The Business Times, 24 June 2009

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  • 20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.00 online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg Sfili A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNO*****2868E MICA (P) 197/08/2008 Wednesday, June 24,2009
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  • 848 1  -  OH BOON PING This time they're on the lookout for defensive sectors instead of riskier plays [SINGAPORE] After enduring some hard knocks, private equity (PE) players are on the hunt again. The difference is that now they have set their sights on defensive
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  • 568 1  -  LYNETTE KHOO Company chided over disclosure lapses, told to appoint sponsor [SINGAPORE] China Yongsheng, the former Global Ariel, received a public reprimand from the Singapore Exchange (SGX) yesterday for breaching its listing rule on timely disclosures. SGX also noted that there are internal control
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 48 1 uesi lay lange 1COMP 1,044.48 -1.49 IIKKEI225 9,549.61 -276.66 IANG SENG 17,538.37 -521.18 ;et index 569.85 -12.44 JAKARTA COM P 1,914.39 -60.64 IANILACOMP 2,370.06 -41.82 ;eoulcomp 1,360.54 -39.17 ;henzhen b 472.81 -0.92 IUMBAI IND 14,324.01 -2.21 12 noon EDT Change )OW 8,332.58 -6.43 IAS DAI 1,764.46 -1.73
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    • 29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 16.165 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.53 INDIA 12.25 Source:
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    • 46 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.459 (US$/S$ ii 1.626 2.373 :uro ;us$/s$/e; 1.389 2.028 Foreii in curreno ier US$ 1$ 'EN 95.20 65.20 3.546 2.429 IK$ 7.751 5.311 !AHT 34.18 23.42 lUPIAH 10,460 7,167 1ENMINBI 6.836 4.684 INDIAN RUPEE 48.80 33.44 1.278 0.876 IZ$ 1.587 1.087
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 52 1 EXEC MONEY PROPERTY TRANSPORT HUB BOEING Asian equities I jrilt f «jj Widjaja family member Asia will be key market Delivery of Dreamliner back in favour buys Cree Court for new Porsche model ft ]1»^^"'" -jrSi postponed for sth time PAGE 28 fa^Bl for $53m PAGE 4 PAGE 19 U'
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 464 2  -  LEE U-WEN It shows that environment and economy can go hand in hand [SINGAPORE] The Republic's population may have tripled over the last 50 years from 1.6 million people in 1959 to over 4.8 million today but the quality of the environment here has
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    • 454 2  -  JOYCE HOOI By [SINGAPORE] Singapore firms' intangible assets shed US$2O3 billion of value in the turbulence of last year, according to the Brand Finance Global Intangible Finance Tracker (GIFT) 2009 report. The report, produced by Brand Finance, ranked Singapore 24th worldwide in terms of intangible
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 42 2 AFTER enduring some hard knocks, private equity players are on the hunt again. The difference is that now they have set their sights on defensive sectors, instead of the riskier and cyclical industries. FRONT PAGE
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      • 56 2 CHINA Yongsheng, the former Global Ariel, received a public reprimand from the Singapore Exchange yesterday for breaching its listing rule on timely disclosures. SGX also noted internal control weaknesses relating to board approval and payment procedures, and urged the group to appoint a sponsor
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      • 90 2 THE Republic's population may have tripled over the last 50 years from 1.6 million people in 1959 to over 4.8 million today but the quality of the environment here has not suffered at all, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Rather, the standards have
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      • 71 2 CHINESE-BASED companies seem poised to return to the US capital markets after a nearly one-year absence, potentially signalling a renewed appetite among investors for riskier stocks. Two companies are set to price initial public offerings this week on the New York
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      • 79 2 NOVO Group yesterday posted an 80 per cent plunge in net profit for its fourth quarter ended April 30, 2009. For Q4, net profit attributable to equity-holders was U*****,000, down from US$2.3 million a year ago, as sales dropped 38.9 per cent
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      • 53 2 IT may be time to revise Singapore's Code of Corporate Governance, and introduce accreditation for directors here, says the concluding chapter of Casebook on Corporate Governance The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a new book launched yesterday by Attorney-General Prof Walter Woon. COMPANY
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      • 63 2 MALAYSIA'S central bank has blocked a warrant issue to a foreign shareholder of EON Capital. The country's eighth-biggest lender said on Monday that Bank Negara had rejected the proposed warrant issue to its 20.2 per cent shareholder, Hong Kong-based investment firm Primus Pacific Partners.
