The Business Times, 30 September 2015

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  • 31 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 2015 SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD■BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN■ S$1.00 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 039/08/2015 Wednesday, September 30,2015
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  • 27 1 Tuesday Change STI 2,787.94 -3.98 KL COMP 1,603.32 -5.11 NIKKEI 225 16,930.84 -714.27 HANG SENG *****.60 -629.72 SHENZHEN B 1,027.90 -13.94 DOW (11.45am EDT) 16,012.75 +10.86
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  • 1059 1  -  It also notes corporate debt in emerging-market economies has quadrupled in the past decade with low interest rates By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo AS global stock markets reeled and currencies gyrated on Tuesday on interest-rate uncertainties and fears of accelerating
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  • DAILY DIGEST
  • 720 1  -  By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore SINGAPORE may be a resource-scarce country, but it has emerged as Asia’s most important commodities trading hub. This is thanks to its strategic geographic location, robust financial and trading infrastructure, and reliable legal,
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  • TOP STORIES
    • 367 2 Petrochemical plant has failed to service interest payments amid plunge in oil prices BLOOMBERG Singapore JURONG Aromatics Corp, operator of one of the world’s largest petrochemical plants, has been pushed into receivership after debt-restructuring talks stalled, according to a filing
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    • 736 2  -  Ringgit is the worst performer among peers, Sing$ sinks to new six-year low CURRENCY JITTERS By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore AS battered regional currencies bid adieu to one rough quarter, another rocky one awaits with fear factors such as China’s
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  736 words
    • 680 2  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur NEVER mind where the ringgit is headed next year. Already in dread of what the rapidly shrinking currency can buy, Malaysians braced for further shocks after the ringgit touched 4.472 to the US dollar and 3.122
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    • 502 2  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo TOKYO stock prices slumped by over 4 per cent on Tuesday amid a general rout that saw Asian shares skid to three-and-a-half-year lows as uncertainty about China’s economy and the course of US monetary policy took an
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    • 369 2  -  Having broken through S$1.43, SGD is down about 7.4% year to date By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore THE Singapore dollar (SGD) fell through S$ 1.43 on Tuesday morning, to a fresh six-year low, on increased concerns
      Source: Bloomberg  -  369 words
    • 565 3  -  Amex survey of 151 CFOs also reveals that lean resources hinder their ability to innovate By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore OVER two-thirds of SME chief financial officers (CFOs) say they face a moderate to significant risk
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    • 678 4  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore WOMEN in key positions should use their influence and expertise to help other women to develop their careers and become potential directors, Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob said on Tuesday at a conference for senior women
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    • 444 4  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore NEXT year, up to eight final-year undergraduates will form the inaugural intake of the Infocomm Investments’ (IIPL) Management Associate Track (iMAT), believed to the first programme in Asia to offer students accelerated, all-access exposure to
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    • 750 4  -  He reminds them in post-GE letter that they are servants, not masters, of the people By Lee U-Wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore INTEGRITY, honesty and incorruptibility are fundamental to the People’s Action Party (PAP), and its Members of Parliament (MPs)
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
    • 541 5  -  Singapore Fixed income index outperforms Straits Times index year-to-date By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore THE Singapore bond market is holding up rather well amid a stockmarket sell-off and curency jitters as bond investors remain comfortable with local issuers. On Monday, the
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    • 497 5  -  By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @hweetanBT Singapore SHARES in Ezra Holdings closed up 4.31 per cent at S$0.121 on Tuesday on news of a joint-venture agreement with Japanese engineering giant Chiyoda. Ezra's share price has been trending down
