The Business Times, 27 October 2009

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  • 23 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES Ssl.oo online at http://www.businesstimes.com.sg Sfi\ A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION CO REGN NO *****2868E MICA (P) 123/08/2009 Tuesday, October 27,2009
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  • 873 1  -  LYNETTE KHOO Attractive premiums a draw for secondary listing but cost-benefit not always clear: market-watchers By [SINGAPORE] After reports that some Singapore-listed Chinese companies or S-chips were seeking secondary listings in Hong Kong and the United States, it has emerged that some of
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  • MARKETS DIGEST
    • 46 1 lorn lay lange I COMP 1,259.92 -7.18 IIKKEI225 10,362.62 +79.63 IANG SENG Closed CET INDEX 711.83 +3.07 JAKARTA COMP 2,467.71 -0.24 IANILACOMP 2,941.53 +8.54 CEOULCOMP 1,657.11 +16.94 CHENZHEN B 549.65 +2.68 IUMBAI IND 16,740.5 -70.31 12 noon EDT Change )OW 9,879.30 -92.88 lASDAQ 2,144.86 -9.61
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    • 29 1 Bloomberg SINGAPORE 5.38 MALAYSIA 5.55 HONG KONG 5.00 INDONESIA 15.459 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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    • 42 1 IS$ (S$ per US$) 1.393 (US$/S$ per 1.630 2.271 IURO (US$/S$/E) 1.503 2.094 Foreign currency per US$ S$ 'EN 91.80 65.90 3.380 2.427 IK$ 7.750 5.564 !AHT 33.40 23.98 CUPIAH 9,480 6,806 CENMINBI 6.828 4.902 INDIAN RUPEE 46.56 33.43 1.081 0.776
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  • 784 1 Bloomberg, NYT After pay curbs, White House tackles issue of 'too big to fail' institutions [WASHINGTON] The amount of taxpayer funds they've taken: US$9O billion. The amount of money they've paid top executives: $18.2 million. Each. A closer
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  • 576 1  -  CONRAD TAN Eyes will be on DBS with its big base of retail deposits and its incoming chief By [SINGAPORE] With the first Singapore bank results out tomorrow, analysts expect decent, if uninspiring, third-quarter earnings. "I wouldn't expect any positive or negative surprise," said
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    • 122 1 INDONESIA OPINION BANK REVAMP MOBILE WORLD ■in w New govt unit to tackle India, China need to ING to split in two, launch Big cellphone makers 4 tg^ stalled projects show greater restraint 7.5b euro rights issue shifting to Android V PAGE 17 PAGE 22 PAGE 4 mm**4SLWk\WsM PAGE 21
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    • 30 1 SME Inc 1 Restructuring pays off for PBA PAGE 12 Teambuild owes its success to people philosophy PAGE 13 Triple challengethe way to become cheaper, better and faster PAGE 15
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 877 2  -  LYNETTE KHOO They can unlock value in some cases, but can add to costs and regulatory hassles By [SINGAPORE] A slew of dual listings is underway for companies primarily listed on Singapore Exchange. The results of such exercises are currently mixed and this has
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    • THREE-MINUTE DIGEST
      • 70 2 AFTER reports that some Singapore-listed Chinese companies or S-chips were seeking secondary listings in Hong Kong and the United States, it has emerged that some of them have pinned their hopes on Taiwan. Industry sources told BT that they have gained mandates from
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      • 67 2 WITH the first Singapore bank results out tomorrow, analysts expect decent, if uninspiring, third-quarter earnings. Several analysts predict the banks' earnings for the July-September period, excluding one-time items, will show modest growth from a year earlier. But they expect the results to be
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      • 74 2 THE amount of taxpayer funds they've taken: US$9O billion. The amount of money they've paid top executives: US$lB.2 million. Each. A closer look at the report released by Treasury Department paymaster Kenneth Feinberg last week shows that the average pay of
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      • 84 2 A SLEW of dual listings is underway for companies primarily listed on Singapore Exchange. The results of such exercises are currently mixed and this has raised doubts over the theory that dual listing can be a panacea for poor market valuations. Most industry
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      • 75 2 DUTCH bancassurer ING Groep yesterday said it would split itself in two as part of a restructuring deal with the European Commission, transforming itself over the next four years into a smaller Europe-focused bank. The company also said it would
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      • 79 2 AUSTRALAND Property Group said yesterday that its residential division bagged about 780 contracts worth over As3lB million (Ss4o9 million) in wholly owned and joint-venture projects in Melbourne and Sydney in the third quarter of this year. As a result, the division exchanged a
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      • 88 2 MORE contractual problems are popping up among the smaller shipbuilders, with Otto Marine the latest to announce a dispute in a 23.5 million euro shipbuilding contract that will be put to arbitration in Singapore. Otto Marine said its unit Otto Offshore's
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      • 49 2 CHINA Sun Bio-chem Technology yesterday said that it has defaulted on the repayment of US$B7.3 million of its US$lOO million zero coupon convertible bonds. The company will now meet bondholders to discuss proposals to restructure the bonds. COMPANY NEWS, PAGE 9
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      • 56 2 CREDIT card spending rose in the first two months of the third quarter compared to a year earlier as consumer sentiment improved, Singapore's consumer credit bureau said yesterday. While total credit card spending rose, delinquency levels are at the lowest in seven years,
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      • 63 2 THE Republic's first zero energy building was launched yesterday at the start of Singapore Green Building Week. It does not need any external energy supply. The roof is fitted with about 1,540 square metres of solar panels that generate about 207,000 kilowatt hours of
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    • 408 2  -  TEH SHI NING 7.7% yoy dip worse than expected; pharma factor could affect Q4 too By [SINGAPORE] Singapore's factory output fell 7.7 per cent year-on-year in September, after two months of expansion, and contrary to consensus expectations of a marginal one per cent increase.
