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Daily Briefing: Fuel shortage in Asia pushed Singapore oil prices to a 3-year high; Starhub welcomes new CEO
Daily Briefing: Fuel shortage in Asia pushed Singapore oil prices to a 3-year high; Starhub welcomes new CEO
And Golden Gate Ventures joined a $19.9m funding for a Singapore care-giving startup.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.91%
Investors are taking caution over trade tensions' effect on local sentiment.
Chart of the Day: 33 firms bought back $174m of their shares in June
CapitaLand led the tally and bought back 17.2 million shares for $60.8m.
Talent crunch beefs up finance payrolls amidst thinning workforce
Firms may need to shell out extra $29,100 per highly skilled finance worker by 2030.
Wilmar could benefit from soybean prices hit by trade tensions
Soybean prices have fallen 4.6% since the US and China resumed announcing tariffs.
Global trade tensions unlikely to hit Sheng Siong: analyst
Its exposure is nearly limited to only Singapore, rendering it unaffected by global trade spats.
Low factory output and exports weigh down Singapore PMI in June
It dipped 0.2 point to 52.5.
More than half of employers struggle to fill in positions
The jobs that are hardest to fill are sales representatives, engineers, and drivers.
12-hectare Bukit Canberra to open in 2020
It is expected to have a polyclinic, sports centre, and a hawker centre.
PropNex Realty debuts on SGX Mainboard at 68.5 cents per share
Its $240m market cap boosted the real estate cluster's cap to $179b.
HDB resale prices up 0.1% in Q2
Meanwhile, the supply for BTO flats will be cut from 17,000 to 16,000.
Private home prices up 3.4% in Q2
Home sellers raise their prices as buyers rush to get homes before they turn costlier.
oBike works on refunding deposits upon Singapore exit
All idle oBikes will be collected before 4 July.
EDBI joins US$220m funding for China bio-pharma player
I-Mab will use the fund to further develop its pre-clinical and clinical assets.
Chart of the Day: Singapore's electronics inventory hits 7-year high
But electronics exports are down, indicating a divergence between measures.
Daily Briefing: Singapore to get new F-16 fighter jets; Temasek unit buys stake in Indian ports for US$147m
And GIC invests US$250m in a joint venture to acquire US$2b worth of rental houses.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.34%
Gains on Wall Street could lift the local sentiment today.
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