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    • 477 6 Market response overdone as Glencore is not financially stressed, says Citi report GLENCORE ROUT Singapore GLENCORE Plc, the commodity trader whose shares lost almost a third of their value in a day, just got a vote of confidence from Citigroup Inc. The company
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    • 712 6 BLOOMBERG Singapore ASIA’S biggest commodities companies tumbled from Sydney to Tokyo on Tuesday as the collapse in Glencore Plc’s stock highlighted the threat of sliding raw materials prices amid China’s economic slowdown. The company’s almost 30 per cent plunge in London
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    • 459 6  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore SHARES and debt of commodity trader Noble Group took a hit on Tuesday following an overnight plunge in the shares of Glencore, but analysts say the sell-off may be overdone. Noble, whose portfolio of hardcommodity assets and
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    • 209 6 IFR London GLENCORE’S euro-denominated debt came under more pressure when the market opened on Tuesday morning, with its bonds selling off by up to 11 points, according to Thomson Reuters data. Glencore’s 1.25 billion March 2017 bonds saw the biggest fall in cash price
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    • 258 6  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore AS shareholders of struggling nightspot operator LifeBrandz continue to wait for an update on the outcome of its latest attempt to secure a reverse takeover, the company sank deeper into the red. The mainboard-listed firm, now a
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    • Article, Illustration
      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index Sept 29,2015 2,787.94 -3.98 (-0.14%) Current streak 5 days Day high 2,790.60 Day low 2,740.36 52-week high 3,539.95 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 2,787.94 (Sept 29, 2015) FTSE ST Catalist index Sept 29,2015 495.72 -1.74 (-0.35%) Current streak 2 days Day high 495.93 Day low
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    • 650 8  -  Index hits an intraday low of 2,740 but wipes off most of the loss in line with surge in Dow futures STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT ANOTHER day, another new low, though in the end it could have been a lot
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    • 304 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 228 +1 229/224 271 213 6.4 5769.4 CapitaLand 274 -2 275/267 379 267 10 3.3 *****.2 CapitaMall Trust 189 unch 189.5/186.5 228 184.5 5.7 6559.1 CityDev 773 -4 780/760 1095 760 9.3
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    • 34 8 VOLUME Noble 121,985,700 Healthway Med 66,784,200 WE 66,482,500 IHC 54,690,500 Ezra 53,979,700 Market volume 1,422,142,000 VALUE DBS Grp 209,287,817 Singtel 109,543,313 OCBC Bank 74,282,551 UOB 64,310,189 Wilmar Intl 56,665,804 Market value 1,280,715,000
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    • 112 8 Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 284 -1 1358 284/280 355/280 284/285 DBXT MSCHINA US$ US1160 -43 477 1166/1153 1750/1151 1172/1177 IS MS INDIA US$ US678 +7 75 678/657 1000/648 678/682 84.8 Lyxor World US$ US155.9 -3.7 56 160/155.9 183.5/155.9
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    • 77 8 Sep 29 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -192.00 -60.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -110.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -20.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 657.19 -4.36 FTSE ST Small Cap 404.25 -1.30 FTSE ST All Share 676.13 -1.50 FTSE ST China Top 164.48 -1.55 FTSE ST China 199.03 -2.13 FTSE
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    • 34 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share Index Sept 29,2015 676.13 -1.50 (-0.22%) Current streak 5 days Day high 676.16 Day low 666.89 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 676.13 (Sept 29,2015)
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    • 33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE Index Sept 28,2015 1,638.09 -22.65 (-1.36%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,664.04 Day low 1,637.47 52-week high 1,949.49 (May 15, 2015) 52-week low 1,638.09 (Sept 28, 2015)
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    • 186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 3 6 2 0 0 0 3 6 2 Manufacturing 28 43 27 5 8 11 33 51 38 Commerce 11 19 17 2 6 3 13 25 20 Tpt/Stor/Comms 11 17 8
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    • 123 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 41,213 41,213 95,300 95,300 Manufacturing 130,824 30,407 161,231 127,591 861 128,452 Commerce 151,393 96,571 247,964 95,033 1,898 96,931 Tpt/Stor/Comms 146,089 400 146,489 195,267 31 195,299 Finance 38,079 158 38,237 382,571 27 382,598 Construction 16,978 8,309
