The Business Times, 14 October 2009

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  • 20 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Ssl.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg S|d^l A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION COREGNNOI9B4O2B6BE MICA (P) 123/08/2009 Wednesday, October 14,2009
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  • 814 1  -  CHUANG PECK MING 6-month extension to help employers cope before more targeted measures kick in By [SINGAPORE] The Jobs Credit scheme has served its purpose and kept retrenchment numbers low, but the government will not abruptly yank it away from
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  • 661 1  -  MICHELLE QUAH Electronic voting based on 'one-share, one-vote' is fairer, says the company By [SINGAPORE] The Singapore Exchange's (SGX) annual general meeting yesterday saw the company being the first here to introduce electronic poll voting for all its resolutions. It
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 43 1 uesi lay lange 1COMP 1,233.51 +0.18 IIKKEI225 10,076.56 +60.17 IANG SENG 21,467.36 +168.01 ;et index 746.67 -5.19 JAKARTA COM P 2,471.99 +15.31 IANILACOMP 2,930.09 -0.88 ;eoulcomp 1,628.93 -10.88 ;henzhen b 519.67 -0.33 IUMBAI IND Closed 12 noon EDT Cham )OW 9,889.50 +3.70
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    • 29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 15.473 TAIWAN 4.776 JAPAN 1.475 KOREA 9.33 BRITAIN 0.50 US 3.25 CANADA 2.25 SWITZERLAND 0.52 INDIA 11.75 Source:
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    • 45 1 IS$ (S$ ier US$) 1.398 (US$/S$ >er£) 1.577 2.205 ;URO (US$/S$/E) 1.478 2.066 Foreign currency per US$ S$ 'EN 90.10 64.40 3.391 2.425 IK$ 7.750 5.542 !AHT 33.33 23.84 1UPIAH 9,455 6,762 1ENMINBI 6.826 4.881 INDIAN RUPEE 46.14 33.00 1.103 0.789 IZ$ 1.358 0.971
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 43 1 TRANSPORT HUB EXECUTIVE MONEY COMPANIES jTN DEALMAKERS LTA Academy aims to Wealthy in Asia-Pac OCBC confirms m Spore lawyer among Asia's be knowledge hub hit harder talks with ING top 25 M&A lawyers PAGE 23 PAGE 34 PAGE 5 1 feft PAGE 9
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  • TOP STORIES
    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 73 2 THE Jobs Credit scheme has served its purpose and kept retrenchment numbers low, but the government will not abruptly yank it away from employers. Instead, the scheme has been extended for another six months though its payouts will be stepped
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      • 60 2 THE Singapore Exchange's annual general meeting yesterday saw the company being the first here to introduce electronic poll voting for all its resolutions. It also issued Investor Guides to its shareholders, to help them in preparing for an AGM and
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      • 68 2 SINGAPORE'S two pay-television rivals will lock horns on the soccer pitch once more in their bid to snap up broadcast rights for the Fifa 2010 World Cup tournament. Singapore Telecommunications has confirmed that it will be looking to add
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      • 55 2 THE unemployment rate will stay up for some time even with the economy bouncing back, according to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. In the near term, the unemployment rate may well rise beyond the 3.3 per cent posted in the second quarter, he said
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      • 61 2 SHARES of Malaysian carmaker Proton Holdings gained 1.5 per cent to RM4.07 yesterday on market speculation that the company may be taken over. At least three parties have been identified as interested DRB-Hicom, the Naza auto group and Proton's management, whose chairman Nadzmi
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      • 70 2 OCBC Bank has confirmed that it is in talks with Dutch bank ING over a potential acquisition, following reports it is bidding for ING's Asian private banking assets. Separately, OCBC said yesterday it will spend 2.2 billion yuan (Ss4sl million) to raise its
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      • 62 2 SINGAPORE Exchange defended chairman JY Pillay's $750,000 annual salary yesterday when a shareholder questioned whether his pay should track SGX's performance, which suffered during the market slide. SGX director Low Check Kian said that unlike the chairmen of other stock exchanges,
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      • 64 2 OFFICE trust K-Reit Asia said yesterday that its third-quarter distributable income rose 18 per cent on the back of positive rental reversions. Distributable income for the three months ended Sept 30 rose to $18 million, from $15.2 million a year ago. Distribution
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      • 62 2 MANY private banking clients are still cautious, but the stash of cash built up during the financial crisis is gradually returning to financial markets, according to senior private bankers at Credit Suisse. Most customers, however, are still reluctant to make investments that tie
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    • 462 2  -  WINSTON CHAI Bidding now open; results expected to be announced in next six months By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's two pay-television rivals will lock horns on the soccer pitch once more in their bid to snap up broadcast rights for the
