The Business Times, 23 October 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 Friday, October 23,2015
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    238 1 The Maritime Port Authority is looking to award more than one liquefied natural gas bunkering licence in the next two years, chief executive Andrew Tan says. TOP STORIES 4 Far East Hospitality unveils plans to grow its Oasia Brand next year, with the opening of three more hotels
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    Lock icon MARKETS
    29 1 MARKETS Thursday Change STI 3,038.11 +12.41 KL COMP 1,705.09 -2.02 NIKKEI 225 18,435.87 -118.41 HANG SENG 22,845.37 -143.85 SHENZHEN B 1,139.85 +20.16 DOW (11:45 am EDT) 17,390.88 +222.27
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    Lock icon Logistics sector to get high-tech boost
    883 1  -  Tharman says S$20m set aside to coordinate deliveries to malls, and S$15m to try out automated guided vehicles in warehousing By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore THE Singapore government will test out new forms of technology to sharpen the competitive edge of the logistics
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    Lock icon Four in 10 SMEs in Singapore without banking support
    479 1  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore ABOUT six in 10 small and medi-um-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore rely on bank loans for financing, leaving the other four in 10 unserved by financial institutions. A Visa and Deloitte Digital SME Banking Study,
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon China and UK sign extensive trade and investment deals worth £40b
      1090 2  -  Major pacts include China’s stake in Hinkley nuclear power plant and agreement on cyber-espionage By Neil Behrmann btworld@sph.com.sg London TRADE and investment deals worth £40 billion (S$86 billion) sealed between China and Britain have helped lift the sterling against
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      Lock icon ECB signals Dec policy review, keeps money-printing unchanged
      553 2 The bank will want to see what else can be done to tackle weak inflation and boost economic recovery REUTERS Valletta THE European Central Bank left interest rates and its money-printing programme unchanged on Thursday and president Mario Draghi said it would
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      Lock icon Citi taps rising foreign investor interest in Asean
      792 2  -  It employs about 1,000 people in the region who handle transaction banking, including 300 in the front line By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore MULTINATIONALS are pouring investments into South-east Asia, building factories and setting up distribution outlets eager to tap
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      Lock icon MPA may grant more than one LNG bunkering licence in next 2 years
      691 4  -  By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore THE Maritime Port Authority (MPA) is looking to award more than one liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering licence in the next two years, its chief executive Andrew Tan has said.
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      Lock icon MBS rakes in record Q3 mass gaming gains
      573 4  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore A SURPRISINGLY strong performance in its mass gaming segment has helped Marina Bay Sands (MBS) rake in its best quarterly performance in this area ever since the integrated resort opened here five years ago. It delivered
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      Lock icon Industrial space prices, rents soften in Q3: JTC
      628 4  -  With weak manufacturing outlook and a supply glut, landlords are expecting softening trend to continue By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore PRICES and rentals of industrial space continued to soften in the third quarter of 2015, pressured by a weak manufacturing outlook
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      Lock icon Far East Hospitality to expand Oasia brand next year
      654 6  -  This will add over 700 rooms to its growing portfolio in Singapore and Malaysia; firm to also expand in Europe By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore FAR East Hospitality (FEH), the hospitality arm of Singapore-listed Far East Orchard, has unveiled plans
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      Lock icon Changi Airport awards S$1.12b contract for three-runway system
      305 6  -  The Samsung C&T Corp and Koh Brothers JV will convert an existing 3rd runway for civil-military use By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore CHANGI Airport Group (CAG) has awarded a S$ 1.12 billion contract to a joint venture formed by Samsung C&T