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      • 77 2 JAPAN'S government backtracked on 220 billion yen (553.4 billion) in welfare spending cuts yesterday in a bid to lure voters, but the move could send bond yields higher as markets fret over the government's fiscal discipline. The government effectively put fiscal reform on hold
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    • 547 2 -AFP [WASHINGTON] Kodak is taking Kodachrome away. More than 35 years after Paul Simon immortalised the colour film in song, the company announced on Monday that it would be ending production of Kodachrome. Eastman Kodak Co said sales of Kodachrome represent less than
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    • 684 3 Reuters IPO market has begun to rebound recently with some successful deals [NEW YORK] Chinesebased companies seem poised to return to the US capital markets after a nearly one-year absence, potentially signalling a renewed appetite among investors for riskier stocks. Two
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    • 269 3  -  OH BOON PING OBITUARY [SINGAPORE] Selina Conner, the wife of top banker David Conner, died last Saturday after a battle with cancer. Mrs Conner, 57, leaves behind her husband the chief executive of OCBC Bank two children, a son-in-law and a grandchild, according
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    • 481 3 -AFP [WASHINGTON] Boeing said yesterday that it would delay the first flight and delivery of its new 787 Dreamliner aircraft, the latest postponement in a programme seen as a key to the aerospace giant's future. Boeing said a new schedule for the first flight
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 432 4  -  OH BOON PING Independent director also quits, citing difficulties in discharging duties NOVO Group yesterday posted an 80 per cent plunge in net profit for its fourth quarter ended April 30, 2009. The steel company separately announced that independent director Tan Siok
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    • 199 4 PARKWAY Holdings yesterday announced that Templeton Worldwide, Inc has become a substantial shareholder. The announcement followed the purchase of 1.275 million shares by Templeton, taking the latter's total number of shares held to 57,142,038. As a result, Templeton's holdings as a percentage of Parkway's total issued
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    • 398 4  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA Price paid by Frankle for the freehold site on Dalvey Rd works out to $800 psf THE Good Class Bungalow (GCB) market continues to buzz with activity. Frankle Widjaja, a member of the family that controls the Sinar Mas group,
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    • 327 4  -  JOYCE HOOI Plunge comes after auditors raise going concern issues YELLOW Pages' share price dived 20 per cent in trading yesterday, following news that its auditors had flagged it over going concern issues. The stock closed eight cents lower at 32.5 cents yesterday, after shedding
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    • 207 4 SINO-Forest Corporation, in which Singapore investment company Temasek Holdings has a stake, has signed a long-term tree acquisition agreement in China's Jiangxi province. The master agreement for the purchase of pine and Chinese fir plantation forests was inked by SinoForest's wholly owned subsidiary, Sino-Panel (China)
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    • 370 4  -  ZHANG Yl TING Acceptance could lead to firm getting other airport projects overseas STRATECH's runway surveillance system, iFerret, has been commissioned at Changi Airport, after an independent acceptance test in May that presented positive results. Acceptance could lead to Stratech getting other airport projects
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    • 444 5  -  TEH SHI NING Governance issues 'dynamic', say co-authors of a casebook IT may be time to revise Singapore's Code of Corporate Governance, and introduce accreditation for directors here, says the concluding chapter of Casebook on Corporate Governance The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 63 5 SINGAPORE Power International, SP AusNet's majority securityholder, will participate in the latter's distribution reinvestment plan (DRP). SP AusNet announced yesterday that the DRP issue price for the 2008/2009 final distribution is A 50.78 per security. Singapore Power International will participate in the DRP "to
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      • 57 5 FRASERS Centrepoint, the property arm of Fraser and Neave, announced yesterday that 302 out of 330 units of its 8 Woodleigh condominium project have been sold following its weekend preview. Because of the overwhelming response, "there will be no public launch as originally planned",
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      • 70 5 HARTAWAN Holdings announced yesterday that it had entered into a term sheet to sell its shares in its subsidiary, Hartawan Hostel Management, to Winsta Management for $1.18 million. The proposed sale is targeted to be completed on Aug 1, 2009. It is not expected
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    • 843 5  -  R SIVANITHY THE problem with the local corporate regulatory regime is that it has plenty of rules in some places but not enough action or clarity in others. For instance, much has been written in the past few months about the need to
