The Business Times, 30 August 2016

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    22 1 THE BUSINESS TIMES A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION www.businesstimes.com.sg @BusinessTimes MCI (P) 052/08/2016 S$1.20 CO REGN NO *****2868E Tuesday, August 30, 2016
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    Lock icon DAILY DIGEST
    172 1 Visitor arrivals in Singapore in the first half of 2016 expand at a double-digit pace of 12.5 per cent, although growth in June slows. TOP STORIES 2 Various online sites drop tycoon Peter Lim’s name in an effort to hoodwink members of the public to sign up for
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    Lock icon SGX’s advisory body gives nod for dual-class shares
    805 1  -  However, some safeguards will have to be in place, says the Listings Advisory Committee By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore THE Listings Advisory Committee (LAC) of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) has given the go-ahead for the market operator to permit dual-class share
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    28 1 Monday Change STI 2,829.43 -28.22 KL COMP 1,681.60 -1.49 NIKKEI 225 16,737.49 +376.78 HANG SENG 22,821.34 -88.20 SHENZHEN B 1,162.87 +1.37 DOW (11.45 AM EDT) 18,517.75 +122.35
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    Lock icon There’s more on Singapore investors’ minds than what the Fed does next about rates
    1096 1  -  Reacting to Monday’s selldown in the market, analysts point out that domestic and regional issues hold larger sway over investment decisions By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Singapore EXPECTATIONS of rising US interest rates could have a
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  • TOP STORIES
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      Lock icon S’pore, Vietnam governments and business leaders open doors
      687 2  -  Vietnam’s President Quang looks to allow more flights from Changi into its cities, while Singapore Minister iswaran highlights new sectors for firms to explore SINGAPORE-VIETNAM TIES By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore THERE were plenty of overtures from government officials and businessmen
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      Lock icon GIC aiming for 7.73% stake in Vietcombank
      495 2  -  By Soon Weilun soonwl@sph.com.sg @SoonWeilunBT Singapore SINGAPORE’S sovereign wealth fund GIC is looking to place its first significant direct investment in a commercial bank in Vietnam with a proposed 7.73 per cent stake in Vietcombank. This comes as GIC looks to emerging markets
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      Lock icon 55% jump in China visitors to Singapore in first half of 2016
      863 2  -  STB data shows overall arrivals up 12.5% in first six months but growth appears to be slowing in June By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore ARRIVALS to Singapore expanded at a double-digit pace of 12.5 per cent year
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      Lock icon Safe-haven demand for gold to outweigh effects of US dollar rise, say analysts
      533 2  -  NERVOUS MARKETS By Andrea Soh sandrea@sph.com.sg @AndreaSohBT Singapore THE price of gold continued its decline over the past week on Monday, but with continued uncertainty surrounding major economies in the world, analysts believe the yellow metal will
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      Lock icon S$ falls 2% to S$1.36 from month high after Yellen’s speech, but rates still weak
      550 2  -  By Siow Li Sen lisen@sph.com.sg @SiowLiSenBT Singapore THE Singdollar (S$) fell to S$1.361 on Monday at 2.29 pm, almost 2 per cent lower from the month high of S$1.338 on Aug 16. The fall follows
      Source: Bloomberg  -  550 words
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      Lock icon Peter Lim lodges police report over get-rich-quick schemes
      462 4  -  He says he has nothing to do with online advertisements that drop his name to encourage sign-ups for programmes B y Anita Gabriel anitag@sph.com.sg @AnitaGabrielBT Singapore VARIOUS online sites have been dropping Singapore tycoon Peter Lim’s name in an effort to hoodwink
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      Lock icon Ong joins MAS board
