Singapore
Daily Briefing: PM Lee says nearly every household owns ‘substantial' home asset; Lazada to offer loans for its Singapore partners
Daily Briefing: PM Lee says nearly every household owns ‘substantial' home asset; Lazada to offer loans for its Singapore partners
And a Sentosa Cove bungalow is sold for $33.3m.
Oxley Holdings full-year profits jumped 31% to $285.03m
Gains from its purchase of Chevron House boosted profits.
Manufacturing output growth cools down to 6% in July
It was led by the 10.1% output expansion in biomedical manufacturing.
Tourism receipts dipped 0.5% to $6.7b in Q1
The decline was led by the 16% YoY decrease to $589m in food and beverage.
S-REITs fared well in July over increased attention from funds
The office sector could lead gains in S-REITS amidst its sustained rental improvements.
Oil prices to push inflation further in 2018: analysts
They think there’s no more room for monetary tightening in October.
MAS and SGX to develop blockchain technology for tokenised assets
They tapped Anquan, Deloitte, and Nasdaq to leverage on the open-source software.
UOB unveils machine learning solution to combat financial crime
It has tapped on regtech Tookitaki for its Anti-Money Laundering Suite.
Ho Bee Land secures Singapore's first green loan
The $352.9m will be utilised to acquire a 21-storey commercial property in London.
Perennial prices additional $10m notes at 5.95%
It will be consolidated as a single series with the $170m existing notes.
Corporate compliance in Singapore is the second easiest in Asia
The city continues to simplify and streamline its processes, a study says.
COE premiums dipped in second August bidding
Premiums for cars above 1,600 cc also slipped by $1,952 to $32,329.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.20%
Sustained Wall Street weakness could mute gains today.
Chart of the Day: New supply of industrial space hit 3.24 million sq ft in H1
Lagging demand brought occupancy rate 0.2 ppt down to 89.7%.
Daily Briefing: 8 in 10 e-commerce scams happened on Carousell platform; Manufacturing growth could slow down in industrial property sector by H2
And hybrid startup Spiking raises $1.2m.
Lian Beng subsidiary wins $278.5m development contract in Silat Avenue
It will develop 2 blocks of 56-storey apartments with 955 units.
OCBC launches robo-investment service
It has an initial investment amount of $3,500.
Commentary
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What Singapore’s app store rules reveal about the future of online trust
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Beyond policy: How Singapore's service sector can win at the frontline
Solving the production problem behind Singapore’s ‘pilot purgatory’
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