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Singapore Airlines load factor up for 5th month
Singapore Airlines load factor up for 5th month
SIA’s PLF rose encouragingly to 83.0% from 78.8% in Jun 2011.
LTA fines SMRT S$2M for service disruptions
How much could this hurt SMRT's books?
M1 net profit tumbled by 17.8% YoY
With a squeezed pocket, does M1 still have sufficient fund to cover higher roll-out cost for a nationwide 4G smartphones?
Private homes launched in June fell dramatically by 46% MoM
Consequently, inventory of launched and unsold units dip by 1% as take-up rate rose to 104%.
Chart of the Day: New homes launched reach five-month record
The 14,272 figure surpassed the total launched for the full year prior to 2010.
Singapore importing more low-priced vegetables from China
China's market share of vegetable exports to Singapore increased to 29% in 2011, an eight percentage point rise from 2002.
Keppel and Sembcorp to benefit from new Brazilian orders
21 rigs are awaiting the big shipping lines by 12 September.
Tech sector to suffer dreary revenue reboot in H2
2012 growth expectation is pegged at -2% and 12% in 2013.
SPH net profit sinks 11.5% YoY
But the S$99.8-m decline sees hope in the growing rental income.
Tech sector revenue to crash 1.2% in Q2
Net earnings are likely to plunge 26% YoY amid demand decline.
Singapore's earnings growth to rebound to 14% in 2013
Good times are back after a weak 5% growth over the past 6 quarters.
Hungry ghost festival to haunt private home launches
Who will buy the 10,000 new homes in 2H12?
Venture's net profit to slump 19% to S$33.7m: DBS
Sales are also expected to drop 9% to S$571m in 2Q12.
Private home sales plunge 16% in June
This is the worst month in 2012.
Readers deserting SPH newspapers
This is bad for the company as they will have to increase staff costs by 2.6%.
COE prices down 2.9% in June
Prices for the open category eased to SGD84,389 from SGD86,889.
Disappointing Q2 GDP reduces likelihood of monetary tightening
Nomura expects inflation to hit 2.0% in the next three months from 2.7% in May.
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