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    • 520 2 -AP Issue to be analysed by ICANN's board at this week's meeting [SEOUL] The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-dec-ade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names or addresses that can be
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    • 582 4 Reuters Restructuring to effectively leave the group as a primarily European operation [AMSTERDAM] Dutch bancassurer ING Groep yesterday said it would split itself in two as part of a restructuring deal with the European Commission (EC), transforming itself over the
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    • 603 4 -AP GDP grows 2.9%, current account back in surplus [SEOUL] South Korea's economy grew at its fastest pace in over seven years in the third quarter, amid strength in manufacturing and capital spending, the central bank said yesterday, as
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    • 433 4 Bloomberg Hirings data show first positive reading since July 2008 [WASHINGTON] For the first time in a year, US companies are planning to boost payrolls and investments, indicating that the nascent economic recovery will be sustained into 2010, a private survey
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    • 831 4  -  MAARTEN KALLENBERG CONFIDENCE SURVEY Increase is weaker in Indonesia, Thailand and M'sia By [SINGAPORE] Consumer confidence in Singapore is rising sharply as recovery from the economic crisis continues. The Consumer Confidence Index increased from 88 to 110 in the third quarter, as measured by
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  • COMPANY NEWS
    • 504 5  -  KALPANA RASHIWALA 780 contracts from wholly owned, joint venture projects in Melbourne, Sydney By AUSTRALAND Property Group said yesterday that its residential division bagged about 780 contracts worth over As3lB million (Ss4o9 million) in wholly owned and joint-venture projects in Melbourne and Sydney
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    • 386 5  -  LYNETTE KHOO EGM to be held to get nod for delisting proposal By ICONIC Holding's controlling shareholder Resource Equities has proposed to take the company private through an exit cash offer of $0.17 per share. This offer is made in compliance
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    • 484 5  -  MICHELLE QUAH 1 By THOMSON Medical Centre has reported a 30 per cent increase in net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, on the back of strong growth from its core business of providing premium healthcare services to women and children. Thomson Medical's net
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    • 483 8  -  VINCENT WEE Group has served notice for arbitration By MORE contractual problems are popping up among the smaller shipbuilders as the offshore sector remains lacklustre, with Otto Marine the latest to announce a dispute in a 23.5 million euro (5549.2 million) shipbuilding
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    • 96 8 Reuters MACQUARIE International Infrastructure Fund Limited (MIIF) has agreed to sell 71.6 per cent of its interest or a 4.5 per cent stake in Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund (MEIF) to a number of investors for $132 million. MIIF said yesterday that it would use
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    • 337 8  -  OH BOON PING Q3 revenue down 27.5% despite higher volume as rubber prices dive By( HIT by a sharp drop in selling prices, natural rubber producer GMG Global swung to a net loss of $371,696 for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2009, from
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    • COMPANY BRIEFS
      • 52 8 LUZHOU Bio-Chem Technology warned that it expected to report net losses for Q3 2009 and the first nine months of the financial year. The losses were attributed to factors including insufficient hedging against rising corn prices, which increased at a faster rate than
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      • 56 8 FUXING China Group has warned that the group expects to register a significantly lower net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2009. The company said this was because demand for zipper and zipper products remained weak and intense competition had eroded the
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      • 85 8 EMS Energy said its subsidiary, Engineering Marine Services (Pte) Ltd, has secured a letter of intent from Hoang Long Joint Operating Company for the manufacture and supply of offshore pedestal cranes for use in Vietnam. Under the agreement, the first crane
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    • 497 9 A STRONG showing in the construction and maintenance sectors saw infrastructure and civil engineering company OKP Holdings achieve robust earnings and revenue growth in the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2009. Net profit rose 87.6 per cent to $4 million for Q3, from $2.1
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    • 235 9  -  LYNETTE KHOO By ASIA Environment said its net profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30 jumped 52 per cent from a year ago to 17.9 million yuan (553.65 million) as its revenue surged 175 per cent to 266.7 million yuan. The increase