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    • 456 2  -  WINSTON CHAI SingTel's exclusive reign over, iPhone prices may fall By [SINGAPORE] Mobile One has finally been given a bite at the iPhone, a move which breaks Singapore Tele communications's year-long stranglehold on the coveted touch-screen handset. The iPhone will go on
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    • 353 4  -  CHUANG PECK MING JOBS CREDIT SCHEME One reason is that jobless numbers tend to lag behind economic recovery By [SINGAPORE] The unemployment rate will stay up for some time even with the economy bouncing back, according to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. In the near
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    • 428 4  -  S JAYASANKARAN 3 parties interested; DRB-Hicom seen as leading contender By! in Kuala Lumpur SHARES of Malaysian carmaker Proton Holdings gained 1.5 per cent to RM4.07 yesterday on market speculation that the company may be taken over. At least three parties have been
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    • 567 4  -  SIOW LI SEN Private bank's Asia chief promises replacement hiring By [SINGAPORE] Not even a month into his job, Nick Pollard, chief executive of RBS Coutts Asia, is dealing with a major challenge patching a hole left by
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    • 766 4  -  FELDA CHAY Lower payouts not expected to spark unemployment spike By [SINGAPORE] The decision to extend the Jobs Credit Scheme (JCS) by six months beyond December is no surprise and reflects the government's cautious approach to the sustainability of economic recovery, economists say. "The move
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    • 447 4 Reuters Potential curbs would limit oversupply in gambling market and help profits [HONG KONG] Macau's move to review gaming rules in the world's fas-test-growing gambling market could brighten the outlook for casino stocks as potential curbs would help profits by limiting oversupply, analysts said
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 566 5  -  CONRAD TAN Bank also spending 2.2b yuan to raise Bank of Ningbo stake to 15.1% By OCBC Bank has confirmed that it is in talks with Dutch bank ING over a potential acquisition, following reports it is bidding for ING's Asian private banking assets. Meanwhile, a
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    • 382 6  -  JAMIE LEE Shareholder asks why annual salary is not tied to SGX performance By SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) defended chairman JY Pillay's $750,000 annual salary yesterday when a shareholder questioned whether his pay should track SGX's performance, which suffered during the market
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    • 619 6  -  MICHELLE QUAH SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) has blazed a trail for other companies here by being the first to have full poll voting for all its resolutions at its annual general meeting (AGM). In tough economic times as these, where shareholder engagement is
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    • 557 6  -  RONNIE LIM It expects to benefit from cost sharing, economies of scale Byf SINGAPORE-listed exploration and production (E&P) player Ramba Energy has roped in Chinese oil giant PetroChina for technical assistance in its search for oil and gas at the recently acquired Lemang Block
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    • 372 6 [JAKARTA] Straits Asia Resources said that it expects to meet its 2009 coal output target of nine million tonnes by offsetting a shortfall at its Indonesian mine in other ways, and may allocate US$3OO-400 million for long-term mining acquisitions. Straits Asia, a Singa-pore-listed
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    • 149 6 Bloomberg BIOSENSORS International Group Ltd, the Singaporebased maker of medical devices such as catheter systems and blood pressure equipment, plans to issue bonds and detachable warrants to refinance maturing debt. A group of "anchor investors" will buy or find buyers for $27.5 million of 8.5
      – Bloomberg  -  149 words
    • 399 7  -  UMA SHANKARI Net property income up 29% over Q308; trust eyes more local, regional acquisitions By OFFICE trust K-Reit Asia said yesterday that its third-quarter distributable income rose 18 per cent on the back of positive rental reversions. Distributable income for the
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    • 171 7 STARHUB and Mobile One appear to subscribe to the notion that the way to their customers' hearts could be through their stomachs. The two operators have joined hands with Singapore Press Holdings' mobile search platform Rednano Mobile to offer a
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    • 286 7 Bloomberg NOBLE Group Ltd, the Hong Kong-based supplier of raw materials from soybeans to sugar and steel, may close US$l.B billion in loans this week, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. A revolving US$l.2 billion loan in equal
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 56 7 ST Engineering's marine arm, ST Marine, has been awarded a $108 million contract by The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) for the logistics management of the RSN's warehouses at its Changi and Tuas Naval Bases. The six-year contract commenced on Oct 1 with
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      • 36 7 ASIA Tiger Group has proposed to change its name to The Think Environmental Co Ltd to reflect its strategic focus on investments in the green and renewable energy space.