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      Lock icon Work-pleasure divide now fuzzy for Asian biz travellers
      687 6  -  Survey finds that Asians are given more freedom to pick airlines and hotels, and to extend work trip for leisure By Natalie Koh natksl@sph.com.sg @NataliekohBT Singapore ASIAN business travellers today have more autonomy in business travel, and often blur the lines between
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      Lock icon Ferrari off to a roaring start on Wall St
      625 6 AFP New York THE legendary Italian racing car Ferrari brought its trademark roar to Wall Street on Wednesday and fans followed suit, its shares easily overtaking the initial public offering (IPO) price. The New York Stock Exchange was decked out in
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      Lock icon Majors face heaviest toll yet from oil downturn
      490 6 REUTERS London OIL majors are expected to post the worst set of earnings since the onset of the sector’s downturn, with writedowns likely to dominate headlines as companies respond to a further drop in the price of crude in the third quarter.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Cambridge Industrial’s Q3 DPU drops
      440 8  -  By Lee Meixian leemx@sph.com.sg @LeeMeixianBT Singapore INDUSTRIAL landlord Cambridge Industrial Trust posted lower distributions for the third quarter despite a double-digit rise in net property income. Distribution per unit (DPU) fell to 1.204 Singapore cents for the three months to Sept 30, down 3.7 per
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      Lock icon Dual-class shares worth considering, but tread carefully
      783 8  -  Pressing need to attract large-cap, big-name listings to inject interest in local stocks HOCK LOCK SIEW BY R SIVANITHY sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT IT has been suggested a few times over the past year that the authorities reconsider the restriction on dual-class listings, a suggestion
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        94 8 THE newly enlarged EMS Group –a result of the merger of Singapore-listed EMS Energy and Koastal Group has signed a binding letter of intention (LOI) with an Asia-based shipyard worth US$570 million. The LOI is for the supply, testing and commissioning of up to six sets of major
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        Lock icon Sim Lian Group
        42 8 SIM Lian Group issued a profit warning, saying that based on preliminary review, it is expected to post a significant reduction in pre-tax profit and a net loss for the first quarter ended September 2015 from a year ago.
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      Lock icon SATS makes offer for Brahim’s-owned unit
      393 10  -  Conditional binding offer to buy 49% stake for RM218 million By Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore SATS Ltd has lobbed a conditional binding offer on Wednesday to buy a 49 per cent stake in a Malaysian airline catering firm from Bursa Malaysia-listed Brahim’s Holdings
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      Lock icon A-Reit’s Q2 DPU increases 13.7%
      352 10  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore A-REIT posted a total amount available for distribution of S$100.2 million for the second quarter ended September, up 14 per cent year-on-year. This resulted in a 13.7 per cent increase in distribution per unit (DPU) to 4.16 Singapore cents,
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      Lock icon Sheng Siong Q3 profit up 18.7%
      394 10  -  By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore SHENG Siong Group on Thursday posted an 18.7 per cent growth in net profit for its fiscal third quarter on the back of new-store sales and higher operating margins. Net profit in the three months ended September rose
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      Lock icon Suntec Reit Q3 distributable income up 9.2%
      436 10  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore HIGHER revenue and net property income from the completion of Suntec City Phase 3 and a capital distribution of S$4.6 million helped lift Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust’s distributable income by 9.2 per cent year-on-year for the
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      Lock icon Shares end higher – but on low volume
      678 12  - Shares end higher but on low volume Excluding trading in STI stocks, the average value per unit done was firmly in penny stock territory STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT A MODEST rise in the Dow futures and a firm session in Shanghai on Thursday helped put 12.41 points on