      194 4 ONG Ye Kung, Acting Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills) and Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Defence, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank said on Monday. Mr Ong’s term of appointment will
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      Lock icon Invoicing and payments solution launched for SMEs
      526 4  -  By Vivien Shiao vshiao@sph.com.sg @VivienShiaoBT Singapore MORE options have emerged to make the transition from manual processes to digital ones easier for small and me-dium-sized enterprises (SMEs). One solution rolled out in Singapore on Monday was ABSS Click to Pay, an e-invoicing and
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      Lock icon Yellen’s comments on next US rate hike weigh on Asia bourses
      1001 5 But any move towards a rise not expected to cause as much uncertainty as last year’s increase BLOOMBERG REUTERS AFP Kuala Lumpur ASIAN stocks outside Japan fell after Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said the case for raising interest
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      Lock icon End of the road for tax discs from February
      274 5  -  By Samuel Ee samuelee@sph.com.sg Singapore EVEN your car will be going paperless soon. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has announced that road tax discs will be phased out from Feb 15 next year, which means these paper discs will soon disappear
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      167 4 Region’s Leading Exhibitions for the Medical, Healthcare and MedTech Sectors MEDICAL FAIR ASIA MEDICAL MANUFACTURING ASIA 11th International Exhibition on Hospital, Diagnostic, Pharmaceutical, Medical Rehabilitation Equipment Supplies 3rd Manufacturing Processes for Medical Technology Exhibition and Conference 31 AUG 1 SEP 2016 10.00am 6.00pm 2 SEP 2016 10.00am 5.00pm Sands Expo
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  • COMPANIES & MARKETS
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      Lock icon When four may not be enough
      757 6  -  Can S i2i’s four-member board bring in the much-needed real results? HOCK LOCK SIEW By Anita Gabriel IF a large board is frowned upon as it can be unwieldy, then a small one ought to raise questions on its effectiveness to raise shareholder value.
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      Lock icon C&G to sell its principal businesses
      557 6  -  By Cai Haoxiang haoxiang@sph.com.sg @HaoxiangCaiBT Singapore TWO years after disposing its business in China, waste-to-energy firm C&G Environmental Protection Holdings is proposing to sell the remainder of its business to two different Chinese business partners. In a pre-market announcement on Monday, C&G said that
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      Lock icon Lum Chang’s full-year earnings flat at S$29.52m
      402 6  -  By Lynette Khoo lynkhoo@sph.com.sg @LynetteKhooBT Singapore CONSTRUCTION cum development group Lum Chang Holdings reported a one per cent dip in net profit for the full year ended June 30 to S$29.52 million. This was despite a 36 per cent surge in revenue to
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      Lock icon GL Ltd’s full-year profit surges 41%
      421 7  -  By Kelly Tay kellytay@sph.com.sg @KellyTayBT Singapore PROPERTY group GL Ltd’s full financial year results received a lift, thanks to lower administrative and income tax expenses, as well as reduced finance and net financing costs. Net profit shot up 41 per cent to US$67.6 million
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    • CORPORATE DIGEST
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        222 7 SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) has appointed a new chairman, Kwa Chong Seng, who will in turn step down from Olam International’s board to devote time to the new responsibilities. Mr Kwa will succeed outgoing SGX chairman Chew Choon Seng, who has been at the helm of the exchange since
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        223 7 higher cost of sales and a host of impairment charges have pushed Australian oil and gas engineering services provider AusGroup into the red for the fourth quarter. Results for Q4 were also significantly impacted by the continued delay in the commercialisation of its port and marine business. The Singapore-listed