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    • 380 5 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS THE VALUE OF BENCHMARKING Mr Ho Kwon Ping Professor Leonard L. Berry Given the current economic climate, companies around the world are DATE Banyan Tree Holdings Mays Business School looking for ways to reinvent themselves. Against this backdrop, the ISES 22 July 2009 23-24 July 2009 Mr Jonathan
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 840 6  -  OH BOON PING CURRENCIES The Korean won dropped 1.3 per cent to 1,290.7 per US dollar ASIAN currencies slumped, led by South Korea's won, as cautious investors cut exposure from emerging-mar-ket assets. The won fell to a seven-week low as overseas
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    • 93 6 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 3 10 4 0 0 0 3 10 4 Manufacturing 20 97 45 10 24 104 55 Commerce 33 19 39 21 Tpt/Stor/Comms 25 26 Finance 15 15 Construction 11 13 Properties 26
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    • 117 6 TURNOVER C000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL VALUE C000) SDQ TOTAL MAIN Multi Ind 15,967 15,967 52,163 52,163 Manufacturing 330,313 63,728 394,041 234,516 2,185 236,701 Commerce 97,141 3,288 100,429 80,297 1,465 81,763 Tpt/Stor/Comms 115,995 74 116,069 195,508 195,515 Finance 32,844 32,844 264,878 264,878 Construction 75,674 2,255 77,929 12,299 35
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    • 113 6 Stock name Close Cham Stock name Close Cham lapitaLand 3.590 -0.020 Noble Grp 1.720 -0.050 lapitaMall 1.310 -0.010 OCBC Bk 6.480 -0.120 lityDev 8.380 -0.310 Olam 2.160 -0.040 lomfortDelGrc 1.270 +0.010 SGX 6.900 -0.210 losco Corp 1.270 -0.040 SIA 12.300 -0.160 IBS Grp 11.200 -0.340 SIA
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    • 808 6  -  LYNETTE KHOO Olam International June 23 close: $2.16 DMG PARTNERS SECURITIES, June 23 WE are downgrading Olam from NEUTRAL to SELL: With Temasek taking a 13.8 per cent stake in Olam (pending Olam shareholders' approval) and the additional capital providing scope for more acquisitions, we have raised our
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    • 564 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS NOT unexpectedly, Wall Street plunged on Monday and brought selling pressure to bear on regional markets yesterday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) dropping 40.82 points to 2,226.10. We say "not unexpectedly" because the local market on Monday went
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    • 4 6 DAILY
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    • 62 6 Jun 23 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -914.00-236.00 BT CADI -*****.00-235.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -91.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 505.00 -10.21 FTSE ST Small Cap 417.27 -9.56 FTSE ST All Share 543.94 -10.25 FTSE ST China Top 230.84 -5.45 FTSE ST China 226.27 -5.68 FTSE ST Catalist
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    • 57 6 VOLUME China Honqxinq 89,751,000 Golden Agri 65,817,000 Jade Tech 50,894,000 UniFiber 45,173,000 Midas 37,712,000 Thai Beverage 26,619,000 Straits Asia 26,489,000 Cosco Corp 25,158,000 Genting SP 24,436,000 SinqTel 23,949,000 VALUE(S) DBS Grp 104,557,510 Capita Land 72,811,285 SinqTel 68,952,980 SGX 64,136,880 Wilmar 61,194,360 UOB 49,691,196 SPC 44,762,250 Straits Asia
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    • 101 6 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ CLOSE UP 7012 218.8 2.2 Jardine C&C 1794 44.0 2.5 OCBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 8800 20.0 0.2 ICBCC. i.93%Pref10 7740 20.0 0.3 ICBCC 5.1%NCPS 100 9380 10.0 0.1 UOB.ES.0906 1430 10.0 0.7 UOL 331 6.0 1.8 lotel Pro| 167 5.0 3.1 ChasenHldg 25.5 4.0 18.6 jm
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    • 115 6 CLOSE DOWN DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 4400-300.4 -4.5 JMH 2450-236.3 -6.2 GLD 10US$ 9030-189.6 -1.4 reor Emen |Mkts 1 730 -87.5 -7.6 China H 10US$ 1327 -74.4 -3.7 DBXT FTChina25 10US$ 2550 -72.9 -1.9 STXPO 100 1350 -60.0 -4.3 CIMBAsean40 100US$ 617 -52.5 -5.5 JSH 1364 -37.9 -1.9 :it ES.0906
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    • 86 6 Where S! i$ stands Jun 23 CHNG CLOSE FRJun 22 YR2009 S$ LOW S$ HIGH uss 1.4573 0.05 1.5579 1.4308 Euro 2.0294 -0.42 2.0732 1.9150 Pounds 2.3675 1.37 2.4000 2.0356 AS 1.1435 1.55 1.1816 0.9453 Yen* 1.5293 -0.48 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.62 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.2673 0.14 4.3390
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    • 364 7  -  UMA SHANKARI Moody's affirms its ratings of the Reit, says the outlook for the ratings is stable STARHILL Global Reit yesterday fell 3.9 per cent amid a broad market pullback a day after the property trust said it will tap the market through
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    • 282 7 HEALTHWAY Medical Corporation yesterday took its first step into the China healthcare industry, signing a conditional convertible loan agreement with Crane Medical, to grant it a convertible loan of $3.3 million. Crane Medical is a Singa-pore-incorporated company which provides medical services in Shanghai.
