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Daily Briefing: Singapore banks grapple with weaker credit; Residential sales up 4.4% in Q3
And Singapore slides down in most liveable cities ranking.
Debt threat: Number of highly-leveraged firms on the rise, reveals report
Some 7% of firms have more debt than equity.
Here’s why investors should bet on developers and not REITs
Interest rate hikes will barely faze them.
Tighter credit conditions await SMEs as market volatility escalates
Small firms grapple with higher finance costs.
Singapore’s banking system fraught with intensifying risks: MAS
Bad loans are on the rise.
Property prices to drop further as immigration growth slows to a crawl
On top of a massive supply glut.
Can REITs use perpetual bonds to outsmart leverage rules?
Yes, but there’s a caveat.
MyRepublic’s new home office broadband plan boasts business-level features
It has a yearly network uptime of 99.95%.
Singapore oil players scrambling to avert catastrophic debt defaults
They’re wooing creditors to amend debt covenants.
Google launches new platform to help local SMEs breach overseas markets
Internalisation is just a click away with Go Global.
Hopes fade for local manufacturing as factory output stumbles
Expect more pain in coming months.
$14.9b KL-SG high speed rail construction braces for bumpy ride as delays mount
It could be delayed beyond 2022, analysts say.
Property cooling measures might finally be lifted in 2Q16: report
Prices could decline by up to 15% by then.
Handling brimming loads would spell doom or delight for Singapore’s airlines, say analysts
Could airlines sustain overflowing pax loads?
GIC among first foreign institutions permitted to enter China’s interbank forex market
Only seven organizations are part of the first group.
Tweaking JV would topple SIA Engineering’s sole centre of excellence status: UOBKH
Paving the way for heated competition, they said.
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