Reserve meeting reviewing interest rate policy. At 2 pm EDT, the Dow Joaes index was up 1.41 points at 4,616.19. In the broader market at 1 pm EDT,
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  • 511 1  -  By l Michelle Low SINGAPORE The government is delaying the sale of five residential sites scheduled for this year till next January. Details of the revised 1995 Sales Programme for Residential Sites were announced by the National Development Ministry yesterday.
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  • 201 1 Stick aartet hicn Teesiey Change ST1I .2.105.67 -0.71 KLSE Comp 1,029.90 7.05 Nikkei 17.877.77 +6.72 Hans Seng 8.947.19 +46.71 SET Index 1,322.40 +6.60 Jakarta Comp 499. II +1.6 Manila Comp 2.801.30 -26.18 Taipei WP1 4.807.21 +33.83 Seoul Comp 917.79 +4.48 Bombay BSE30 .3,441.45 -10.99 CLSA China B 863.60 5.10 Aust
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  • 531 1  -  By Liliang Ang SINGAPORE A sprawling estate of 43-year-old low-rise flats in Tiong Bahru will be the maiden site for the Housing and Development Board's en-bloc redevelopment scheme. The 384 units of 3-room and 4-room flats, housed in 16 blocks on
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  • 180 1 Reuter AFP WASHINGTON As widely expected, the Federal Reserve yesterday left the Federal funds rate unchanged at 5.75 per cent However, most analysts are betting that it is only a matter of time before the central bank eases credit again to give the economy
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  • 451 1 Countdown to worldwide launch of Microsoft extravaganza Bloomberg Business News REDMOND, Washington Windows' 95 will arrive at stores around the world with more fanfare than a new recording by Michael Jackson or the Rolling Stones. Computer stores will open at
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  • 129 1 SINGAPORE The waiting game continued on regional stock markets yesterday as hesitant investors awaited the outcome of the US Federal Open Market Committee meeting last night In Singapore, the Straits Times Industrials Index eased 0.71 point to 2,105.67 in line with the listless market.
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    • 20 1 Regional Analysis: pg 15 US renewed interest in S-E Asia Battle for office suite software market hots up, Pg 19
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    • 56 1 Hock Lock Siew: pg 17 Telekom should gear up for competition What analysts say GROWTH in the electronics industry is expected to get a stroag boost boo Microsoft's Windows 95 software, which will be laaached tomorrow. What about locally listed technology coasters? Will they also benefit froai the Wiadows 95
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    • 109 1 Bottom Line: pg 16 Western aid, Western priorities ~'~'fyi -t JT y 4R| j^jJ|JH£^^^^^^^H^BK^^^HflJHppr Incredible? Not If ycra have the Canon Family Copier at home. It's so compact, convenient and fun to use that anybody can make copies from it. Even vour T 5 year old! And, Canon's unique all-in-one
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • EYE on the ECONOMY
      • 285 2  -  By Michelle Low ROBUST growth in domestic exports of key electronic components and computer parts and peripherals powered July's 12.6 per cent rise in Singapore's non-oil domestic exports. The Trade Development Board (TDB) said last month's growth was fuelled by exports of disk drives, computer
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    • 446 2  -  Part of money comes from NSTB grant announced yesterday By Claire Leow APPLE Computer, Singapore Branch will spend $40 million during the next four years to research and develop products for Asian markets. Part of the money comes from a grant formally awarded
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    • 265 2 SINGAPORE Airlines yesterday announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Singapore Airport Duty-free Emporium Pte Ltd (Sade) has withdrawn from the Sade-DFS Partnership since June 1. The 50:50 partnership with DFS Venture Singapore operated duty-free and other retail outlets at Singapore Changi
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    • 215 2 A THREE-JUDGE panel yesterday reserved judgement on an appeal by three Punggoi boatel operators against an earlier court decision in their tussle with a lawyer over North Shore Marina. The company last year won the tender for the new boatel site there. The appeal court
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    • 231 3  -  By Michelle Low HOMEGROWN firm Eureka Advertising has tied up with nine other regional outfits to form a pan-Asian agency network that will bring collective billings to US$3OO million (***** million). A holding company, tentatively called Asia Link, will be formed,
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    • 299 3 THE explosion which killed 168 people in Oklahoma City last April shattered the state's reputation for easy-going calm, but two Oklahoma trade representatives visiting Singapore emphasised yesterday that Oklahoma's living environment remains one of the best in the US. "It's a different culture.
