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Privatisation, spin-off listing might save beleaguered OSIM
Its chair business is missing the growth potential that TWG has.
Business outlook of services sector firms sinks to 4-year low in January
This hasn’t been seen since the Euro crisis.
Manufacturing business outlook crumbles further as headwinds escalate
Almost a third of firms are very pessimistic.
More troubles in store for CDLHT in 2016, say analysts
Supply glut and sinking tourism are main concerns.
Is a recession on the heels of Singapore’s sluggish employment growth?
The unemployment rate is a primary indicator.
Singapore bank lending drops to seven-month low in December
Total loans and advances dropped to $600 billion.
Opportunistic buyers pounce on extremely cheap luxury homes in Singapore
Prices will continue dropping this year.
MAS to step up scrutiny of Singapore’s exchanges
The multiplicity of exchanges is birthing blind spots, MAS says.
Changi Airport hails launch of first direct flight between Singapore and San Francisco
It will be operated by United Airlines.
SCI faces shareholder backlash if SembMarine privatisation pushes through: OCBC
It simply doesn’t make sense, analysts say.
OSIM’s Q4 profits crash 66.6% to $9.3m
Blame it on TWG Tea case legal fees.
Here's the bright spot in Singapore's flagging jobs growth
Selected services industries are picking up the slack.
SingPost blames special audit saga for sharp share price slip
Its share price dropped 6.5% yesterday.
Chart of the Day: Here’s the dismal state of industrial rentals in Singapore
And it’s not getting any better soon, analysts say.With the bleak manufacturing landscape in the city-state, headlined by declining outputs of transport engineering and general manufacturing clusters, industrial rents in Singapore are dropping.According to a report by JLL, the multiple-user factory segment fell by 3.3% in 4Q15, recording its steepest decline in five years.“At the same time, the traditionally stronger Single-User Factory segment registered its second quarter of decline at 0.8 per cent since the availability of the series in 2011, emphasising the impact of the weak global demand on the local industrial market,” JLL said.Meanwhile, the light at the end of the tunnel is nowhere to be seen for industrial rents in Singapore, as the global demand remains weak with little improvement expected for larger economies including China and Europe.“We expect rents among the different industrial types to continue softening by up to 5.0 per cent y-o-y in 2016,” JLL added.“Through the continued efforts by the government to pursue better use of space, some developments vacated by traditional industrialists have undergone adaptive re-use to accommodate higher value added industries, supporting downstream clusters such as construction, carpentry, design, project management etc,” Chua Yang Liang, JLL’s head of research at South East Asia and Singapore said.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.52%
Expect muted gains today.
Daily Briefing: Employment at slowest pace in 12 years; Condo prices fall slower
And Noble’s CEO says banks are behind it.
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