The Business Times, 16 October 2015

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    34 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES 2015 SOCIETY OF NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD■BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN■ S$1.00 q:h A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION wvvw.businesstimes.com.sg [3 D@BTBreakingnews CO REGN NO ’l*****868E MCI (P) 039/08/2015 Friday. October 16. 2015
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    220 1 Normanton Park condominium will be put up for collective sale next Thursday after the requisite 80 per cent majority consent was secured from the owners. TOP STORIES 2 Asia Pulp Paper and its parent, Sinar Mas, are on a mission to tell anyone who will listen that they
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    Lock icon SingPost extends e-commerce reach with US$168m buyin US
    828 1  -  Acquisition of 96.3% stake in TradeGlobal Holdings comes just days after announcement that it is buying logistics enabler Jagged Peak By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore SINGAPORE Post (SingPost) announced on Thursday its acquisition of a 96.3 per cent stake in leading
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    Lock icon Macroeconomic volatility weighs on new home sales
    887 1  -  Sept figures are lowest in 2015; developers hold back launches while buyers stay on sidelines By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore MACROECONOMIC volatility rocked Singapore’s property market in September, when property developers sold only 341 private homes the lowest figure so far for
    Source: URA  -  887 words
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    28 1 MARKETS Thursday Change STI 3,015.14 +31.22 KL COMP 1,713.25 +2.11 NIKKEI 225 18,096.90 +205.90 HANG SENG 22,888.17 +448.26 SHENZHEN B 1,142.47 +19.12 DOW (11.45am EDT) 16,974.13 +49.38
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      28 1 PRIME OFFICE Rents to fall 3% in next 3 years real estate /19 COE Quota shrinks slightly for next quarter TOP STORIES 4 Hock Lock Siew, Page 8
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      11 1 NEWLY CREATED POST Regina Lim to join JLL REAL ESTATE 20
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon Normanton Park up for collective sale
      650 2  -  But consultants note that investment quantum, size of site are too large for developers’ current appetite By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore NORMANTON Park condominium, located near Kent Ridge Park, will be put up for collective sale next Thursday after the requisite 80 per
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      Lock icon MAS to push banks, insurers for more data labs
      417 2  -  By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will work with several other banks and insurers on plans to establish and expand their data analytics and innovation teams in Singapore, said its managing director Ravi Menon on
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      Lock icon LTA 15-year bonds sold 3 weeks ago rise sharply
      555 2  -  Other longer-dated bonds also rally as market increasingly bets against rate hike by Fed this year By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore THE price of Land Transport Authority’s (LTA) 15-year 3.51 per cent bonds has risen sharply; it has jumped
      Source: Bloomberg  -  555 words
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      Lock icon COE quota shrinks slightly for next quarter
      562 4  -  Car buyers waiting for the premiums to soften will be disappointed, but deregistrations are expected to pick up By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore AFTER four successive increases in certificates of entitlement (COE) premiums, the upcoming quota will be 0.9 per cent smaller as
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      Lock icon Retail sales surge 6.1% in August, again on exuberant car buying
      485 4  -  If the 43.9% jump in car sales is excluded, retail sales would have risen by just 1.3% By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore ONCE again, a huge surge in motor vehicle sales lifted Singapore’s retail sales in August, far
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      Lock icon LTA, SMRT to install breakers to avoid simultaneous rail breakdown
      502 4  -  By Angela Tan angelat@sph.com.sg Singapore SINGAPORE’S Land Transport Authority (LTA) and transport operator SMRT will install breakers to delink the electrical connections between the city-state’s two major rail lines, the North-South Line (NSL) and East-West Line (EWL), to avoid simultaneous
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      Lock icon Asia-Pacific family offices outperform
      576 4  -  By Genevieve Cua gen@sph.com.sg @GenCuaBT Singapore INVESTMENT returns of family offices in Asia-Pacific outstripped their counterparts in North America and the emerging markets, thanks to a hefty allocation to private equity. Drawing on interviews with 224 family offices globally, The Global Family Office Report 2015, published
