The Business Times, 17 March 2016

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES S$1.20 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BusinessTimes CO REGN NO *****2868E MCI (P) 039/08/2015 Thursday, March 17, 2016
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    27 1 Wednesday Change STI 2,844.21 +4.77 KL COMP 1,693.43 +2.51 NIKKEI 225 16,974.45 -142.62 HANG SENG 20,257.70 -31.07 SHENZHEN B 1,091.05 -6.50 DOW (11:45am EDT) 17,264.74 +13.21
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    246 1 The Monetary Authority of Singapore is working on two initiatives to develop the ecosystem around the local fund management industry. TOP STORIES 2 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says China will hit its growth target this year and avoid mass layoffs. TOP STORIES 4 The Media Development Authority has
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    Lock icon Economists again cut forecast for Singapore’s 2016 GDP growth
    725 1  -  MAS poll shows a drop to 1.9% as a bigger contraction in manufacturing and slower growth in finance insurance are factored in By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore PENCILLING in a deeper-than-thought manufacturing contraction and a slowdown in finance and insurance,
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    Lock icon Consistel puts its name into 4th telco hat
    857 1  -  Even as it throws down a challenge to MyRepublic, the incumbent telcos have unveiled adjusted price plans By jaccheok@sph.com.sg Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore WIRELESS network solutions provider Consistel told The Business Times on Wednesday that it would challenge MyRepublic for the
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      11 1 THE TALENT BUSINESS Getting under the hood of LinkedIn OPINION 23
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      30 1 HOCK LOCK SIEW Bumpy ride ahead for Prudential and Aviva companies markets 10 NOT LOOKING GOOD Economy hotels here likely to be worst hit in 2016: survey real estate 12
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon MAS working on initiatives to boost fund industry
      520 2  -  One is a framework aimed at encouraging more funds to be legally domiciled here IMAS conference By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is working on two initiatives to develop the ecosystem around the local fund management
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      Lock icon Robo-advisers? Nah, says panel
      389 2  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore AT an annual gathering of Singapore’s fund management industry, scepticism reigned over the ability of financial technology, or fintech, to disrupt the asset management and advisory space. Most young people likely to use technology have too little disposable income and
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      Lock icon Buy the worst markets: Mobius
      387 2  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore BUY the worst markets, not the best ones, said Templeton Emerging Markets Group executive chairman Mark Mobius at a dialogue session. The worst-hit markets, he explained, will give the best returns. And bull markets last longer than bear ones.
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      Lock icon Prudential Singapore’s rider up as much as 35%
      326 2  -  By Claire Huang huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT Singapore FOUR months after the five Integrated Shield Plan (IP) insurers agreed to freeze the top-up portion of all IPs for a year following the implementation of MediShield Life, Prudential Singapore is the first to raise its
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      Lock icon Frankfurt, London seal US$30b trading tie-up to counter US threat
      661 2 AFP Frankfurt DEUTSCHE Boerse and the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday agreed to press ahead with their planned US$30 billion merger to create one of the world’s biggest exchanges, insisting the tie-up will succeed irrespective of the outcome of the
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      Lock icon China will hit growth target, avoid hard landing: Li Keqiang
      572 4  -  Reform and development aren’t mutually exclusive, he says, but observers note that reform efforts are stalling By Virginie Mangin btworld@sph.com.sg Beijing CHINA’S Prime Minister Li Keqiang on Wednesday declared that the country would achieve its growth target this year and
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      Lock icon Trump, Clinton tighten their grip on nominations
      1011 4 Washington DONALD Trump’s road to securing the Republican presidential nomination got longer after Tuesday’s primaries in five states. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s got shorter. The Republican front-run-ner didn’t get the sweep he wanted, losing Ohio to Governor John Kasich. Mr Trump’s latest political
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      Lock icon CPI rise in February keeps Fed on course for rate hikes
      474 4 LATEST US DATA REUTERS Washington UNDERLYING US inflation increased more than expected in February as rents and medical costs maintained their upward trend, which could keep the Federal Reserve on course to gradually raise interest rates this year. The
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      Lock icon MDA to allow shorter terms for pay-TV contracts
      787 4  -  By amit@sph.com.sg Amit Roy Choudhury amit@sph.com.sg @AmitRoyCBT Singapore FOLLOWING extensive public consultations and feedback, the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) has finalised its slate of measures to enhance protection for consumers of pay-TV content. These measures under the Media Market Conduct
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      Lock icon Firms refine travel policies to get more bang for their buck
      547 5  -  Some slash their travel budgets, others look at economy or budget fares, to get more value for flights and hotels By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore CORPORATIONS are tightening their travel policies to stretch their budgets amid headwinds in
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      Lock icon Four S’poreans arrested under ISA for involvement in armed violence abroad
      495 5 THE STRAITS TIMES Singapore FOUR Singapore citizens have been dealt with under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for taking part in violence or intending to undertake violence in armed conflicts overseas, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Wednesday.