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    • 130 7 CHINA Yuanbang Holdings Limited announced yesterday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Guangdong Yuanbang Real Estate Development Co Ltd, has obtained a bank loan of 320 million yuan (Ss6B million) for a tenure of three years from the Bank of China, Guangzhou branch. The
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    • 335 7  -  JOANNE TANG It will issue up to 68.75 m new ordinary shares at two cents each PSL Holdings Limited a specialist engineering company offering ground engineering services, equipment rental and hardware supply has proposed a renounceable non-underwritten rights issue to improve the liquidity
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    • 354 7  -  LYNETTE KHOO SGX says 'no' to deadline extension for other options MAVERIC, a shell company on the Singapore Exchange, has appointed Collins Stewart Pte Ltd as the independent financial adviser to advise its directors on an exit offer. This follows a botched
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    • 206 7 ADDVALUE Communications is set to dive deeper into the maritime market with the release of its latest satellite broadband terminal later this month. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of main-board-listed Addvalue Technologies, has completed the design stage for its new Satlink F8350 terminal, a product
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    • 221 7 ENVIRONMENTAL engineering specialist Dayen Environmental has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with two European partners, ConSideß Group and Colsen International, in a strategic alliance to jointly pursue new business opportunities in Asia and the Middle East. Alan Yau, CEO of Dayen, said: "We
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 344 8  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI SINGAPORE WATER WEEK It should be included as part of countries' stimulus packages, says Dr Yaacob THE pace of infrastructure development worldwide has lagged economic growth, but the economic slowdown offers a chance for infrastructure development to catch up. Speaking at the
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    • 279 8 Its aim is to share ideas on making cities liveable THE World Bank-Singa-pore Urban Hub was launched on the sidelines of Singapore International Water Week yesterday. Its aim is to use Singapore's expertise in urban development and the World Bank's knowledge and operational experience to
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    • 478 8  -  LEE U-WEN By SIX months ago, right in the heart of the global economic downturn, Singaporean scientist Adrian Yeo still took the plunge to set up his own company. Called Membrane Instruments and Technology (Mint), the specialist firm aims to develop strategies for
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    • 313 8  -  TEH SHI NING By HYFLUX has signed two agreements for technology collaboration one with Swiss engineering company ABB, and the second, with the Dutch Technology Foundation. Both agreements were inked yesterday, on the sidelines of the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW). The
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    • WATER NOTES
      • 87 8 DUTCH professor Gatze Lettinga, winner of the Lee Kuan Yew Water Prize 2009, delivered the 2nd Singapore Water Lecture yesterday. Prof Lettinga developed a way to treat industrial wastewater using anaerobic technology, which purifies it cost effectively and produces energy, fertiliser and soil conditioner. The
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      • 67 8 SEMBCORP Industries and Nanyang Technological University's Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (NTU-NEWRI) signed an agreement yesterday to explore how technology to remove recalcitrant organic matter from wastewater can be applied to treat complex industrial wastewater. Sembcorp will invest an estimated $1 million in the
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 70 8 THE Singapore International Arbitration Centre yesterday announced its successful bid to host the Conference of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) in 2012. The conference will be hosted at the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort, which is expected to be completed
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      • 80 8 THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) yesterday awarded cheques to the six pioneer recipients of its Lease Buyback Scheme (LBS) at its Queensway branch office. The scheme is a new monetisation option to help elderly households in three-room or smaller flats unlock their housing
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      • 95 8 MORE than 100,000 employers employing about 1.4 million local workers will receive a total of $900 million from the second payment of the Jobs Credit scheme on June 30, 2009, the ministry of finance announced yesterday. The one-year scheme, part of
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    • 300 8  -  BRITTANY KHOO By SCHOOL will resume on Monday, June 29 as scheduled, despite the spread of the HINI flu virus, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said yesterday. But to curb the spread of the virus among students, the Ministry of Education (MOE) will implement precautionary
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    • 330 8  -  TEH SHI NING By THE consumer price index (CPI) rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8 per cent in May from April, due to higher housing and transport and communications costs, the Department of Statistics (DOS) said yesterday. Prices are trending upwards even though Singapore's
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  • BT-NBS ROUNDTABLE
    • 2868 9 OVERVIEW FOLLOWING the global financial crisis, the business world is seeing many changes. Even as corporate restructuring acquires new vigour, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have gained added importance. In an ongoing Nanyang Business School-Business Times Roundtable discussion series, senior professors at Nanyang Technological University's business