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    • 78 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low DBXT S&P Short US$ 2352 131.4 4.1 2497/2104 Pan Ocean 400 20.0 5.3 560/375 ST Engineering 296 12.0 4.2 382/270 DBS MB ePW*****2 43 11.0 34.4 43/9.5 IS MS INDIA US$ 678 10.0 1.0 1000/648 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Infinio 0.2
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    • 77 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DBXT MSEurope US$ 5225 -165.7 -2.2 6300/5225 GLD US$ ***** -150.0 -1.0 *****/***** DBXT MSKorea US$ 4659 -141.4 -2.1 6246/4478 DBXT S&P500 US$ 3193 -125.7 -2.7 3626/3097 DBXT Chia50 US$ 2800 -101.4 -2.5 4258/2750 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Centurion W*****7 0.3
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    • 82 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Yongmao 17.0 0.080 -0.040 -33.33 CH Offshore 576.0 0.410 -0.140 -25.46 Next-Gen Sat 2,449.9 0.003 +0.001 +50.00 Mercurius 7,976.1 0.012 +0.002 +20.00 Hai Leck 635.0 0.197 -0.013 -6.19 Koon 23.8 0.096 -0.028 -22.58 MoneyMax Fin 152.5 0.175 -0.018 -9.33 ISR Capital 1,379.7 0.011 +0.001 +10.00
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
      • 97 8 DBS Bank, Sept 29 TRADE both sides or have a strong stomach and a long time frame. The market will not be kind to passive investors over the coming months. There will be large losses. There will be surprising rebounds. But the bias will be on the downside.
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      • 150 8 Sembcorp Industries Hold Sept 29 close: S$3.45 Target price: S$3.67 Maybank Kim Eng Research, Sept 29 SEMBCORP Industries (SCI) is developing a greenfield 426 MW power plant in Bangladesh at a total cost of US$390 million. We estimate an initial contribution of S$10-15 million a year to SCI’s earnings when
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      • 81 8  - Memtech Int’l Add Compiled by Cai Haoxiang Sept 29 close: S$0.116 Target price: S$0.17 CIMB Research, Sept 28 REITERATE “add” after our visit to Memtech’s Dongguan plant. Re-rating catalysts: Order recovery in H2 2015 and Beats by Dre becoming its latest customer. More exciting projects in the pipeline. Stronger sales
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    • 16 8 DATA I Sept 30 Singapore bank lending I 8pm, Sept 30 US MBA Mortgage Applications
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    • 387 9 CURRENCIES AFP Tokyo THE yen gained on Tuesday on worries that China’s economy will weigh on global growth, while other Asian currencies retreated against the US dollar on an expected rate hike by the US Federal Reserve. Foreign exchange dealers moved into safe haven
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    • FOREX RATES
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      • 471 9 Sep 29 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.935 4.434 0.619 5.402 46.002 102.292 0.835 8.351 3.107 1.100 72.838 32.706 0.996 9.790 0.676 23.091 25.401 0.459 0.697 Canada 1.069 4.740
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      • 155 9 Sep 29 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 0.9957 0.9960 0.6970 0.6971 Canadian dollar 1.0643 1.0649 0.7453 0.7450 Euro 1.6085 1.6091 1.1259 1.1262 NZ dollar 0.9049 0.9057 0.6334 0.6339 Sterling pound 2.1688 2.1693 1.5181 1.5183
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      • 22 9 Sep 29 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.4305 1.4310 2-months 1.4322 1.4328 3-months 1.4338 1.4344 6-months 1.4375 1.4384 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
      • 202 9 Sep 29 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left DBS MB eCW*****1 8.2 -0.5 ***** 0.1 1860 5 Rowsley Ltd W*****3 2.6 unch ***** 1 18 13 OCBC Bk MB eCW*****1 11.9 0.1 8858 0.2 900
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      • 373 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Sep 28 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1196.9 -1.7 -6.2 -1.2 -1.1 -1.6 -8.2 EAFE Preliminary 951.4 -1.6 -3.6 -1.0 -0.5 -1.4 -7.7 Europe Preliminary 1323.9 -2.1 -4.2
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      • 387 9 Sep 29 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Sep15 9375.00 9392.50 9135.00 9242.50 ***** *****3 Oct15 9302.50 9320.00 9007.50 9145.00 *****4 *****2 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****5 *****3 Mar16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 101 494 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
      • 36 9 Sep 29 1 mth 1 mth 1.***** 2 mths 3 mths 1.***** 6 mths 1.***** 9 mths 12 mths 1.***** SWAP Offer rates 1 mth 1.***** 3 mths 1.***** 6 mths 1.***** Source: Thomson Reuters
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      • 154 9 Sep 29 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 Par 1-month 1.0 0.875 2-months 1.0625 0.9375 3-months 1.125 1.0 Overnight mode: 0.08 US$ 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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      • 69 9 GOVERNMENT BONDS Sep 29 Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Apr-17 99.99 100.02 99.94 5-Year N*****0S 2.000 01-Jul-20 99.64 99.65 99.46 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 98.02 98.08 97.90 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 99.91 100.00 99.60 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 106.81