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        151 7 PEC’s fourth-quarter net profit was S$8.2 million a reversal from a net loss of S$7.8 million in the previous year. This was thanks to “an increase in variation orders from completed projects”, said the specialist engineering group on Monday. But for the three months ended June 30, revenue dropped
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        Lock icon Healthway Medical Corp
        96 7 CLINIC operator Healthway Medical Corporation on Monday agreed to issue up to 133.3 million new ordinary shares at three Singapore cents each, to raise net proceeds of about S$3.75 million. The money will be split 45 per cent towards working capital and 55 per cent towards the
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      Lock icon Claims against Swiber rise to US$197m
      792 7  -  More claim filings expected against distressed O&M group ahead of the Oct 6 hearing of its application for judicial management By Tan Hwee Hwee hweetan@sph.com.sg @HweetanBT Singapore CLAIMS against Swiber Holdings have ballooned further ahead of the Supreme Court’s Oct 6 hearing of the
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      Lock icon STI / Catalist
      65 8 STI Catalist Straits Times Index Aug 29, 2016 2,829.43 -28.22 (-0.99%) Current streak 2 days Day high 2,853.07 Day low 2,828.82 52-week high 3,083.07 (Oct 26, 2015) 52-week low 2,532.70 (Jan 21, 2016) FTSE ST Catalist Index Aug 29, 2016 435.79 -1.64 (-0.37%) Current streak 1 day Day high 440.48
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      Lock icon Hawk sighting sends investors scampering
      615 8  -  Selldown sees ST Index fall one per cent, as losers outnumber gainers seven to four STOCKS By Kenneth Lim kenlim@sph.com.sg @KennethLimBT Sightings of a hawk at the us Federal Reserve sent Singapore investors scurrying into their burrows on Monday, although it was only a light
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      Lock icon STI STOCKS
      302 8 Stock name Close Change Day high/low 52w high 52w low PE Div yield Mcap Ascendas Reit 244 -2 246/243 257 209 6.3 6781.3 CapitaCom Trust 154 -1.5 155.5/152.5 159 127 5.6 4554.4 CapitaLand 308 -4 311/307 340 267 12.3 2.9 *****.7 CapitaMall Trust 211 -5 215/211 225 185
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      Lock icon MOST ACTIVE
      35 8 VOLUME Noble 57,482,500 Cedar Strategic 56,166,700 HSI*****MBeCW*****9 55,571,000 Annica 24,000,000 Magnus Energy 23,621,300 Market volume 989,705,000 VALUE Singtel 60,872,697 UOB 50,545,999 DBS Grp 36,016,833 OCBC Bank 32,326,861 JMH USD 25,600,988 Market value 744,061,000
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      77 8 Aug 29 VALUE CLOSE BT OB/OS -290.00 -97.00 BT CADI -*****.00 -84.00 BT 10-day MA -*****.00 -29.00 FTSE ST Mid Cap 677.82 -3.05 FTSE ST Small Cap 380.41 -2.33 FTSE ST All Share 693.87 -6.19 FTSE ST China Top 156.12 -0.34 FTSE ST China 186.35 -0.73 FTSE
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      Lock icon STI / FTSE ST All-Share
      35 8 STI FTSE ST All-Share FTSE ST All-Share index Aug 29,2016 693.87 -6.19 (-0.88%) Current streak 2 days Day high 698.78 Day low 693.36 52-week high 743.17 (Oct 26, 2015) 52-week low 625.37 (Jan 21, 2016)
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      Lock icon STI / MSCI EAFE
      34 8 STI MSCI EAFE MSCI EAFE index Aug 26, 2016 1,702.43 +0.26 (+0.02%) Current streak 1 day Day high 1,711.60 Day low 1,685.98 52-week high 1,779.25 (Oct 26, 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 2 8 4 0 1 0 2 9 4 Manufacturing 26 48 18 7 3 11 33 51 29 Commerce 11 27 14 2 5 4 13 32 18 Tpt/Stor/Comms 10 12 8
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      Lock icon SECURITIES TRADING TURNOVER
      122 8 VOLUME (‘000) VALUE (‘000) MAIN CATL TOTAL MAIN CATL TOTAL Multi Ind 11,866 40 11,906 40,297 7 40,304 Manufacturing 44,505 98,862 143,367 53,599 1,533 55,132 Commerce 78,463 12,568 91,031 62,813 314 63,127 Tpt/Stor/Comms 64,035 1,430 65,465 135,931 139 136,070 Finance 18,737 1 18,738 133,202 133,203 Construction 15,380
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      Lock icon GAINERS
