The Business Times, 8 July 2015

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  • 32 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 2015 SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD■BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN■ S$1.00 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 051/08/2014 Wednesday, July 8, 2015G
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  • DAILY DIGEST
  • 1006 1  -  By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore TEMASEK Holdings has reported a total shareholder return (TSR) of 19.2 per cent for the year ended March 31, 2015, as its net portfolio value rose S$43 billion to S$266 billion, thanks
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  • 27 1 Tuesday Change STI 3,340.93 +7.99 KL COMP 1,712.30 -4.75 NIKKEI 225 20,376.59 +264.47 HANG SENG 24,975.31 -260.97 SHENZHEN B 1,198.03 -64.33 DOW (11:45am EDT) 17,536.70 -146.88
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  • 688 1  -  Market watchers welcome the PwC review but they say the proof lies in the pudding By Chan Yi Wen yiwenc@sph.com.sg @ChanYiWenBT Singapore AFTER seeing billions wiped off its market value, embattled commodities trader Noble Group has finally called for an external review
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    • 15 1 8 "*****1 *****4 1MDB IMBROGLIO kl special task force freezes bank accounts TOP STORIES 2
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    • 77 1 MRT BREAKDOWN Two major train lines knocked out for hours transport 29 BULL RUN IN SILICON VALLEY Number of angel investors balloons with wealth creation EXECUTIVE MONEY 36 URBANISATION WILL CHANGE FUTURE PLANS. DO YOU HAVE TOMORROW’S BLUEPRINT? >> Discover our approach at juliusbaer.com/visionary-thinking Julius Baer is the leading Swiss
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    • 13 1 Q-ON-Q SURGE Property investment deals surged to S$5.7b in Q2 REAL ESTATE 12
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 837 2  -  Chorus calling for Najib to step aside during probe grows louder By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com .sg Kuala Lumpur A SPECIAL multi-agency taskforce investigating Malaysia’s scandal-ridden 1MDB including allegations that nearly US$700 million of its monies were deposited into
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    • 504 2 BLOOMBERG REUTERS Brussels GREECE will put its economic proposals in writing, in a first step towards restarting aid talks after the country’s voters rejected austerity, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Tuesday. Mr Dijsselbloem said his new Greek counterpart Euclid
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    • 673 3  -  Rise in US dollar strength can reignite global financial imbalances, it warns By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo IN an unusually explicit policy suggestion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday urged the US Federal Reserve to delay raising
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    • 263 3 Pictet-Absl Rtn Fxd Inc-HP EUR 02/07/2015 EUR 102,79 Pictet-Absl Rtn Glo Div-P EUR 02/07/2015 EUR 119,13 Pictet-Asian Equities Ex Japan-P USD 03/07/2015 USD 204,96 Pictet-Asian Local Currency Debt-P USD 03/07/2015 USD 144,59 Pictet-Biotech-P USD 02/07/2015 USD 837,22 Pictet-Clean Energy-P USD 02/07/2015 USD 88,49 Pictet-Digital Communication-P USD 02/07/2015 USD 232,27
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    • 801 4  -  By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore TEMASEK Holdings last year continued to invest in the mature markets of North America and Europe while increasing its China exposure. It also made its first foray into London’s real estate. During the financial
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    • 1026 4  -  It will set aside 60 MHz of spectrum at high and low frequency for the new player so it can set up quickly By Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore THE Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) paved the way for the
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 567 6  -  They would go towards ensuring the best possible price for buyers and sellers HOCK LOCK SIEW BY R SIVANITHY IN many takeovers that involve privatisations, minority rights are usually trampled on by the actions and intent of the majority. This is sometimes unavoidable since
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    • 689 6  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore THE two Singapore-listed subsidiaries of offshore services group Ezra Holdings have announced new contract wins while posting subdued third-quarter results amid ongoing softness in the energy industry. Triyards, Ezra’s fabrication arm, said on
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    • 456 8  -  Distribution per unit of 1.35 Singapore cents for quarter; gross revenue up 1.6% at S$51.2m .By leemx@sph.com.sg Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore SPH Reit on Tuesday reported a distribution per unit (DPU) of 1.35 Singapore cents for its third quarter
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    • 467 8  -  By Chan Yi Wen yiwenc@sph.com.sg @ChanYiWenBT Singapore HURT by the downturn in the offshore sector, SBI Offshore has jumped onto the solar energy bandwagon. On Tuesday, the company announced that it has entered into a joint venture agreement with Ger-man-based Grass Group, to build
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    • 323 8  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore CROWDFUNDING platform Crowdo which until Tuesday had been known as Crowdonomic has announced it would launch a crowdlending (debt crowdfunding) platform for SMEs and startups in Indonesia later this year, that will allow investors to lend directly to
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
      • 47 8 CORDLIFE Group said on Tuesday that it has rejected an unsolicited third party offer for its shares in China Cord Blood Corporation and convertible notes due 2017. Instead, it will proceed with an earlier plan to sell them to Hang Seng-listed healthcare company Golden Meditech.
