Malaysian Giants With More Than 5% Dividend Yields

9 Sep 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
If you are a dividend investor looking to diversify your investment portfolio, it could be useful to explore companies outside of Singapore for potential ideas. It might help to look at a wider pool of investment ideas and also to have some geographic diversification. One possibility is to explore companies ...
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The Week In Numbers: REITs Set To Tap The Market

9 Sep 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Economists think that the Singapore economy might not grow as quickly as they first forecast. But they still believe the Garden City could grow at a rate of 1.8% this year. They have pencilled a growth rate of 1.8% for next year too, which is down from an earlier forecast of 2.1%. Yangon might not be ...
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Three Companies That Bought Back More than 1% of their shares in 2016

9 Sep 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Share buy-back is one of the strategies that is endorsed by legendary investors such as Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. The logic is simple. If you have a good business and its share price is undervalued, and there are no options to deploy the cash to achieve high rates of return, you might be better ...
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Del Monte Pacific's net loss narrows 18.3% to $11.8m in Q1

9 Sep 2016 - Singapore Business Review
Thanks to its strong performance in the Philippines market. Despite gaining traction in its Asian market, Food and Beverage (F&B) company Del Monte Pacific still registered net loss in its first quarter, with sales falling 2.8% to $628.9 million due to lower non-branded sales in the United States. The ...

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Office rents to continue spiraling down amidst near-term supply glut

9 Sep 2016 - Singapore Business Review
Rents could bottom over 12-13 quarters. With the large office supply bound to come next year due to strong completions in the near term, office rents are posed to continue sliding. "While rents continue to fall, we think the market could instead focus on a bottom for the sector. We expect rents to bottom ...

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Making Sense Of Cogent Holdings Limited

9 Sep 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Cogent Holdings (SGX: KJ9I) is probably not that well known in Singapore. This could be due to the nature of its business – it is a logistics company. The group is involved in many logistics aspects, such as transportation, warehousing, container-depot management, automotive logistics and project cargo. ...
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Chart of the Day: Check out Singapore’s decelerating services sector in Q2

9 Sep 2016 - Singapore Business Review
Declining trade income is spilling over services. Despite contributing 65% to the city-state’s gross domestic product (GDP), the service sector has been cracking under pressure, registering deceleration in the second quarter of the year with the dipping of trade income. According to the latest report ...

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Daily Briefing: Oil traders expect relief in prices; Singapore's home prices dropped 2.4%

9 Sep 2016 - Singapore Business Review
New Green Mark Scheme prods increased technology use in residential buildings. Large oil traders are hopeful about relief in slumping oil prices. In the annual Asia-Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore, 14 of 15 oil traders and executives sought for comments expect crude to remain between $40 and ...

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Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.03%

9 Sep 2016 - Singapore Business Review
Expect soft gains within the day. OCBC is expecting the pullback on Wall Street overnight to soften the local bourse with the index drifting sideways. “We peg the immediate support at 2800, ahead of 2860; on the upside, we continue to peg the initial hurdle at 2900, ahead of 2935,” OCBC said. The overall ...
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Sim Lian declares privatisation offer by Coronation 3G unconditional

8 Sep 2016 - DealStreetAsia
SGX Mainboard-listed real estate developer Sim Lian Group (SLG) on Tuesday announced that their privatisation offer from Coronation 3G has been declared unconditional since the latter already gathered 90.1 per cent of total shares in Sim Lian. In a filing to the Singapore Exchange, Sim Lian said, the ...
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