      78 8 BY CENTS CLOSE UP 52w high/low DBS Bk 4.7% NCPS ***** 79.0 0.7 *****/***** DBXT MSJAP US$ 4955 15.0 0.2 5021/4031 Lion Asiapac 35.5 11.5 47.9 36/21 DBXT S&P Short US$ 1955 10.9 0.4 2362/1931 IS Asia BND US 1117 10.9 0.7 1126/1010 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE UP 52w high/low
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      73 8 BY CENTS CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low Jardine C&C 4134 -167.0 -3.9 4520/2636 DBXT MSEurope US$ 5416 -117.1 -1.6 5733/4770 SPDR S&P500 US$ ***** -98.0 -0.3 *****/***** DBXT MSKorea US$ 5738 -95.3 -1.2 5878/4629 JSH USD 3179 -87.1 -2.0 3280/2524 BY PERCENTAGE CLOSE DOWN 52w high/low LifeBrandz 0.1 -50.0 -0.1
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      Lock icon UNUSUAL ACTIVITY
      84 8 VOL CLOSE($) CHANGE Yongmao 0.8 0.250 -0.100 -28.57 Suntar Eco-City 35.0 0.165 -0.055 -25.00 Lion Asiapac 185.1 0.355 +0.115 +47.92 Nico Steel 4,650.9 0.007 +0.002 +40.00 C&G Env Protect 1,563.2 0.151 +0.024 +18.90 ITE Electric 1,033.7 0.071 +0.016 +29.09 HMI 8,322.3 0.475 +0.060 +14.46 Spindex Ind 671.3 0.745
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    • BROKERS’ TAKE
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        Lock icon Singapore Post | Hold
        170 8 Singapore Post Hold Target price: S$1.42 Aug 29 close: S$1.365 OCBC Investment Research, Aug 29 EVER since SingPost’s annual general meeting in mid July, the stock has been retreating and has lost about 12.7 per cent of its value ever since. In our view, this could be partly due to
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        Lock icon China Aviation oil (Singapore) Corp | Buy
        174 8 China Aviation oil (Singapore) Corp Buy Target price: S$1.90 Aug 29 close: S$1.355 UOB KayHian, Aug 29 CHINA Aviation Oil (Singapore) Corp (CAO) experienced a bout of profit-taking recently which presents buying opportunities for those who missed the last boat. We checked its fundamentals with multiple channels which showed that
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        Lock icon Silverlake Axis | Add
        157 8  - Silverlake Axis Add Compiled by Kenneth Lim Target price: S$0.68 Aug 29 close: S$0.605 CIMB Research, Aug 26 WE introduce FY19 forecasts. Our discounted cash flow-based target price rises to S$0.68 (weighted average cost of capital: 11.6 per cent) as we roll-over to FY17. FY17-18 earnings per share forecast changes
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      Lock icon SGX ETFs
      111 8 Most Active Fund Last sale +/-(‘000) Day high/low 52w high/low Buy/Sell Mcap IS ASIA HYG US$ US1100 cd -8 347 1104/1099 1116/977 1076/--STI ETF 288 -2 289 289/288 314/254 288/289 Nikko AM STI ETF 294 -3 285 297/294 320/259 294/295 7.1 IS MS INDIA US$ US718 -1 168
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      Lock icon US$ hits three-week high against yen
      399 9 CURRENCIES REUTERS London THE US dollar rose to a three-week high against the yen on Monday after senior Federal Reserve officials bolstered expectations that US interest rates would rise soon. Treasury yields rose to their highest since June and rate futures indicated the market
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    • FOREX RATES
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CROSS RATES
        471 9 Aug 29 A$ C$ Rmb Euro HK$ Ind Rs Rupiah Yen Won RM NZ$ Pak Rs Peso S$ Rand Sfr NT$ Baht Pound US$ Australia 0.982 5.037 0.675 5.850 50.663 100.109 0.771 8.474 3.051 1.043 79.018 35.039 1.027 10.886 0.737 23.948 26.122 0.576 0.754 Canada 1.018 5.129
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        Lock icon INTERBANK CURRENCY RATES
        155 9 Aug 29 Against S$ Against US$ Currencies Bid Offer Bid Offer S$/US$ to one unit of foreign currency: Australian dollar 1.0267 1.0271 0.7541 0.7543 Canadian dollar 1.0455 1.0459 0.7682 0.7679 Euro 1.5216 1.5219 1.1176 1.1177 NZ dollar 0.9840 0.9847 0.7227 0.7232 Sterling pound 1.7825 1.7827 1.3092 1.3093
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        Lock icon US$/S$ FORWARD RATES
        22 9 Aug 29 S$ Bid Offer 1-month 1.3614 1.3619 2-months 1.3612 1.3615 3-months 1.3611 1.3614 6-months 1.3610 1.3615 Source: OCBC
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    • EQUITY BONDS WARRANTS FUTURES
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        Lock icon BONDS, WARRANTS, PREFERENCE SHARES