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      306 12 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 245 +5 245/241 271 213 6 6199.6 CapitaLand 309 +2 311/307 379 267 11.3 2.9 *****.2 CapitaMall Trust 203 cd -2 205/202 228 184.5 5.3 7044.9 CityDev 824 +6 826/818 1095 759
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      35 12 VOLUME APAC Strategic 81,695,900 Rowsley 70,814,400 Informatics 66,750,800 Rowsley W*****3 55,628,500 Genting Sing 55,580,300 Market volume 1,372,498,000 VALUE DBS Grp 46,710,983 Singtel 46,704,342 Genting Sing 45,503,340 UOB 28,752,750 CapitaLand 24,865,253 Market value 682,005,000
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs
      106 12 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap STI ETF 308 +1 389 309/306 355/280 308/309 Nikko AM STI ETF 313 +1 299 315/313 422/283 313/315 7.5 UETF SSE50China 228 +1 84 231/228 340/151 226/231 71.3 DBXT MSTaiwan US$ US1993 83 -/-2392/1788 2002/2007 11.3
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      77 12 Oct 22 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 521.00 +144.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +52.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +52.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 705.26 +3.33 FTSE ST Small Cap 430.00 +2.02 FTSE ST All Share 732.05 +1.71 FTSE ST China Top 181.84 +1.05 FTSE ST China 223.22 +0.32 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 12 STI FTSE ST All-Share ftse ST All-Share index Oct 22,2015 732.05 +1.71 (+0.23%) Current streak 2 days Day high 733.48 Day low 730.35 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 12 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE Index Oct 21,2015 1,758.67 +7.47 (+0.43%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,763.76 Day low 1,750.19 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 12 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 6 5 2 0 0 0 6 5 2 Manufacturing 40 34 27 9 11 6 49 45 33 Commerce 24 12 8 7 4 4 31 16 12 Tpt/Stor/Comms 13 13 11
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 12 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 8,525 8,525 33,600 33,600 Manufacturing 166,643 61,144 227,787 73,908 4,836 78,745 Commerce 58,200 95,434 153,634 57,390 5,938 63,328 Tpt/Stor/Comms 66,374 1,678 68,052 93,426 151 93,577 Finance 28,019 242 28,261 109,060 32 109,091 Construction 37,021 16,380
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      73 12 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low DBXT E50 US$ 5000 278.5 4.2 5300/4350 Lyxor EM Mkt US$ 915 69.6 5.8 1104/824 B&M Trustees 610 30.0 5.2 630/320 UOB 2023 13.0 0.6 2505/1820 DairyFarm USD 644 12.5 1.4 977/593 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low Albedo W*****9 0.7 75.0 0.3
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      Lock icon LOSERS
      74 12 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low JSH USD 2872 -122.5 -3.0 3703/2611 GLD US$ ***** -103.0 -0.7 *****/***** DBXT ASX200 US$ 3288 -72.4 -1.6 4095/3112 JMH USD 5301 -71.0 -1.0 6788/4502 DBXT CSI300 US$ 919 -57.1 -4.3 1471/700 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low APAC Strategic 1.5 -53.1 -1.7
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      79 12 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Informatics 66,750.8 0.055 +0.016 +41.03 APAC Strategic 81,695.9 0.015 -0.017 -53.13 Luxking 1,293.8 0.030 -0.007 -18.92 ISR Capital 16,725.2 0.009 +0.002 +28.57 Dutech 733.0 0.295 +0.020 +7.27 ChinaSing Inv 30.0 0.010 -0.003 -23.08 Next-Gen Sat 11,740.0 0.005 +0.001 +25.00 Sapphire 5,355.2 0.103 +0.010 +10.75 Transcorp
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      Lock icon BROKERS’ TAKE
      378 12  -  Compiled by Claire Huang First Reit Add Oct 22 close: S$1.34 Target price: S$1.49 Phillip Securities Research, Oct 22 FIRST Reit has announced a joint arrangement and asset swap deal with PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk (First Reit’s sponsor). The asset swap deal involves divestment of existing Siloam Hospital
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      16 12 DATA I 1pm Singapore Consumer Price Index I Oct 23 Singapore Real Estate Statistics (quarterly)
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      Lock icon Euro broadly lower with ECB expected to be dovish
      456 13 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE euro hit a one-month low against the British pound on Thursday after the European Central Bank kept policy unchanged as expected, with the focus turning to whether ECB president Mario Draghi will try to talk down the
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        470 13 Oct22 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.947 4.586 0.638 5.592 46.958 98.744 0.863 8.217 3.096 1.068 75.348 33.653 1.005 9.798 0.693 23.431 25.694 0.467 0.722 Canada 1.056 4.841 0.673