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 627 10 AFP Exit strategy a must to avert inflationary spiral even though recovery is tentative [WASHINGTON] The US Federal Reserve needs to start planning its exit strategy from its massive stimulus effort even though economic recovery signs remain tentative, analysts say. At a
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    • 588 10 Reuters Investors concerned over quality of future accounting rules [NEW YORK] The independence of the US accounting rule-making body has been tarnished by recent political pressure over mark-to-market accounting changes, according to a letter sent by an advisory panel of investors to the Financial Accounting
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    • 461 10 -AFP [FRANKFURT] German consumer confidence is edging higher after stagnating for several months but rising unemployment is a risk to any broader pick-up in Europe's biggest economy, a key survey showed yesterday. The widely-watched GfK economic institute index rose to 2.9 points for July from
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    • 248 10 -AFP [WASHINGTON] The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday it ended its latest fiscal year with a profit of US$l26 million, as the global economic crisis spurred higher lending. The Fund said its finances improved markedly after an initial projection of a
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    • 343 10 -AFP [VILNIUS] Lithuania has been able to avoid turning to the IMF for a bailout despite falling victim to a regional economic crisis that sent neighbouring Latvia to the global lender, a senior IMF official said on Monday. "Lithuania has not requested financial assistance at
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  • MALAYSIA
    • 591 11  -  S JAYASANKARAN Malaysia's No 8 bank likely to issue RM2OOm bonds now instead of warrants MALAYSIA'S central bank has blocked a warrant issue to a foreign shareholder of EON Capital. The country's eighth-big-gest lender said on Monday that Bank Negara had rejected the proposed
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    • 536 11  -  PAULINE NG Educational park to be developed jointly with Boustead MALAYSIA'S state investment agency, Khazanah Nasional Bhd yesterday signed an agreement to open a theme park in the Klang Valley in 2012, its second after Legoland in Iskandar, Johor. The RMSO million KidZania theme
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    • 394 11 Bloomberg [KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian construction stocks including Gamuda Bhd, IJM Corp and WCT Bhd are set to benefit from several "fat years" as the government accelerates a slew of development projects, Maybank Investment Bank Bhd said. Prime Minister Najib Razak is yet
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    • 441 11  -  PAULINE NG THE state of Pahang is hoping for better road links to attract more Singaporean investments and tourists, especially if a proposal for a third bridge linking both countries on the eastern side materializes. Following a visit by Singapore's Minister Mentor
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 575 12 Bloomberg Central bank says economy stabilising, but fundamentals still not solid [BEIJING] People's Bank of China vice-governor Su Ning said the world's third-biggest economy is showing positive signs and the government is staying confident. "We will have firm confidence and fight through the difficulties," Mr Su
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    • 433 12 -Reuters Focus on store performance and prudent spending [HONG KONG] After years of breakneck expansion, retailers in China are scaling back and delaying their growth plans as the maturing market enters a new phase of consolidation fuelled by slowing demand and fierce competition. This new
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    • 182 12 Reuters [MUMBAI] Indian fraudtainted outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd, which was acquired by Mahindra Mahindra group, is expected to announce a new chief executive, The Economic Times reported yesterday. Satyam, which would be rebranded as Mahindra Satyam, was once India's fourth-largest outsourcer. It shocked
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    • 734 12 -Reuters Producers tap India's fascination with foreign worlds [NEW YORK] Millions of moviegoers in India recognise the neon signs of Times Square as easily as the Taj Mahal, due to the growing popularity of "Bollywood" movies shot in the United States, particularly
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 633 13 -NYT Reasons include Swiss lobby, clients coming forward, funds repatriated [WASHINGTON] The US Justice Department may drop a closely watched legal case aimed at forcing the Swiss bank ÜBS to divulge the names of 52,000 wealthy American clients suspected of offshore tax evasion, a
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    • 300 13 Reuters [BANGKOK] Thailand's Senate has approved a fast-track executive decree authorising the government to borrow 400 billion baht (Ssl7 billion) to finance economic stimulus spending and fiscal deficits. The Upper House of parliament passed the bill tabled by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva
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    • 528 13 Reuters [SAO PAULO] Citigroup is looking to big emerging markets such as Brazil to underpin the bank's recovery and drive future growth, chief executive Vikram Pandit said on Monday. Speaking to reporters at the bank's Brazilian headquarters in Sao Paulo, Mr Pandit
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    • 616 13 Reuters Possible bank rules may pare revenue, depress share prices [NEW YORK] Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, the world's largest payment networks, could face lower revenue and pressure on their stock prices amid a push for increased US regulation of credit cards. Specifically, Congress is