        207 9 Most active Aug 29 Prem Expiry Vol Conv Exer Disc Gear-Mths Company Last Sale +or-('000) Ratio Price ing Left HSI ***** MB eCW*****9 8.6 -1.3 ***** 0.0 1 OCBC Bk MB eCW*****8 4 -0.2 4463 0.1 915 5 UOB MB eCW*****1 8.6 -0.2 4160 0.1 1880
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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 Aug 26 Index Change Change Change Change Change Change World Preliminary 1306.5 0.2 2.3 0.0 -0.9 0.2 4.1 EAFE Preliminary 965.8 0.0 -4.7 -0.2 -5.5 0.0 -0.8 Europe Preliminary 1394.8 0.5 -1.3
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        Lock icon SGX DERIVATIVES TRADING
        396 9 Aug 29 OPEN HIGH LOW SETT VOL OP/INT FTSE CHINA A50 INDEX FUTURES Aug16 9752.50 9797.50 9670.00 9710.00 *****9 *****3 Sep16 9782.50 9820.00 9697.50 9737.50 *****8 *****8 NIKKEI 225 INDEX FUTURES Sep16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 ***** *****1 Dec16 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 *****.00 866 7664 MSCI TAIWAN
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    • BANK RATES
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        154 9 Aug 29 $S Offer Bid 0vernight 0.03 Par 1-month 0.625 0.375 2-months 0.8125 0.6875 3-months 0.875 0.75 Overnight mode: 0.35 US$ Offer Bid 7 days 0.55 0.45 1 month 0.60 0.50 2 months 0.80 0.60 3 months 0.90 0.70 6 months 1.25 1.05 9 months 1.45 1.25 12
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        Lock icon GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
        69 9 Aug 29 GOVERNMENT BONDS Period Issue Coupon Maturity Close Day's code rate Bid High Low 2-Year NY*****A 4.000 01-Sep-18 106.19 106.23 106.18 5-Year NX*****X 2.250 01-Jun-21 104.15 104.25 104.10 10-Year NX*****F 2.125 01-Jun-26 102.84 102.98 102.60 15-Year NZ*****F 2.875 01-Sep-30 109.66 109.55 109.55 20-Year NZ*****X 2.250 01-Aug-36 101.55
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    • AGRI METALS ENERGY
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        Lock icon COMMODITY FUTURES
        250 9 Aug-26 Price Net change change Last Trade Agricultural Aug-26 CBOT Soybeans (US cents/bu) 990.75 -7.50 -0.75% 14/09/2016 CBOT Soybean Oil (US cents/lb) 32.95 0.04 0.12% 14/09/2016 CBOT Wheat (US cents/bu) 383.50 -17.75 -4.42% 14/09/2016 Aug-26 LIFFE Cocoa (£/tonne) 2429.00 3.00 0.12% 15/09/2016 LIFFE Coffee (US$/tonne) 1783.00 22.00 1.25%
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      Lock icon BOC Aviation’s H1 profit up 23.8% at US$212m
      476 10  -  Revenue for recently listed group rises 8.2%, lifted by contributions from lease rental and sale of aircraft By Nisha Ramchandani nishar@sph.com.sg @Nisha_BT Singapore BOOSTED by higher revenue and gains from sale of aircraft, BOC Aviation’s net profit for the six months ended
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      Lock icon Cockroach startup that’s profitable from Day One
      1259 10  -  Flare Dynamics takes opposite path of unicorn startups in offering custom-built drones for law enforcement and defence. BY CHIN YONG CHANG By Chin Yong Chang ycchin@sph.com.sg Singapore FLARE Dynamics technical director Lu Weiyao believes in the limitless potential of technology in fulfilling the
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      Lock icon SGX MAINBOARD
      1708 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/Ep $mil Company Last Sale Vol ('000) High Day 149 127 AIMSAMP Cap Reit 140 unch 93 141 140 0.9 8.1 892.2 Div 144 101 ARA Asset Mgmt 134.5 -2 263 138
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      198 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Company Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Last vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap 44.5 29.5 t Advancer Global 41.5cd -1 2867 43 40.5 16.5 71.9 LOW Company Sale 19.9 8.3 t Anchor Resources 10.2 -0.2 4951 10.4
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      145 11 52-Wk Last Vol Day Div GrYld Net MCap High Low Counter Sale +/-(’000) High Low C’vr P/E Counter Last 86.4 69.1 CIMB APAC Div US$ US84.2 +0.7 0 84.2 84.2 8.8 vol ('000) 385 190 DBXT MSBrazil US$ US364 -5 2 364 364 Low 5878 4629 DBXT MSKorea
