Singapore
Chart of the Day: Check out Singapore's tourist mix
ASEAN represents 40% and visitors from China account for 17%.
Daily Briefing: Debt and reserves eyed to fund $100b climate change push; Chinatown conservation shophouse for sale at $8.5m
And insurtech firm Singapore Life joins Railsbank’s $13.87m funding round.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 1.29%
Hongkong Land led the gains amongst top active stocks with a 8.27% increase.
PMI edges up 0.1 to 49.9 in August
New orders, factory output and inventory improved.
Economists cut GDP growth forecast to 0.6% : MAS survey
Q3 growth is expected to come in at an average of 0.3%.
Bus and train fares may rise 7% after train review
Rail operators stands to gain whilst ComfortDelGro’s prospects remain neutral.
D'Grove Villas relaunched for sale at $392m
It can be redeveloped into a 36-storey, 141,120 sqft luxury condo.
Temasek's US$3b stake sale in A.S. Watson put on hold: report
The move is blamed on Brexit and the political unrest in Hong Kong.
OUE C-REIT and H-TRUST merger kicks into effect to create $6.9b entity
Its market cap and free float are set to increase to approximately $2.9b and $1.1b, respectively.
Share buyback consideration hits $70.1m in August
23 SGX-listed stocks bought back 71.5 million shares.
July RevPAR hits five-year high at $203.6
This is the highest so far for the year.
Chart of the Day: Private home completions to fall to five-year-low in 2019
Only 863 units were added in Q2.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.25%
OCBC led the gains amongst top active stocks with a 1.19% climb.
Daily Briefing: Temasek co-leads beauty tech platform Social Bella's $55.71m series D round; Over 5,000 families failed to get a BTO flat
And 555 vegetation fires were recorded in the first half of the year.
IMDA launches media-related training and masterclasses
Selected participants can receive mentorship from director and producer David Puttnam.
CPF assets up 6.63% to $374.87b in 2018
It is ranked as the world's ninth largest pension fund.
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