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    • 91 3 AFP ASEAN member states will discuss farm trade in Southeast Asia and measures for a stable supply of food in the region at a meeting in Singapore this week, officials said yesterday. The three-day ministerial meeting, which starts tomorrow, will also
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    • 154 3 SMALL and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to plan long-term and invest in staff training to face the challenges of the 21st century. Giving this advice yesterday, Minister for Trade and Industry Yeo Cheow Tong said: "SMEs should find out which companies have
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    • 557 3 Libel suit against IHT The Straits Times IN ORDERING the International Herald Tribune to pay 5950,000 in libel damages to Singapore's top three leaders, the High Court took into account the position of the three men, the gravity of the allegations against them, and the
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    • 241 3 IGUEST HOUSE! I FOR SALE I IEmCSSIONSOFINTERE^ Little Company Guest House Estate Leuia, Blue Mountains, NSW Australia A part of the spectacular Blue Mountains tourist district, this very profitable boutique, resort style property is located only some 90 minutes drive west of the Sydney CBD. The property features: Central guest
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  • SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    • 386 4 AFP JAKARTA Indonesia's chief trade minister yesterday played down threats by an importers' association to launch a US$l.5 billion (552.13 billion) boycott of Australian goods in retaliation for burnings of the Indonesian flag last week. Hartarto Sastrosunarto, coordinating Minister for
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    • Article, Illustration
      38 4 Reuter HANOI Two Vietnamese women riding a small boat past submerged bowses near Hanoi's Red River yesterday. The Red River, which flows alongside the Vietnamese capitaL, has flooded hundreds of houses after continuous rains upstream. Reuter
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    • 270 4  -  From Alan Boyd in BANGKOK POLITICAL delays are threatening Thailand's commitment to services reforms under the World Trade Organisation, with government officials warning that legislation may come too late to meet implementation targets. The collapse of the Chuan government in May scuttled plans
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    • 284 4 Telecom Asia and TT T deals get thumbs-down from Thai Cabinet Business Day BANGKOK The Thai Cabinet has rejected a proposal to award contracts to Telecom sia (TA) and Thai Telephone and Telecommunication (TT&T) to install 1.1 million telephones lines nationwide, and instructed the Ministry of Transport and Communications to
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    • 75 4 AFP MANILA The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday announced it had approved a US$l5O million (SS2I3 million) loan to be used in supporting the Philippine government's Capital Markets Development Programme. The loan will be disbursed in two tranches of US$75 million each, the
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    • 68 4 AFP MANILA The Philippines is one of only two Asean nations to retain trade privileges with the European Union under the new Generalised System of Preference (GSP), it was announced here yesterday. Trade Undersecretary Cesar Bautista said the low level of economic development allowed
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    • 92 4 Reuter MANILA Agriculture Secretary Roberto Sebastian said yesterday the price of rice should stabilise soon as imports and supplies of the staple reach retail markets. Prices have shot up to as high as 27 pesos (55!.49) a kg in the past week from 15 pesos
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    • 93 4 AP CANBERRA Prime Minister Paul Keating said yesterday he wanted to see stronger commercial links between the South-east Asian economies and Australia and New Zealand, possibly through a free trade agreement. He made the comments after meeting Philippine President Fidel Ramos, who was promoting
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    • 44 4 AFP MANILA Finance Secretary Roberto De Ocampo will visit Washington for discussions to finalise an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme for the Philippines, a finance department statement said here yesterday. Mr De Ocampo will leave for Washington today. AFP
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    • 209 4 NYT HANOI New office buildings in the capital of communist Vietnam are commanding some of the highest rents in the world. Don't blame prospective tenants for pushing up prices, though. Rents in Hanoi's new office buildings are pricier than those in
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    • 304 4 MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) wants all imported cement to undergo mandatory inspection and certification by the Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Sirim) before it is sold locally. The board, launched last year under an Act
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    • 352 4 HSBC Holdings pic UjjjS Interim Results Comment by Sir William Purves, 30 June 1995 Half-year to 30 June 1995 30 June 1994 HSBC Group Chairman ussm £m £m The 19 per cent increase in our pre--2,760 Profit before tax 1,737 1,461 f .w tax P ro fi t aru 2°
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  • CHINA/ HONGKONG/ TAIWAN
    • CHINA WATCH
      • 77 6 Reuter HONGKONG China accounted for HK5454.4 billion (5582.5 billion), or 88 per cent, of Hongkong's total re-exports in value terms in the first half of 1995, Census and Statistics department figures showed. Re-exports accounted for 83 per cent of the value of Hongkong's total
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      • 63 6 AFP SHANGHAI Shanghai authorities have withdrawn privileges, including tax breaks, from 150 joint venture companies which failed to meet the requirements, Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. The report said that apart from tax breaks and preferential treatment on land use, "honorific titles" such as "advanced technology enterprise"
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      • 84 6 AFP SEOUL China has become the most popular country for South Korean investors, absorbing 16 per cent of total investment abroad, a government tally showed yesterday. By the end of March, South Korean businesses had invested a total of US$l.2 billion (S$ 1.71
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    • 350 6 Reuter TAIPEI Taiwan's brokers yesterday said the finance ministry's stocks-boosting package showed the government's strong will to back the market, but added that the move is expected to flounder over election uncertainties and tensions with China. "It's another strong signal saying the government
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    • 250 6 AFP BEIJING Chinese companies are continuing to ignore a 1991 regulation banning the import of hazardous waste and requiring permission to bring recyclable materials into the country, the China Daily said yesterday. Three cases of illegal imports of waste were
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    • 302 6 Reuter AP TAIPEI President Lee Teng-hui yesterday told China to stop intimidating Taiwan and enhance the istamd*s"flWßta tional status in defiance of China's diplomatic blockade. Mr Lee was addressing a two-day congress of his ruling Nationalist Party, at which he was expected to
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    • 350 9  -  From Teh Hooi Ling in BEIDAIHE, HEBEI CHINA will continue to keep a lid on its economy in its next five-year plan, aiming to keep economic growth at about 8 per cent a year, Chinese leaders told a Singapore delegation led by
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    • 121 9 Bloomberg Business News SHANGHAI China plans to sclcct "some foreign banks" in Shanghai's Pudong district to become the first foreign banks in the country to deal in renminbi, the official China Daily reported yesterday. Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi made the announcement to