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      Lock icon Pulp friction
      259 6  -  BT Infographics haze.BY KENNETH LIM Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) size, jurisdictional proximity and connection to the recent forest fires have made it a key target of Singapore as the nation seeks to smoke out the parties responsible for the 2015 haze.BY KENNETH LIM APP has said that
      Sources: Asia Pulp & Paper, Global Forest Watch, Bloomberg, ShareInvestor.com BTGraphics: Kenneth Lim, Gladys Lam & Simon Ang  -  259 words
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      Lock icon We didn’t start the fire, no we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it
      826 6  -  APP says a comprehensive solution involving all stakeholders is needed to solve the crisis By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore ASIA Pulp Paper (APP) and its parent company, Sinar Mas, are on a mission
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      Lock icon Civil servants to get one day of volunteer leave; public service to adopt 50 charities
      406 6 STRAITS TIMES ONLINE Singapore FROM 2016, civil servants will be able to take one day of volunteer leave per year to volunteer at any institution of public character of their choice. The move is meant
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      Lock icon Rents drive rise in Sept core prices
      346 6 But cheaper fuel causes total costs to drop the most since January LATEST US DATA BLOOMBERG Washington CONSUMER prices in the US excluding food and fuel rose more than forecast in September, propelled by rising rents. Plunging energy expenses caused total costs to
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      229 4 _Weathering Storms as Lim Leong Seng's 8th Solo Exhibition Weathering Storms as One is a sculptural exhibition featuring the well-known Singaporean sculpture artist Lim Leong Seng. Lim Leong Seng is an important Singaporean sculpture artist with a creative journey spanning fifty years. As the first and only Singaporean artist to
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon SingPost – an Asian case study of corporate reinvention
      724 8  - SingPost an Asian case study of corporate reinvention HOCK LOCK SIEW BY VEN SREENIVASAN ven@sph.com.sg @VenSreeBT THE US$169 million acquisition of 96.3 per cent of US e-commerce provider TradeGlobal by Singapore Post (SingPost) marks yet another move by an “old-economy” company to stay relevant and build itself a “new-econo-my” platform.
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      Lock icon Hedging pays off as Keppel DC Reit’s Q3 distributable income beats forecast
      517 8  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore HAVING hedges in place paid off in the third quarter for data centre owner Keppel DC Reit, whose trust manager also got a jump in performance fees after completing the purchase of
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      Lock icon Vard issues profit warning over Brazilian operations
      201 8  -  By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore YARD group Vard Holdings on Thursday issued a profit warning ahead of the release of its third-quar-ter financial results on Nov 11. It cited operational challenges faced in Brazil. Vard warned that its results for the
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      Lock icon Time needed for Asean to integrate fully as economic bloc: bankers
      622 8  -  SIBOS 2015 By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore THE full integration of Asean as an economic bloc would take time, even as the region is expected to drive growth over the long term, said top executives of two Singapore
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      Lock icon Tighter rules for fintechs ahead: OCBC
      272 8  -  By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore RUMOURS of my death have been greatly exaggerated so goes the quote by Mark Twain, garbled as it may have been over the years. Banks, in responding to the onslaught of fintechs, have leaned in with the same
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      Lock icon Gains in US futures, HK, China push STI up
      697 10  -  Local index leaps 31.2 points or 1.1 per cent, thanks to the three banks, Singtel and Keppel Corp STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT BLUE chips again dominated trading on Thursday during a session in which the Straits Times Index (STI)
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      304 10 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 243 +1 244/241 271 213 6 6149 CapitaLand 308 +4 309/304 379 267 11.3 2.9 *****.5 CapitaMall Trust 202 +2 202/199.5 228 184.5 5.4 7010.2 CityDev 823 +9 827/811 1095 759 9.9