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    • 353 9  -  TEH SHI NING Company meeting bondholders on Nov 9 to discuss proposals l By CHINA Sun Bio-chem Technology yesterday said that it has defaulted on the repayment of US$B7.3 million of its US$lOO million zero coupon convertible bonds. The company will now
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    • 98 9 9-month and Q3 results ended Sept 2009 i-mon an 9 months ended Sept 2009 3 months ended Sept 2009 1 UOI 15.87 6.78 134.3 I 68.23 68.70 -0.7 5.25 2.67 97.0 17.66 19.10 -7.5 2 Asia Environment 11.94 7.93 50.5 100.78 56.64 77.9 3.71 2.44 52.0 55.21
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  • SINGAPORE MARKETS
    • 617 6  -  R SIVANITHY STOCKS Index ends 1.28 points higher as stocks drift without direction in low volume due to Hong Kong market's close THE closure of the Hong Kong market for a public holiday yesterday meant that the local market was mainly left to run
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    • 105 6 MAIN Up Down Unch SDQ Up Down Unch TOTAL Up Down Unch Multi Ind 6 6 2 0 0 0 6 6 2 Manufacturing 45 67 60 13 52 69 73 Commerce 23 27 20 24 31 24 Tpt/Stor/Comms 11 19 10 11 19 11 Finance 12
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    • 119 6 TURNOVER ('000) MAIN SDQ TOTAL MAIN VALUE ('000) SDQ TOTAL Multi Ind 41,381 41,381 52,366 52,366 Manufacture 262,169 40,138 302,307 115,169 2,654 117,823 Commerce 144,296 20,847 165,143 83,749 2,879 86,628 Tpt/Stor/Comms 114,478 5,032 119,510 97,476 1,291 98,767 Finance 49,306 49,306 152,913 152,913 Construction 33,518 4,609 38,127 12,653
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    • 105 6 Stock name Close Cham CapitaLand 4.430 4-0.080 CapitaMall 1.740 -0.010 CityDev 10.460 4-0.200 ComfortDelGro 1.560 -0.010 Cosco Corp 1.170 -0.010 DBS Grp 12.960 -0.040 F&N 3.900 Genting SP 1.110 Golden Agri 0.450 -0.010 HK Land 4.650 -0.080 JMH 31.440 -0.120 JSH 17.800 -0.100 JardineC&C 25.220 4-0.040
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    • 1048 6  -  CONRAD TAN Olam International Oct 26 close: $2.80 DBS GROUP RESEARCH, Oct 26 OLAM'S management allayed concerns surrounding the group's decision to digress slightly from its as-set-light strategy, and its entry into plantations. Olam's goal to quadruple its intrinsic value over the next six years is on track,
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    • 530 6 Reuters CURRENCIES [NEW YORK] The US dollar weakened yesterday in generally quiet trading, hitting a 14-month low against the euro, as gains in stocks and growing evidence of a global recovery reduced safe-haven demand for the US cyA Chinese report saying that Beijing should
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    • 4 6 DAILY
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    • 62 6 CLOSE BT OB/OS 29.00-249.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -52.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +3.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 637.08 +2.22 FTSE ST Small Cap 546.92 +2.30 FTSE ST All Share 669.55 +0.77 FTSE ST China Top 277.88 -0.49 FTSE ST China 293.70 -2.76 FTSE ST Catalist 1381.45 -0.54
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    • 56 6 VOLUME Transcu Grp 84,015,000 GuthrieGTS 47,466,000 Macqlntlnfra 40,332,000 Genting SP 36,219,000 FinaOne 32,436,000 Teledata 31,812,000 Swiber 31,519,000 Memstar 30,836,000 Hoe Leong 30,555,000 Sinotel Tech 26,971,000 VALUE(S) Capita Land 95,417,430 DBS Grp 70,042,846 Genting SP 40,227,870 CityDev 36,545,901 Sing Tel 31,352,920 Swiber 29,951,280 UOB 26,407,210 CapitaComm 24,691,455 Keppel
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    • 99 6 DBXT S&P Short 10US$ CLOSE UP 5684 110.0 1.4 DBXT MSTaiwan 10US! 1563 30.6 1.4 Cai ilanMBLeCW***** 76 26.5 53. Cai lanBAReCW***** 77.5 21.5 38.. Cifr 1046 20.0 1.9 EasternEuro 560 19.5 2: :50 10US$ 386 16.7 3.2 Cifr '.ES.0910 1042 14.0 1.4 Cai iland.ES.0911 439 13.0 3.1 SIA
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    • 112 6 CLOSE DOWN DBXT Ni 10US$ ***** -86.3 -0.6 DBXT FTVietnam 10US$ 5764 -57.1 -0.7 GLD 10US$ ***** -41.8 -0.3 OCC3.93% NCPS10 8000 -18.0 -0.2 JMH 3144 -16.7 -0.4 JSH 1780 -13.9 -0.6 HKLand 465 -11.1 -1.7 DBS BNPeCW*****3 21 -10.0 -32.3 Haw Par Con 560 -8.0 -1.4 Omei |aNav
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    • 84 6 Oct 26 CLOSE CHNG FR Oct 23 YR SSLOW R 2009 S$ HIGH USS 1.3928 -0.02 1.5579 1.3897 Euro 2.0931 0.10 2.0952 1.9150 Pounds 2.2732 0.58 2.4366 2.0356 AS 1.2874 0.18 1.2900 0.9453 Yen* 1.5165 0.32 1.7278 1.4831 Rupiah* 0.***** 0.56 0.***** 0.***** Baht* 4.1726 -0.19
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  • SINGAPORE NEWS
    • 468 10  -  WINSTON CHAI By It will transfer operator licence and corresponding WBA spectrum rights to new Spore subsidiary MALAYSIAN mobile Internet player Green Packet will branch into Singapore by buying over a dormant telecommunications licence from Pacnet for US$2.O4 million in cash. The company has
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    • 257 10 ENVIRONMENTAL matters will be the focus of several forums in Singapore this week. Two of these began yesterday the Carbon Forum Asia trade fair and conference, which ran parallel to the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism Designated National Authority Forum. And Singapore will host