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    • 258 9 Reuter BEIJING A north China insurance firm is doing brisk business in an unprecedented scheme to insure women against kidnapping, sexual discrimination and other violations, executives said yesterday. More than 10,000 women have bought policies since the Shenyang city branch of stateowned
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    • 183 9 AP BEIJING China created 47 million non-farm jobs over the past five years but still faces a serious employment problem because of its fast-growing population, an official newspaper said yesterday. The number of urban residents with jobs reached 614.7 million by
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  • ASIA
    • 370 10 Reuter TOKYO Japan will continue to place importance on carrying out macro-economic measures amid the yen's current weak trend, Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura told a news conference. Mr Takemura said that although the yen is weakening and stocks are strengthening, the economy is
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    • 232 10  -  Fran Mike Simms in AUCKLAND NEW ZEALAND'S top financial watchdog will be asked to investigate a land rights debacle which cost the government close to NZ$4 million (553.7 million). But Prime Minister Jim Bolger is resisting calls for the sacking of
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    • 331 10  -  Companies missing out on boom, says ADB official Fran Surinder Singh in SYDNEY NOT only is Australia missing out on investment opportunities in Asia, it is also missing out on the region's huge investment boom in infrastructure. This is the view of Australia's executive director at
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    • 248 10 Reuter BANGALORE Reforms are transforming and regenerating India's economy but it must nurture the spirit of enterprise to realise its vast potential, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher said. "The achievements have been terrific. You should be shouting about them from the rooftops," Mrs Thatcher
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    • 92 10 Bloomberg Business News SEOUL The recent murder of a securities firm manager has prompted South Korean regulators to step up investigations into widespread irregularities in stock trading, the regulators and analysts said yesterday. Police arrested two KFB Securities Co managers on charges of fatally
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    • 99 10 AFP BANGKOK Laos has offered to sell Thailand an additional 2,500 megawatts of electricity, a Thai official said yesterday. The offer was made on Monday by Laotian ambassador Bounkeut Sangsomsak during a courtesy call on cabinet minister Rakkiat Sukthana, said the official
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    • 97 10 Bloomberg Business News CANBERRA A senior government minister yesterday said he expects the current account deficit to narrow from record highs as the nation recovers from drought and as capital imports by businesses slow. Australian Industry Minister Peter Cook told the Senate the government
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    • 217 10 Reuter SYDNEY Australia is preparing for robust growth in the sales of computers and related products over the next few years, retailers said yesterday. They are confident of the sales surge despite the country having the second highest penetration rate
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  • FOCUS
    • 1239 11 The prospects for China's currency CHINA'S currency, the renminbi, has shown considerable robustness over the past 18 months. It now stands at around 8.3 renminbi to US$l a 5 per cent appreciation against the dollar since January 1994, when China unified its twin exchange
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    • 403 11 WHEN will the renminbi become fully convertible? Nobody knows, probably not even the Chinese authorities. Various dates have been mentioned, but it has become clear no specific timetable exists. In early 1993, China announced it would make the renminbi convertible in 10 years. Then
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    • 24 11 E These articles are reprinted from the July 24 issue of Business China, a fortnightly management report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (Asia) Ltd
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    • 344 11 For Sale by Public Tender 100% of the issued units in the Pennant Property Trust N0.2 whose sole property asset is The Durack Centre 263 Adelaide Terrace Perth West ern Australia Situated at one of the !4RKVIVfM busiest junctions in the Perth US^XsJUL^ifsJ Central Business District, this award winning building
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  • LIFESTYLE
    • 1302 13  -  Divorce rates are soaring as the country undergoes profound societal changes. Seth Faison reports Seth Faison NYT For centuries, ordinary Chinese have greeted each other on the street with a question that reflected the nation's primary concern: "Chile ma?" or "Have you eaten?" Now, according to
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    • 336 13 AP AP Reuter HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON insisted that US President Bill Clinton play golf one more time on Monday so she could spring a final birthday surprise. And when Clinton walked onto the first tee against the signature silhouette of the Grand Teton peaks
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • 483 14 PRIME Minister Goh Chok Tong's National Day Rally speech was a timely reminder that while membership has its privileges, the fees can be prohibitive. It's all well and good to be accorded "developed country" status, as Singapore will from next year. But the reality is that
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  • 269 14 THE government's new executive condominium scheme, announced in the Prime Minister's National Day rally speech with details expected next week, is a neat move which will relieve pent-up demand for better HDB homes. The scheme could also help underpin the private condominium market, which has
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  • 144 14 IN JULY, local magistrates courts heard 48 cases brought by the Environmental Protection Department. Sixteen companies were convicted of water pollution offences, there were 13 convictions for air pollution, and 11 companies had breached noise control laws. The rest were fined under the Water Disposal and
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  • 137 14 AS MOST developing countries have realised, education is a platform for social climbing and a highly remunerative investment as well. Setting up the National Higher Education Council to oversee all matters pertaining to higher education and to safeguard its standards is another important step towards establishing
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  • 187 14 OF LATE, there has been a flurry of reports on the coming of age of Muslims in the region, particularly in the implementing of Islamic economic management. The level of aflluence of Muslims is a direct result of economic advancement of countries in the region. The
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  • 159 14 PRIME MINISTER Goh Chok Tong spoke on a range of issues at his fifth National Day Rally, the most noteworthy of which concerns the building of "executive condominiums". This new housing concept provides yet another choice for Singaporeans hoping to upgrade their homes. It also helps
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  • 155 14 THE jailing last week of two Vietnamese-bom Americans and several leading dissident Buddhists suggests Hanoi's re-entry into the global community last month has done little to sensitise the ruling party to international standards of human rights. The defendants were persecuted for their peaceful expression of
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  • 1088 14  -  Confidence hit by falling incomes and unease over 1997, reports Simon Holberton Simon Holberton FT THE smart shop windows in Hongkong's central district continue to offer "final reductions", but the shoppers walk on by. Restaurant reservations, once a necessity, are no longer needed. With Hongkong's return