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      • 43 8 DIGILAND International on Tuesday announced the appointment of Goh Jin Hian as the company’s chief executive officer with effect from July 7 this year. Dr Goh was appointed as an executive director of the mainboard-listed IT company on June 24, 2015.
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      • 48 8 CONSTRUCTION firm KSH Holdings said on Tuesday that it has won a S$34.8 million design-and-build tender for the construction of a steel structure, electrical intake station and ancillary works in Singapore. Works are expected to commence this month and targeted to be completed within 16 months.
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    • 739 9  -  Committee set up to review “mark to market” models and valuations, which are contentious issues By Angela Tan angelat@sph.com.sg Singapore NOBLE Group’s board of directors has set up an independent board committee to review its accounting practices, months after being in the spotlight
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    • 889 9  -  COMMENTARY BY BERNARD AW T The writer is a market strategist with IG Markets CHINESE authorities and financial institutions have undertaken coordinated actions to stem the bleeding in the equity markets, but it appears that sentiments were hardly swayed. Chinese stocks continued to fall despite
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      63 10 STI Catalist Straits Times Index July 7,2015 3,340.93 +7.99 (+0.24%) Current streak 1 day Day high 3,346.48 Day low 3,327.70 52-week high 3,539.95 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 3,154.21 (Oct 16, 2014) FTSE ST Catalist index July 7,2015 644.39 -0.58 (-0.09%) Current streak 4 days Day high 647.62 Day low
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    • 584 10  -  Hopes that Greece will eventually be bailed out and remain in eurozone benefit heavyweights Singtel and the banks TTSTOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT TRADING in the local market remained quiet and inactive even as some prices were lifted by hopes that
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    • 308 10 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 244 +1 246/243 271 219 6 6174.2 CapitaLand 353 +3 354/349 379 293 12.9 2.5 *****.8 CapitaMall Trust 219 +2 220/217 228 188.5 4.9 7598.7 CityDev 990 -7 999/990 1095 915 11.9
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    • 35 10 VOLUME WE W*****5 302,217,400 SIIC Environment 102,709,100 Ezra R 83,340,400 CN*****MBeCW*****9 68,988,100 IHC 53,879,500 Market volume 1,763,037,000 VALUE Singtel 83,216,758 Global Logistic 72,214,418 UOB 41,409,406 Noble 38,635,908 Jardine C&C 38,456,185 Market value 1,018,957,000
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    • 106 10 Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap UETF SSE50China 271 -2 278 277/268 340/142 270/274 84.7 DBXT MSRussia US$ US194 -3 155 197/193 302/140 193/194 DBXT CSI300 US$ US1075 -24 104 1105/1040 1471/640 1078/1081 IS MS INDIA US$ US763 +3 60 766/760 1000/696
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    • 77 10 Jul 7 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -573.00 -65.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -43.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -58.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 757.94 -1.78 FTSE ST Small Cap 469.63 -1.12 FTSE ST All Share 799.87 +1.09 FTSE ST China Top 196.53 -1.83 FTSE ST China 238.43 -0.77 FTSE
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    • 35 10 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index July 7,2015 799.87 +1.09 (+0.14%) Current streak 1 day Day high 801.58 Day low 798.20 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 762.71 (Oct 16, 2014)
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    • 33 10 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE Index July 6,2015 1,819.88 -28.54 (-1.54%) Current streak 2 days Day high 1,838.06 Day low 1,812.46 52-week high 1,981.35 (July 7, 2014) 52-week low 1,697.01 (Jan 7, 2015)
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    • 186 10 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 8 4 2 0 0 0 8 4 2 Manufacturing 37 53 28 6 8 9 43 61 37 Commerce 12 18 22 5 6 2 17 24 24 Tpt/Stor/Comms 15 15 9