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon Strong Q1 euro-bond offerings from Singapore firms
      415 6  -  Proceeds raised so far this year up 7.7% at US$6.6 billion, the highest first-quarter figure since 2013 By Jamie Lee leejamie@sph.com.sg @JamieLeeBT Singapore BOND proceeds raised by Singa-pore-based issuers so far this year were up 7.7 per cent from a year ago at
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      Lock icon Noble’s chief operating officer retires
      261 6  -  By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore NOBLE Group’s chief operating officer William Cronin is retiring on March 31, the second high-level figure to leave the executive management of the embattled commodity trader in recent months. But Mr Cronin, 53, will remain as a part-time consultant
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      Lock icon OKH Global requests trading halt after stock price dives
      263 6  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore OKH Global opened trading on Wednesday morning at 52.5 Singapore cents before dropping to a low of 35 cents, after 548,000 shares changed hands. The unusual price movement prompted a query from the Singapore Exchange
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      Lock icon Property firms tapping bond market to raise funds at attractive rates
      465 6  -  By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore MORE property companies are leveraging the bond market to raise funds, with Ascott Reit and City Developments (CDL) both issuing bonds on Wednesday. Ascott Reit issued S$ 120 million in eight-year bonds with
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      Lock icon Gold miner Anchor Resources eyes profit by end of year
      494 7  -  Initial public offering of 28.8 million placement shares fully subscribed By Grace So graceso@sph.com.sg Singapore Singapore MALAYSIAN gold mining group Anchor Resources is hopeful to turn a profit by the end of 2016, despite posting full-year net losses for the
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      Lock icon Vard to build 4 expedition cruise vessels for Ponant
      208 7  -  By Mindy Tan tanmindy@sph.com.sg @MindyTanBT Singapore VARD Holdings has signed a letter of intent for the construction of four luxury expedition cruise vessels for French cruise company Ponant. The vessels will be developed by Vard, Ponant and Fincantieri. The ice-class expedition
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      Lock icon Chua Hak Bin another prominent casualty of economic slowdown
      239 7  -  By Melissa Tan melissat@sph.com.sg @MelissaTanBT Singapore AN ongoing pullback in the regional banking industry has claimed another prominent casualty in Singapore as the weakness of the global economy and a slowdown in China continued to bite. Well regarded economist Chua Hak
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      Lock icon Trendlines loses bid to renew agtech incubator licence
      398 7  -  B y Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore THE Trendlines Group, a Catalist-list-ed medical (medtech) and agricultural tech (agtech) incubator, has lost its bid to renew its agtech incubator licence in Israel but said this will not materially impact the group's earnings for
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      63 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index March 16,2016 2,844.21 4.77 (0.17%) Current streak 1 day Day high 2,854.87 Day low 2,833.08 52-week high 3,539.95 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist index March 16,2016 462.59 1.13 (0.24%) Current streak 1 day Day high 466.10 Day low
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      75 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low JSH USD 2890 91.2 2.3 3578/2524 Jardine C&C 3973 73.0 1.9 4258/2636 SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** 63.5 0.2 *****/***** DBXT E50 US$ 4441 44.2 0.7 5300/3968 Hyflux 6% CPS ***** 20.0 0.2 *****/***** BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low AP Strat W*****9 0.2
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      77 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low JMH USD 5376 -85.7 -1.1 6386/4500 GLD US$ ***** -58.0 -0.4 *****/***** DBXT MSTHAI US$ 1783 -55.3 -2.2 2300/1419 DBXT MSJAP US$ 4566 -42.8 -0.7 5277/4031 DBXT MSEurope US$ 5217 -40.1 -0.6 6300/4770 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low OKH Global 35 -33.3