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    • 907 15 Keuters Move could ramp up bond yields as markets fret over govt fiscal discipline [TOKYO] Japan's government backtracked on 220 billion yen (553.4 billion) in welfare spending cuts yesterday in a bid to lure voters, but the move could send bond yields higher as
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    • 390 15 Bloomberg LATEST US DATA [WASHINGTON] Home resales in the US rose in May for a second month as record foreclosures caused prices to drop. Purchases increased 2.4 per cent to an annual rate of 4.77 million, lower than forecast, the National Association of Realtors
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    • 788 15 Reuters [YOKOHAMA] Toyota Motor Corp and Nissan Motor Co promised shareholders they would do better to recover from the worst industry downturn in a generation, each focusing on different types of cleaner cars to steer their revival. Japan's No 1 and No 3 carmakers
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    • 406 15 -NYT [NEW YORK] First, hedge funds battled the markets. Now they are battling Washington. After a tumultuous run for many of these funds, this normally secretive corner of Wall Street is mobilising its money and power to fend off tougher oversight, higher taxes and
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    • 713 14 Reuters Speculation has mounted that he could be back at the helm soon [SAN FRANCISCO] Apple Inc chief executive Steve Jobs was at the company's headquarters on Monday, underscoring speculation the pancreatic cancer survivor may have returned to work. Mr Jobs, who has
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    • 553 14 -NYT Anglo board says deal would 'lack strategic merit' [LONDON] Anglo American rejected on Monday a proposal to merge from the British-Swiss mining company Xstrata, calling a combination "unattractive" and Xstrata's terms "totally unacceptable". The board of Anglo American, a diversified mining company that
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    • 480 14 -AP [LONDON] British lawmakers have elected a new speaker of the House of Commons, part of a bid to put the political storm over their lavish taxpayer-fund-ed expenses behind them. Opposition lawmaker John Bercow was elected on Monday to replace former speaker
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    • 262 14 -AFP [WASHINGTON] US telecom carrier T-Mobile announced on Monday that the latest version of a touch-screen smartphone featuring Google's Android software would be available in August. The T-Mobile myTouch 3G is being seen as T-Mo-bile and Google's answer in the highly competitive smartphone market
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    • 452 14 Reuters [NEW YORK] A brokerage firm and a Hollywood investment adviser that were key middlemen for Wall Street thief Bernard Madoff were hit with civil fraud charges on Monday, accused of steering new clients into the swindler's lair as he sought to keep his
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    • 515 16 -AFP Tianjin plant will deliver 10 A 319/320 aircraft by the end of the year [TIANJIN] European aviation giant Airbus delivered the first A 320 aircraft made at its factory in China yesterday, in an event hailed as a landmark in SinoEuropean cooperation. A giant red
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    • 389 16 -AFP [STOCKHOLM] The next edition of the Volvo yacht race in 2011-2012 will be shorter and less costly and will have more entries, in order to be more competitive and hopefully more exciting for the public, organisers said on Monday. The changes
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    • 700 16  -  DAVID HUGHES STRAIT TALK Recruitment firm Faststream has taken an in-depth look By SO, just how bad has the shipping services sector got? The answer, it seems, may well be, "Not quite as bad as you may have thought". UK-based recruitment company Faststream says that
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    • 219 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] Airbus and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on aircraft financing and leasing. The agreement is aimed at sharing competence and experience to cooperate on aircraft financing and management activities, the two
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    • 447 16 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] More attention should be given to the role of technology in order to sustain the efforts towards combating security threats in the Strait of Malacca, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said. "While we have been clear and unequivocal
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    • TRANSPORT STOCKS
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      • 36 16 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings NeplineBhd PDZ Holdings 0.90 8.70 8.75 3.10 2.75 0.02 0.09 -0.01 0.15 0.25 -0.04 -0.01 -0.01 0.01 391 28! 39! 81) r 101 537)
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    • TRANSPORT HUB: SHIPPING
      • 1459 17  -  STUTI NAUTIYA By IN today's high-tech world, the maritime industry is generally considered a laggard. But given the phenomenal growth in sea trade over the past decade, this is changing fast. Ports, for instance, have benefited considerably from information and communication technology (ICT). Ports and
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    • TRANSPORT HUB: AVIATION
      • 442 18 Bloomberg It will trim overseas seating capacity by another 5% after peak travel season [NEW YORK] Delta Air Lines Inc, the world's largest carrier, said that the additional capacity cuts it announced this month were needed because of an "increasingly challenging" economy during