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  • REGIONAL ANALYSIS
    • 1188 15  -  How Washington manages relationship with China critical to region's security CARL THAYER CARL THAYER The writer is head. Department of Politics, Australian Defence Force Academy, and director of the Regional Security Studies Programme at the Australian Defence Studies Centre, Canberra Special to BT
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    • 940 15  -  ASIAN VIEW By Yang Razali Kassim The writer is BT's regional analysis editor ARE WE moving from one Cold War to another? Possibly, according to Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, in an ominous prediction that reflects a region-wide concern over the current clashes between the
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  • 408 16 AP Washington citing cases of banking disasters in jhe United States and Singapore, a report by the International Monetary Fund urges tighter government controls per financial deals. Problems with banks in Japan and Fiance also warranted more government intervention, kid the
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  • 64 16 AFP KIEV A weary ama taking a break from carrying his shopping ban hare on Siiay in front of a government pooler that says "Privatisation is the first step to wealth**. The government b nrging Ukrnininns to nse their private savings saw—ting to 10
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  • 314 16 Reuter fRANKFURT A surprise contraction in German M 3 money supply increases the chances for a German rate cut, analysts said, but most still believed that the Bundesbank would hold its 4 per cent discount rate steady this week. The
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  • 221 16 AFP TOKYO The member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum are expected to agree in November to set a target year for unifying and simplifying tariff procedures, a report said here yesterday. The agreement will be formalised at a
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  • 80 16 UPI BONN A proposal to cut sickness benefits for German employees is becoming a political issue as pressure grows to lower German manufacturing costs in the face of low-wage competition from South-east Asia. Opposition leader Rudolf Scharping, chairman of the Social Democratic
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  • 73 16 Reuter NEW YORK Two of the world's biggest cigarette makers said on Monday they had settled multi-billion-dollar libel suits against ABC-TV for a 1994 broadcast alleging the companies manipulated the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to keep smokers addicted. The suits, filed by Philip Morris and
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  • 704 16  -  The Bottom Line ANTHONY ROWLEY ANTHONY ROWLEY The writer is BTs Tokyo correspondent TWO recent events have highlighted the continuing muddle over the provision of developing-country infrastructures since the sector became an ideological football to be kicked around by just about any financial, developmental
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  • 207 16 AP TOKYO The Cabinet of Prime Minister of Tomiichi Murayama yesterday approved an agreement with the US government aimed at further opening Japan's car and car puts market to foreign participation. Trade officials from both countries will sign the agreement today in Washington,
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  • 209 16 UPI NEW DELHI Opposition parties in India yesterday demanded the cancellation of a recent agreement between USbased Cable News Network (CNN) and the country's staterun Doordarshan Television. Last month, the Indian government approved the CNNDoordarshan tie-up, allowing a foreign broadcaster on Indian airwaves for the
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  • 54 16 Reuter SHENZHEN, China Ford Motor Co said yesterday it would pay US$4O million (SSS6 million) for a 20 per cent stake in China's Jiangting Motors Corp, a stateowned truckmaker. Ford said most of the investment would go into expanding Jianghng Motors' production capacity to 110,000 vehicles
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  • 66 16 Reuter ZHUKOVSKY, Russia President Boris Yeltsin failed to show up to open an international air-show near Moaoow yesterday, leaving his staff facing awkward questions about his whereabouts. Officials from the presidential press service, which invited reporters to the high-pro-file event and put them through stringent security checks,
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  • 66 16 AP NEW YORK The nation's largest chain of spy shops and three of its executives have been chaiged with smuggling illegal bugging and wiretapping devices into the country. Spy Factory Inc sold more than US$l.5 million (SS2.I million) worth of the devices, such as calculators and power
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 455 17  -  By David Mok SINGAPORE Growth in the electronics industry is expected to get a strong boost from Microsoft's Windows 95 software, which will be launched tomorrow, but locally listed technology counters appear likely to cool off in the coming months,
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        51 17 Mixed 'Market Mood' indicates the likely trading sentiment today, based on brokers polled at 5-6pm yesterday. Overnight events may alter sentiment. Brokers polled: Alliance, Barings, Credit Lyonnais Securities, Daiwa. Fraser, G K Goh, Kay Hian, Morgan Grenfell, Ong Co, Nomura, Phillip, Smith New Court, W Carr and SG
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        92 17  -  By ***** Taneja AT 69 cents, Chevalier Singapore Holdings is very near its high of 71.5 cents, and with daily RSI and stochastics substantially overbought, this is a good time to sell. Given the strong volume, the stock may experience a period of consolidation, though a fall in
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    • 416 17  -  By Lee Han Shin SINGAPORE United Industrial Corporation (UIC) and its listed subsidiary Singapore Land yesterday reported a 19 and 4 per cent rise in their interim net earnings to $30.36 million and $40 million respectively. Both figures were well within expectations,
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    • 411 17  -  By Jenny Lam ROBINSON Company, the last listed retailer to announce its full-year results, yesterday reported poorer-than-expec-ted earnings for the 12 months to June 30. Net profit rose just 2.3 per cent to $28.39 million, contrary to analysts' general expectation of a 6 per cent
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    • 242 17 SINGAPORE Singapore's largest private warehouse operator, CWT Distribution, yesterday reported flat net earnings for the half-year to June 30. Net profit was just 3 per cent higher at $3.38 million on a 25 per cent rise in turnover to $36.4 million. CWT
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    • 667 17  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW By S N Vasuki SINGAPORE The overwhelming response to a US$5OO million (SS7IO million) bond issue and recent moves by the Malaysian government to curb excessive competition in an overcrowded market must come as music to the
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    • 306 17  -  By Conrad Raj ROTHSCHILD Asset Management (Singapore) plans to launch more unit trusts in the next few years, including one that will enable investors to use savings from the Central Provident Fund. This was disclosed at a news conference yesterday after the
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    • COMPANIES
      • 432 18  -  By Donald Turner SINGAPORE Salornon Brothers' Asia-Pacific chair- man William Phillips said yesterday the US investment bank remained committed to Singapore and the region de- spite a spate of senior-level "/resignations. Salomon's head of Southeast Asian research, Bruce Rolph, joined the exodus
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      • 460 18  -  From Ho Kay Tat "MUI Properties Bhd, the reconstituted property arm of Malayan United Industries Bhd, is not too wary about its plan to become a major property player at what could be the tail end of Malaysia's property boom.