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
      • 250 9 Sep-28 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Sep-28 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 876.75 -12.50 -1.41% 13/11/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 27.18 -0.54 -1.95% 14/10/2015 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 505.50 -2.25 -0.44% 14/12/2015 Sep-28 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2210.00 -30.00 -1.34% 14/12/2015 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1543.00 -53.00 -3.32%
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    • 626 10 index seen falling nearly 3%, marking its first negative year since 2011 BLOOMBERG New York GOLDMAN Sachs now expects the S&P 500 to finish in the red in 2015. Chief US equity strategist David Kostin lowered his year-end price target
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    • 582 10 BLOOMBERG Beijing FOR years, Lin Yuming watched expectant mothers suffer through endless queues and delays at China’s public hospitals. Spotting a business opportunity, the Chinese entrepreneur from the southern city of Putian went on to build a chain of women’s hospitals spruced up with pink
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
      • 57 10 CATALIST-listed civil engineering firm Huationg Global has secured new civil engineering contracts worth S$81.3 million through wholly owned subsidiary Huationg Contractor, it said on Tuesday. The new contracts include site clearance and earthworks for land preparation at Changi Airport Terminal 5; and external works for the proposed development
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      • 63 10 IT SERVICES provider SinoCloud, listed on Catalist, has set up a new division to manage its China data centre business and restructured its management, it said in a bourse filing on Tuesday. The new data centre management unit, SinoCloud Asset Management, will be based in Beijing and will help
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      • 43 10 MEDICAL devices group Biosensors International will begin selling a drug-eluting stent system in Japan from Oct 1, it said in a bourse filing on Tuesday. Biosensors’ BMX-J drug-eluting stent system uses technology already well accepted by cardiologists in Japan, it said.
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      • 55 10 AN ASSOCIATE of mainboard-listed design and production company Kingsmen Creatives has set up a Myanmar unit that will provide services related to creative concepts and design work, the group said on Tuesday. The unit, Kingsmen Myanmar, was established by Kingsmen CMTI Public Company, of which Kingsmen Creatives owns
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      • 85 10 SEMICONDUCTOR firm STATS ChipPAC said on Monday that most of the principal amounts of its 2016 notes and 2018 notes have been validly tendered as at the early tender deadline of 5pm on Sept 25, New York time. For its US$200 million 5.375 per cent senior notes due
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    • 1839 11 Transaction date: Sep 29 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil 82 42 8Telecom Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap 153 131.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 134 -0.5 674 135 133.5 1 8.3 850.4 LOW 183 129.5 ARA
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    • 342 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale vol ('000) High Day Low Div C'vr GrYld Net P/E MCap 35 10 t SCnergy 10 1.2 0.4 t CPH 4.5 1.1 t Charisma Energy 1.2 unch 8079
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    • 150 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter 163 112 CIMB APAC Div S$D 112.1cd -2.1 1 112.3 112.1 107.7 78.5 CIMB APAC Div US$ US78.5cd -1.9 25 78.5 78.5 8.2 1440 991 CIMBASEAN40 S$D 1050 -40 0
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    • 11 6 Congress, Fed helped save Goldman Sachs from Glencore fate, Page 16
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    • 67 8 Disclaimer: All analyses, recommendations and other information herein are published for general information. Readers should not rely solely on the information published and should seek independent financial advice prior to making any investment decision. The publisher accepts no liability for any loss whatsoever arising from any use of the information
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  • REAL ESTATE
    • 1103 12  -  But immediate focus of Shun Tak unit is Greater China where 7 properties are under development GLOBAL HOTEL SECTOR By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore SINGAPORE is on the list of countries that hotel management firm Artyzen Hospitality Group is looking to expand into,