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    • 413 10  -  LEE U-WEN By IF employers are serious about instilling a culture of innovation in their organisation, they have to engage every single one of their staff from top management all the way to their junior workers and even interns. So says British author and
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    • 690 10  -  GEORGE JOSEPH By THE eastern European state of Slovakia and its capital Bratislava may not be as familiar among Singaporeans as say France and Paris, but Cheong Fatt Metals, a very Singaporean company is out there in the
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    • 394 11  -  CONRAD TAN Increase in July-Aug in line with clear but modest economic recovery By CREDIT card spending rose in the first two months of the third quarter compared to a year earlier as consumer sentiment improved, Singapore's consumer credit bureau said yesterday. Consumers
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    • 246 11  -  TEH SHI NING By FOUR business chambers here are urging governments to place TPP negotiations at the top of the trade policy agenda at next month's Apec Summit in Singapore. The Singapore Business Federation and the Singapore chapters of
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    • 418 11  -  CHEW XIANG By LAW Minister X Shanmugam yesterday called "absurd and divorced from reality" surveys that rank Singapore lowly on press and other freedoms. Mr Shanmugam, who is also Second Minister for Home Affairs, said in a speech at a New York
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  • SME Inc
    • 1274 12 Precision bearings and automation company PBA Group reassessed its strategy during the recent downturn and has now emerged stronger to tackle challenges ahead, reports CHEN HUIFEN DESPITE declining demand, the recent downturn has for the most part been a blessing for precision bearings and automation company
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    • 942 13 Recruiting and retaining the right talent is the success strategy for Teambuild Construction, report KWEK LI EN LYNN, NGUYEN BAO THU IVY, NUR KHAIRAH BINTE ABDUL RAHIM and VO HOANG DUNG TEAMBUILD Construction Pte Ltd is no ordinary construction company. It has been amongst the 50 best
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    • 422 13  -  TEH HOOI LING By OUR small-cap portfolio slid about one per cent as investors paused to review the progress of the global economic recovery and the relative valuation of stocks. But blue chips held up rather well, with the Straits Times Index (STI) edging up 0.2
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    • 768 13  -  CHEN HUIFEN It says firms can save up to 80% of mobile-phone bills By HOMEGROWN mobile technology firm Teliwave has extended its call-back Hoiio service to enterprises after a successful run in the consumer segment for more than a year. CEO Ong Kok Choong,
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    • 705 14 Spring is willing to lend a hand to local printers looking to achieve the FSC CoC standard, reports CHEN HUIFEN SINGAPORE printers need to keep up with growing demands of global buyers if they want to maintain or improve their competitiveness in export markets,
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    • 2020 15 THIS WEEK'S TOPIC What do you think of the labour movement's suggestion to transform Singapore into a "cheaper, better, faster" economy? What would it take for SMEs like your company to adopt initiatives that will align with the "cheaper, better, faster" mantra? Inderjit Singh Chief Executive Infiniti Solutions
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    • 93 13 _k. _JH^l w_% BL Ww IB ocbc Bank^\ ENTERPRISE tt Celebrating Singapore's Enterprising Spirit 2009 This is the last instalment of the Enterprise 50 Educational Project series between the E5O partners and the NUS Business School. Teambuild Construction Pte Ltd was among the E5O winners In 2008. The annual E5O
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    • 2120 14 Legal Notice ANNOUNCEMENT pursuant to Section 1017(3) of the Dutch Code of Civil Procedure On 29 May 2009 the Amsterdam Court of Appeal declared binding the Settlement Agreement as entered into by Shell and others. Shareholders who purchased Shell shares on a stock exchange outside the US in the period
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    • 55 15 This announcement appears as a matter of record only. rir\ housing 4> DEVELOPMENT l"-U BOARD S$500,000,000 1.55% Notes due 2012 issued under HDB's S$7,000,000,000 Medium Term Note Programme Joint Lead Managers Citicorp Investment The Hongkong and Bank (Singapore) Shanghai Banking Limited Corporation Limited r ffi HSBC <Z> V# I w
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 81 15 SME Next week's topic: "Is it important for SMEs to adopt socially responsible policies and what would motivate them to do so?" If you are an SME owner or leader, we would like you to share your views on this topic. Please email your comments with your name, designation and
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  • ECONOMY WATCH
    • 563 16 Bloomberg Japan and Australia offer competing visions at regional summit [HUA HIN] Japan and Australia outlined competing visions for an East Asian trade bloc during a 16-na-tion summit in Thailand, offering plans that differ on what role the US will play.