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 13 Oct 22 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0043 1.0052 0.7213 0.7218 Canadian dollar 1.0603 1.0609 0.7618 0.7615 Euro 1.5752 1.5760 1.1313 1.1317 NZ dollar 0.9406 0.9414 0.6755 0.6760 Sterling pound 2.1508 2.1514 1.5447 1.5449
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 13 Oct 22 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3934 1.3938 2-months 1.3946 1.3952 3-months 1.3959 1.3965 6-months 1.3986 1.3992 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        383 13 Oct 22 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Oct15 9920.00 *****.00 9900.00 *****.50 *****6 *****0 Nov15 9890.00 *****.00 9885.00 *****.00 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Dec15 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****0 Mar16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 76 750 MSCI TAIWAN
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        208 13 Oct 22 Most active Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left Rowsley Ltd W*****3 3.7 0.9 ***** 1 18 12 DBS MB eCW*****1 12.6 -0.6 5545 0.1 1860 4 Tritech Group Limited W*****9 1.1 -0.1 2985 1 20
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        373 13 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Oct 21 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1274.7 0.2 -0.1 0.4 3.4 0.2 -1.7 EAFE Preliminary 1008.3 0.5 2.2 0.6 4.2 0.4 -0.9 Europe Preliminary 1405.9 0.1 1.7
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 13 Oct 22 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.10 0.05 1-month 0.875 0.750 2-months 0.9375 0.8125 3-months 1.00 0.875 Overnight mode: 0.10 US$ 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
        69 13 Oct 22 Oct 22 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Oct-17 100.42 5-Year N*****0S 2.000 01-Jul-20 100.76 100.88 100.76 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 99.21 99.35 99.15 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 101.87 102.15 101.70 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 108.94
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        193 13 Oct-21 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Oct-21 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 905.25 9.25 1.03% 13/11/2015 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 29.18 0.52 1.81% 14/12/2015 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 494.75 3.50 0.71% 14/12/2015 Oct-21 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2145.00 -32.00 -1.47% 14/12/2015 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1553.00 -4.00 -0.26%
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        Lock icon PALM OIL
        57 13 OCt 22 KLCE Palm Futures (RM/MT) Delivery Opening Sett Av Vol Open Month Range Price Price High Low Done Position Nov 15 2295.0 2294.0 2303.0 2274.0 185 4795 Dec 15 2335.0 2327.0 2346.0 2312.0 4785 ***** Jan 16 2375.0 2367.0 2386.0 2352.0 ***** ***** Feb 16 2409.0 2398.0
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      Lock icon Keppel Corp’s Q3 profit falls 12.4%
      577 14  -  Nine-month earnings dip 3.4%; results creditable given strong headwinds, says CEO loh Chin Hua By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore KEPPEL Corporation’s third-quarter net profit fell 12.4 per cent to S$362.9 million, from S$414.2 million a year ago, amid a challenging global environment.
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      Lock icon SembMarine earnings hit by rig-building headwinds
      465 14  -  Q3 profit dives 76% to S$32m; nine-month earnings down 36% By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore SEMBCORP Marine posted a 17 per cent year-on-year decline in group revenue from S$4.4 billion to S$3.6 billion for the nine months to September, on lower revenue
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      Lock icon CMT’s Q3 net property income slips; DPU up 9.6%
      611 14  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore SLOWING rental reversions and a recent minor run-up in price for CapitaLand Mall Trust (CMT) may have been on investors’ minds on Thursday even as the trust posted a higher third-quarter distribution per unit (DPU).
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      Lock icon FCT Q4 DPU up; eyes on rental reversions
      568 14  -  By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore HIGHER rental revenue helped lift fourth-quarter distribution for mall owner Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT), but a plausible shake-up in tenant mix across its portfolio had analysts mulling its impact on the real estate investment trust’s performance.