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      82 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE IPCO Intl 130,318.5 0.006 +0.002 +50.00 Ziwo 1,175.0 0.030 +0.012 +66.67 Joyas Intl 29,208.1 0.006 +0.001 +20.00 Attilan 6,865.8 0.005 +0.002 +66.67 Medtecs Intl 2,300.5 0.052 +0.006 +13.04 Hoe Leong 21.2 0.044 -0.007 -13.73 KimHeng Offshore 23,448.2 0.119 -0.006 -4.80 Lasseters Intl 200.0 0.051 -0.002
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      Lock icon Gain by Dow futures brings market relief
      643 8  -  STI inches up after staying in the red for most of the day; also helping is Europe’s higher opening STOCKS By R Sivanithy sivan@sph.com.sg @RSivanithyBT Activity in the local stock market, which had shown signs of slowing over the past week, ground to
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      313 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 242 +2 244/239 271 209 6 6356.7 CapitaLand 314 +1 318/313 379 267 12.6 2.9 *****.1 CapitaMall Trust 210 -1 214/210 228 184.5 5.4 7299.7 CityDev 758 cd +8 759/750 1095 661
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      34 8 VOLUME IPCO Intl 130,318,500 LionGold 73,903,800 Annica 64,931,600 Ezra 61,536,500 InnoPac 54,550,100 Market volume 1,486,966,000 VALUE Singtel 54,395,261 DBS Grp 42,665,634 Ascendas Reit 33,469,329 OCBC Bank 30,716,577 UOB 30,127,354 Market value 749,521,000
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      77 8 Mar 16 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS 214.00 -129.00 BT CADI -*****.00 +15.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 +21.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 684.02 +3.00 FTSE ST Small Cap 400.73 +0.84 FTSE ST All Share 693.24 +1.31 FTSE ST China Top 164.18 -0.34 FTSE ST China 193.74 -1.57 FTSE
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      108 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS MS INDIA US$ US635 -2 180 636/630 827/575 635/638 79.4 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US262 -14 81 264/262 399/190 260/261 STI ETF 285 +1 69 286/284 355/254 285/286 ABF SG Bond ETF 116.1 -0.6 49 116.1/115.8
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share ftse ST All-Share index March 16,2016 693.24 1.31 (0.19%) Current streak 1 day Day high 694.39 Day low 691.17 52-week high 847.98 (Apr 15, 2015) 52-week low 625.37 (Jan 21, 2016)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      33 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE Index Mar 15,2016 1,637.93 -14.95 (-0.90%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,651.16 Day low 1,634.47 52-week high 1,949.49 (May 15, 2015) 52-week low 1,492.43 (Feb 12, 2016)
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING SCOREBOARD
      186 8 MAIN CATL TOTAL Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Up Down Unch Multi Ind 7 5 3 0 1 0 7 6 3 Manufacturing 32 38 27 7 9 8 39 47 35 Commerce 20 22 9 4 5 6 24 27 15 Tpt/Stor/Comms 13 10 11
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      121 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 14,662 2,153 16,815 46,015 421 46,436 Manufacturing 118,633 195,090 313,723 86,479 2,341 88,821 Commerce 42,138 57,340 99,478 60,641 1,420 62,060 Tpt/Stor/Comms 141,707 1,986 143,693 140,412 166 140,578 Finance 66,586 66,586 114,755 114,755 Construction 155,008 5,968
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Singapore property sector
        173 8 DBS Group Research, March 16 February remained another quiet month with a 23 per cent year-on-year drop in new private residential units sold to 301 transactions. Given the lack of new property launches, developers focused on marketing unsold stock. Sales volume in OCR (Outside Central Region) grew
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        Lock icon Singapore telco | Neutral
        309 8  - Singapore telco Neutral Compiled by Andrea Soh CIMB Research, March 15 Last week, singtel launched its DataX2 promotion, which allows new and re-contracting subscribers to double their mobile data quota for a flat fee of just S$5.90/month over a 2-year contract period. Subsequently, M1 and StarHub responded with their own
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      8 8 DATA IMarch 17 US Initial Jobless Claims
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      Lock icon US$ firmer as investors await Fed signal