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      353 7 Learn about prevention, detection and treatment for heart related diseases and stroke from Dr Michael Lim, internationally reowned interventional cardiologist and also a regular contributor of health related articles in The Business Times every fortnightly. Learn about sleeping disorder, snoring, fatigue, and sinus problems from Dr Dennis Chua, Ear, Nose
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      97 10 THE MONETARY AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE RESULTS OF AUCTION OF TAXABLE BOOK-ENTRY SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT BONDS TO BE ISSUED ON 01 SEP 2016. Tenor Total Amount Allotted Amount Allotted to Non-Competitive Applications Amount Allotted to MAS Total Amount Applied Coupon Rate Cut-otfYield Price Median Yield Price Average Yield Price of Competitive Applications
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      283 10 These companies are among the 16 finalists of the Emerging Enterprise Award 2016. Jointly presented by The Business Times and OCBC Bank, the Emerging Enterprise Award 2016 recognises promising enterprises and startups which are up to 10 years old and have an annual turnover of S$15 million or less. It
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  • REAL ESTATE
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      Lock icon Small completed condos worst price performer in July from year ago
      527 12  -  NUS flash estimates reflect 4.4% price contraction for small units of up to 506 sq ft islandwide By Kalpana Rashiwala kalpana@sph.com.sg @KalpanaBT Singapore SMALL completed private apartments and condos have been the worst performer year-on-year among the four Singapore
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      946 14 Regulator steps in as big boys pump millions into e-com sites that grant loans to students with no credit history BLOOMBERG Beijing ACROSS college campuses in China, a small army of marketers is recruiting students to borrow money at interest rates many times that charged
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      623 14 BLOOMBERG New York EVERYONE’S a winner in the US$5.3 trillion-a- day global currency market this year. For just the second time in the past decade, three major foreign-ex-change trading strategies are all producing positive returns. The carry trade, in which
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      1378 15 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of Singapore Exchange Limited (the “Company”) will be held at The Star Theatre, Level 5, The Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green, Singapore *****7 on Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 10.00 a.m. to transact the following business: ROUTINE
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      1010 17 US startup Eyefluence’s technology can turn the human eye into a computer mouse WP San Francisco FIRST came the computer mouse. Then the touchscreen. Now the tech industry is looking for a new hu-man-machine interface one that will make virtual-reality (VR) headsets
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      559 17  -  By Jacquelyn Cheok jaccheok@sph.com.sg @JacCheokBT Singapore DBS chief Piyush Gupta, as well as entrepreneurs Roger Egan III (who co-founded online grocer RedMart) and Darius Cheung (head of property portal 99.co), have topped LinkedIn’s 2016 Singapore Power Profiles. This is a list
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      416 17 REUTERS San Francisco HIGH-TECH computing company Nutanix has acquired two startups to enhance its data and storage services, as the firm continues to grow its business despite a protracted delay in its initial public offering (IPO). San Jose, California-based Nutanix
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      764 19  -  The provider of online streaming sports content muscles its way into the Singapore market, bringing the EPL, Swimming World Cup and more to fans By Lee U-wen leeuwen@sph.com.sg @LeeUwenBT Singapore WHEN the management at Eleven Sports Network decided to broadcast the wildly popular English
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      374 19 AFP London NIGEL Rodgers is in hell. A campaigner against piped music for decades, he stands in a shoe shop on London’s Oxford Street which is blaring out pop music and winces visibly. “It’s just as bad as passive smoking,” said