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      • 168 18 .-AFP [NEW YORK] United Airlines said on Monday that it was cutting an additional 600 flight attendant jobs in response to slumping demand for travel due to a weak global economy. "The continued challenging economic environment, combined with significantly lower flight attendant attrition, has resulted
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      • 348 18 -AP [PARIS] The French newspaper he Monde reported yesterday that French military ships have detected a signal from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths. The report says a mini research submarine, the Nautile, dived on Monday to search for
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      • 816 18 -NYT [NEW YORK] At the Cincin-nati-Northern Kentucky International Airport, passengers are so scarce that a long-term parking lot will soon be turned into temporary housing for 900 horses attending equestrian games in the nearby bluegrass countryside. It is an apt image going from
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      • 2563 18 AIRLINE CODES: AA American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), Al Air India (AIC), AY Finnair Oy (FIN), AZ Alitalia Airlines (AZA), BA British Airways Public Ltd Co (BAW), BG Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBC), Bl Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd (RBA), BO Bouraq Airlines (BOU), BR
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 419 20 THE $20.5 billion Resilience Package is in the process of working its way through the economy. But with growth for 2009 now projected to be significantly lower than initially expected in January, a second stimulus package is well worth considering. In Asia, Hong Kong, Malaysia
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    • 1065 20  -  LEON HADAR The President is intent on getting the healthcare legislation passed by Congress this year IT'S beginning to feel as though the American political system is reverting to an election campaign mode. Is President Barack Obama running for re-election? That was at
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    • 692 20  -  SHADA ISLAM THE BOTTOM LINE DON'T hold your breath. Last week's European Union summit may have cleared up some of the institutional confusion that has engulfed the 27-member bloc for the last few years but it's going to take many more months
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    • 1301 21  -  SURESH MARIMUTHU SEOW TIEN LONG Decline in sukuk issuance due to syariah compliance issues may see Islamic banks and private equity filling the vacuum By and EVER since the collapse and subsequent nationalisation of many conventional financial institutions around the globe, the world credit
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    • 775 21  -  THEMIN SUWARDY KHOO TENG AUN By and WHEN a company announces its financial results, most analysts and media coverage tend to focus on its income statement, usually with year-on-year or other periodic comparisons of performance. Typically, one would probably expect to see the
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    • 762 21  -  Mak Yuen Teen LETTER TO THE EDITOR I REFER to the editorial "Important to guard against overreaction" (BT, June 23). The risk of overreaction to corporate governance failures seems to be a constant theme in articles, and in speeches by regulators and government
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    • 8562 22 Transaction date: Jun 23 52-wks Tel |h Low Code Last Sale Vol Cooo) Hi: Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net 111 Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E M Cap Sniil Hi! Com| >ari] 8 3 3148 8Telecom 10 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 30.5 12 5000 ABRHIdgs 15 5.5 1938
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    • 1583 23 52-wks Tel High Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net ('000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E M Cap $mil 19 5 1181 s AAGrp 32 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 05 1501 s Advanced System 8.5 2 3480 t Adventus 27.5
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    • 371 23 52-Wk Tel h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) Day Ih Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil Hi. Comi Hi. 109 100 6389 ABFSG Bond ETF 107.1 905 427 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US617 -36 246 149 DBS STI ETF 100 226 -5 2772
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    • 256 23 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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    • 9340 23 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS I UNIT TRUSTS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced Fund!S 1.785/ AIGIF Spore Bond Fund/A 1.257/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 0.93/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!" 0.64/ APS Komaba Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Komaba Global Bond SGD 0.5096/
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 368 24 %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Jun 22 World Index Preliminary 685.6 -2.1 1.1 -2.0 3.7 -2.3 2.4 t EAFE Preliminai 657.9 -1.7 1.4 -1.6 4.8 -1.9 3.5 Euro[ Prelim inan 891.7 -2.8 -2.2 -2.8 2.9 -3.1 1.6
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    • 126 24 As at 9am Jun23 of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.1340 1.1700 Can dollar 1.2570 1.2730 Euro 2.0110 2.0360 NZ dollar 0.9100 0.9310 Sterlini ind 2.3700 2.4001 US dollar 1.4520 1.4710 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Chi renminbi
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    • 15 24 Jun23 STI SIMSCI Jun 271.8 272.4 266.6 Taiwan Jun 227.0 227.6 223.3
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    • 295 24 Jun 23 EURODOLLAR FUTURES SepO9 DecO9 Mar10 Jun10 99.2550 98.9850 98.7000 98.3250 ***** 3490 4654 2891 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES SepO9 99.500 99.500 DecO9 Mar10 99.510 99.510 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 99.495 99.510 99.495 99.500 99.490 99.465 99.410 99.365 99.280 99.220 316 9 20 9484 2694 2498