      404 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE US dollar climbed against a basket of currencies and rose against the yen on Wednesday, as investors positioned for fresh guidance from the Federal Reserve on when US interest rates are likely to rise. The dollar index rose 0.25
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 Mar 16 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.997 4.860 0.672 5.784 50.197 98.925 0.847 8.899 3.085 1.128 78.004 34.853 1.030 11.991 0.737 24.495 26.119 0.528 0.745 Canada 1.003 4.876
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 Mar 16 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0293 1.0302 0.7451 0.7453 Canadian dollar 1.0328 1.0337 0.7479 0.7477 Euro 1.5307 1.5322 1.1081 1.1085 NZ dollar 0.9126 0.9136 0.6606 0.6610 Sterling pound 1.9478 1.9496 1.4100 1.4105
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 Mar 16 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3819 1.3829 2-months 1.3827 1.3837 3-months 1.3834 1.3845 6-months 1.3857 1.3871 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        389 9 Mar 16 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Mar16 9250.00 9405.00 9220.00 9392.50 *****6 *****4 Apr16 9140.00 9312.50 9135.00 9297.50 ***** ***** NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Jun16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****7 Sep16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 41 506 MSCI TAIWAN
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        210 9 Most active Mar 16 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left CSC Holdings W*****9 1 -0.1 ***** 1 1 -5 2.10 57 Asia-Pacific Strategic W*****9 0.2 0.1 ***** 1 1 71 3.50 56 UOB MB eCW*****5 11.9 unch
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        Lock icon MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INDICES
        377 9 In local curr In S$ In US$ dy yr dy yr dy yr Mar 15 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1231.3 -0.7 -3.6 -0.4 -5.4 -0.7 -2.8 EAFE Preliminary 949.1 -0.8 -6.3 -0.6 -7.1 -0.9 -4.6 Europe Preliminary 1344.2 -0.8 -4.8
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 9 Mar 16 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.03 0.01 1-month 1.125 1.000 2-months 1.1875 1.0625 3-months 1.2500 1.1250 Overnight mode: 0.03 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.45 0.35 1 month 0.48 0.38 2 months 0.65 0.45 3 months 0.75 0.55 6 months 1.00 0.80 9 months 1.20 1.00 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        69 9 Mar 16 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year N*****0F 1.375 01-Oct-17 100.56 100.63 100.63 5-Year NX*****X 2.250 01-Jun-21 102.08 102.28 102.05 10-Year NX*****Z 2.375 01-Jun-25 101.42 101.55 101.20 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 103.93 104.30 103.30 20-Year NZ*****V 3.375 01-Sep-33 109.77
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 9 Mar-15 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Mar-15 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 892.00 -3.75 -0.42% 13/05/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 32.49 0.04 0.12% 13/05/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 477.25 -1.50 -0.31% 13/05/2016 Mar-15 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2258.00 4.00 0.18% 13/05/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1392.00 -19.00 -1.35%
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      Lock icon Bumpy ride ahead for insurers Prudential and Aviva
      710 10  -  HOCK LOCK SIEW BY CLAIRE HUANG huangjy@sph.com.sg @ClaireHuangBT MACRO and firm-spe-cific factors point to a bumpy ride in the new financial year for Prudential Singapore and Aviva Singapore the two British-based insurers here which last week reported their 2015 full-year results. The
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      Lock icon Hiap Hoe unit to sell second Melbourne property
      426 10  -  By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore LOCAL developer Hiap Hoe, through its subsidiary Meteorite Property, has entered into an agreement to sell a second property in Melbourne to an Australian developer. It will go for A$60 million (S$61.7 million) before taxes. The
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      Lock icon Ranhill makes poor debut on Bursa M’sia
      306 10  -  By Pauline Ng btworld@sph.com.sg Kuala Lumpur BURSA Malaysia’s first listing for the year Ranhill Holdings Bhd made a poor debut on the stock exchange on Wednesday, opening below its RM1.20 (40 Singapore cents) offer price before ending 16 per cent lower at RM1.01.