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      650 19 BLOOMBERG Hong Kong HE may be 88 and facing setbacks from failed deals in the UK and Australia, but investors bet against Li Ka-shing at their peril. Hong Kong’s richest man is set to win approval as
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      354 20 REUTERS Berlin GERMANY’S BGA trade association slashed its 2016 forecast for export growth, its head said on Monday, predicting sales abroad by Europe’s biggest economy would later stagnate as the delayed impact of Brexit hit home. Global demand for German
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      499 20 AFP REUTERS Brussels THE European Commission on Monday insisted that talks on a huge US free trade deal were on track, rejecting German claims that irreconcilable differences had left the deal dead in the water. “The ball is rolling right
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      279 20 BLOOMBERG Washington “JOE six-pack gets a raise,” proclaim Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists Emanuella Enenajor and Lisa Berlin, commenting on the biggest source of upward pressure on US wages in 2016. The duo found that industries which rank in the bottom 20
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      758 20 REUTERS Bangkok THE spread of the Zika virus across tropical South-east Asia is likely to be significantly under-reported as local health authorities fail to conduct adequate screening, regional specialists said on Monday. International travel hub Singapore has to date 56 locally-transmitted cases
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      170 20 REUTERS Beijing COMPANIES in China may save up to 150 billion yuan (S$30.5 billion) a year if they are allowed to contribute less to employees’ social security and housing plans, a research institute at the top economic planning
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      567 21 It could start buying local govt and other bonds that fund infrastructure projects after its Sept meeting: analysts BLOOMBERG Tokyo FORGET helicopter money. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) might next target financing a bit closer to the ground trains, hospitals, power plants
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      773 21 BLOOMBERG Zurich MARIO Draghi is letting the numbers do the talking. After five weeks of silence, the European Central Bank president is leaving it largely to a raft of economic data to fine-tune policy expectations ahead of the Governing Council’s
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      532 21 REUTERS Athens GREECE’S economy grew modestly in the second quarter but weak demand and scant investment mean a strong rebound after years of recession remains elusive a year after the country nearly crashed out of the euro. Data released on Monday showed
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      518 21 REUTERS Beijing CHINESE President Xi Jinping has reshuffled three top provincial-level Communist Party posts as he seeks to place his men in key positions ahead of a once-every-five-years congress next year, and more new appointments are likely soon. The party congress, expected
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      191 21 This book guides us through the REITs investments in a step-by-step and comprehensive manner Coupled with actual case studies of REITs in Singapore, you will learn the methods to grow your wealth with the higher dividend/investment returns from REITs. Investing in REITs is equivalent to investing in properties, but with
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  • OPINION
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      578 22 EDITORIAL THE recent wave of defaults in high-risk unrated bonds in Singapore has raised fresh scrutiny on how the bonds were sold. Based on analyses by Bloomberg, bond issuers have taken to offering rebates of up to one per cent to private banks
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      822 22  -  THE BOTTOM LINE By Robert Samuelson THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP Washington CALL it the Snooze Economy. Roughly two months before the US presidential election, America’s economy has turned both boring and mystifying. It hardly impresses anyone, and yet this plodding performance is probably helping Hillary