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      • 167 18 MBT KUALA LUMPUR Westmont Industries Bhd, as part of its plans to expand further into the power industry, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Orissa State Government of India to set up two units of combined cycle power barges, said managing director Joseph
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      • 176 18 Earnings INSIGHT ST ELECTRONIC Engineering's order book rose 6 per cent to $234 million in the six months to June 30 and the group is optimistic about its prospects. It reported a respectable 17.5 per cent rise in interim earnings yesterday to $2.29 million
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      • 231 18 SINGAPORE Keppel Corp's three listed units in the Philippines yesterday recorded a mixed performance for the first half of 1995. The three units are Keppel Philippines Holdings, Kepphil Shipyard and Cebu Shipyard Engineering Works. Keppel Philippines' interim group net profits slid by 1 per
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      • 56 18 SINGAPORE Sesdaq-listed Meiban Plastic posted a 12 per cent rise in group after-tax operating profit to $953,000 for the half year to June 30. Group turnover surged 42 per cent to $10.6 million over the 1994 period. Earnings per share fell from 2 cents to 1.5
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      • 62 18 SINGAPORE Replying to a Stock Exchange of Singapore query, Powermatic Data Systems said it was not aware of any price-sensitive information that had not been released that would impact on price or turnover. Compact Metal Industries also replied to an SES query, saying it did
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      • 37 18 SINGAPORE Hitachi Zosen unit Cosmos Marine Services has bought more shares in Shen Sing Marine Services for $150,000, raising Hitachi Zosen's stake from 55 per cent to 85 per cent.
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      • 63 18 SINGAPORE Econ International said its unit Econ Vietnam Investments had sold off its 19.2 per cent stake in Dragon Properties Asia Ltd for U*****,600 (S$ 1.28 million). Econ had invested in Dragon to develop a joint venture commercial cum residential project in Vietnam. Econ
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      • 44 18 SINGAPORE General Securities Investments (GSI) said its unaudited consolidated net tangible asset backing per share was $2.26 as at July 31, 1995. Overseas Union Securities (OUS) said its unaudited NTA per $l-share was $3.01 as at July 31.
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      • 36 18 SINGAPORE Seksun Precision Engineering said it had agreed with two parties to form a joint venture company here to invest in and manage a metal-stamping joint venture company in China.
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      • 149 18 Bernama KUALA LUMPUR Golden Hope Plantations Bhd's group pre-tax profit jumped 66 per cent to M 5288.11 million (S$ 164.22 million) for the six months ended June 30, 1995, from MS 173.55 million in the corresponding period last year. Group turnover rose to MS
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      • 300 18 SINGAPORE Parkway Holdings is expected to incur $5.5 million in interest expense for the current year from its bond issue, the group said in a circular issued yesterday. The circular detailed the financial effects of Parkway's unsecured bonds and notes issue,
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      • 584 18 Maaafwi' print Aug 23 Mendaki Gr Fund 1.02 1.05$ ftMm llTnl US Gr Fund 1.10 1.14* The Comnlefrf^^''' 1.35 1.64 UOB ASSCt Mgt LU The Savings Fund I SO 1.59 Lnifund 1.42 1.49 S"pore Prog Fund 0.62 0 66 Unibond 1.06 1.0(3 Spore See Fund 0.92 0.98xd United Gr Fund!
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      • 432 19  -  From Quak Hiang Whai in HONGKONG THE MAJOR shareholder and controversial former chairman of Ming Pao Enterprise Corp could soon cut his links with the Hongkong-listed newspaper group as the company shares were suspended yesterday amid market talk of a new controlling
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      • 340 19 Reuter DENVER The release tomorrow of the long-awaited Windows 95 operating system from Microsoft Corp is expected to heat up the battle in the growing "office suite" market, company executives and analysts said. Office suite business software which combines such features as
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      • 366 19 NYT Reuter NEW YORK Turner Broadcasting System said on Monday that its board had decided against buying King World Productions. Turner had been considering an offer of about US$47 a share, or US$l.7 billion (552.42 billion), for King World, which
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      • 526 19 Bloomberg Business News, Reuter SYDNEY Rupert Murdoch's News Corp said fullyear net earnings rose 2.3 per cent to a record US$l.Ol billion (551.44 billion). The main drivers were Fox television and British newspapers which benefited from controversial newspaper price-war
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      • 69 19 Reuter NEW YORK General Motors Corp will offer a voluntary odd-lot share reduction programme for all three classes of its common stock. The scheme allows shareholders who own fOver than 100 shares of GM stock to sell their shares back to the company, or purchase more
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      • 95 19 Reuter PALO ALTO, California Hewlett-Packard Co, launching a counter offensive against rival Compaq Computer Corp, said on Monday it had cut prices by up to 18 per cent on its Vectra line of desktop computers for the corporate market. HP also said it had introduced
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      • 75 19 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Chinese property and retailing conglomerate China Vanke said its net profit fell 24.9 per cent to 63 million yuan (Sslo million) in the six months ended June 31, down from 83.1 million yuan in the same period the year before. Earnings
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      • 98 19 Bloomberg Business News COLUMBUS, Georgia DuPont Co was fined US$ll5 million (S$ 159 million) by aUS District Court judge for concealing evidence in a 1993 trial over alleged harm to plants caused by its Benlate fungicide. Judge J Robert Elliott said DuPont could reduce its fine
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    • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
      • 489 20  -  By Pad Leo SINGAPORE Switzerland's oldest bank, Bank Leu, opened a local representative and funds management office here yesterday. Bank Leu director Reto Donatsch, in town for the opening ceremony, said the local operation Leu Asset Management Services (Asia) would offer investment
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      • 391 20 Heavy offshore selling in Singapore weakens Malaysian unit MBT KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian ringgit broke through the 2.50 resistance level against the US dollar yesterday, largely as a result of heavy offshore activity in Singapore. The immediate-term outlook for the local currency, dealers say,
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      • 450 20  -  By Siow Li Sen SINGAPORE Singapore rubber dealers may be getting a second wind as they report increasing business from major buyers/end-users who are more inclined to spread their risks in order to cope with greater volatility in the rubber
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      • 278 20 SINGAPORE Thailand's largest securities firm, Securities One, has raised US$44 million (5562.5 million) from Singapore's offshore market and international capital markets. The three-year transferable loan facility (TLF) to the Thai firm was arranged by Overseas Union Bank, Chemical Securities Asia and Thai Farmers