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    • 892 12 NYT New York INVESTING at record levels, owners of hotels across the United States are doing everything from rewiring their rooms and buying smart TVs, to replacing bathtubs with more easily maintained walk-in showers. These represent some of the
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    • 337 12  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore THE Singapore property auction market picked up in the third quarter of the year compared to the second, said property consultant JLL. Deals worth S$27.6 million were done, more than double the S$10 million seen in the
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  • STRATEGY SPOTLIGHT
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
    • 761 14 ETF companies are left competing for a shrinking supply of fresh money BLOOMBERG New York SOME of this year’s hottest exchangetraded funds (ETFs) are starting to look like a flash in the pan. When the US dollar’s 21
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    • 375 14 BLOOMBERG New York BANKS with weak cybersecurity controls could be downgraded even if they haven’t been attacked, Standard Poor’s said on Monday in a report. While it hasn’t yet downgraded a bank based on its computer security, the ratings company said it
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    • 519 14 BLOOMBERG Shanghai THE bursting of China’s stockmarket bubble has scattered money into corporate bonds, causing them to overheat, financial companies surveyed by Bloomberg say. Nineteen of 21 respondents said that the credit market is “overheating”, according to the survey sent to onshore analysts,
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
    • 919 16 Review of Wall Street banks’ physical commodities units triggered sales of assets before broad commodity rout BLOOMBERG New York IN October 2011, things were looking bleak at Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s commodities business. Revenue was down, competition was up, employee attrition
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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    • 313 17 KONICA MINOLTA PROTECT YOUR DATA, GROW YOUR B A Giving Shape to Ideas We used to spend a lot on security technology but often neglect the copious amount of data that resides in MFPs. Then, we realised that data is the most valuable asset in our business, and have since
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    • 435 19 NOTICES TOLL FREE 1800-289-8822 I Email notices@sph.com.sg I www.sphclass.com.sg/notices IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF OIL GAS SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD. (In Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation) (Co. Reg. No. *****1879C) NOTICE OF RESOLUTION At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened
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    • 2150 19 Company Registration Number: *****0660W (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 39th Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of GuocoLand Limited (the “Company”) will be held at Orchard Ballroom 1, Level 3, Orchard Hotel Singapore, 442 Orchard Road, Singapore *****9 on Friday,
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  • TRANSPORT
    • 1085 20  -  Amid relative gloom about China, forecasts of growth in world population and global trade are hailed as good news for the industry STRAIT TALK BY DAVID HUGHES JUST as the world was getting used to relatively gloomy news about China’s economic growth, international accountant and shipping
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    • 529 20  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore BRITISH Airways (BA), which has launched its revamped lounge at Changi Airport’s Terminal 1, will be boosting capacity into Singapore when it ramps up to a daily Airbus A380 service from year-end. Currently, it deploys its 469-seat
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    • 651 20 AFP Frankfurt GERMAN prosecutors on Monday announced a criminal probe against Volkswagen’s (VW) former boss Martin Winterkorn as Volkswagen Group carmakers Audi and Skoda said more than three million of their vehicles were fitted with software designed to dupe emission tests. The German
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
    • 714 22 Its president adds that some media reports politically motivated to undermine PM Najib REUTERS Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S troubled strategic investment fund 1 Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) has not been contacted by any foreign investigators over allegations of mismanagement and corruption, its president Arul
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    • 670 22 BLOOMBERG Mumbai INDIAN central bank governor Raghuram Rajan built on his record of surprises with policy decisions on Tuesday, taking advantage of a rout in commodity prices to lower borrowing costs by more than forecast. Mr Rajan, who unleashed emergency measures to