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      35 10 VOLUME Rex Intl 106,461,800 Yuuzoo 57,496,100 Noble 56,171,800 Geo Energy Res 53,350,400 Ezra 51,868,900 Market volume 1,697,964,000 VALUE UOB 146,366,433 OCBC Bank 96,975,119 Singtel 89,699,440 DBS Grp 83,455,976 CapitaLand 42,976,392 Market value 1,102,910,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs Most Active
      108 10 Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 304 +2 275 305/303 355/280 304/305 Lyxor Asia US$ US460 -2 121 465/459 557/419 460/463 67.2 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US258 -13 48 258/253 482/226 258/259 GLD US$ US***** +93 44 *****/***** *****/***** *****/***** 58.8
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      77 10 Oct 15 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 678.00 +88.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +140.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +68.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 697.67 +3.59 FTSE ST Small Cap 422.92 +3.33 FTSE ST All Share 727.32 +7.45 FTSE ST China Top 177.56 +1.44 FTSE ST China 217.73 +1.39 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      34 10 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index Oct 15,2015 727.32 +7.45 (+1.03%) Current streak 1 day Day high 727.65 Day low 721.46 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 676.13 (Sept 29,2015)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 10 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index Oct 14,2015 1,731.71 -9.73 (-0.56%) Current streak 3 days Day high 1,742.09 Day low 1,725.18 52-week high 1,949.49 (May 15, 2015) 52-week low 1,609.50 (Sept 29, 2015)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 10 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 7 3 4 0 0 0 7 3 4 Manufacturing 58 23 29 12 7 10 70 30 39 Commerce 19 18 14 6 1 4 25 19 18 Tpt/Stor/Comms 24 5 7
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 10 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 14,045 14,045 52,761 52,761 Manufacturing 235,566 90,033 325,599 103,783 5,391 109,173 Commerce 100,106 37,125 137,231 59,748 1,871 61,620 Tpt/Stor/Comms 153,295 543 153,838 175,590 42 175,632 Finance 44,318 150 44,468 352,175 21 352,196 Construction 38,310 12,561
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      74 10 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low JMH USD 5370 220.4 3.1 6788/4502 DBXT MSKorea US$ 5411 177.7 2.4 6246/4478 DBXT iBoxxIDR US$ 939 130.9 11.3 1053/844 JSH USD 3016 130.9 3.3 3703/2611 GLD US$ ***** 128.1 0.8 *****/***** BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Elektromotw*****5 0.2 100.0 0.1 0.2/0.1
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      71 10 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low DairyFarm USD 635 -26.2 -2.9 977/593 DBXT MSBrazil US$ 258 -17.9 -4.8 482/226 Yeo Hiap Seng 126 -10.0 -7.4 197/120 Great Eastern 2071 -9.0 -0.4 2600/1870 PterisGlobal 51.5 -7.5 -12.7 72.5/50 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low LH 0.2 -50.0 -0.2 0.8/0.2 New
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      79 10 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE E2-Capital 6,712.2 0.087 +0.017 +24.29 Starland 7,491.9 0.220 +0.032 +17.02 GRP 6,488.3 0.085 +0.009 +11.84 Rex Intl 106,461.8 0.137 +0.022 +19.13 Viking Offshore 3,762.2 0.060 +0.005 +9.09 Transit Concrete 10.0 0.550 +0.040 +7.84 AusGroup 22,315.8 0.144 +0.022 +18.03 Attilan 41,826.3 0.010 +0.001 +11.11 Abundance Intl
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ TAKE
      494 10  -  Compiled by Andrea Soh Offshore and Marine Neutral CIMB Research, Oct 15 Vard Holdings (Reduce, target price: S$0.35) has issued a profit warning for its earnings for Q3 2015, which will be released on Nov 11, and FY15. Vard’s Brazilian operations have been struggling, especially Vard Promar which
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      Lock icon Strong dollar environment seems to be fading
      467 11 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE dollar repelled an attack by the euro on US$ 1.15 on Thursday, helped by comments by European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny, who said it was “obvious” the bank must search for more ways to stimulate the euro zone
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    • FOREX RATES
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        471 11 OCt 15 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.947 4.659 0.642 5.689 47.559 98.626 0.869 8.276 3.040 1.068 76.600 33.662 1.011 9.659 0.697 23.594 25.855 0.475 0.734 Canada 1.056 4.920
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 11 OCt 15 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0110 1.0117 0.7339 0.7343 Canadian dollar 1.0679 1.0686 0.7756 0.7752 Euro 1.5762 1.5768 1.1442 1.1444 NZ dollar 0.9464 0.9472 0.6870 0.6875 Sterling pound 2.1302 2.1312 1.5463 1.5468
