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Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.52%

OCBC led the decline with a 0.99% dip.

Chart of the Day: Warehouse rents down 1.5% in Q2

Rents for first-storey and upper-storey multi-user factories also slipped 0.5%.

CapitaLand's Raffles City Chongqing achieves 95% retail leasing rate ahead of September launch

Adidas Sportswear Collective, Haidilao hotpot and Charles & Keith will open its stores in the mall.

Top office REITs averaged 19.6% YTD return

Mapletree Commercial Trust was the strongest performer with YTD total returns of 28.6%.

UIC profits skyrocketed 186% to $490.4m in H1

Higher sales from trading properties, hotel operations and technology operations boosted earnings.

EU to deny five nations, including Singapore, some market access rights: report

This would remove a status enabling European banks to rely on credit ratings.

Chart of the Day: Office property investments nearly doubled to $1.9b in Q2

It outgrew the residential segment where investments plummeted to $914.2m.

Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.52%

Singtel fell the most amongst top active stocks with a 4.9% decrease.

HDB resale transactions jumped 29.8% in Q2

Changes to the CPF may have stoked demand for HDB resale flats.

Unemployment rate hits 3.3% in Q2

Employment declined in the retail and manufacturing sectors.

Retail rentals down 1.5% in Q2: URA

However, the prices of retail spaces increased by 0.4%.

Manufacturing output down 6.9% in June

The electronics and transport engineering segments led the decline.

Private home prices rose 1.5% in Q2: URA

Condo prices rose 2% whilst landed property prices fell 0.1%.