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1980 15 Transaction date: Oct 22 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil 82 42 8Telecom Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap 153 131.5 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 138.5 -0.5 249 139.5 138.5 1 8 879 34 18.6 AP Oil
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      Lock icon SGX CATALIST
      405 15 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale Vol 1 0.3 t Advanced Systems 0.5 unch 3313 0.6 0.5 13.2 High Day Low Div C'vr GrYld Net P/E MCap 35 50 32 t Atlantic Nav t
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      Lock icon SGX ETF
      114 15 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale vol 4258 2750 DBXT China50 US$ US3167 -11 2 3167 3165 8.7 Day 1750 1151 DBXT MSCHINA US$ US1318 -4 5 1318 1318 Div 1508 990 DBXT MSMSIA
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  • BANKING & FINANCE
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      Lock icon California ‘duck curve’ will jolt its power grid
      580 18 Need for gas-fired generation and lack of dispatchable renewable generation may increase price volatility BLOOMBERG New York WHEN the sun starts to set in California, there is one thing that you can count on: thousands of megawatts of natural gas-fired power plants
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      Lock icon UK can cut 75% of carbon emissions with clean energy
      502 18 BLOOMBERG London THE UK can cut three-quarters of the carbon emissions that it is producing from making electricity without driving up bills too much by deploying more clean-energy technologies, the government’s climate change adviser said. Investments that are planned in
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      364 18 BLOOMBERG New York PRECIOUS metals are once again enticing investors. After ignoring the assets for most of the year, investors added US$393 million to US exchange-traded funds backed by precious metals this month through Oct 20, on course for
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      594 19 It will provide tools to analyse usage data and allow better integration with third-party apps, websites AFP San Francisco TWITTER chief executive Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday that the struggling messaging platform is in the midst of “rebooting” as it seeks to fulfil
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      444 19 AFP Laguna Beach, California CHINESE smartphone maker Xiaomi is aiming for a future as an Internet company with the potential to cross swords with titans such as Alibaba. Xiaomi co-founder and CEO Bin Lin on Wednesday shared a vision of a future that
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      826 21 One leading consultant says the case will rock corporate world to its very core, throwing tax planning into disarray REU TERS Brussels THE European Commission ruled on Wednesday that Starbucks Corp and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles benefited from illegal tax deals with the Dutch
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      662 22 Kamco exec points to oversupply of ships, difficulty in getting loans from credit market, lack of bank investment BLOOMBERG Singapore ALFRED Kim, the man in charge of helping salvage South Korea’s shipping industry at the state-funded bad loan company, does not
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      765 22 REUTERS New Delhi JAPAN has offered to finance India’s first bullet train, estimated to cost US$15 billion, at an interest rate of less than one per cent, officials said, stealing a march on China, which is bidding for other projects on
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      627 22 BLOOMBERG Chicago BOEING Co reassured investors that the aerospace market remains robust after raising its full-year profit forecast amid rising jetliner deliveries and a slowdown in 787 Dreamliner costs. The results on Wednesday showed Boeing’s factories are operating in high gear,
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      366 22 BLOOMBERG Beijing CHINA is considering combining some operations of the nation’s three biggest airlines as part of a broad reform of its state-owned enterprises, people familiar with the plans said. A plan to merge the cargo operations of Air China
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      456 22 REUTERS Busan, South Korea BULK freight rates are set to remain under pressure, as cooling commodity demand coincides with a bigger vessel fleet, increasing the pressure for consolidation in the sector, industry analysts said. Sokje Lee, executive director for Korea at
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon Singapore property developer sentiment worsens in Q3: survey
      546 23  -  Some 83% of respondents say cooling measures should be lifted or tweaked over the next 6 months By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore SENTIMENT among developers here weakened in the third quarter of this year, going by the Real Estate Sentiment Index
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      Lock icon GIC partners Tishman Speyer in Hyderabad JV
      358 23 STRAITS TIMES ONLINE Singapore SINGAPORE’S sovereign wealth fund GIC announced on Thursday that it has partnered New York-based real estate company Tishman Speyer to co-own an office development project in Hyderabad, India. The partnership will be in the form of a 50-50 joint
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      Lock icon Shanghai halts land auctions as surging prices worry officials