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 11 Oct 15 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3779 1.3784 2-months 1.3786 1.3790 3-months 1.3794 1.3800 6-months 1.3817 1.3823 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        204 11 Most active Oct 15 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left DBS MB eCW*****1 12.7 1.7 ***** 0.1 1860 4 Rowsley Ltd W*****3 2.9 0.2 9929 1 18 12 OCBC Bk MB eCW*****6 12.7 7040 0.2 995 6
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        373 11 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Oct 14 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1252.5 -0.6 -1.8 -1.5 1.1 -0.4 -3.2 EAFE Preliminary 988.0 -1.2 0.1 -1.7 1.9 -0.6 -2.4 Europe Preliminary 1384.2 -1.0 0.2
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        398 11 Oct 15 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Oct15 9707.50 *****.50 9705.00 *****.00 *****6 *****6 Nov15 9667.50 *****.00 9667.50 9967.50 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****5 Mar16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 11 722 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 11 Oct 15 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.05 0.03 1-month 1.0 0.875 2-months 1.0625 0.9375 3-months 1.125 1.0 Overnight mode: 0.03 US$ 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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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        67 11 Oct 15 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Oct-17 100.75 100.83 100.78 5-Year N*****0S 2.000 01-Jul-20 101.39 101.40 101.20 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 100.18 100.15 99.80 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 102.67 102.40 102.10 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 109.82
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        192 11 Oct-14 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Oct-14 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 910.50 -3.50 -0.38% 13/11/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 28.77 0.17 0.59% 14/10/2015 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 508.25 -10.75 -2.07% 14/12/2015 Oct-14 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2108.00 -33.00 -1.54% 14/12/2015 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1631.00 21.00 1.30%
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        Lock icon PALM OIL
        53 11 OCt 15 KLCE Palm Futures (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Oct 15 2269.0 1068 Nov 15 2260.0 2283.0 2276.0 2234.0 715 9199 Dec 15 2303.0 2320.0 2317.0 2269.0 ***** ***** Jan 16 2330.0 2348.0 2349.0 2302.0 7916 *****
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      Lock icon Albedo eyes experienced staff for its new business
      452 12  -  It revises some of the terms of the agreement to buy Taiwan medical aesthetic group By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore SINGAPORE-LISTED steel trading company Albedo, which is in the midst of acquiring Taiwanese medical aesthetic group China iMyth Company, plans to
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      Lock icon JustGroup expansion plans attract more investment
      315 12  -  By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore A HOMEGROWN serviced office provider’s recent expansion in Singapore and plans to do so in China have attracted additional investment from European and Singaporean asset management firms. JustGroup recently launched JustCo, billed as Singapore’s largest co-working space with
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      Lock icon CMT to sell Rivervale Mall for S$190.5m
      290 12  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore THE manager of CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) announced on Thursday that CMT has agreed to sell its property, Rivervale Mall, to a private equity fund managed by AEW Asia for S$190.5 million. Located in Sengkang New Town,
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        Lock icon IHH Healthcare
        97 12 IHH Healthcare’s wholly owned subsidiary, M&P Investments, and its local Chinese partner, Shanghai Broad Ocean Investments Co, have entered into a lease agreement with Perennial Real Estate Holdings. Under the accord, M&P and Shanghai Broad Ocean will lease a space of at least 48,000 square metres at Perennial
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        Lock icon TTJ Holdings
        55 12 TTJ Holdings has secured structural steelwork contracts worth a total of S$31 million for a series of projects in Singapore. The new orders follow on the heels of its announcement of S$16 million worth of new projects last month, pointing to the group’s order book to S$130 million
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        Lock icon Singapore Technologies Electronics
        56 12 SINGAPORE Technologies Engineering announced that its electronics arm, Singapore Technologies Electronics, has secured about S$370 million worth of contracts in the third quarter of 2015. These comprise S$52 million contracts for rail electronics intelligent transportation, S$74 million for its satellite broadband communications, and S$244 million for its