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    • 121 10 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 11,659 11,659 43,310 43,310 Manufacturing 128,596 19,467 148,063 73,892 745 74,637 Commerce 110,379 37,164 147,543 132,474 2,082 134,556 Tpt/Stor/Comms 220,520 6,011 226,531 197,109 522 197,631 Finance 12,458 207 12,665 124,063 42 124,105 Construction 36,062 3,009
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    • 74 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low DBXT Nifty US$ ***** 193.8 1.1 *****/***** DBXT MSINDIA US$ 1064 40.7 2.9 1160/971 Lyxor MS India US$ 1679 38.0 1.7 1840/1332 GLD US$ ***** 32.5 0.2 *****/***** SGX 816 19.0 2.4 880/680 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Armarda 0.2 100.0 0.1
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    • 73 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT China50 US$ 3449 -149.1 -3.1 4258/2800 Prudential USD 2380 -105.7 -3.2 2500/2150 Lyxor ChinaH US$ 1640 -96.2 -4.1 2055/1280 DBXT MSKorea US$ 5367 -80.0 -1.1 6735/5367 Jardine C&C R1 358 -78.0 -17.9 636/326 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low ChinaGaoxian W18 1.1
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    • 82 10 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE YZC ADR US$ 0.8 6.230 -3.860 -38.26 SHI ADR US$ 0.44 38.150 -13.360 -25.94 Allied Tech 13,150.8 0.021 +0.001 +5.00 Cacola 500.0 0.015 +0.005 +50.00 Wilton Resources 110.2 0.066 -0.013 -16.46 Infinio 2,700.2 0.003 +0.001 +50.00 Hiap Tong 120.2 0.101 +0.010 +10.99 Armarda 5,882.0 0.002
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
      • 160 10 Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Buy Holdings Buy July 7 close: S$1.40 Target price: S$1.62 DBS Group Research, July 7 As the largest and most cost-efficient private shipbuilder in China, Yangzijiang is amongst the handful of Chinese yards that have waded into the high-end vessel space to battle their Korean rivals, and
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      • 229 10  -  Compiled by Chan Yi Wen Buy July 7 close: S$0.60 Target price: S$0.73 UOB Kay Hian, July 7 We upgrade Halcyon Agri Corporation (HACL) to “Buy” as share price has declined 19 per cent since our downgrade in May 15. We forecast 2015 and 2016 net profit
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    • 37 10 DATA I 4pm (July 8) Singapore COE Bidding Results I 8pm (July 8) US MBA Mortgage Applications I 3am (July 9) US Federal Open Market Committee Meeting Minutes I 9.30pm (July 9) US Initial Jobless Claims
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    • 436 11 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE euro fell one per cent against a buoyant US dollar on Tuesday, as German 10-year Bund yields fell to their lowest since early June and interest rate differentials moved against the shared currency. The drop in Bund
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    • FOREX RATES
      • 471 11 Jul 7 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.945 4.622 0.676 5.772 47.177 99.029 0.913 8.437 2.834 1.123 75.718 33.627 1.009 9.289 0.704 23.065 25.284 0.479 0.744 Canada 1.058 4.891
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      • 155 11 Jul 7 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0084 1.0095 0.7441 0.7445 Canadian dollar 1.0673 1.0683 0.7879 0.7876 Euro 1.4913 1.4923 1.1004 1.1006 NZ dollar 0.8981 0.8992 0.6627 0.6632 Sterling pound 2.1068 2.1087 1.5546 1.5552
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      • 22 11 Jul 7 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3557 1.3567 2-months 1.3563 1.3574 3-months 1.3567 1.3576 6-months 1.3586 1.3599 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
      • 201 11 Jul 7 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left WE Holdings Ltd W*****5 0.1 unch *****7 1 0 1 FTSEChinaA50 ***** MBeCW*****9 13 -2 ***** 0.0 2 OCBC Bk MB eCW*****1 12.2 -0.1 4095 0.2 1040
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      • 373 11 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Jul 6 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1314.6 -0.7 3.0 -0.7 3.0 -0.8 1.2 EAFE Preliminary 1051.0 -1.5 6.5 -1.4 4.4 -1.5 2.5 Europe Preliminary 1447.1 -1.3 4.7
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      • 401 11 Jul 7 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES SPOT *****.33 *****.44 *****.96 Jul15 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****90 *****9 Aug15 *****.50 *****.50 *****.00 *****.00 6556 2369 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES SPOT *****.23 *****.00 *****.18 Sep15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****4 *****7 Dec15