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      • 366 20 Reuter TOKYO Japan's banks could face reduced credit lines and higher premiums from foreign banks after Moody's Investors Service Inc gave them poor ratings for their financial strength, analysts said. "The rating? made it clear that the risks on each Japanese bank were relatively
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      • 283 20 SINGAPORE Spot oil prices fell in East Asia as supplies of light, low-sulfur Asian crude continued to outstrip demand. Forward Asian oil prices rose about 10 cents/bbl on concern that unusual Iraqi troop movements could foreshadow a period of instability in the
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      • 194 20 Reuter LONDON The dollar hugged Monday's European closing levels in early dealings, regaining its poise after dipping sharply against the yen in late Tokyo trade. The dollar was battered down to a low of 96.29 yen overnight by a relentless flow of offers from numerous operators adjusting their positions,
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      • 94 20 AFP NEW YORK The dollar, boosted by indications that the Bundesbank could cut interest rates, was up against other major currencies with the exception of the yen in early trading yesterday. At 1400 GMT, the dollar was at 1.4843 marks, against 1.4772 at Monday's dose and at 96.70
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        1179 20 Trade-weighed index calculated against S part's top 14 trading partners Base year 1983 cc,9p9,fgc,l0 US$/SS forward rates Noon Aug 22 St M Offer 1-month ***** 1.4223 2-nonih 1.4173 I.4IM Vmonih 1.4142 1.41 S7 6-mowh 1.4040 1.40(0 c.i pi i' rtrar Source: OCBC r*M»Au I UNLIUlf kUHKtlfvT NOTE RATES to at
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      • 1351 21 Reuter SINGAPORE Simex Euroyen and Eurodollar futures ended higher on technical trading. Dealers said trading in Euroyen was light in the absence of fresh fundamental news. "Euroyen tried to push higher on the weak Nikkei," said a trader. He said the market was still
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      • 678 21 COMMOOITY REPORTS Palm Oil CRUDE palm oil futures closed marginally lower in moderately active trading on the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange in the absence in poor leads. Trading fluctuated within a narrow range as players remained sidelined as fresh factors were not forthcoming. The
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      • 57 21 TOKYO A worldwide shortage of a key type of nickel alloy tube is developing after an explosion late last month halted production at a Mitsubishi Materials Corp tube plant in Japan indefinitely. Mitsubishi has about a 40 per cent share of the world market
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      • 47 21 LONDON The world copper market is estimated to have recorded a supply deficit of 277J)00 tonnes in the first five months of this year.' Gosumption in Jan-May is estimated at 5.02 n)ftHon tonnes, compared with 4.78 million in the dilne period of 1994.
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      • 63 21 NEW DELHI The Indian government has allowed sugar mills to sell in September 670,000 tonnes of white sugar on the domestic free market, same as was allowed this month. The government will also sell in September 351,000 tonnes of sugar through state-run food stores. Thus,
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      • 77 21 SINGAPORE The mould problem in Indonesia's cocoa areas is serious and overseas buyers have rejected several cargoes of the mouldy beans. Sulawesi is bearing the brunt of the problem -Sfoice rains were heavy when the crop was being.harvested. A US trader may have rejected
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      • 55 21 HONGKONG A lack of new mine investment and better markets overseas are hindering China's ability to supply domestic lead and zinc smelters with concentrates. China's, production of leasand zinc has fallen sharply this year as the smelters struggle to find enough of the intermediate
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    • 1444 21 SICOM Futures Rubber (futures dosing as at 5.3tpn) RSS 1 Contract (S cents/kg) Close Volume Open Month High Low Sett (tonnes) Interest Sep 95 194.00 194.00 193 50 100 MOO Oct 191.00 1250 Nov 191.00 1475 Dec 191.00 2325 Jan/Mar 96 191.00 187.00 l«9.00 1725 6000 Apr/Jun 96
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    • REGIONAL STOCK MARKETS
      • 1069 22 -4.0 STOCKS closed weaker yesterday after a mid-morning sell-off on the futures market. "The market just seems to be in a bit of a pause at the moment... just sitting back and waiting for a little bit of direction from not only the overseas markets, but the overseas funds
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      • 512 22 -26.16 Share prices dropped amid the continued downturn of Philippine Long Distance Telephone and oil refiner Petron Corp. 'The market was being pulled down by PLDT and Petron," said a trader. The PSE Composite Index lost 26.18 points to 2,801.30. Turnover was 1.05 billion shares valued at 1.78 billion
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      • 461 22 +33.83 Share prices finished higher on light trading, boosted by good performances in construction and pulp and paper issues. "Investors were closely watching development of a twoday congress by the ruling Kuomintang to choose a candidate for next March's presidential elections," said a dealer. The 321-issue Weighted Price Index
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      • 388 22 +4.48 Stock prices closed higher, with index-linked blue chips turning bullish against the backdrop of their recent falls. The Composite Price Index climbed 4.48 points to 917.79. Turnover was 35.35 million shares valued at 511.44 billion won. Rises beat falls by 487 to 285 with 176 issues unchanged. Along
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      • 345 22 +14.61 Stocks rose, led by Telecom after the nation's antitrust regulator signalled a green light on the company's bid for a 25 per cent stake in pay-TV operator Sky Network Television Ltd. The Commerce Commission said after the market closed on Mondav that it has "tentatively concluded" it
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      • 114 22 •10.99 Stocks fell for the first time in four sessions as selling in the morning by the nation s largest mutual fund operator, Unit Trust of India, overshadowed buying by US investors. Brokers said the decline should be short-lived as foreign institutions are confident about the Indian economy, regardless
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      • 704 22 Britannia Funds Sterliat Cash Bid Offer Mim Cap Depout 31.6400 3* 6500 Mim Jeney 6* AII93 ***** Mim Mu Ikok 09)00 0 9700 LS$ Cash Income PWi Fund *9.7100 •10 2300 PS S Reserve Fund 5 MOO 5.5500 ISS&SSS 0.4592 0 4931 Far East Fund *2 7650 ****** Man Portfolio
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      • 677 22 -5.5 UK SHARES closed mixed as floundering water stocks offset steady bonds and takeover speculation, pulling the Footsie from an all-time high. The FT-SE 100, closed down 5.5 points at 3,530.2 after pushing through to an all-time high of 3540.7. Imperial Chemical Industries, BAT Industries and Glaxo Wellcome paced
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      • 120 22 •10.76 French shares fall on profittaking after recent rises and with investors on the sidelines ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting later and the Bundesbank policy meeting on Thursday. The CAC-40 Index closed down 10.76 points at 1,973.68. Of the CAC-40 stocks, 35 ended lower, five higher.