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    • 417 22 XINHUA Melbourne MA Zhaoxu, Chinese Ambassador to Australia, has urged Australians to recognise the benefits of the Free Trade Agreement signed by the two countries 100 days ago and strong bilateral relations in general. Calling the China-Australia Free
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    • 434 22 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong LI Ka-shing expressed his full confidence in China on Tuesday, issuing for the first time a three-page rebuttal to reports that Hong Kong’s richest man is selling out of the world’s sec-ond-largest economy. Accusations that
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    • 376 22 BLOOMBERG London GERMAN media company Axel Springer SE agreed to take over Business Insider Inc in a US$343 million deal, accelerating its push into English-lan-guage news after losing out a bidding contest for the Financial Times two months ago. Axel Springer
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    • 337 22 LATEST US DATA REUTERS Washington US consumer confidence rose and was higher than expected in September, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday. The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes rose to 103.0, the
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  • OPINION
    • 606 24 INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to the US, for the UN General Assembly session, was more about business and less about international relations. EDITORIAL Mr Modi did make a speech at the UN session and also met
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    • 822 24  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Frank Ching T The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. Follow him on Twitter: @FrankChing1 CHINA’S leader Xi Jinping averted a confrontation during his visit to the United States by agreeing with Barack Obama that
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    • 1493 24  -  Organisations in the region need Asian leaders who can lead the business as well as bring the Asian perspective to global teams. BY SUNIL PURI teams.BY SUNIL PURI T The writer is head of research insights at Human Capital Leadership Institute. He is speaking at the
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    • 1134 25  -  COMMENTARY By Thierry Apoteker T The writer is chairman of Tac Economics INVESTORS may be forgiven for feeling cheated about the promises of Emerging Markets (EMs) as the 21st-century economic powerhouses. When Goldman Sachs famously heralded a new period of “Building the World
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    • 633 25  -  By David Marsh T The writer is managing director of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum CHARLES Goodhart, the distinguished British economist and former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, and Volkswagen, the German car giant, were both born within a
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    • 1307 25  -  Projects in China and major Asian countries could potentially benefit from the much-talked-about Chinese initiative. BY SHU-CHING JEAN CHEN BY SHU-CHING JEAN CHEN CHINA has couched its “One Belt, One Road” initiative in grand and cryptic terms, in its typical way. Still,
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
    • 432 26 REUTERS Cape Town SOUTH African retailers are waking up to the need to work more closely with a resurgent domestic textile industry to help fend off global fashion giants muscling in on the continent’s most lucrative market. Cheap Chinese
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    • 785 26 It celebrates its 20th anniversary this year; 10-day event will open with world premiere of Indian drama Zubaan AFP Seoul ASIA’S most influential film festival kicks off on Thursday in the South Korean port city of Busan, celebrating its 20th anniversary at
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    • 783 26 Chinese embrace America’s culture but not its policies NYT Beijing WEARING a hoodie emblazoned with an oversized US dollar bill, Zhao Yixiang sells an American brand of skateboards for a living and admires much about the United States, including its raucous rap music and tradition of unfettered expression. “America is
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  • Page 26 Miscellaneous
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  • EXECUTIVE MONEY
    • 890 27 A lawsuit against Saba Capital’s Boaz Weinstein shows how a liquidity panic can possibly lead to a financial crisis NYT New York BOAZ Weinstein, the hedge fund manager famous for betting against the JPMorgan Chase trader known as the “London Whale”,
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    • 681 27 BLOOMBERG Santiago WANT to make money in Venezuela’s bond market? Ignore the conventional wisdom. Stone Harbor Investment Partners LP has done just that. The New Yorkbased money manager has been buying up the country’s soon-to-mature notes as a bet that the struggling
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