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      • 51 7 DEUTSCHE Bank has received approval-in-principle to become a bank clearing member of the Central Depository (CDP) on Singapore Exchange (SGX). This will allow it to offer third-party clearing services for SGX and expand its existing suite of custody and related products in
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    • 96 7 ARTHUR LEE IN STUNNING red cycling gear with helmets on, these four "space-cyclists" waltzed down Orchard Road during lunch-time yesterday. Their mime-like motions amused passersby. Curious onlookers were left wondering whether they were promoting the latest in cycling attire, membership to a new fitness club or an
      – ARTHUR LEE  -  96 words
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 677 8  -  OH BOON PING CURRENCIES Prices soar as investors still look to commodities as a hedge against inflation COMMODITIES continue to be the name of the game, as gold and oil soared to fresh highs at the US dollar's expense. Yesterday, the yellow
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    • 227 8 Changes since Dec 31,2008 YEAR TO DATE OCT 13'09 HIGH LOW CLOSE CHNG USS vs CURRENCY JPY 90.00 -0.67 101.45 87.11 SGD 1.3985 -2.22 1.5579 1.4082 IDR 9455 -12.86 ***** 9425 THB 33.32 -4.02 36.31 33.31 CNY 6.8275 0.07 6.8560 6.8190 MYR 3.3920 -1.71 3.7370 3.2195 CURRENCY
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    • 101 8 Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch lulti Ind 7 7 3 0 0 0 7 7 3 lanufacturing 64 47 74 16 66 49 90 Commerce 21 23 25 25 28 30 "pt/Stor/Comms 16 12 13 17 12 15 ■inance 12 12 instruction 12
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    • 109 8 MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN SDQ TOTAL lulti Ind 103,016 103,016 87,120 87,120 lanufacturing 458,661 35,297 493,958 255,890 2,548 258,438 Commerce 155,360 54,871 210,231 136,080 15,138 151,219 ■pt/Stor/Comms 151,814 12,003 163,817 201,736 3,355 205,091 :inance 35,834 30 35,864 133,092 133,095 Construction 181,949 2,992 184,941 31,466 105 31,571 'roperties
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    • 98 8 lapitaLand 3.930 -0.060 Noble Grp 2.570 +0.010 lapitaMall 1.660 -0.030 OCBC Bk 7.650 -0.030 lityDev 9.900 -0.020 Olam 2.640 +0.050 lomfortDelGrc 1.610 -0.020 SGX 8.490 -0.010 losco Corp 1.200 +0.020 SIA 14.160 +0.260 IBSGrp 12.980 -0.020 SIA Engg 2.690 -0.040 :&N 3.880 SMP.T 1.730 ienting SP
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    • Article, Illustration
      747 8  -  JOYCE HOOI Mobile One Ltd Oct 13 close: $1.90 DBS GROUP RESEARCH, Oct 13 Ml announced yesterday that it would bring iPhone to Singapore in the later part of 2009. We understand that Star Hub could still be in talks with Apple. It is possible that Ml could
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    • 558 8  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS IT'S not often that a day in which $1.3 billion worth of business gets done is described as "insipid" and "boring" by brokers who spent most of their time twiddling their thumbs and fighting to stay awake. Yesterday however, was
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    • 4 8 DAILY
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    • 62 8 Oct 13 VALUE CLOSE IT OB/OS -500.00 -63.0C IT CADI -*****.00 +4.0' IT 10-day MA -*****.00 -50.0' TSE ST Mid Cap 622.22 +0.4! TSE ST Small Cap 537.39 -0.6i TSE ST All Share 657.09 -2.3, TSE ST China Top 276.62 +0.1 TSE ST China 292.73 -2.4! TSE
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    • 55 8 VOLUME UniFiber 114,464,000 Gentinq SP 71,496,000 Transcu Grp 69,212,000 ChinaTaisan 68,437,000 Golden Agri 47,855,000 Ziwo 44,196,000 Gallant 42,523,000 EcoWise 41,250,000 GuocoLeisure 38,051,000 Hoe Leonq 36,335,000 VALUE(S) Gentinq SP 80,855,890 Chart SemiCond 59,248,800 Sing Tel 48,544,290 Olam 47,717,520 DBS Grp 46,135,082 UOB 32,815,644 CityDev 30,385,760 Capita Land 29,397,710
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    • 111 8 CLOSE UP ***** 409.5 2.7 DBXT Ni 10US$ iLDIOUSj ***** 166.3 1.2 India Ni 10 1635 105.0 6.9 DBXT FTVietnam 10US! 5542 102.0 1.3 LatinAmerica 1 788 81.1 7.9 Emen |in< |Mkts 1 957 79.7 6.3 ilA.ES.0910 1432 44.0 3.2 ilA 200 1422 34.0 2.4 DBXT S&P Short 10US$
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    • 111 8 CLOSE DOWN 2960-123.0 -2.9 IMH DBXT FTChina25 10US! 3014 -62.9 -1.5 ISH 1738 -50.3 -2.0 lardine C&C 2550 -50.0 -1.9 ICBC Bk4.5%NCPS 100 9550 -38.0 -0.4 UOB 1660 -14.0 -0.8 HKLand 464 -11.2 -1.7 'enture Con 930 -11.0 -1.2 'BL Con 460 -10.0 -2.1 reat Eastern 1332 -8.0 -0.6
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    • 82 8 Oct13 CLOSE CHNG FR0O12 YR SSLOW R2009 S$ HIGH USS 1.3985 0.02 1.5579 1.3915 Euro 2.0658 -0.26 2.0897 1.9150 Pounds 2.1989 0.33 2.4366 2.0356 1.2670 -0.21 1.2670* 0.9453 ren* 1.5539 -0.28 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** -0.19 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.1978 -0.07 4.3390 4.1040 Peso* 3.0088 -0.30
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 66 9 THE Public Utilities Board (PUB) yesterday said that its wholly owned subsidiary PUB Consultants has clinched a $2.3 million contract from Saudi Arabia's National Water Company to act as an independent auditor assessing the management contractor for Riyadh city's water and water services. The
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      • 47 9 THE University of California, Santa Barbara and Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics have forged a "green electronics" research collaboration agreement to develop ultra-efficient nano-scale transistors and explore their circuit-level functionality. Researchers hope to achieve energy efficiency by reducing power leakage in electronic products.