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      • 184 22 •10.52 German stocks ended slightly lower despite more economic data that has helped foster hopes for a Bundesbank rate cut, possibly as soon as this week's central bank meeting. The DAX Index ended down 10.52 points at 2,258.86. The drop disappointed traders following gains on Monday to a new
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      • 169 22 1.83 Belgian shares ended a dull session slightly higher amid gloom over a weaker opening on Wall Street and fears that consumer confidence was slipping. "Fears of higher taxes in Belgium means people prefer not to take risks on the bourse. Also, the big investors are looking to other
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      • 149 22 -244 Italian stocks closed lower, after higher-than-expected consumer inflation figures for the month of August raised doubts that inflation had peaked. "Yesterday, there was a lot of panic buying ahead of the indicator, and today we've seen a steady flow of sell orders to compensate for that," said a
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      • 269 22 +0.61 Dutch stocks closed at their second consecutive recordhigh, led higher by gains in Philips and Heineken. Optimism over a higher dollar and a possible cut in German interest rates supported the market. Some worries over earnings from financial companies later this week prevented it from rising further after
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      • 117 22 •3.75 Trade was hectic as brokers scrambled to digest a barrage of corporate news and get away with profits, but the OMX closed lower due to losses in the banking and forestry sectors. The outlook was uncertain due to more six-month results ahead, but eyes were largely on Wall
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      • 249 22 +14.1 Swiss shares were boosted by a firmer dollar. Volumes were low except in a few stocks, with Roche, Sandoz and Nestle paving the way for a broad upswing. The blue-chip SMI Index overcame the 2,900 point barrier during the course of the day but slipped back towards the
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      • 299 22 •14.7 South African stocks ended a slow day's trade broadly lower with little buying interest seen in the short term as prices consolidated. Traders said golds led losses as bullion retraced gains and speculators stopped buying gold shares. The Overall Index fell 17.9 points to 5,578.2, the Industrial Index
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      • 227 22 •16.09 Stocks opened weaker in quiet trading ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting and a series of Canadian bank earnings, traders said. The TSE 300 fell 16.09 points to 4,592.21 on volume of seven million shares which had a value of C 5103.9 million. Market watchers are
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      • 771 22 •3.52 Stock prices turned narrowly mixed in cautious trading as the market awaited the outcome of the federal reserves policy meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which slid 2.82 points on Monday, was down 3.52 to 4,611.26 at 11am EDT. The New York Stock Exchange Composite Index was
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      2458 23 Bloomberg Business News HONGKONG Stocks rose as Cilic Pacific climbed 3.22 per cent after reporting a solid sixmonth profit. Citic's 20 per cent rise in net profit helped ease concern that corporate profit growth is shrinking. With shares already down 5 per cent this month, renewed confidence in earnings
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      598 23 CLSA IN Hongkong, the H share index lost 13.18 points to 1,078.75 on turnover of HKS7.4 million. Maanshan Steel was the most active counter on turnover of US$2.2 million, losing 2.6 per cent. Following its poor interim results, Kunming Machinery was the worst performer, down 8 per cent on
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      2333 23 Bloomberg Business News TOKYO Stocks were little changed as early gains were tempered by concern that a weaker dollar and a drop in US hightech stocks would quash a two-month-old rally in Japanese technology shares. "The currency's pulled back bekjw 97 yen, and we've seen a poor performance in
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      1410 23 Reuter BANGKOK Stocks closed slightly up as investors shopped for bargains in the finance and bank sectors but overall trade remained in the doldrums on worries about rising inflation, brokers said. The SET Index closed 6.60 points higher at 1,322.40 in turnover of 3.03 billion baht. Rises led falls
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      1146 23 Bloomberg Business News JAKARTA Slocks' early gains were pared by investors' concern that a falling rupiah would cut into the value of Indonesian holdings. The Composite Index rose 1.6 points to 499.11. "Most of the blue chips lost about 7 per cent last week and 1 think it's a
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    • 2279 24 Gr Cr ws 1 VaJ Dn Lmt Qmt Dh LH» YU Nat M Cap L— Camfj Safe CMO) H%h Lw» Bayer Sainr Or P/E tmiJ MALAYSIAN STOCKS 47 422 +14 152 422 410 420 422 10 -2.9 02 432.1 SOc !i. 5 +l 344 965 94.5 96 97
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    • KUALA LUMPUR STOCK EXCHANGE
      • 6583 24 Bloomberg Business News KUALA LUMPUR Stocks rose, led by construction industry major United Engineers Malaysia (UEM), as concern eased that the ringgit would fall farther, depressing the value of Malaysian holdings in dollar terms. Stocks have fallen 2.5 per cent since Aug 11, as
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      • 8568 25 Gr Ct M Wl U* V«l Day UuQmi IWy Di» VU Net r> A*g High Lm CiafU) Sak (W) High Ln Bu>rt Viler Cn P/E Sail Price INDUSTRIAL AMD COMMERCIAL 4* 382 mt s Acma 50c 466 2 21 470 464 464 468 22.5 5.8 2.4 9.7 642.4 *60 Ale*
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      • 1854 26  -  By Paul Leo SINGAPORE Local stocks were mixed yesterday, with investors sidelined ahead of last night's US Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The Straits Times Industrials Index was largely unchanged all day except for a brief moment in mid-afternoon when it
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    • 531 27 Knight Ridder Reuter DRY-CARGO freight rates remain firm in the Atlantic and fresh enquiry has been reported in the Pacific where a few ships had been on ballast last week. Shipbrokers said tonnage demand by Koreans and Japanese improved the market's sentiment while grain and mineral shipments in