      504 23 BLOOMBERG Shanghai SHANGHAI has halted six land auctions since Oct 12, as officials seek to rein in the property market after the government’s loosening of curbs triggered surging prices. The city on Oct 12 called off an auction for a plot
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      542 24 Economists see fall in prices over next 2 years due to more supply and lower-than-expected population growth BLOOMBERG Sydney SYDNEY’S housing boom is over, according to online real estate listing firm Domain. House prices grew just 3.2 per
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      1419 26  -  By Adam Grant The writer is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Martin Prosperity Institute fellow. NEW YORK TIMES O nce, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company picnics and invited our colleagues
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      440 27 They increase 4.7% to annual rate of 5.55m units in September; this suggests continuing strength in housing market LATEST US DATA REUTERS AFP Washington US home resales rose more than expected in September to the sec-ond-highest monthly sales pace since February 2007, suggesting
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      804 27 BLOOMBERG REUTERS Jakarta INDONESIA will seek more funds from China to help drive economic growth after foreign investment stagnated last quarter. Foreign direct investment (FDI) was US$ 7.4 billion in July through September, unchanged from the previous quarter and down
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      290 27 Kuala Lumpur THE Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail project is expected to contribute RM100 billion (S$32.7 billion) to the gross domestic product (GDP), Malaysia’s Dewan Rakyat was told on Thursday. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Razali Ibrahim said that out of
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      Lock icon Mahathir: Little chance of ousting Najib before polls
      562 27 REUTERS Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA’S former premier Mahathir Mohamad conceded on Thursday that the chances of unseating Prime Minister Najib Razak before elections in 2018 are slim, despite his rallying cries for a “people’s power” movement to topple the country’s leader. The 90-year-old
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      585 27 BLOOMBERG Beijing CHINA has for the second time this month raised the possibility of taxing foreign exchange transactions as record capital outflows from the world’s second largest economy put pressure on the yuan. “We are currently studying measures including Tobin
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      433 27 REUTERS Seoul LAST year, investment managers at South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), which oversees US$430 billion in assets, were looking to buy a portfolio of blue chip stocks from emerging markets including South-east Asia. The investment was to have been
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon Feeble US inflation: does the Fed still hold temporary factors responsible?
      560 28 EDITORIAL FOR much of this year, the conventional wisdom on Wall Street has been that after seven years of loose monetary policy under which short-term interest rates were pushed to near zero, the US Federal Reserve would take the
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      866 28  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Brad Peters T The writer is the chairman, founder and chief product officer of Birst EVERYONE’S talking about Big Data these days, but not everyone is sure just what Big Data actually is, how it would be of
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      888 29  -  COMMENTARY By Chuck Whitten, Harshveer Singh T The writers are partners in Bain Company. Mr Whitten is from Bain’s Dallas office, and Mr Singh from the Singapore office. Follow @BainInsights on Twitter ARGUABLY, the single best way to ruin a CEO’s day is to
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      698 29  -  By Stefanie Kam T The writer is associate research fellow at the international Centre for Political violence and Terrorism Research, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. She is a speaker at the inaugural APHS conference taking place from Oct
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      351 29  -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR Joyce Koh Executive Director Singapore institute of Directors I REFER to the letter headlined “Comply or risk breaching listing rules” by Mr Tan Lye Huat (BT, Oct 21). The Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), with the support of the Accounting
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      1031 29  -  People drive innovation, so skill sets must be widened as tech and finance converge. BY NITIN JAISWAL T The writer is head of Asean South Asia for Bloomberg LP AS the nation celebrates its Golden Jubilee, much has been written about the
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      1650 31  -  Why the new S$532 million National Gallery Singapore may be a game changer for Singapore art and Singapore.BY Singapore.BY HELMI YUSOF helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT THE reality of any high-profile enterprise doesn’t always match the early hype. But this week’s sneak preview of National Gallery Singapore
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        1028 32  -  Bona Film Group CEO Yu Dong says that the Chinese are making big strides in Hollywood and explains why the future looks bright for his firm. BY GEOFFREY EU BY GEOFFREY EU WHEN Matt Damon needs to be rescued from the Red Planet in