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1968 13 Transaction date: Oct 15 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil 82 42 8Telecom Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap 153 131.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit LOW Company 183 129.5 ARA Asset Mgmt 140 unch 1000 143 139
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      388 13 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale 13.5 3.9 t Abundance Intl (’000) High Day LOW Div C'vr GrYld Net P/E MCap 35 10 t 3Cnergy 10 29.5 18 t CNMC Goldmine 21.5 unch 100
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      144 13 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter 163 112 CIMB APAC Div S$D 116xd -4.2 0 116 116 Sale 1069 700 CIMBASEAN40 US$ US852 +23 0 852 852 133.6 4258 2750 DBXT China50 US$ US3173 +56 13
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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      Lock icon South Korea M&A bonanza for Goldman, Morgan Stanley
      893 14 Generational shift in management at family-run conglomerates drives dealmaking BLOOMBERG Seoul SOUTH Korea is enjoying its busiest deal spree in a decade as the Samsung and SK family-run conglomerates moved to cement management control and troubled companies found new owners. The value
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      Lock icon Corporate America’s epic debt binge leaves US$119b hangover
      693 14 BLOOMBERG New York THE Federal Reserve’s historically low borrowing rate isn’t benefiting corporate America like it used to. It’s more expensive for even the most creditworthy companies to borrow or refinance even as the Fed has kept its benchmark at near-zero the
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      439 14 BLOOMBERG REUTERS New York CITIGROUP Inc, the US bank that gets more than half its revenue from abroad, boosted profit more than analysts estimated after a drop in legal costs helped it cut expenses faster than revenue fell. Third-quarter net
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      419 14 REUTERS London BRITAIN on Thursday announced it was scrapping plans that would treat senior bankers as “guilty until proven innocent”, in a move likely to infuriate regulators but ease industry fears that tough new rules will scare top talent away
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      636 15 Adani hails the approval, which is subject to “strictest conditions in Australian history” AFP Sydney AUSTRALIA on Thursday approved a controversial Indian-backed project to build one of the world’s biggest coal mines despite conservationists’ fears it threatens the Great
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      Lock icon Asia’s hunger for bread and pastries boosts wheat demand
      724 15 REUTERS Seoul ASIA is losing some of its appetite for rice in favour of wheat a trend that is nowhere more pronounced than in South Korea, where bread and pastries have become a new staple. From working mothers, who find toast
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      598 15 REUTERS Singapore CHINA is on course to become the world’s biggest crude oil importer and a determined 70-year-old woman from the country’s oil-rich hinterland who battled to save small “teapot” oil refineries can take some of the credit. Liu Aiying has
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      413 15 BLOOMBERG Oslo NORWEGIAN oil companies are turning on the spigots to counter plunging crude prices. That may be a welcome news for the government of western Europe’s biggest oil producer, which next year is planning to dip into its massive
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      457 15 BLOOMBERG London THE world is awash in crude, but big oil companies are lining up to develop new fields in Iran even as they slash spending and abandon exploration elsewhere. One thing explains this paradox: cost. The Middle Eastern country
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      482 15 BLOOMBERG Sydney FORTESCUE Metals Group, the fourth-biggest iron ore exporter, cut first-quarter production costs by 24 per cent and trimmed debt, bolstering its balance sheet with prices forecast to extend declines. Cash costs averaged US$16.90 a wet tonne in the
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      921 16 Mobile payments startup’s prospectus reveals its financial data, presents a rocky picture of Starbucks partnership NYT New York JACK Dorsey is about to get even busier. On Wednesday, one of the companies Mr Dorsey runs, mobile payments startup Square, made its initial public offering
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      1049 16 NYT New York TWENTY years after Netscape introduced encryption to Web browsers to safeguard the private data of Internet users, roughly two-thirds of Web traffic still moves on unprotected channels, according to research by Sandvine, a network equipment provider. Whether you visit Amazon’s product
