News
Corporate earnings take hit as economy slows
Corporate earnings take hit as economy slows
STI constituents posted their first profit decline in six quarters.
Singtel Group prices $1.04b 10-year notes at 2.375%
Its order book is 3.6 times oversubscribed.
Singapore hits back at Elon Musk's criticism on EV adoption
In January, Musk criticised the city for being slow to adopt EVs.
OCBC in talks with Singtel for virtual bank license: report
The bank may take a minority stake in the joint venture.
Keppel Logistics unit expands to Vietnam and Malaysia
It launched an online-to-offline service in Vietnam.
Daily Briefing: Singapore mulls raising retirement age of uniformed officers in the military; Vegan platform abillionveg raises $2.77m from seed funds
And molecular diagnostics firm Nova Satra merges with INEX.
Chart of the Day: Secondary sale transactions plunged 62.35% to 1,840 units
Buyer sentiment was down in Q2.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.43%
YZJ Shipbuilding led the gains amongst top active stocks with a 15.12% climb.
Singapore's fixed asset investments hit $8.1b in H1
The surge was led by the manufacturing sector, which contributed $4.59b.
DBS plans foray into India's credit card space: report
The bank aims to launch credit card services by Q3 2020.
Sentosa trials first on-demand autonomous shuttle
Visitors can hail the shuttle via an app.
Top five industrial stocks' average returns hit 7.2% YTD
These five have the highest ROE, averaging 15.7%.
Singapore banks ace environment sustainability survey
Only four ASEAN banks met targets.
Daily Briefing: Singapore banks on private sector to plug SEA infra gap; Coworking space for healthtech startups launched
And Freepoint Commodities will begin supplying very low-sulfur fuel oil to Singapore in Q4.
Chart of the Day: Foreigners snapped up 18% of total apartment purchases in Q2
There was a surge of demand from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.24%
Singtel led the gains amongst top active stocks with a 0.94% climb.
Tripartite Workgroup eyes first changes to retirement age by 2022
This is to give way to improvements in workers’ life expectancy.
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