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      • 93 9 THE Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has given six Economist Service Awards to outstanding economics students from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University. At the presentation ceremony, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang urged students to
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      • 85 9 MANPOWER Minister Gan Kirn Yong will visiting Tangshan in China's Hebei province from tomorrow until Saturday as economic adviser to the Strategic Cooperation Framework (SCF). The SCF was signed by International Enterprise Singapore and the Tangshan municipal government last year to enhance economic collaboration
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    • 480 9  -  RONNIE LIM When new partner PetroChina comes on board, plant will get support it needs By SINGAPORE Refining Company's (SRC) shelved US$4OO million clean gasoline and cogeneration plant on Jurong Island is expected to get the go-ahead shortly, once new partner PetroChina comes
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    • 338 9  -  NISHA RAMCHANDANI By S&W Fine Foods International, which produces and markets processed and fresh fruit and vegetables, is looking to grow its fresh foods business. "People are interested in fresh fruit and vegetables in particular as they seek a healthier lifestyle," said Richard Blossom,
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    • 526 9  -  LYNETTE KHOO By ALLEN Gledhill managing partner Lucien Wong has been named among Asia's top 25 M&A (merger and acquisition) lawyers by the Asian Legal Business (ALB), the only Singapore lawyer to join the prestigious list of in-demand dealmakers. Specialising in
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    • 507 10  -  CONRAD TAN Customers remain reluctant to tie up cash in longer-term investments By MANY private banking clients are still cautious, but the stash of cash built up during the financial crisis is gradually returning to financial markets, according to senior private bankers at Credit
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    • 415 10  -  JOYCE HOOI By PROMPTING one of the rare occasions Singaporeans will wish they were in Russia, the latest Mercer survey has found that employees in countries such as Finland, Brazil and Russia have among the highest number of statutory holidays.
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    • 387 10  -  CHEN HUIFEN By SINGAPORE will spend about $10 million over the next five years to development a medical technology (medtech) industry, identified as a new growth area. The investment will come from the industry, the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SlMTech) and
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  • THE WAY FORWARD
    • 1633 11 The economic crisis has thrown up critical issues, such as the usefulness of fair value accounting, reports MICHELLE QUAH THE current economic crisis has thrown the spotlight on the integrity of financial reporting: many blame the accounting profession for not giving fair warning of the crisis
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 622 12 Bloomberg Statistics point to growing diversification among nations [LONDON] Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing US dollars in favour of euros and yen. The greenback has already suffered its biggest two-quarter rout in almost two decades. Policymakers boosted
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    • 318 12 Reuters [KARACHI] Pakistan's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to remain unchanged at 2 per cent in the 2009-10 fiscal year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. That is sharply lower than the government's GDP growth target for this July-June fiscal year,
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    • 439 12 Reuters As a compromise, it proposes extending taxes for 15 months [BRUSSELS] The European Commission has proposed extending anti-dumping duties on EU imports of Chinese and Vietnamese shoes for at least 15 months in a compromise to appease Beijing and global shoe makers, a
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    • 418 12 [WASHINGTON] Even as the United States tentatively rises from its recessionary depths, many small and midsize American businesses are still struggling to secure bank loans, impeding their expansion plans and constraining overall economic growth. Most banks expect their lending standards to
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    • 518 12 Reuters Region's turnaround from recession looks set to continue [HONG KONG] Asia's economic recovery is on a firmer footing than three months ago, with China set to easily reach its 8 per cent growth target this year and expand 9
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    • 331 13 The Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce Industry (SICCI) DBS Bank congratulate the recipients of our Awards for 2009 I 'r*DU"SJPv 1 I f ill .^^h' v Irt11 TO Ahi I CI —D B S jß i-- rf^ j--_^ Singapore Jndijn J*^^^s«fverSpons^B F -..-',ntj# I Fntrepreneur I" T^^T Mr Sat Pal
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 447 14  -  PAULINE NG Hub will support its networks in offices, R&D, manufacturing sites in 85 countries By in Kuala Lumpur PHARMACEUTICAL and consumer healthcare multinational Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) plans to spend an additional RM6O million (5524.7 million) on top of the RMII