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    • BANK RATES
      • 36 11 Jul 7 1 mth 1 mth 0.***** 2 mths 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** 9 mths 12 mths 1.***** SWAP Offer rates 1 mth 0.***** 3 mths 0.***** 6 mths 0.***** Source: Thomson Reuters
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      • 154 11 Jul 7 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 par 1-month 0.6875 0.5625 2-months 0.75 0.625 3-months 0.8125 0.6875 Overnight mode: 0.08 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.22 0.12 1 month 0.23 0.13 2 months 0.28 0.18 3 months 0.40 0.20 6 months 0.60 0.40 9 months 0.80 0.60 12
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      • 67 11 Jul 7 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0Z 2.375 01-Apr-17 102.75 102.81 102.80 5-Year N*****0S 2.000 01-Jul-20 100.2 100.20 100.20 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 97.69 97.55 97.50 15-Year NY*****E 2.875 01-Jul-29 99.7 99.60 99.60 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 105.18
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
      • 250 11 Jul-6 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Jul-6 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 1033.75 -11.50 -1.10% 14/07/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 32.64 -0.72 -2.16% 14/07/2015 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 588.50 2.75 0.47% 14/07/2014 Jul-6 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2146.00 -13.00 -0.60% 16/07/2015 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1844.00 -9.00 -0.49%
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  • REAL ESTATE
    • 1150 12  -  Office deals a key driver, but softer leasing market, higher borrowing cost present headwinds By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore INVESTMENT sales of property big-ticket transactions of at least S$ 10 million have risen 56.7 per cent to nearly S$5.7 billion in
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    • 541 12  -  By Elizabeth Mak eamak@sph.com.sg Singapore THE average monthly gross rent for retail space in Orchard Road might correct by up to -5 per cent in 2015, according to a report by Colliers International. This
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    • 317 12 BLOOMBERG London LUXURY-HOME owners, who rushed to offer their houses and apartments for sale after the Conservative Party won May’s national election, are finding that fewer buyers are interested. In the city’s prime central districts, such as Knightsbridge and Mayfair,
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    • 461 12  -  By Caithlin Ng caithng@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE Real Estate Exchange (SRX) Property has launched ‘my Property Tracker’, a free application targeted at the 1.4 million home owners and renters here. Powered by StreetSine Technology Group which is 60 per cent owned by
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    • 579 12  -  Design for Safety rules to be gazetted next month and to take effect next year By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore DESIGN for Safety (DfS) regulations are ready to be gazetted under the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Act by August 2015
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
    • 841 14 They say they are smoothing the way for orderly resolution by reorganising relations between core units BLOOMBERG Washington BIG US banks said they would chop off Wall Street arms and non-essential units if the companies were to fail, with JPMorgan Chase
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    • 590 14 BLOOMBERG New York COMMODITY traders in Chicago and New York aren’t ready to call it quits even after CME Group Inc shut most of the futures pits in both cities. Some brokers and traders will rent booths as office space
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    • 2793 15 JASON MARINE GROUP LIMITED Company Registration No.: *****6601W (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of Jason Marine Group Limited (the “Company”) will be held at 194 Pandan Loop, #05-27 Pantech Business Hub, Singapore *****3 on
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
    • 896 16 The process could boost flow of crude and increase estimate of reserves held in the well BLOOMBERG Houston THE technique itself is nothing new. Oil crews across the world have been schooled on its principles for generations: Identify ageing, low-output wells and hit them