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1790 11 Transaction date: Mar 16 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Last Vol Day Div GrYld 153 127 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 134 unch 180 134 133.5 1 8.3 851.4 MCap 175.5 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 119cd +2.5
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      299 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Company Last Sale vol ('000) 1 0.2 t Advanced Systems 0.3 unch 1000 0.3 0.3 7.9 Day Low Div C'vr GrYld Net P/E MCap 35 8.8 t 3Cnergy 8.8 29.5 16.7
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      124 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last Sale 1039 700 CIMBASEAN40 US$ US838 +2 0 838 838 131.4 4258 2355 DBXT China50 US$ US2706 -2 8 2708 2691 7.4 399 190 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US262 -14
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon Economy hotels likely to be worst hit in 2016: HVS poll
      740 12  -  This is on the back of significant increase in supply and intensifying competition By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore A PROJECTED decline in Singapore hotel market performance this year is expected to be most pronounced for hotels in the
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      Lock icon New York’s high-end residential market slows down
      1081 12 Officials welcome pause in escalating prices that have made business prohibitive NYT New York IT is a question of supply and demand. On a seven-block stretch of 57th Street and nearby, there are at least 300 apartments in seven buildings priced at a
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      216 12 REUTERS Hong Kong THE sale of a plot of land on the exclusive southern side of Hong Kong Island fetched less than what analysts had expected, making it the latest in a string of government land sales to do so. Property is a
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      187 12 BLOOMBERG Ottawa A SOARING real estate market in Vancouver helped push the national average home price in Canada above the half-million dollar mark for first time in February, stoking concern that risks are becoming lopsided. Average resale prices jumped 16 per cent
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      1033 13 Total P2P borrowing for home deposits reaches 924 million yuan in January BLOOMBERG Beijing WHEN Fu Songtao found his ideal home in the suburbs of Shanghai, he faced the typical problem of would-be homebuyers: Coming up with enough cash for a
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      279 13 REUTERS Dublin RESIDENTIAL rents in Dublin have risen above peaks hit during a property boom a decade ago amid a severe housing shortage that threatens Ireland’s attractiveness to multinational firms. Rents in Dublin rose 0.4 per cent above the high hit
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      353 13 BANGKOK POST Bangkok THAILAND’S The Miracle Group is eyeing Suvarnabhumi airport for its next “sleep box” hotel after the soft launch of the sleep cabins at Don Mueang airport this week. Aswin Ingkakul, executive director of the Miracle Group, said the company
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      755 14 Property owners face woes like overbuilding, oil price slump, strong dollar, falling stock prices, and China slowdown BLOOMBERG New York LENDERS are getting stingier when it comes to funding risky US real estate developments, putting pressure on landlords in need
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      611 14 BLOOMBERG Boston BEFORE beginning the hunt for their first house, Tennessee residents Brittany and Craig Murphy pared their student debt, saved for a downpayment and got an income boost from her new job. The major hurdle was what came next.
