News
Frasers Group tightens grip on PGIM Asia Retail Fund
Frasers Group tightens grip on PGIM Asia Retail Fund
It may benefit from its growing stake in the fund if more assets continue to be sold.
Daily Briefing: Maritime tech startup Claritecs raised $850,000 in pre-Series A round; Grange Road car park to be redeveloped into event space
And a survey notes that half of graduates work in jobs unrelated to their degrees.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.31%
Singtel saw the sharpest decline amongst top active stocks with a 0.96% fall.
Chart of the Day: Check out the distribution of Singapore's flexible workspaces
Majority are concentrated at the Central Business District.
Investors fail to act on sustainability ambitions: study
Whilst 37% said they want to invest sustainably, only 14% were actually doing it.
Ascendas REIT buys Melbourne office building for $103.3m
Nissan Motor is one of the key tenants for the building’s space.
SGX FX futures trading volume hits US$992b in Q3
The number of contracts reached a quarterly high at 7 million.
PMI falls to three-year low in September
Manufacturing output was hit by weak demand from both local and export markets.
WeWork IPO crisis could hit Singapore's co-working operators
CapitaLand Commercial Trust has the highest exposure to co-working risk.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.5%
DBS saw the sharpest decline amongst top active stocks with a 0.8% fall.
Chart of the Day: RCR condo sales hit 1,717 units in Q2
New sales accounted for 1,151 transactions.
Daily Briefing: Siglap Shopping Centre stalls for sale at $8.8m; Software provider Desker to launch business accounting app
And insurtech start-up Axinan eyes Thailand and Vietnam expansion.
Lendlease Global REIT IPO subscribed 14.5x in strong market take-up
The REIT received applications totalling 330.44 units worth $290.8m.
ThaiBev profits to rise 16% in FY19: analyst
Q4 profits are tipped to rise 20% YoY.
Singapore billionaire stocks beat Hong Kong in 9M total return
Average return hit 10.4% compared to Hong Kong’s 2.9%.
HDB resale prices down 0.2% in September
The prices of three-room HDBs fell 0.6%.
Chart of the Day: Private home leasings hit 23,095 in Q2
There are 980 more transactions in Q2 compared to the previous quarter.
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