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    • 296 16  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore SAUDI group Sabic has tied up with the National University of Singapore (NUS) to develop materials that will enable more sustainable product solutions. The Master Research Agreement signed on Tuesday will enable the petrochemical giant to
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    • 451 16 BLOOMBERG Sao Paulo GAVEA Investimentos Ltda, the Brazilian investment firm controlled by JPMorgan Chase Co, said it may bid for assets being sold by embattled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Gavea, founded by former Brazilian central bank president Arminio Fraga, is considering partnering other
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    • 349 18 / 19 103 129 185 164 193 223 266 186 198 215 Temasek steps up investments in Asia (in S$ billion) 300 250 200 150 100 50 21 Asian Financial Crisis 0 SARS Epidemic Dotcom Peak 13 Listing of Singtel Global Financial Crisis 130 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83
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  • TECHNOLOGY
    • 227 20 REUTERS San Francisco FACEBOOK Inc’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is taking a seat on the board of SurveyMonkey, the online polling company that was run by her late husband, Dave Goldberg. SurveyMonkey, a privately held company valued at US$2 billion, also appointed to its
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    • 881 20 Firms say a more predictable checkout process will drive sales by cutting inconvenience NYT San Francisco DENISE CHAPMAN, a director at a San Diego advertising agency, is afraid to count how many hours of each day she spends on her mobile
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    • 406 20 REUTERS Seoul SOUTH KOREAN tech giant Samsung Electronics on Tuesday guided for weaker-than-expected second-quar-ter earnings, as a supply shortage plagued its latest smartphone launch and tepid demand from key markets likely undercut sales. The guidance suggests that Samsung, while on a
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  • CONSUMER
    • 569 24 Question remains whether consumers will benefit as insurers grow larger NYT New York AMERICA’S five largest health insurance companies are circling each other like hungry lions closing in on prey. On Friday, Aetna said it would acquire its smaller rival Humana to create
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    • 283 24 REUTERS London BRITISH retailer Marks Spencer (M&S) reported a dip in first-quarter underlying sales in its clothing, footwear and homewares business on Tuesday, a minor setback for the group after a return to growth in the previous three months. The 131-year-old
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    • 345 24 AFP London THE British government on Tuesday announced plans to allow shops to open longer on Sundays to compete with online shopping and tourist destinations like Paris and New York. Finance Minister George Osborne said he wanted to give mayors and local
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
    • 670 26  -  The solution lies with governments giving a leg-up to businesses and improving the match between talents and jobs By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo A slowdown in productivity growth over the past decade has raised concerns about the long-term outlook for the global
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    • 513 26 REUTERS Sydney AUSTRALIA’S central bank held interest rates at record lows on Tuesday as sliding commodity prices, a still-high currency and mounting economic uncertainty in China argue for continued stimulus, and even the chance of more cuts. The Reserve Bank
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    • 613 26 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong FOR Chinese President Xi Jinping, mission No 1 has been preserving Communist Party rule. That now means stabilising the stock market. Mr Xi’s government rushed out an unprecedented series of measures in recent days to halt a
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    • 695 27 Thanks to central bank’s damage limitation, unit has lost only 0.8% since Friday, but it has weakened past old currency peg of 3.80 per US dollar REUTERS Singapore MALAYSIA’S central bank intervened for a third successive trading day on Tuesday to support the
