News
DBS surprise leads quarter of stellar performances for Singapore’s banking triumvirate
Net profits exceeded analyst estimates.
Boutique hotel in Downtown Core sold for $203m
BIG hotel was bought by Gaw Capital Partners.
Singapore dominates talent-competitiveness in Asia
It beat heavyweights like Sweden and USA, too.
REITs turn to perpetual bonds to dodge new loan curbs
They issued $700m perpetual notes this year.
CMT's profit margins under threat as costs soar
Expenses will rise due to increased marketing efforts.
Ballooning bad debts hound struggling Genting
Debt charges swelled to $92.5m in Q3.
NSEWL will be "almost new" by 2018, says MOT
It has a new game plan to overhaul the ageing system.
Northeast Asia is the bottleneck to Singapore’s NODX, say analysts
NODX to China plunged by 8.7%.
Could the Marco Polo scuffle trigger a dreary domino effect for SembMarine?
It’s the first formal cancellation for SMM.
M&As back in vogue as IPO market slows to a crawl
Deal value hit $1.8b in just two months.
Will Olam’s curdling dairy business ever turn profitable?
Its restructuring efforts have been fruitless so far.
Here are five listed companies that are likely to go private soon
Watch out for takeover offers.
First Resources’ net profit falls by 26.4% to US$31.7m
On back of a decaying plantation division.
Silverlake Axis’ net profit leaps by 15% to RM68.6m
A weak ringgit equals a strong Silverlake Axis.
These are the five worst-performing REITs on the SGX
An office REIT is the biggest loser.
SembMarine locks horns with Marco Polo over scrapped $306m rig contract
There were cracks on the rig, says Marco Polo.
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