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      1145 15 Banks are spinning out or selling tools pertaining to data security, mobile applications and systems integration REUTERS New York BIG Wall Street banks, after spending massive amounts of money and time to get their old, creaking systems in better
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      1055 15 Reserve Bank of India due to complete bank audits by the end of this month BLOOMBERG Mumbai THE day of reckoning is coming: The Reserve Bank of India is due to complete its audit of all 50 of the country’s banks by
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  • ENERGY & COMMODITIES
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      1045 16 Rising prices also increase inflationary pressure, limiting scope of the central bank to stimulate the economy BLOOMBERG Shanghai CHINA got a US$460 billion break annually during the collapse in commodity costs, so this year’s rally in everything from oil to iron ore
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      782 16 For cash-strapped drillers, hedging may have become too expensive, say analysts REUTERS New York LAST October, as US oil prices seemed to be stabilising around US$45 a barrel, some bullish traders chuckled at the notion of US shale
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      850 16 BLOOMBERG London THE top of the oil market may be closer than you think. With Brent futures having bounced back as high as US$41 a barrel, the International Energy Agency sees “light at the end of the tunnel”, and
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  • TECHNOLOGY
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      792 17 Sales of key cloud products grow 57% to US$583m, compared with sagging revenue in other services BLOOMBERG San Francisco ORACLE Corp reported profit that topped estimates and posted strong gains in revenue from cloud-based businesses, signalling that it is making progress
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      820 17 NYT New York ALPHAGO, the artificial intelligence system built by the Google subsidiary DeepMind, has just defeated the human champion, Lee Sedol, four games to one in the tournament of the strategy game of Go. Why does this matter? After all, computers
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      646 17 AFP San Francisco SONY plans to make virtual reality (VR) long the stuff of films cast off into a distant future mainstream with the October release of PlayStation VR headgear priced at US$399. “Virtual reality represents a new frontier for gaming, one
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      598 17 THE BUSINESS TIMES NOTICES IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP. 50 AND IN THE MATTER OF WISON OFFSHORE MARINE (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (In Members' Voluntary Liquidation) Reg No. *****4688M NOTICE OF RESOLUTIONS At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the abovenamed Company duly convened and held at 699 Zhongke
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  • CONSUMER
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      688 18 The company is in worse shape after Michael Pearson returned from a two-month medical leave for pneumonia BLOOMBERG Boston MICHAEL Pearson and his company, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc, were supposed to calm Wall Street doubters on Tuesday. Instead: chaos. What began before
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      752 18 AFP Berlin THE doomsayers were 100 per cent certain that the Internet would be the death of travel agents. But in Europe’s three biggest economies, the industry is still very much alive and kicking as consumers prefer expert advice and a friendly face
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      1014 18 NYT Washington IN AN effort to curb what many consider the worst public health drug crisis in decades, the federal government on Tuesday published the first national standards for prescription painkillers, recommending that doctors try ibuprofen and
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  • TRANSPORT
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      1069 19 Vendor Gogo to submit competing proposal against rival ViaSat’s offer NYT New York PASSENGERS are not the only ones frustrated by the high cost, slow speed and baulky connections of Wi-Fi on airplanes. A legal skirmish between American Airlines and the Wi-Fi provider Gogo
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      671 19 AFP Washington GOOGLE, Lyft and car industry executives urged lawmakers on Tuesday to help create a regulatory fast lane to help the deployment of self-driving cars. In testimony at a Senate hearing, representatives of General Motors (GM) and car
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      Lock icon New boss of Russian carmaker Avtovaz enters a lion’s den
      836 19 REUTERS MOSCOW NICOLAS Maure, brought in to turn around Renault-Nissan’s Russian carmaker Avtovaz, is entering a lion’s den where his predecessor fell foul of diving sales and powerful vested interests among shareholders, suppliers and workers. The 55-year-old Frenchman is likely
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      25 19 Astory about a box that holds big dreams for a little country Now available in Chinese Now on sale at all major bookstores and www.stpressbooks.com.sg
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      27 19 ASIA PACIFIC CONGRESS 24 MAY 2016 SINGAPORE www.apcc.sphereconferences.com Wantto be part of APCC 2016, please contact Paul at +65 6848 6058 or email pauKSlsphereconferences.com Organised By: ((sphere
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      554 20  -  Capital gains tax will be cut from 28% to 20%; tax loopholes of Internet companies to close By Neil Behrmann btworld@sph.com.sg London UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced accelerated infrastructure spending to lift a slack UK economy. To counter a forecast decline