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    • 550 14 Reuters [JAKARTA] Indonesia's next government plans to prioritise pushing through new laws on compulsory land acquisitions to help speed up desperately needed infrastructure development, a top government economic adviser said yesterday. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is due next week to unveil his Cabinet for
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  • INDIA
    • 529 15 Unemployment high prices, corruption, utility shortages to influence outcome [MUMBAI] India's ruling Congress Party faced its first electoral test yesterday since victory at national polls in May, with voters in three states delivering their verdict on rising food prices and job
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    • 391 15 Bloomberg Investors are betting on increasing energy demand in the nation [NEW DELHI] Indiabulls Power Ltd, a utility partly owned by billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, got more than 64.8 billion rupees (Ss2 billion) of bids, or 5.8 times the shares in its initial
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    • 484 15 Reuters [MUMBAI] India's festival season has triggered a jump in gold sales, but imports for the year are still likely to halve from last year, a top official at HDFC Bank said on Monday. September had seen a sudden rise in demand
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    • 575 16 Reuters Among the provisional winners are BHP Billiton and Cairn India [NEW DELHI] India's auction of oil and gas exploration blocks met a tepid response as the economic slump, valuations and a corporate battle over the sale of gas from Reliance Industries' field deterred
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  • GREATER CHINA
    • 621 17 Reuters Two countries on the verge of signing a tentative gas supply agreement [BEIJING] Russia and China bolstered their close but increasingly imbalanced relationship yesterday when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ushered through deals worth US$3.5 billion and looked to sign
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    • 359 17 Reuters [SHANGHAI] A Bank of China (BOC) executive will take up a senior post at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a person with direct knowledge of the situation said yesterday, as China seeks more power in the Washingtonbased agency. Executive vice-president Zhu
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    • 681 17 HKsl.3b figure tops presale estimate of HK$95O million [HONG KONG] Sotheby's, the world's largest publicly traded art-auction house, raised HK$l.3 billion (***** million) in its Hong Kong sale recently, helped by mainland Chinese buyers dominating every category, setting records for furniture and Chateau Petrus
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    • 46 17 IN the report "Rare blue diamond sets Asian record" (BT, Oct 9), the accompanying picture was incorrect. Reproduced on the left is the correct photo of the 8.74-carat blue diamond that fetched a record HK$43.B million at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong.
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 552 18 Reuters With values running 25% below peak, they can't charge full fees [NEW YORK] Hedge funds have rallied from last year's stunning losses, yet hundreds of managers face some tough decisions in the coming weeks. The fund industry suffered one of its worst years
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    • 697 18  -  RICHARD VINES Bloomberg Former 3-Michelin-star Pierre Koffmann returns to the stove By I [LONDON] Temporary structures are nothing new in London. The Millennium Dome was one, as was the London Eye. On a less grandiose scale, we now have a pop-up restaurant on
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    • 571 18 -NYT [NEW YORK] Bank of America's board has voted to reveal the legal advice that the bank received in its merger with Merrill Lynch late last year. The stunning reversal, approved by the board last Friday, removes a significant
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    • 273 18 Bloom- berg [TOKYO] The Michelin Guide said that it gave top billing to six traditional restaurants in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto and one French eatery in Osaka in its debut coverage of the cities that pays homage to local
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    • WORLD WATCH
      • 67 18 Reuters [DUBAI] Banks in the United Arab Emirates are facing a liquidity shortfall of up to US$ll billion and are suffering from bad debt due to unsecured lending, a Standard Chartered executive said yesterday. Shayne Nelson, the bank's chief executive in the Middle East, told
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      • 104 18 AFP [PARIS] Eurotunnel, the operator of the rail link between Britain and France, said yesterday it would be a buyer for the high-speed line to London being put up for sale by the British government. "We are candidates, obviously, to buy High Speed One, firstly
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      • 103 18 Bloomberg [PARIS] Businesses and governments need to invest at least US$2.4 trillion between now and 2050 to capture carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants and factories and pump them underground, the International Energy Agency (lEA) said. The funding is required to develop 3,400
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      • 61 18 Bloomberg [BANGKOK] Thai Cabinet approved more than 230 billion baht (559.63 billion) of projects, Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said. The additional projects bring the total investment planned under a three-year plan to boost economic growth to 1.3 trillion baht, from the 1.06 trillion baht
