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High rents, strict worker levies top businesses’ woes in 2015
High rents, strict worker levies top businesses’ woes in 2015
8 out of 10 firms are crippled by high costs.
Uptick in electronics exports gives unexpected boost to December NODX
NODX climbed 2.3% last month.
Home cheap home: Private home prices to take another 10% dive in 2015-2016
Even transaction volumes will remain sluggish.
Lifeless property market to spill into 2015 upon full scale quantitative easing
Property prices to drop only 6-10% per annum in 2015.
Chart of the Day: Luxury properties double whammied with ABSD and dismal property market
The segment moved only 7.4% of total December sales.
Daily Briefing: Lend Lease delivers INSEAD's S$55m Leadership Development Centre; TDSR left its mark on home prices
And STB, Temasek plan new nature attraction in Mandai.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.4%
Expect a correction this morning.
Full-year private home sales plunged to lowest level since the GFC in 2014
Only 7,378 units were sold.
Rapidly deteriorating demographics threaten long-term economic growth
Raising productivity and focusing on exports is key.
Retail sales jumped 6.5% in November on back of robust car sales
Total sales value came in at $3.2b.
New home sales crashed to 5-year low in December
A figure this low was last seen during the GFC.
On the brink of burnout: 7 out of 10 employees extremely stressed out by overtime work
Majority of workers are calling for flexible schedules.
Oh, Captain! SIA trims manpower losses by not re-hiring pilots past 62
Old pilots will leave their posts by March.
Higher than a skyscraper: Singapore is Asia’s third most expensive market for construction
Costs will further inch up this year.
Non-oil domestic export growth to slip further amid weak global economy
PMI dipped into the red after 2 months of expansion.
GIC and Australian PE firm Ironbridge Capital to launch ~$615m IPO for FleetPartners Ltd
Expect the IPO in April.
ThaiBev’s hard drinks business threatened by sky-high taxes, lacklustre sales
It’s trying to beef up its non-alcoholic segment.
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