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      Lock icon Startup funding surges in Q3 despite bubble fears: survey
      325 16 AFP Washington INVESTORS poured increasing amounts of cash into startups in the third quarter, defying fears of a bubble in the tech sector, a survey showed on Wednesday. A total of 1,799 venture-backed startups around the world pulled in US$37.6 billion
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  • TRANSPORT
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon S’pore prime-office rents may fall 3% in next 3 years
      855 19  -  Knight Frank also says premium-grade offices with large floor plates of over 10,000 sq ft will be hit the hardest By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore PRIME-OFFICE rents in Singapore could see an overall 3 per cent drop over the
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      555 19  -  By Natalie Koh natksl@sph.com.sg @NataliekohBT Singapore SINGAPORE remains among the top 20 investment destinations for commercial real estate, according to the latest global data released by CBRE. Commercial real estate investment for Singapore reached US$2.4 billion in the first half
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      Lock icon Thomson Impressions to be launched at S$1,400 psf on average
      731 20  -  Public preview to start on Saturday; this will be China-based Nanshan Group’s maiden private condominium project in Singapore, developed with Vico Construction By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore CHINA-based Nanshan Group is set to launch its maiden private condominium project
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      Lock icon Regina Lim to join JLL in newly created post covering S-E Asia
      430 20  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore REGINA Lim, former head of Singapore equity research at Standard Chartered Bank, is joining property consulting giant JLL in a newly created position as national director, advisory and research next month. Chris
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      Lock icon Kwek Leng Beng receives HICAP Lifetime Achievement Award
      377 20  -  By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore KWEK Leng Beng, executive chairman of Hong Leong Group Singapore and chairman of London-listed Millennium Copthorne Hotels plc (M&C), received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Hotel Investment Conference Asia Pacific (HICAP) in Hong Kong on Thursday.
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  • VEHICLES & LIFESTYLE
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      963 22  -  By Brittany Bronson Brittany Bronson is an English instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a restaurant server and a contributing opinion writer. NEW YORK TIMES LAS VEGAS In the casino restaurant where I work, the rush arrives at
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  • GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY
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      Lock icon China’s latest building binge: the education factory
      884 23 Fuelling the drive are generous subsidies and need to increase number of skilled workers REUTERS Guiyang, China THREE decades ago, Chinese cities began turning rural land into industrial parks to attract foreign investors. Today, a new kind of project is blooming in China’s
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      456 23 AFP Shanghai THE number of billionaires in China has overtaken that of the United States for the first time, an annual survey said on Thursday, calling it a “turning point” for the super-wealthy. Communist-ruled China now has 596 billionaires, up a “staggering” 242
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      Lock icon Economic slowdown prompts scrutiny of Africa data
      775 23 GDP growth is very hard to track in African countries with weak infrastructure REUTERS Johannesburg A DIP in the fortunes of many African economies has raised doubts about the accuracy of the heady statistics that lured hordes of investors during the “Africa Rising”
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      Lock icon Japan manufacturers’ mood down for second straight month: poll
      448 23 This adds to recession concerns and pressure to launch fresh stimulus REUTERS Tokyo JAPANESE manufacturers’ confidence worsened for the second straight month and is expected to fade going forward, a Reuters poll showed, adding to lingering fears of a recession and
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      Lock icon Malaysia’s Gen Y living beyond their means: poll
      545 23  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur A SURVEY by the Asian Institute of Finance (AIF) has formed a picture of Malaysia’s Gen Y as one that lives beyond its means and relies on the high cost of borrowing to achieve instant gratification.