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    • 177 18 Reuters, Bloomberg, AP [MELBOURNE] Australian publisher Fairfax Media has named Roger Corbett, former chief of top supermarkets group Woolworths Ltd, as chairman, ending a battle over the post stoked by the group's biggest shareholder. Mr Corbett is now deputy chairman of the group, publisher of
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  • WORLD
    • 604 19 -NYT Q3 earnings forecast to be sharply lower, but problems seem to be easing [NEW YORK] After several quarters of multibillion-dol-lar write-offs, the troubles for many of the big US banks may be starting to ease and even show signs of
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    • 342 19 [NEW YORK] Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein's illness has raised questions about the M&A advisory firm's leadership and succession plan, sending its shares lower. Lazard late on Sunday said Mr Wasserstein had been hospitalised for an irregular heartbeat. It called his condition "serious" but
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    • 187 19 Bloomberg [AMSTERDAM] Royal Philips Electronics unexpectedly posted a profit in the third quarter as operating earnings at the consumer unit more than doubled. Net income at Philips, Europe's biggest consumer-electronics maker, rose to 174 million euros (***** million) from 57 million euros
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    • 399 19 -NYT Disney takes plunge even as retailers turn cautious The chain's traditional approach of displaying row after row of toys and apparel geared to Disney franchises will be given a high-tech make-over and incorporated into a new array of recreational
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  • Transport HUB
    • 767 20  -  DAVID HUGHES STRAIT TALK It'll take some doing, with the economic downturn but the renewed focus on training is well placed By TWO news items about seafarers' pay have crossed my desk recently. Lengthy negotiations over pay on flag-of-conven-ience ships came to a conclusion a couple of
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    • 101 20 JURONG Port said yesterday its container throughput in September fell 32.63 per cent to 64,000 twen-ty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), from 95,000 TEUs a year earlier. But September's figure was about 8.5 per cent higher than that in August, when the port handled 59,000 TEUs. August's
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    • 196 20 THE third Sea Asia Conference and Exhibition will be held at a new location in 2011 Marina Bay Sands. The integrated resort, which opens next year, will boast not just a luxury hotel, casino, retail and F&B, but also five
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    • 751 20  -  Changes in the industry will put pressure on clubs By CHARLES BURGESS MARINE insurance has long been slated as a major growth business for underwriters in the Asia-Pacific. With more than half of the world's merchant fleet owned or controlled by owners
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    • 366 20 Bloomberg [TOKYO] Japan Airlines Corp (JAL), seeking its fourth state bailout since 2001, denied a report which said that chief executive officer Haruka Nishimatsu will step down as the carrier is restructured. Mr Nishimatsu will quit "to clarify management responsibility" and
      – Bloomberg; REUTERS  -  366 words
    • 354 20 Bloomberg [LONDON] The surplus of supertankers competing to ship two million-barrel cargoes of crude from the Middle East rose in the past week with more ships available for hire. There are 20 per cent more vessels for hire than cargoes for delivery over the next
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    • TRANSPORT HUB: SHIPPING
      • 712 21 -AFP Low costs, skilled returning workers give it the edge for smaller vessels [CHITTAGONG] When Bangladeshi labourer Abdul Karim was laid off from his shipbuilding job in Singapore because of the global recession, he did not expect to find the same sort of
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      • 324 21 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Chinese banks should play a bigger role in helping the world's shipping industry, stricken by record order books and in "desperate" need of capital, said an executive at Nordea Bank AB, the biggest loan coordinator. World shipyards have seen their order
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      • 369 21 Bloomberg [WARSAW] A tender to seU Poland's two state-owned shipyards this year was legal, the head of the state industrial development agency said after claims by the anti-corruption office that the government favoured one investor. "There was no corruption on the part of
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      • 689 21 -NYT Ship still at sea under navy control with 4 crew retained [MOSCOW] The eight men who were said to have commandeered a cargo ship in the Baltic Sea in July were locked up weeks ago. They were declared pirates, hunted down by
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      • 296 21 Bloomberg [ATHENS] Louka Katseli, Greece's new minister for economy, competitiveness and shipping, met with workers and management at Piraeus Port Authority SA on Monday as the dock's union staged a further strike in protest of Cosco Pacific Ltd's takeover of some terminal operations at
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      • TRANSPORT STOCKS