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    • 380 16 -AP [CANBERRA] Most ofthe developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during the global economic slowdown, with 200 million people joining the ranks of the hungry in the past two years, the UN World Food
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    • 516 16 -Reuters Hatoyama also notes importance of alliance with US [TOKYO] Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledged yesterday to consider ways to keep Japan's ballooning debt in control over the long term, while protecting the weak from harsh economic competition. In his
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    • 350 16 AP [FRANKFURT] German consumer confidence for November fell slightly for the first time in more than a year due to worries about job losses, a forward-look-ing survey by the GfK market research group said yesterday. The group, based in Nuremberg, said its overall indicator
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    • 385 16 Bloomberg Move may drive down longer-term securities prices [WASHINGTON] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plans to lock in near record-low borrowing costs in 2010 may mean a second year of losses on longer-term bonds. After selling US$l.9 trillion of short-term securities to finance
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  • MALAYSIA/INDONESIA
    • 610 17 Reuters Presidential delivery unit to tackle stalled toll road, power and mining projects [JAKARTA] Indonesia will tackle stalled toll road, power plant and mining projects in order to eliminate bottlenecks and speed up economic growth, the head of a new presidential delivery unit told
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    • 310 17 Bloomberg [SINGAPORE] Malaysia's plan to cut the budget deficit in 2010 will benefit five-year bonds as the government will have room to extend maturities on its debt, according to Royal Bank of Scotland Group pic. RBS favours buying five-year notes and paying
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    • 409 17  -  > PAULINE NG FTA can give Kiwi businesses access to halal markets Bi in Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA and New Zealand yesterday signed a free trade agreement (FTA) after four years of negotiations. The agreement represents a "significant milestone" for
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    • 309 17 Bernama Role in G2O won't change stand on Asean: Yudhoyono [HUA HIN] President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Sunday night Indonesia will never leave Asean despite its growing role in the Group of 20 rich and developing nations (G2O), Indonesia's Antara news agency reported yesterday.
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  • GREATER CHINA/INDIA
    • 470 18 Reuters Growth quickening but obstacles remain; plan to ease monetary policy [BEIJING] China's economic growth is likely to speed up this quarter, but the government will stay the course on its fiscal stimulus and loose monetary policy, senior officials said yesterday. Despite the emphasis
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    • 384 18 Reuters But union leaders say the workers will not stop work [NEW DELHI] Millions of workers will be on the streets across India tomorrow, picketing and holding rallies to protest rising prices and job losses, union officials said, though there may be little
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    • 615 18 Reuters, AFP [CANBERRA] Australia declared an end to diplomatic tension with China yesterday despite differences over the arrest of a Rio Tinto mining executive, and urged Beijing to stay calm when disagreements flare in the media. Australia's ties with China have been tense
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    • 465 18 -AP [TAIPEI, Taiwan] Taiwan and China are expected to begin formal talks on signing a wide-ranging trade agreement by next spring or earlier after Beijing publicly sanctioned the negotiations, officials said yesterday. Liv Teh-hsiun, a vice-chairman of Taiwan's Cabinet-level Mainland Affairs Council, said
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    • 157 18 AFP [TAIPEI] Taiwan and the United States may resume trade talks at the end of the year after the island agreed to boost US beef imports, removing a key obstacle to renewed negotiations, local media said yesterday. Discussions under the Trade and
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    • 661 18 Reuters [SHANGHAI] Armed with cash from recent listings, Chinese online game makers are gearing up to play in Western markets, challenging industry leaders Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard on their home turf. Having prospered at home, companies such as Changyou and Shanda Games want to
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  • ASIA-PACIFIC/WORLD
    • 580 19 AP, Reuters Banks relying on bailouts warned not to give large annual bonuses to execs [LONDON] The leaders of Britain's top companies have pocketed recent large pay rises, according to research released yesterday, helping offset a fall in bonuses after they
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    • 579 19 Bloomberg Gap is widest in four years as copper and oil prices surge [NEW YORK] Hedge fund managers are trailing benchmark commodity indexes by the widest margin in four years after copper doubled and oil surged 58 per cent. Commodity hedge funds lost 3.2
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    • 688 19 Reuters [LONDON] Europe's traditional oil-linked gas contracts are under unprecedented pressure for reform as captive buyers face rising prices in a market that looks awash with cheap spot gas for years. A recession-driven gas glut and an unprecedented influx of