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    • 558 27 BLOOMBERG Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA plans to cut more subsidies and move billions of dollars in government employee housing loans off its balance sheets to bolster its fiscal position, even as a growing scandal threatens Prime Minister Najib Razak’s ability to implement potentially
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    • 534 27 BLOOMBERG Bangkok VEERATHAI Santiprabhob, a former economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has been named the new governor at the Bank of Thailand (BOT). Mr Veerathai, 45, will take charge on Oct 1 after Prasarn Trairatvorakul steps down following a
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    • 526 28 From Sweden to Switzerland, central banks are battling to contain appreciation of their currencies versus euro; BOE’s moves towards higher rates are also likely to be hampered BLOOMBERG London GREECE’S debt turmoil has found a favourite conduit for spreading contagion: the US$5.3 trillion-a-day
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    • 538 28 BLOOMBERG Sydney GLENN Stevens isn’t satisfied yet. He wants more even after the Aussie dollar fell 8 per cent this year and dropped below the 75 US cent level the Reserve Bank of Australia chief said last
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    • 301 28 BLOOMBERG Washington THE US is in an “inevitable relative decline in worldwide influence” due to the rise of China, India, and other developing economies, former US president Jimmy Carter said on Tuesday. “As they increase in economic and cultural
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    • 594 28 BLOOMBERG Washington THE US trade deficit widened in May as exports declined by the most in three months, showing that businesses were having trouble drumming up sales to overseas customers. The gap grew 2.9 per cent to US$41.9 billion from the
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    • 421 28 BLOOMBERG Buenos Aires FEW heads of state have heaped more praise on Greece after it spurned creditor demands than Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. In the wake of the vote to reject further austerity demands on Sunday, she
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    • 451 29 REUTERS Washington LOSS of US Export-Import Bank financing would put Boeing Co at a “huge competitive disadvantage” since its rivals still have access to such financing support, the head of the company’s commercial aircraft division told reporters on Monday. Ray Conner,
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    • 430 29 Travellers said to have been hurt by new and higher fees, reduced capacity BLOOMBERG Chicago THE four biggest US airlines have been sued by travellers claiming that the carriers are conspiring to keep ticket prices high in the face
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    • 695 30 Suzuki, Hyundai to introduce their first models in compact SUV segment, posing a threat to French carmaker BLOOMBERG Mumbai AFTER a series of flops in India, Renault SA hit pay dirt in 2012 with the Duster, a small sport utility vehicle that lured
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    • 979 30 REUTERS San Francisco WHEN it comes to car dashboard displays that are more like smartphones, two things are clear: Customers want them, and automakers are intent on supplying them. But are they really a good idea? Car companies answer
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  • OPINION
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    • 853 33  -  COMMENTARY By Anthony Rowley ONE of the things that is probably scaring eurozone authorities more than most people suppose is the threat that Greece may not only survive but actually thrive outside of the “common currency” area. The temptation for other peripheral economies
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
    • 869 34 US victory is watched by 25.4m viewers on Fox a record for any football game on English-language TV NYT New York THE United States’ 5-2 victory over Japan in the Women’s World Cup final was seen by 25.4 million viewers
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    • 630 34 NYT New York WEARING a bow tie of Scrabble pieces that spell “GREAT”, a denim shirt, blue jeans and a brimmed hat, Thomas Knox waved to subway commuters one night last week while sitting at a table garnished with a sunflower
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