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Daily Briefing: Singapore rolls out fuel price comparison site; Caregiving startup Homage caps off Series B funding
Daily Briefing: Singapore rolls out fuel price comparison site; Caregiving startup Homage caps off Series B funding
And Singapore-based multi-family office Golden Equator expands into Brunei.
Chart of the Day: Chinese buyers dominate foreigner home sales in 2019
5.2% of home sales in January-November came from foreigners and PRs from China.
Yanlord buys stakes in Shenzhen developers for $223.79m
It also disposed of a 5% interest in Hainan Yanlord Beautycrown.
Land prices drop 8-20% after developers turn cautious in GLS bid
Prices in the Bartley site dipped 20% compared to the latest land sale in the vicinity.
Retail sales dipped 4% to $3.6b in November
Motor vehicles and furniture & household equipment led the decline in sales.
Office spot rents likely to plateau in 2020
An influx of family offices could keep rental growth flat.
Wilmar gets boost from surge in crude palm oil prices
Prices rose above 50% YoY to $992.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.14%
DBS led the gains amongst top active stocks with a 0.58% expansion.
Daily Briefing: Temasek joins Thyssenkrupp's elevator bid; GIC mulls selling logistics park assets in Spain
And Ubisoft holds its fifth startup programme in Singapore.
Chart of the Day: Singaporeans take up four-fifths of home sales in 11M 2019
About 6% of 18,400 units were bought by foreigners.
IMDA moves deadline of 5G licence bids to 17 February
Mobile network operators reportedly asked for more time to submit proposals.
Ascendas REIT's next big buy may be a business park property in Singapore
The Galaxis (One North), The Ascent and 5SPD all present near-term opportunities for A-REIT.
Singtel's Bharti Airtel launches $1.35b foreign currency convertible bonds
It was opened after the Indian Government charged $6.62b in unpaid dues.
SGX RegCo sets due diligence and independence standards for issue managers
It will refer to the ABS Listings Due Diligence Guidelines in evaluating IMs.
Hyflux creditors called to file a proof of claim
Parties who did not file by 5 February may not be able to receive payments.
Most fund managers to overweight China in 2020
Amongst regional responses, Europe was the most popular pick for overweight.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.05%
SGX led the gains amongst top active stocks with a 2.56% expansion.
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