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      Lock icon Trump’s move to the centre unlikely to work
      1528 22  -  The white professionals, blacks and Hispanics he is trying to reach probably won’t be swayed By Leon Hadar Washington UNTIL late last year, it would have been safe to say that most Americans had never heard about a 1950s programme by the
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      1052 23  -  COMMENTARY By Andrew Hammond T The writer is an associate at LSE IDEAS (the Centre for international Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy) at the London School of Economics London ACTING Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is facing a confidence vote this week, a necessary
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      1194 23  -  By Rakesh Upadhyay OILPRICE.COM IT’S possible that Opec (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) is crying wolf with hints of an output freeze next month in Algiers; but it’s also possible that they are ramping up production to take the sting out
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      Lock icon Central bankers ‘in a hole’ over economic slowdown
      1109 23  -  Instead of real-world issues, they focus so much debate on things such as negative rates By Anthony Rowley Tokyo THE world’s leading central bankers found themselves “in a hole” at the end of last week literally in that they were meeting in
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      403 25 AFP Nepal IN Nepal’s isolated, high-altitude desert of Upper Mustang, a new road to China is bringing economic transformation to the former Buddhist kingdom, once a centre for trans-Himalayan commerce. The remote region is ringed with vast canyons and red mountains that,
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      835 25 She also steals spotlight by performing for more than 16 minutes songs from her album Lemonade AFP New York BEYONCE dominated the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday as she collected a near-record award haul and awed the audience with a fiery
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      Lock icon Modern art threatens relevancy of old masters
      1082 25 NYT New York AT Christie’s over the last few weeks, two specialists in old master paintings and drawings quietly left the auction house. Their departures followed a year of spotty sales, in which the values of works by old masters a pantheon of
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      1060 26  -  SMEs in Singapore have reason to stay the course on the Asean Economic Community despite simmering South China Sea tensions. BY AZMAN JAAFAR BY AZMAN JAAFAR T The writer is deputy managing partner and one of the founding members of RHTLaw
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      1286 28  -  Acoustic solution provider SIAC continues its efforts to offer innovative products adaptable to market conditions. BY LEONG GUO FENG, TOH XIU HAN, VIVIAN TAI HUAN FEN and WAN QIAN XIU THERESA BY LEONG GUO FENG, TOH XIU HAN, VIVIAN TAI HUAN FEN, WAN QIAN XIU
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      997 27  -  Accreditation of AsureQuality’s food and contaminant testing laboratories helps their customers penetrate chosen markets, gain competitive advantages and protect their brands and reputations. BY VIVIEN SHIAO As more companies look overseas to export their products, quality and standards have never been more
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      925 27  -  By Vivien Shiao vshiao@sph.com.sg @VivienShiaoBT Singapore FOR companies that aim to boost competitiveness and gain access to overseas markets with their products, getting certified by an accredited testing laboratory is key. Singapore Electrical Testing Services (Sets) is one such firm that understands all
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      62 28 Celebrating Singapore´s Enterprising Spirit 2016 This series is part of the Enterprise 50 Educational Project between the E50 partners and the NUS Business School. SIAC Pte Ltd was among the winners in 2015. The annual E50 ranking is co-organised by The Business Times and KPMG, sponsored by OCBC Bank, and
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