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      656 20  -  By Anthony Rowley btworld@sph.com.sg Tokyo FORMER World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday that he has advised Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to delay a consumption tax increase scheduled for early next year, and to focus
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      Lock icon Big Japan firms cut wage hikes as Abenomics falters
      748 20 tion after years of stagnation. BLOOMberg Tokyo JAPAN’S major companies are giving lower wage increases next fiscal year as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to boost the economy falter. Toyota Motor Corp agreed to increase monthly base salaries 1,500 yen (S$
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      423 20 AFP Paris GLOBAL economic growth did not translate into more harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector last year, the IEA said on Wednesday, a strong indication that growth and increased pollution no longer go hand in hand. For
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      201 20 AFP REUTERS Washington PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Merrick Garland, a centrist judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of justice Antonin Scalia. Mr Obama formally announced his intent to nominate the 63-year-old appeals court judge
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      792 21 Government also rescinds planned tax hike on foreign travellers who work in the country REUTERS Sydney AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday that he would back a controversial change to the country’s competition laws that would reduce the power of big
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      295 21 BLOOMBERG Tokyo BOTH European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi and Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda need weaker currencies as they strive to reflate their economies, but they are not going to get it unless the US central bank lends
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      384 21 REUTERS Sydney AUSTRALIA and Indonesia on Wednesday said they would formally resume long-stalled negotiations aimed at sealing a bilateral trade agreement between the often uneasy neighbours within 18 months. Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo and Indonesian Trade Minister Thomas Trikasih Lembong said in
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  • OPINION
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      Lock icon Amid economic headwinds, BNM’s Zeti will be a hard act to follow
      553 22 EDITORIAL MALAYSIA’S top central bank post will have an untimely void at the end of April when the widely respected governor of 16 years, Zeti Akhtar Aziz, retires raising questions (and heightened scrutiny) on who will replace her
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      1223 22  -  He’s likely to amass the largest number of delegates by the Republican convention in July By Leon Hadar AS THE Republican and Democratic presidential candidates were preparing for the crucial presidential primaries on March 15 aka Su-per-Tuesday II much of the attention of the
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      783 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Frank Ching T The writer is a Hong Kong-based journalist and commentator. Follow him on Twitter: @FrankChing1 OVER the last quarter century, China’s economy grew at a phenomenal rate, its diplomatic influence now reaches every corner of the world and
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      692 23  -  COMMENTARY By Zhongxia Jin T The writer is executive director for China at the international Monetary Fund. This article is based on a March 12 speech he delivered in New Delhi. FROM a historical perspective, Asia is in a long process of awakening and
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      2306 23  -  What sets it apart from many others in the recruitment business, the platform says, is that it brings to life “passive talent”. BY VIKRAM KHANNA SINGAPORE has been described as a “Facebook Nation”, with some 3.8 million users out of a population of about
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      939 24 Vessel Voy Sin Pusan Tarawa Honiara Santo Port Vila Noumea Lautoka Suva Nukualofa Apia Pago Pago Papeete Lae P. Moresby Townsville APL Columbus V010E 23 May 06 Jun 22 Jun 26 Jun 29 Jun 01 Jul 03 Jul 06 Jul 08 Jul 10 Jul 10 Jul 15 Jul APL Columbus
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  • LIFE & CULTURE
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      Lock icon Author alters hit novel in a new edition 20 years later
      1170 25 Second edition of Dark Debts has less violence, new explosive ending, and other plot twists NYT New York WHEN Karen Hall published her debut novel Dark Debts 20 years ago, it seemed like the start of a blockbuster literary
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      Lock icon Mumbai dance bars to reopen amid worries about more sex crimes
      358 25 REUTERS Mumbai AFTER a 10-year hiatus, dance bars are set to reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra state with activists warning women and girls could be trafficked and abused in these venues but bar owners arguing this is legitimate, needed
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      1299 25 NYT New York ON Feb 29, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University became the third Nobel Prize laureate biologist in a month to do something long considered taboo among biomedical researchers: She posted a report of her recent discoveries to a publicly
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      325 25 CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Across 1 Programme includes student’s first multiplication aid (5,5) 6 Hereditary, in part? Correct (4) 9 Mountain-dweller also described by the old man (5) 10 Acts I deny working for cartel (9) 12 Heard I was hard? Nonsense (7) 13 Fear of onset of darkness? Study needed (5)
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