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    • 545 19 -AP [SEOUL] A disgraced cloning expert who falsely claimed major breakthroughs in stem cell research was convicted yesterday for embezzlement and other charges connected to the scandal, but he will not serve time in prison. Hwang Woo-suk, 56, once considered a national
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    • 440 19 Reuters Netflix will be up and running on the PS3 in November [SAN FRANCISCO] Sony Corp will partner with Netflix Inc to provide access to the online movie rental company's library through Sony's Play Station 3 (PS3) video game console,
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  • WORLD
    • 835 20 Bloomberg Managers question whether legitimate talks on tapped lines will draw scrutiny [NEW YORK] First came the biggest bear market since the *****, then Bernard Madoff's US$65 billion Ponzi scheme and the threat of increased regulation. Now hedge funds have a new concern: getting
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    • 452 20 -AP Jeffry Picower found dead in his swimming pool [PALM BEACH] The death of Jeffry Picower, who is accused of making more than US$7 billion from the fraudulent schemes of his longtime friend Bernard Madoff, will make it more difficult for suing investors to recoup
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    • 584 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] Intelligence agencies estimate that it would probably take Iran a minimum of 18 months to develop a nuclear weapon if it chose to build one, Western diplomats and intelligence officials said. For years the US Central Intelligence
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    • 424 20 Reuters [NEW YORK] Global accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has not been spared by the global economic downturn. The firm said that revenue at its member firms slipped 4.9 per cent in fiscal 2009 to US$26.l billion. Deloitte, one ofthe "Big Four" accounting firms, said
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    • 370 20 Reuters [LONDON] UK banks, accused of being too opaque and complex in the run-up to the financial crisis, said yesterday they plan to simplify financial reporting and make it easier for investors to compare their performance. A code announced by the British
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    • 830 21 -NYT 37 grants totalling USSISIm willgoto small businesses, research institutions [WASHINGTON] The federal Energy Department was due make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy yesterday, awarding research grants for ideas such as bacteria that will make petrol, enzymes that
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    • 94 21 [VATICAN] A celestial globe by Giovanni Antonio Vanosino in 1567, showing the main Ptolemaic constellations in convex representation, is on display at the "Astrum 2009" exhibition at The Vatican museum. The exhibition, now on till Jan 16, 2010, is organised to mark the International Year
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    • 307 21 -AP [ABUJA, Nigeria] Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite ceasefire, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after nearly three years of hostilities have crippled production. While the group has declared ceasefires before, this indefinite truce announced on Sunday has greater
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    • 426 21 Bloomberg Move follows 27% drop in endowment to USsl2.6b [CALIFORNIA] John L Hennessy, president of Stanford University, is drawing on his 32 years of experience in Silicon Valley to speed up budget cuts, ditching a formula that universities use to soften the impact of
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    • 288 21 Reuters [WASHINGTON] The US healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some ofthe most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters
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    • 601 21 -AP Microsoft's software still dwarfs Google's but slipping: Gartner [NEW YORK] Since 1996, Microsoft has been writing operating systems for little computers to carry in your pocket. It was a lonely business until the company's perennial rival, Apple, introduced the web-brows-ing, music-playing iPhone.
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  • EDITORIAL & OPINION
    • 522 22 THE main thrust of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak's maiden Budget last Friday appeared to be containing the fiscal deficit. He made courageous cuts in operating and development spending. Mr Najib, who is also finance minister, cut operating expenditure by almost 14 per cent and development
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    • 1091 22  -  YOGI AGGARWAL Recent tensions shouldn't be allowed to spoil their growing convergence on key global issues THE Indian and Chinese premiers may have agreed that both India and China had an "obligation to maintain peace and tranquillity along the border" when they met
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    • 797 22  -  LEON HADAR THE BOTTOM LINE PROPONENTS of the free market were quick to express their disdain over the sight of American bureaucrats imposing restrictions on the pay of executives on Wall Street. The "socialists" in the Obama administration were taking the first
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    • 1689 23  -  MAX YUEN TEEN A link may exist between the two in one country or time period, but not others; it may also be rather complex By I RECENTLY, I attended a regional corporate governance conference where an academic claimed that his research team has found a
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    • 1048 23  -  ALISTER BULL Reuters By in OKLAHOMA CITY A USS29 billion trail from the Federal Reserve's bailout of Wall Street investment bank Bear Steams ends in a partially deserted shopping centre on a bleak spot on the south side of Oklahoma City. The