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    • 167 24 Jun 23 Overnight 0.08 1-month 7/16 2-months 9/16 3-months 11/16 Overnight mode: 1/16 US$ Offer 0.03 3/16 5/16 7/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months >—■. I. $Au 0.37 0.42 0.75 0.85 1.10 1.80 1.90 Offer 0.27 0.32 0.45 0.55 0.80
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    • 21 24 Jun 23 Bid Offer 1-month 1.4585 1.4606 2-months 1.4585 1.4607 3-months 1.4585 1.4607 6-months 1.4584 1.4607 Source: OCBC
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    • 174 24 Jun23 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l lots) Jul 09 159.6 Aug 09 Sep 09 Oct 09 NOV09 Dec 09 159.0 159.0 160.0 160.0 157.0 156.5 156.5 154 566 574 640 1086 936 1276 TSR 20 (US cents/kg)
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    • 86 24 Jun 23 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Day's |h Low Hi, 3-Month BQ*****E 24.09.09 1-Year BY*****W 03.05.10 0.25 0.35 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Hio Day's cjh Low 2-Year N*****0E 3.125 5-Year NX*****F 3.625 7-Year N*****0S 2.875 10-Year NX*****W 2.500 15-Year NY*****X
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    • 101 24 Jun22 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Jul 09 1151.50 1179.00 1184.50 1150.50 Aug 09 1090.00 1120.00 1123.00 1088.75 Sep 09 1023.00 1050.50 1051.00 1017.25 Nov09 981.00 1006.00 1009.25 970.75 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Jul 09 35.93 36.53 36.75 35.68 Aug
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    • 76 24 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Jun22 CRUDE (FOB origin) US$/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 66.82 -4.46 WTI (Near Mth) 66.87 -2.77 Dubai (1-Mth F) 67.50 -3.23 Tapis blend 71.65 -3.75 Minas 69.70 -3.50 PRODUCT US$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 65.05 77.20 -2.40 -2.30 US$/barrel Opec Oil Basket
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    • 444 24 Jun 23 Australia 0.904 5.347 0.563 6.063 38.178 81.823 0.745 10.097 2.774 1.241 63.304 37.877 1.142 6.449 0.846 25.751 26.737 0.481 0.782 Canada 1.107 5.917 0.623 6.709 42.248 90.547 0.824 11.173 3.069 1.374 70.053 41.915 1.263 7.137 0.937 28.497 29.588 0.532 0.866 China 0.187 0.169 0.105 1.134
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    • 78 24 Jun 23 (US$) (SS) 0.***** 0.***** 1 mth 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 1.***** 0.***** 9 mths 1.***** 0.***** 12 mths 1.***** 0.***** SWAP Offer rates (S$) 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 1.***** 9mths 1.***** 12 mths 1.*****
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    • 153 24 Jun 23 Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.1406 1.1426 0.7821 0.7824 Canadian dollar 1.2621 1.2645 0.8654 0.8659 Euro 2.0262 2.0294 1.3893 1.3896 NZ dollar 0.9186 0.9206 0.6299 0.6304 Sterling 2.3712 2.3750 1.6259 1.626: US dollar 1.4584 1.4604 S$IUS$
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    • 136 24 Jun 23 /oz) lun lun Hong Kong London 931.70 918.20 932.70 919.20 Jun 19 Jun 22 935.15 921.00 935.95 922.00 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Jun 23 Buying Sellini Kilobar "46,664.84" ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Selling Buying 1gm 5gm 10gm 20gm 50gm 100gm 1 oz 1
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    • 70 24 Jun 22 minimum, 99.7 jrity (US$/tonne) Co Close Previous Cash 1542.50 1650.50 3 months 1574.00 1680.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months 4738.50 4761.00 5008.75 5030.00 Lead (US$/tonne) Cash 1579.00 3 months 1602.00 1671.50 1695.00 Nickel (US$/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (US$/tonne) Cash
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    • 71 24 Jun 22 (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Jul 09 1556 1570 1573/1550 SepO9 1584 1601 1601/1578 Dec 09 1586 1607 1605/1580 Mar 10 1586 1603 1598/1580 COFFEE (US$/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Jul 09 1349 1344 1364/1331 SepO9 1379 1370 1390/1357 Nov09 1400 1391 1410/1382 SUGAR (US tonne) White Close
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    • 2434 24 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETLEMENT Pel lode Company Last Sale Vol Conv Exer +or- ("000) Ratio Price Disc Gear- Mths ing Left Asia-PacificStrategicW*****6 3 -0.5 112 >036AdvanceSCTLtdW*****9 0.5 1 15 -3 6.17 1 87 1491 11.00 59 14 3092 Asia Environment W*****4 0.5 5816 #Asiasons Capital Ltd W*****7 7 !756# Asiatic
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    • 981 27  -  JOSEPH CHONG Exchange-traded funds now straddle virtually all asset classes and have become a global phenomenon GLOBAL equity markets are roughly unchanged year to date. But this statistical calm masks a roller-coaster ride. Stocks fell 30 per cent until the second week of March before rebounding
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    • 2134 27  -  DEVIN LEONARD -NYT [NEWPORT BEACH, California] Every day, Bill Gross, the world's most successful bond fund manager, withdraws into a conference room at lunchtime with his lieutenants to discuss his firm's investments. The blinds are drawn to keep out the sunshine,
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    • 844 28 Strategists are bullish on the region even though some expect sharp corrections in the rebound, reports GENEVIEVE CUA ASIAN equities are getting the thumbs up from strategists, even as some expect interim market corrections to be sharp. Based on the MSCI Asia Pacific ex Japan
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    • 746 28  -  TOM PETRUNO -LAT/WP By [NEW YORK] WALL Street's rally since mid-March has been strong enough to persuade many Americans to stop selling their stock mutual funds and start buying again. But even as money has begun to flow back into stock funds, that new investment has
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