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon Fintechs central to widespread adoption of digital money
      564 24 EDITORIAL A study by Imperial College London and Citibank released early this year brackets Singapore with a group of countries which are the most ready for the widespread adoption of digital money as the primary means of financial transactions. Digital money refers
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      593 24  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Robert Samuelson THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP Washington WE journalists often have mixed feelings about what we report and write. Naturally, we like to see our reporting vindicated by events or other reporting. This makes us feel prescient.
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      Lock icon Gold often overlooked as form of collateral
      1219 24  -  Given the yellow metal’s importance in the Asia-Pacific, its wider acceptance could make for a significant boost to the liquidity and soundness of the markets. BY STEVE WAGER markets.BY STEVE WAGER T The writer is executive vice-president of operations and development at itBit,
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      Lock icon Downside to Singapore’s food availability – food wastage
      1095 25  - Downside to Singapore’s food availability food wastage COMMENTARY By Asit K Biswas, Matthew J Kastner, Cecilia Tortajada T Prof Biswas is a distinguished visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; Mr Kastner is a graduate student at NUS while Dr Tortajada is
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      704 25  -  By Simone Ranucci Brandimarte T The writer is chief executive officer of GoSwiff THE pace of technological developments over the past decade surpasses anything the world has seen before. Hardly a day seems to go by without news of a new innovation,
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      1231 25  -  Alas, we do not reside in an alternate history. So, today, the US has to accept being the first among equals in a multipolar global set-up By Leon Hadar ON SEPT 13,1989, a few weeks before the fall of the
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  • BT Lifestyle
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      2090 27  -  From Broadway to the Metropolitan Opera House to the Guggenheim, we bring you the highlights of the arts scene in New York this fall. BY HELMI YUSOF BY HELMI YUSOF helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT IN the cutthroat world that is Broadway, where tens of thousands of actors struggle
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        803 28  -  The offbeat programming at Singapore’s first alternative cinema is a hit with cinemagoers and it hopes to continue drawing the crowd this Halloween. BY DYLAN TAN MOVIES Halloween.BY DYLAN TAN dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT IN this day and age of Netflix and illegal downloading,
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        620 28  -  By Geoffrey Eu A MURKY chapter in Cold War history gets the Masterpiece Theatre treatment from Steven Spielberg in Bridge of Spies, a tense and thoroughly absorbing period drama about an unknown but upright American lawyer who finds himself the key player in a secret prisoner
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        Lock icon Del Toro unleashes genre’s gothic tropes
        641 28  -  By Geoffrey Eu DARK and stormy nights are the norm at Allerdale Hall, the decrepit ancestral home of Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), a dashing, swoon-inducing Englishman who seems to spring straight from the pages of a corny romance novel. As plotted by Guillermo
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        659 29  -  His famed metaphysical novel Kafka On The Shore gets a staging this month.BY month.BY HELMI YUSOF helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT BY the time they reached the ending of Kafka On The Shore, thousands of readers were baffled enough by the novel to pose 8,000 questions to reclusive
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        Lock icon Melodic cadence of Murakami’s words
        617 29  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg IF anyone wanted to create soundtracks for books, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s works would be the perfect fit. The former jazz bar own-er-turned-novelist is known to infuse his books with classical, jazz and American pop music often naming his books after
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        Lock icon Dance legend Guillem’s last bow
        598 29  -  By Helmi Yusof helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT BECAUSE dancers aren’t supposed to last beyond the age of 40, this year’s da:ns festival at the Esplanade features a surprisingly touching theme of age and physical decline. Last weekend saw the rare comeback performance of four respected Singaporean dancer-choreographers