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  • AVIATION/SHIPPING
    • 553 24  -  YEN SREENIVASAN Airline CFOs, cargo chiefs see much better times by next year: lata poll By [SINGAPORE] The commercial aviation business is stabilising. And if a poll of airline chief financial officers and cargo chiefs is any indication, things are going to get
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    • 476 24  -  VINCENT WEE By [SINGAPORE] BW Offshore will continue to build in Asia and is also on the lookout for more opportunities in the fields here, said CEO Carl Arnet at the naming of its latest floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel BW
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    • 566 24 Bloomberg [SEATTLE] The Jet City may start losing its jets over a labour-union dispute. Boeing Co, founded in Seattle in 1916 when lumberman Bill Boeing built a wooden float plane on Lake Union, wants a no-strike agreement from machinists before it puts
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    • 2784 24 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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    • 147 24 BT/ZUJI Deals of the Week m DEAL OF THE WEEK I ECONOMY CLASS AIRFARES HOTEL (fr I BUSINESS CLASS AIRFARES JdkdTtd $230 Garuda Indonesia $548 Garuda Indonesia DESTINATIONS ECONOMY CLASS AIRFARES HOTEL BUSINESS CLASS AIRFARES WEATHER I Auckland $1,087 Royal Brunei Airlines $71 $4,635 Royal Brunei Airlines 4§^ Rainy Bangkok
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 392 24 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 9 Stadium that took an age to n —^^n—^BFi —I^H^ —I^K—^H7 IMF —IH^ make a comeback (5) 10 Queen offering a pectoral 9 HlO display (9) 11 Commit to a little coastal walk with one's wife final- *Tj 112 f 12 Places calling time, say, on I
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  • SINGAPORE STOCKS
    • 8772 25 Transaction date: Oct 26 52-wks Tel |h Low Code Last Sale Vol COOP) Hi! Day Last Quote Div Gr Yld Net |h Low Buyer Seller C'vr P/E MCap $mil Hii Coi 17 3 3148 8Telecom 9.5 2.5 5834 A-Sonic 34 12 5000 ABR Hldgs 15.5 5.5 1938 AEI
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    • 1674 26 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 MCap Smil 10 5 1181 s AAGrp 25 12 8538 t APStrategic 4 0.5 1501 s Advanced System 7.5 2 3480 t Adventus 20 8.5
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    • 411 26 52-Wk Tel h Low Code Last Sale Vol C000) Day Ih Low Last Quote Buyer Seller Div GrYld Net MCap C'vr P/E $mil _H|< Comi 110 100 6389 ABF SG Bond ETF 109 unch 807 427 CIMBAsean40 100USS US792 -2 276 149 DBS STI ETF 100 276 +1
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    • 262 26 STOCK PRICES LEGEND: Straits Times Index Stocks; s Catalist Non-Sponsored; t Catalist; N Net or Tax-exempted dividend; ct Conditional Trdg; xd ex-dividend cd cum dividend; cri cum right issue cbi cum bonus issue; xri ex-right issue; xbi ex-bonus issue xall ex-all; cdxa cum dividend ex-all co cum offer
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    • 9233 26 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS AIG Global Investment Corporation (S) Ltd AIGIF Acorns of Asia Balanced FundlS 2.102/ AIGIF S'pore Bond Fund/A 1.352/ APS Asset Mgt Pte Ltd APS Alpha Fund!** 1.13/ APS Alpha Fund (USD)!** 0.81/ AXA Life Secure Ascent 2020 Fund 0.*****/0.***** AXA Wealth Mgt S'pore Pte Ltd AXAWM -Talents
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  • FINANCE & COMMODITIES
    • 372 27 In local curr In S$ In USS %dy %yr dy yr dy yr Index Change Change Change Change Change Change Oct 23 World Index Preliminan 812.6 -0.5 19.9 -0.8 21.4 -0.7 25.! EAFE Preliminai 770.2 -0.1 18.6 -0.5 24.6 -0.4 28.: Euro[ Prelim inan 1099.7
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    • 131 27 As at 9am Oct 26 Singapore dollars to one unit of foreign currency: Currencies Bid Offer Aust dollar 1.2740 1.3120 Can dollar 1.3170 1.3330 Euro 2.0810 2.1050 NZ dollar 1.0430 1.0650 Sterlini md 2.2560 2.282I US dollar 1.3890 1.4050 Local dollars to 100 units of foreign
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    • 171 27 Oct 26 Overnight 1-monfli 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 0.30 0.33 0.37 0.40 0.70 1.10 1.25 Offer 0.20 0.23 0.27 0.30 0.50
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    • 24 27 Oct 26 STI Oct 2716 SIMSCI Oct 323.2 324.3 324.1 Taiwan Oct 276.5 282.7 278.3 Source: MF Global (S) He. Ltd
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    • 21 27 Oct 26 Bid Offer 1-month 1.3925 1.3938 2-months 1.3927 1.3941 3-months 1.3929 1.3943 6-months 1.3933 1.3947 Source: OCBC
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    • 62 27 Oct 26 Delivery Month Opening Sett Av Range Price Price Hi: Low Vol Open Done Position Nov 09 2228 2218 2228 2209 449 2386 Dec 09 2230 2218 2235 2203 899 ***** Jan 10 2235 2218 2235 2205 5863 ***** Feb 10 2234 2214 2237 2210 2025 9805
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    • 292 27 Oct 26 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT EURODOLLAR FUTURES Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 99.6500 99.4150 99.0500 98.6400 7559 4485 3557 3187 EUROYEN TIBOR FUTURES Dec09 Mar10 99.490 99.490 Jun10 Sep10 DedO Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 99.490 99.495 99.510 99.525 99.510 99.450 99.365 99.305 99.305 80 8 336
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    • 174 27 Oct 26 RUBBER Futures (Closing prices) RSS 3 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Close Sett Volume (lots) 0/1 lots) Nov 09 Dec 09 Jan 10 Feb 10 Mario 244.5 Apr 10 244.5 243.8 243.0 243.0 243.0 244.5 244.5 20 20 TSR 20 (US cents/kg) Month High Low Sett
