News
Chart of the Day: Rising demand boosted city fringe business park rents by 1.8% in Q3
Rents for business parks in the rest of the island also rose 1.3% to $3.80 psf pm.
Daily Briefing: SGX reshuffles its listings team to fend off competition; Specialty retailer V3 Group bags $500m from investment firm KKR
And venture capital firm Trive Ventures launches its blockchain accelerator Tribe Accelerator.
Escalating trade wars may weigh on Singapore bank earnings
OCBC and DBS are more vulnerable due to their larger Greater China footprint.
Deadline for execution of Hyflux's Tuaspring deal gets another extension
Maybank approved the further extension from 29 November to 28 December 2018.
Manufacturing PMI contracted to 49.4 in November
It was dragged by growth slowdown in new orders and new exports, amongst others.
Luxury living in Singapore just got costlier: Julius Baer report
A BMW 7-series sedan is priced at $595,069 (US$436,105), which is 4.3% higher compared to other regions.
Will SATS' food volume bear the brunt of SIA's reshuffling scheme?
They could look into providing optional meals for Scoot passengers.
Former Queenstown Cinema site for sale by tender at $200m
A potential six-storey commercial building on the site could serve more than 17,000 households in the area.
MAS launches $30m cybersecurity capabilities grant
It will co-fund up to $3m to support cybersecurity advancement per firm in the financial sector.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 2.34%
Wall Street's gains could uplift the local bourse today.
Chart of the Day: Buybacks skyrocketed 81.67% to $108.8m in November
DBS topped the buyback spree as its transaction hit $51.99m.
Daily Briefing: $350 progressive wage increase for 3,000 landscape employees gets green light; Grab in talks to invest US$100m in Indian hotel startup Oyo
And government agencies amp up checks on food establishments providing catering services during the festive season.
LTA to roll out six month on demand public bus trial
Commuters can be picked up and dropped off at any bus stop in Joo Koon and Marina-Downtown.
7 in 10 Singapore women worry about affordable healthcare after retirement
2 in 5 of them are either not checking how much they've put in for retirement or have no contributions at all.
Here's how Keppel REIT's Ocean Financial Centre sale could help its buy-back programme
It sold its 20% stake in the building to help pare down debt.
SGX launches high-grade iron ore derivatives
Its swaps and futures will reference the 65% Fe Brazilian fines index, CFR Qingdao.
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