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        644 32  -  By Geoffrey Eu HIGH-WIRE artist Philippe Petit had a magnificent obsession to walk the airspace between the two towers of New York’s World Trade Center and pull off “the artistic coup of the century”. In The Walk, director Robert Zemeckis chronicles Petit’s absurd, audacious attempt to
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        567 32  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT SAPPY Taiwanese idol drama crosses over to the big screen in Our Times, a nostalgic coming-of-age high school rom-com that has become a surprise domestic box-office smash. Given the sizeable market for the genre, it’s no wonder the film
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        657 33  -  Lin Lu Zai and Kwek Leng Joo create a fresh art format in Singapore. VISUAL ARTS BY CHEAH UI-HOON uihoon@sph.com.sg THE traditional format of Chinese flower-and-bird painting is easily recognised. There is some insect or animal amid flora, and then a poem or
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        Lock icon Choose-your-ownromance over dinner
        500 33  - Choose-your-own-romance over dinner THEATRE By Helmi Yusof helmi@sph.com.sg @HelmiBT FANCY a three-course dinner at Zott’s True Alps and a chance to contemplate the true meaning of love? A group of talented theatre practitioners has created a play for adults that lets diners decide whether a romantic couple will stay together
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        602 33  -  DA:NS FESTIVAL 2015 By Cheah Ui-Hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg IT was more of a conversation and dialogue than just a dance. Torobaka was a wonderful collaboration between two dancers deeply rooted in their traditional art forms but yet embodying a contemporary mindset, and four musicians who
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        630 33  -  By Cheah Ui-Hoon uihoon@sph.com.sg DOCUMENTARY and dance came together in surprising harmony in Choy Ka Fai’s SoftMachine where his interviews with contemporary dance artists done over the past three years were presented in a unique stage performance. Choy is an associate artist
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        1098 34  -  Don’t be afraid to trust your own judgement, even to accept that you do not like a wine, whatever the star rating or iconic name. BY NK YONG name.BY NK YONG YOU are your own best judge. This has been said often
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        545 34  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT THEY haven’t met each other yet but that’s hard to tell from the playful musical chemistry Andrea Bocelli and Karen Mok share on their duet of Cheek to Cheek. Recorded separately and then joined by technology, the latter still
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        525 34  -  By Dylan Tan dylantan@sph.com.sg @DylanTanSYBT NATIONAL Day might be over but the SG50 celebrations continue with the Philharmonic Winds paying tribute to Singapore and its founding Prime Minister, the late Lee Kuan Yew. Its upcoming concert, Singapore Compose! 2015, will feature five new pieces,
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        914 35  -  From the grand opening of Suntec City to pop-up designer fashion bazaars, your shopping needs are covered for the next two weekends. BY AVANTI NIM weekends.BY AVANTI NIM avantin@sph.com.sg SUNTEC CITY WITH a legacy of almost 20 years as one of the leading
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          208 35  -  By Tay Suan Chiang DINING Singapore Restaurant week FOODIES, Singapore Restaurant Week returns again, but this time, you can do more than just eat. DiningCity, the organiser for Singapore Restaurant Week, is adding a social responsibility angle to raise S$ 100,000 for The Food Bank
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          146 35  -  DRINKS By Avanti Nim WHILE you may not have any control over the outcome of the game between Manchester United Masters and Liverpool Masters, one battle you might have more input in is online shopping and selling destination Lazada’s Battle of the Reds. Pitting wine
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          336 35  -  VIRTUAL GALLERY By Cheah Ui-Hoon WHY confine the art gallery to four white walls, and pay rent on that gallery space when you can actually reach out to thousands of smartphone users who pass by Marina Bay Sands every hour? Martell, the oldest of the great cognac houses,
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          152 35  -  CRAFT BEER By Rachel Loi CALLING all craft beer lovers the Singapore Craft Beer Week kicks off this weekend with a line-up of beer-related events from Oct 24 to 31. For this Saturday, you can take part in free tours of local breweries like LeVeL33 or
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          144 35  -  STAGE By Dylan Tan THE circus is back in town as Cirque du Soleil pitches its big top at Bayfront Avenue next to Marina Bay Sands. This time round, the Quebec-based troupe will be bringing along its production of Totem (below), a theatrical extravaganza that traces
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      337 34 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Light diversion forcing father into response (10) 6 Fare available for soldiers out without protection? (4) 9 Converted coach without one must get criticised (10) 10 British Standard applied to Golden Globes (4) 12 Raise tail (4) 13 Cool girl fans do badly with no end
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