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Condo rents up 0.8% in July

Condo rents up 0.8% in July

CCR led the price hike on monthly and yearly basis, boosted by supply and demand factors.

Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.68%

YZJ Shipbuilding led the declines amongst top active stock with a 17.31% crash.

Chart of the Day: New industrial supply to hit 18.8 million sqft in 2020

Almost half of it will be from multiple-user factories.

Daily Briefing: 50 firms raise retirement or re-employment ages; Moov seeks license to expand 1,000-bike fleet

And NUS researchers invent “smart” clothing that boosts bluetooth and wifi connectivity.

Sembcorp profits up 20% to $98m in Q2

However, revenue fell 33% due to lower turnovers from its energy and marine units.

Singapore ranks second in Asia where companies see the largest BRI opportunity: survey

Organisations also hailed Singapore as amongst the top governments to partner with.

MAS slaps prohibition orders against three individuals for insider trading

They engaged in a 7-year front-running arrangement resulting in profits of $8.07m.

Golden Agri Resources' loss widens 70.7% to $64.45m in H1

Softer crude palm oil (CPO) prices continued to drag on earnings.

GIC and PE firm Silver Lake seek to extract $1.25b debt-funded payout from DNA analysis firm

If approved, it would be one of the year’s largest dividend funded by junk debt.

ComfortDelGro profits up 1.2% YoY to $75.9m in Q2

Its acquisitions in 2018 softened the impact from its weakening taxi business.

Chart of the Day: Banks brace for mounting asset risks

New NPL formation rose for all three banks in Q2 due to large overseas exposures.

Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.03%

OCBC led the gains amongst top active stock with a 0.91% increase.

ST Engineering profits climbed 18% to $138.2m in Q2

Profit growth from the marine sector countered declines from other divisions.

OUE profit surges ten-fold to $60.86m in Q2

It was boosted by its disposal of Aquamarina Hotel Private Limited.

Yanlord Group Q2 profits down 41% to $170.15m

The total gross floor area delivered to customers decreased and hit revenue.