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    • 153 27 Reuter STOCKHOLM Swedish ferry operator Stena Line said delivery of the first of three high-speed ferries ordered from Finnyards of Finland would be delayed until the end of the year. The first delivery was originally scheduled for summer 1995. The delay of
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    • 235 27 KnightRidder CAIRO The Suez Canal authorities are considering price cuts to try to reverse the waterway's declining traffic figures. "We are currently studying a possible reduction in tariffs to deal with the fall in the number of oil tankers using the canal," a canal official
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    • 506 27  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Durbanbased Griffin Shipping Holdings has expanded its fleet to 15 ships with the purchase of two 1,000 20-ft equivalent unit (TEU) container vessels. The 1993-built Bastion and the 1994-built Maersk Santos were bought from Unicorn Lines
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    • 342 27 Reuter OSLO Norwegian shipbuilding and offshore engineering group Kvaerner A/S said it expected profits for the year to show a marked improvement on 1994, with strong contributions from its shipbuilding and oil and gas divisions. Kvaerner posted first half pre-tax profits of 1.61 billion
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    • 95 27 Reuter SEOUL Seven crew members aboard a South Korean caigo ship were missing after it was in collision with another local vessel in dense fog off South Korea's south-east coast yesterday, maritime police said. A police officer said the 745-tonne cargo ship sank
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    • 418 27 Lloyd's List TAIPEI Far Eastern Silo and Shipping Corporation (FESSC), Taiwan's largest grain importer, is to open a representative office in Singapore with a view to transferring part of its fleet to the island republic. In what would be another coup
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    • 229 27 Bloomberg Business News WELLINGTON New Zealand's largest port company, Ports of Auckland Ltd, said it will sell 19 hectares of waterfront land in downtown Auckland. Ports of Auckland will not say what it thinks the land is worth. The company
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    • 137 27 Reuter KARACHI Pakistan's Tristar Shipping Lines Ltd said h would add five bulk carriers to its existing fleet of five ships by the end of the year. "The company has already purchased two ships and will buy three more by the end of this
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    • 1099 28  -  High taxes and costs are blamed for the plight of the industry. In a report from Manila, A 1 Labita outlines the steps taken by the government to foster competition and improve services Al Labita The Philippines. a vast archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, is highly
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      • 955 45 THIS report, compiled by Cockett Marine Oil Ltd, shows price ranges in US dollars instead of single prices for a more comprehensive description of the market. Prices shown are based on average-sized stem. Market movements are The Cockett Bunker Price Index changp and the individual in
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      • 435 46  -  By Alec Almazan SINGAPORE Five Asian airports made it to the list of the world's 20 busiest cargo airports, wire reports based on figures released by the Airports Council International (ACI) showed. The five busiest Asian cargo airports during the
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      • 64 46 Reuter £££5 G^ gil M€< S c J J Pe" o^ l Preparing to remove the body of the pilot from the wreckage of Atlantic Southeast Airhne flight 529 on Monday tn a fteM near CajToUton. Bound for Gutfport, Mississippi, the plane crashed dae to
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      • 338 46 Bloomberg Business News SEATTLE Boeing Co is negotiating the sale of several types of aircraft, including the new 777 twin-engine widebody, to China's main international airline, company officials said. No contract has yet been signed with the state-owned Air China,
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      • 141 46 Reuter JOHANNESBURG Southern Africa's 11 major airlines might merge into fewer operators so they can compete better with foreign competition, an official of a regional trade bloc said. "You can't have 11 intercontinental airlines (in the region) at this stage," Sevrin Kaombwa, acting director of
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      • 393 46  -  By I Lu Ning SINGAPORE Ford Motor Co has agreed to buy 80 per cent of Chinese truck maker Jiangling Motor Co's (JMC) offering of 174 million B shares when they are listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange.
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      • 96 46 Reuter WELLINGTON Kiwi Travel International Airlines said it planned to start scheduled international services from today after gaining approval from authorities. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said in a statement it had issued an Air Service Certificate to AvAtlantic, a US-based charter operator which
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      • 92 46 Reuter FRANKFURT Lufthansa Cargo said revenues from its European area operations (excluding Germany) have come in above expectations so far this year. It said its European exports recorded double-figure growth over the first three months of the year. Senior vice-president Europe (excluding Germany), Joachim Haas,
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      • 108 46 Knight-Ridder ATHENS Greek air traffic controllers said they would a one-day work stoppage next week, despite a court ruling that two work stoppages planned this week were illegal, l-ast week, the Greek Civil Aviation Authority took legal action to prevent the strikes, after the air
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      • 68 46 Reuter ARLINGTON, Virginia USAir has applied to the Department of Transportation to begin service between Rome and its Philadelphia hub with through service to Los Angeles. The route would be Philadelphia's first non-stop service to Italy and USAir's third non-stop service from Philadelphia to
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      • 245 46 AP DETROIT Consumer satisfaction with American cars and vans has grown since last year while satisfaction with Japanese brands has declined, the American Society for Quality Control said on Monday. The group's quarterly American Customer Satisfaction Index showed the car industry's overall ability to
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