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        Lock icon Mind your language
        488 29  -  By Helmi Yusof helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT PANGDEMONIUM, one of the best theatre companies in Singapore, has picked David Henry Hwang’s play Chinglish to be its last show of the year. Hwang, of course, is the most famous among Asian-Ameri-can playwrights, being the first to win a Tony Award
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        Lock icon Patience is a virtue
        881 30  -  Fine wine needs time to develop to its full potential. WINE BY NK YONG PATIENCE is a virtue. The first known publication of this quotation came from the poem Piers Plowman written between the years 1360 and 1387 and attributed to William Langland. In modern times,
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        764 30  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT WITH all the dance hits he’s been churning out over the last four decades, it’s no wonder disco king Nile Rodgers doesn’t sleep much. “I get three hours, if I’m lucky; it’s been like that since I was five,”
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        Lock icon Body of work showcasing S’pore’s art history
        879 30  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg AS a major collector of Singapore artists, veteran architect Koh Seow Chuan usually lets other curators choose the works they want to show from his collection. But this time around, for a showcase of over 130 works of his
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    • CITY LIFE
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        Lock icon RIVER REVELRY
        906 31  -  Dancers, musicians and aerialists come together with local and international artists to fete the Singapore River. BY AVANTI NIM avantin@sph.com.sg HAVE a fear of heights? Then you probably won’t try this: being suspended over the Singapore River by a 220-tonne crane. Instead, leave it to the professionals world-renowned
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          273 31  -  DINING By Tay Suan Chiang IT’S not every day that you get dinner cooked by an Iron Chef. For three nights only, Thai Iron Chef Chumpol Janprai will present three menus at private dining restaurant Scotts 27. Chef Chumpol started working in the kitchen at the
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          307 31  - ART SCIENCE OF SUSTAINABILITY By Avanti Nim IF museums won’t talk about the issues of sustainability, who will? Executive director of ArtScience Museum Honor Harger says: “It’s always been a subject very close to our hearts. In order to address the critical environmental challenges that the world faces, we need
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          Lock icon Incarnation of the Beast
          169 31  -  DANCE By Helmi Yusof AFTER a two-year hiatus, dancer Joavien Ng returns with a bold and visceral work that puts her and her troupe of dancers face to face with their inner demons. Exploring the themes of obsession, ritual and tragedy, Ng and nine performers from
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          Lock icon Hie Stage Club's production of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
          208 31  -  THEATRE THE reality of war and man’s primordial instincts come closer to Singapore through The Stage Club’s production of Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. The Pulitzer-nomi-nated play revolves around two US Marines and an
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          Lock icon Ebizo Ichikawa XI's Japan Theatre 2015
          190 31  -  KABUKI By Dylan Tan Ebizo Ichikawa XI, Japan’s famed Prince of Kabuki, returns to Singapore with two plays that have never been performed before Uwanari and Mimasu Kuruwa no Kasauri. The former which translates into “second wife” and “jealousy”, is a classic which revolves
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          Lock icon Jeremy Monteiro & Eugene Pao play To Paris with Love – A Tribute to the music of Michel legrand
          241 31  - Jeremy Monteiro Eugene Pao play To Paris with Love A Tribute to the music of Michel legrand MUSIC By Dylan Tan JEREMY Monteiro and Eugene Pao might live in different countries but the Singapore King of Swing and Hong Kong jazz guitar maestro respectively have been best of friends and
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
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      331 30 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Remedies protecting against snakes (6) 5 Mouths off about heartless guys in rogues’ gallery (8) 9 Panic, seeing stars forgetting lines replaced by sailors (13) 10 Creature, male, by river shrouded in mist (8) 11 The girl adopted by father is frustrated (6) 12 Look thus,
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