        • 107 21 '000 CH Offshore Chuan Hup Hldgs Cosco Corp CWTLtd Ezra Hldgs First Ship Lease Freight Links Grand Banks laya Hold Ltd KiVentures Keppel Corp Mercator Lines MTQ Corp NOL Pacific Shipping Pan-United Corp Rickmers Mari Samudera Ship Sembcorp Indust Sembcorp Marine Spore Ship 0.69 0.32 1.20 0.66 1.99 0.60
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        • 36 21 '000 Int'G Logistics MISCBhd MISC Foreign Msia Bulk Carrie NCB Holdings NeplineBhd PDZ Holdings 0.90 9.00 8.90 3.10 2.99 unch 0.09 0.01 -0.09 -0.10 -0.01 -0.01 unch unch 229 211 291 494 10 0 588
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  • TRANSPORT HUB: AVIATION
    • 872 22 -NYT Spending seen to increase by 6% in 2010 but won't make up for '09 dip [NEW YORK] As the economy begins to shift gears from dismal to slightly improved, the travel industry sees some reason for hope but not much. The US
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    • 2684 22 AIRLINE CODES: AA American Airlines (AAL), AF Air France (AFR), AI 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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    • 362 22 Reuters [AL-AIN, United Arab Emirates] Air Asia's longhaul, low-cost unit has no plans to sell an equity stake in the carrier, its head said on Monday. Air Asia X chief executive Azran Osman-Rani had said in August that the unit
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    • 642 22 Bloomberg, Reuters Qatar Airways CEO suggests upgrade for short-haul A 320 [DOHA] Airbus SAS should offer new engines on its short-haul jetliner models to fend off a challenge from Bombardier Inc and stay ahead of Boeing Co, according to Qatar Airways, which has 220
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    • 399 22 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 10 Youth's progress upwards HB_HH_BH_HB_BB_H I when receiving state aid MO 11 Possible result of road rage 111 when one's stuck in traffic otic, cease going back (7) M M,- H h M 15 Think British priest will beat- _BH_M I M__MH__ traded to temptress (7) 17
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  • TRANSPORT HUB: LAND
    • 504 23  -  SAMUEL EE It has boosted collaboration with established institutions on joint programmes and research By THE LTA Academy aims to be a global knowledge hub in land transport and it says that one indication of progress towards this goal is its reach, in
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    • 713 23  -  SAMUEL EE By ANOTHER supercar brand is up for grabs, with a few parties hoping to represent the McLaren marque here. Earlier this year, half a dozen parties were aggressively bidding for the Ferrari franchise. But the Italian prancing horse, which had been associated
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    • 700 23 NYT [WASHINGTON] Driving is getting a lot safer, although no one is quite sure why. The risk of dying in a traffic accident has dropped nearly 18 per cent since 2005, including a drop of 7 per cent in
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 504 24 IF THE preparatory talks on climate change in Bangkok are any guide, there is little chance that anything useful will come out of the Copenhagen meeting in December. Delegates from more than 180 nations met last week to try to work out the shape of a
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    • 1032 24  -  CLIVE MCDONNELL Two factors will drive change in relative value of H-shares over their A-share counterparts By IT IS exactly three years since H-shares in Hong Kong last traded at a premium to their A-share counterparts in China. Since then, they have traded at
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    • 737 24  -  FRANK CHING THE BOTTOM LINE ALMOST every week brings new signs of China's rise, with a commensurate increase in its soft power as well as in its economic, political and military clout. Last week saw Beijing hosting an unprecedented international media summit,
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    • 1429 25  -  ANTHONY ROWLEY The message from Istanbul is that the problem hasn't ended but simply migrated from the private to the public sector in Istanbul THINGS were "back to normal" in one sense at this year's annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World
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    • 771 25  -  FARHANA NAKHOODA By SINGAPOREANS can look forward to even more affordable, accessible and quality health care in the future. High on the agenda of our healthcare authorities and agencies, this commitment was reiterated by the republic's leader recently. At the recent launch of Duke-NUS Graduate
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8792 26 Transaction date: Oct 13 52-wks Tel |h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) Hi; Day Last Quote |h Low Buyer Seller Div Gr Yld C'vr Net P/E M Cap Hil Coi 17 3 3148 8Telecom 95 25 5834 A-Sonic 33 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 155 55 1938 AEI
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    • 1654 27 52-wks Tel ligh Low Code Company Last Sale Vol Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net C000) High Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E M Cap $mil 125 5 1181 s AAGrp 25.5 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 05 1501 s Advanced System 75 2 3480 t Adventus 20
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    • 406 27 Hi. Low Code Comi Sale COOP) Hi. Low Big Seller C'vr P/E imil 110 100 6389 ABFSG Bond ETF 110 unch 790 427 CIMBAsean40 100US$ US790 +6 274 149 DBS STI ETF 100 270 unch 4317 3534 DBXT DJE5O 10US$ US4226 DBXTDJE50Sh 10US$ US3081 1682 DBXT FTChina25 10US$
