Is Singapore’s Stock Market Really a Lousy Place for Investors?

13 Feb 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
“Why are a lot of great companies in Singapore facing falling share prices despite having great financials, solid earnings growth, and positive corporate news?” The question above, while not a direct quote, aptly sums up the feelings of some members of an Internet stock market forum which I visit occasionally. ...
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STI & dividends generated 9.5% return in 2014

6 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX:^STI) ended at 3365.15 in 2014, representing a 6.2% price gain for the year. Taking the consistent flow of constituent dividends into account, and assuming that income was reinvested, the total return of the STI came to 9.5% for 2014. This means that for the past three years ...
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Noble Group Limited Leads The Pack As Singapore's Stocks Put On Gains For The Week

3 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
This week saw only three-and-a-half trading days due to the New Year’s Eve and New Year holidays. The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) gained 17 points, or 0.5%, to end the first week of 2015 at 3,371 points. Of the index’s 30 components, 18 of them ended the week with gains, seven were in the red, while ...
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Rock-Solid Shares to Start 2015 With

2 Jan 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
2014 was an interesting year for investors when it came to interest rates. There was almost unanimous consensus that bond prices would fall in the year, causing a rise in interest rates. But, that didn’t happen. Here’s how financial journalist Jason Zweig from The Wall Street Journal recently described ...
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Doomsday Predictions For 2015

31 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s only one more day to a new year. What does 2015 hold for investors? I don’t have any working crystal ball that lets me see what the future holds. But, that doesn’t mean I can’t conduct any thought experiments to see what could go wrong or what could turn out very well in the upcoming year. I’ve ...
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The Singapore Market this Week: SIA Engineering Company Limited Leads the Pack

27 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on changes – just in case they’re material to our investing thesis. For this Christmas week, the market was in a jubilant mood as the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) gained 2.3% since last Friday ...
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Singapore’s 3 Best Performing Blue Chips for the Year

22 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
2014 is coming to a close. What a year it has been. Let us look back and review the three blue chips within the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) that has performed the best so far this year. The nuts and crackers Sitting at the top of the list is Olam International Limited (SGX: O32). The company’s stock ...
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Olam International Ltd To be One Of The World's Largest Cocoa Player

16 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Olam International Ltd (SGX: O32) announced today that it will be acquiring the cocoa business of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). ADM is considered as one top 4 cocoa processors and suppliers in the world. The industry have been seeing some consolidation in the recent years. In 2012, Petra Food Limited’s ...
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ADM to Sell Global Cocoa Business to Olam - Business Wire

15 Dec 2014 - Business Wire

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Olam buys US peanut sheller MMI for $176m

7 Dec 2014 - DealStreetAsia
Singapore-based agri-business operating firm Olam International Limited has agreed to buy leading American peanut sheller, McCleskey Mills Inc (MMI), at an enterprise value of $176 million, the companies said. The acquisition will be funded by a combination of internal accruals and existing debt facilities ...
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