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    • 87 27 Oct 26 Period Issue code Maturity Yesterday's Bid Day's |h Low Hi' 3-Month BQ*****X 28.01.2010 1-Year BY*****W 03.05.2010 0.44 0.46 0.45 0.40 0.39 0.39 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
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    • 101 27 SOYBEANS (5,000 bu min; US cents/60 lb bushels) Close Previous High/Low Nov 09 1006.00 1005.50 1028.00 1001.00 Jan 10 1007.50 1007.00 1029.25 1002.50 Mar 10 1006.75 1006.75 1027.00 1001.75 May 10 999.00 1000.00 1019.00 994.50 SOYBEAN/OIL (60,000 lbs;Uscent/lb) Close Previous High/Low Dec 09 37.94 38.30 38.75 37.86 Jan
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    • 72 27 CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS Oct 23 USS/barrel Close Cham Brent blend (1-Mth F) 78.39 -0.61 WTI(NearMth) 80.14 -0.74 Dubai (1-Mth F) 78.97 1.08 Tapis blend 83.40 0.70 Minas 80.95 1.00 PRODUCT USS/barrel (FOB S'pore) Close Change Naphtha Jet Kerosene 74.10 86.50 0.55 1.15 USS/barrel Opec Oil Basket Price 77.61 unch USS/tonne
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    • 465 27 Oct 26 AS CS Rmb Euro HKS IndRsRu Yen Won RM NZS Pak Rs Peso SS Rand Sfr NTS Baht Pound us: Australia 0.973 6.317 0.615 7.170 43.074 87.709 0.850 10.883 3.127 1.226 77.097 43.473 1.289 6.919 0.931 29.969 30.902 0.567 0.925 Canada 1.028 6.492 0.632 7.369
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    • 77 27 Oct 26 1 mth 0.***** 0.***** 2 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 1.***** 12 mths 1.***** 3 mths 0.***** 0.***** 6 mths 9 mths 12 mths 0.***** 0.***** 1.***** 0.***** 0.***** 0.***** SWAP Mid rates (S$) 1 yr 1.***** 2yrs 1.***** 3yrs 2.***** 4yrs 2.***** 5yrs
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    • 153 27 Oct 26 Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.2878 1.2895 0.9250 0.9254 Canadian dollar 1.3234 1.3254 0.9506 0.9511 Euro 2.0928 2.0953 1.5032 1.5036 NZ dollar 1.0504 1.0522 0.7545 0.7551 Sterlini 2.2697 2.2721 1.6303 1.6301 US dollar 1.3922 1.3935 S$/US$
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    • 132 27 Oct 26 Hong Kong 1058.40 1055.00 London Oct 22 Oct 23 1059.50 1058.35 1060.30 1059.15 Source: Thomson Reuters CAST BAR (Sj) Oct 26 Buying Sellim Kilobar ***** PAMP GOLD BARS (S$) Sellim "50,607.79" ng Buying Igm 5gm lOgm 20gm 50gm lOOgm 1 oz 1 oz UBS Kinebar™ 113.42
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    • 70 27 Oct 23 Aluminium, 99.7% purity (USS/tonne) Close Previous Cash 1937.50 1931.00 3 months 1972.00 1966.00 Copper, Grade A (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months 6625.75 6649.00 6567.00 6590.00 Lead (USS/tonne) Cash 2335.25 3 months 2360.00 2380.00 2405.00 Nickel (USS/tonne) Cash 3 months *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 Tin (USS/tonne) Cash 3
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    • 76 27 Oct 23 (£/tonne) Close Prev Hii ih/Low Dec 09 2174 2159 2193/2157 Nov 05 2207 2191 2221/2190 May 10 2232 2215 2244/2214 Jul 10 2161 2145 2165/2140 COFFEE (USS/tonne) Close Pev High/Low Nov 09 1363 1437 1440/1343 Jan 10 1409 1479 1483/1383 Mar 10 1443 1512 1512/1420 SUGAR (US
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    • 2344 27 BONDS, WARRANTS EXTENDED SETTLEMENT rei lode Company ■cm "f"] [el Last Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear- Mths lode Company Sale +or- ('000) Ratio Price ing Left Asia-Pacific Strategic W*****6 3 1 15 6 5.67 55 >036AdvanceSCTLtdW*****9 0.5 1 87 1491 11.00 10 Allgreen Properties.ES.0910 117 S756#AsiaticGrp(H) Ltd W*****2 8.5 1
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  • PROPERTY
    • 461 30  -  JOYCE HOOI UMA SHANKARI It costs $11m to retrofit and is the first building of its kind in SE Asia [SINGAPORE] The republic's first zero energy building (ZEB) was launched by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday at the start of Singapore Green
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    • 383 30  -  UMA SHANKARI Serangoon project's units sized according to buyers' needs By [SINGAPORE] Hong Leong Holdings, which recently won a site along Serangoon Avenue 3 in a hotly contested government tender, says that it will build a one-of-a-kind project on the site
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    • 458 30  -  EMILYN YAP By [SINGAPORE] Demand for residential land has spread from the non-landed to the landed sector. For the first time this year, a developer has triggered for sale a government landed housing site, and consultants are expecting to see some
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    • 721 30 -Reuters [NEW YORK] Most proper-ty-owning real estate investment trusts (Reits) will begin reporting third-quarter results this week against a backdrop of spectacular industry stock rallies even as rents and occupancy rates are falling. Will weak fundamentals finally hurt the stocks during the
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    • 357 30 Bernama [KUALA LUMPUR] The Finance Ministry is expected to come up with an exemption order on the Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) this week to clear the confusion surrounding the RPGT proposal. Under the 2010 Budget, the government proposed a fixed tax
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    • 684 31 Bloomberg Lender posts Q2 loss of USsl.6b; chalks up consolidated debt of USs2lb [WILMINGTON, Delaware] Capmark Financial Group Inc, the lender owned by companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc and KKR Co, filed for bankruptcy protection after posting a second-quarter loss of about US$l.6 billion.
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    • 301 31 Bloomberg [LONDON] UK house prices are likely to reverse recent gains as the economy struggles to recover from recession, former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower said. "The reality is that the real economy is on its back," Prof Blanchflower said in
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