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    • 253 27 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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    • 9343 27 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced Fund!S 2.071/ AIGIF Spore Bond Fund/^- 1.353/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 1.09/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 0.78/ AXA Life Secure Ascent 2020 Fund 0.*****/0.***** AXA Wealth Mgt Spore Pte Ltd AXAWM -Talents
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 373 28 In local curr In S$ In US$ %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct12 World Index Preliminary 810.3 0.6 19.6 1.0 20.8 0.6 24.6 t EAFE Preliminai 768.4 0.7 18.4 0.9 23.3 0.6 27.1 Euro[ Prelim inan 1103.4
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    • 131 28 As at 9am Oct 13 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2560 1.2880 .an dollar 1.3430 1.3590 Euro 2.0530 2.0770 NZ dollar 1.0220 1.0450 jterlini ind 2.1960 2.2221 US dollar 1.3890 1.4050 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 180 28 Oct 13 $S Offer Bid Overnight 1-month 2-months 3-months Overnight mode: 1/4 US$ 5/16 7/16 9/16 11/16 Offer 1/4 3/16 5/16 7/16 Bid 7 days 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months $Au 0.32 0.35 0.38 0 40 0.70 1.10 1.25 Offer 0.22
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    • 21 28 Oct 13 Bid Offer -month 1.3979 1.3993 j-months 1.3981 1.3995 {-months 1.3983 1.3997 >-months 1.3986 1.4001 Source: OCBC
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    • 64 28 Oct 13 KLCE PALM FUTURES (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Month Range Price Price Hi Vol Open Done Position Low Oct09 2222 2200 2222 2222 1 131 Nov09 2188 2175 2193 2153 2792 9881 Dec 09 2172 2157 2178 2130 ***** ***** Jan 10 2170 2156 2176 2130
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    • 284 28 Oct 13 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES DecO9 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 99.6350 99.4050 99.0700 98.6900 8275 5675 3168 3562 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES DecO9 99.500 99.510 Mar10 99.550 99.550 Jun10 Sep10 99.555 99.555 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 99.500 99.550 99.550 99.510 99.545 99.560 99.545 99.485
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    • 164 28 Oct 13 (UBBtK Futures (Closing prices) !SS 3 (US cents/kg) /lonth High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) O/l (lots) Mov09 Dec 09 239.0 Ian 10 =eb 10 VlariO <\pr10 239.0 238.0 239.0 238.0 238.0 238.0 238.0 9 426 813 827 542 700 340 FSR 20 (US cents/kg) Month
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    • 83 28 Oct 13 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Hi< Day's |h Low 3-Month BQ*****H 14.01.2010 1-Year BY*****W 03.05.2010 0.41 0.44 0.35 0.33 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity code rate Close Bid Day's High Low 2-Year NX*****H 3.625 5-Year N*****0N 1.375 7-Year N*****0S 2.875 10-Year NX*****W 2.500 15-Year
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    • 99 28 Oct 12 (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 Ib bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov09 999.00 964.00 1000.75 965.00 Jan 10 1000.00 967.00 1002.00 968.00 Mar 10 1000.50 968.00 1001.00 970.00 May 10 994.00 964.50 996.00 962.00 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low 3d 09 36.30 34.91 36.25 35.24 Dec
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    • 71 28 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Oct 12 origin^ t/barrel Close Cham irent blend (1-Mth F) 71.86 1.31 WTI (Near Mth) 73.14 0.95 iubai (1-Mth F) 70.68 1.38 "apis blend 77.35 1.70 i/linas 74.10 1.70 >RODUCT JS$/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 64.26 76.83 -0.0. 1.4: US$/barrel )pec Oil Basket Price
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    • 448 28 Oct 13 iuro 'en (on 'eso lam 'ouni wstralia 0.939 6.189 0.614 7.027 41.833 85.724 0.816 10.594 3.074 1.231 75.343 42.141 1.268 6.686 0.931 29.283 30.219 0.575 0.907 Canada 1.065 6.592 0.653 7.484 44.556 91.304 0.870 11.284 3.274 1.311 80.247 44.884 1.350 7.121 0.992 31.190 32.186 0.612
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    • 157 28 Oct 13 Against SS Currencies Bid Offer Against US$ Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2669 1.2688 0.9064 0.9069 Canadian dollar 1.3494 1.3513 0.9654 0.9659 Euro 2.0652 2.0677 1.4776 1.4780 NZ dollar 1.0291 1.0308 0.7363 0.7368 Sterling md 2.2040 2.2065 1.5769 1.577:
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    • 130 28 Oct 13 -long Kong 1061.40 1047.70 .ondon Oct 12 Oct 09 1057.05 1050.10 1057.85 1051.10 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (S$) Oct 13 Buying Sellim Kilobar ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Sellim "50,497.58" ng Buying gm igm Ogm !0gm JOgm OOgm oz ozUBS Kinebar™ 113.42 321 573.52 1080.7
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    • 64 28 octn minimum, 99.7 jritv (US$/tonne) Co Close Previous :ash 1911.25 months 1947.00 1874.25 1909.00 Copper, Grade A (US$/tonne) :ash months 6261.00 6278.00 6216.01 6235.01 .ead (US$/tonne) :ash 2268.50 months 2295.00 2222.75 2249.00 lickel (US$/tonne) :ash months *****.00 *****.01 *****.00 *****.01 'in (US$/tonne) :ash months *****.00 *****.01 *****.00 *****.01
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    • 912 31 -NYT They pay a set amount each year until the investor dies [NEW YORK] When financial markets began to plummet two years ago, many retirees faced the very real prospect of outliving their money. As a solution, many academic researchers have long
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