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Daily Briefing: Grab raises US$200m in fresh funding; LTA to award six bike-sharing licenses
Daily Briefing: Grab raises US$200m in fresh funding; LTA to award six bike-sharing licenses
And Hong Kong-based Campfire Collaborative is joining Singapore's co-working fray.
Chart of the Day: Limited supply continues to boost office rents in Q3
Leasing costs are at $10 psf/monthly.
Half of Singapore's emerging affluent highly dependent on insufficient savings
The move has proven inadequate as they remain far from financial goal.
UOB's NIM may widen as rising 3-month SIBOR raises lending yields
Its projected loan growth is at 10% and 6.5% for 2018 and 2019, RHB said.
SP Group unveils green energy trading marketplace
City Developments Limited and DBS were amongst the first of its renewable energy certificates (RECs) buyers.
SP Group rolls out world's first smart grid index
It has been validated by the Energy Research Institute of NTU.
M1 likely to accept Keppel's buyout offer: analyst
A counter offer from Axiata Group is not likely following the 27% collapse of its share price in October, an analyst said.
ST Engineering to invest $48m in Florida aerospace MRO facility
It will invest into the development of a 665,000 sqft complex worth $290m.
SGX welcomes Phillip SING Income ETF
It has $68m initial assets under management (AUM).
Go-Jek unveils pre-registering portal for Singapore drivers
Drivers who will pre-register will then be notified for the next application steps.
Raffles Medical profits up 0.1% to $16.41m in Q3
Revenue from healthcare services division grew 8% amidst new corporate clients and a new contract.
Great Eastern Holdings profits crashed 26% to $213.3m in Q3
Operating profit from insurance business slipped 11% to $141.4m.
Sembmarine seals two renewable energy contracts worth over $200m
It will engineer and construct projects for Denmark’s Ørsted Wind Power and Norway’s Norled AS.
Chart of the Day: 34.4% of Q3 property investment sales are residential
Interest for office properties is picking up.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 1.35%
Wall Street's weakness could drag down the local sentiment today.
Daily Briefing: Manpower minister says minimum wage ‘not yet practical'; One in four bank job openings are for tech-related roles
And SPH co-leads $4.14m funding for US marketing intelligence platform.
SembMarine's order pipeline could hit $3b in 2019
One major deal is a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) contract that could be worth up to $2.76b (US$2b).Although order wins have been behind expectations in m2019 amidst project delays in final investment decisions (FIDs), Sembcorp Marine’s (SMM) strong order pipeline could secure $3b or more worth of new orders in 2019, DBS Equity Research said. The research firm is also positive on SMM’s offshore capital expenditure (capex) recovery ahead. Amongst these contracts may include a Gravifloat modularised liquefied natural gas (LNG) which could go around $1b, two large Compressed Gas Liquid carriers for SeaOne Caribbean valued at $800m in total, and Rosebank’s floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) contract that could be worth up to $2.76b (US$2b). The firm has so far clinched around $1b of new orders YTD.
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