News
Business optimism crashes to all-time low as economic jitters escalate
Business optimism crashes to all-time low as economic jitters escalate
Firms are extremely pessimistic about their prospects.
Transport operators go full speed ahead towards bright 2016
Thanks to a quickening pace of reforms.
GrabTaxi, Hailo clinch permits to operate in Singapore
UberTAXI and others are still pending.
Android users under threat from new mobile banking malware, warns industry watchdog
It’s masquerading as a WhatsApp update.
UOB launches systemised payroll solution for small firms
To help them deal with Employment Act amendments.
Slugfest continues as Marco Polo takes rig fiasco with SembMarine to mediation stage
More cracks had allegedly been found.
Small-caps rescue Singapore’s struggling stock market
Catalist listings raised $237m this year.
Singapore has Asia’s worst-performing prime office market: report
Rents dipped 2% in Q3.
Dismal biomedical subsector pulls the chair from under Singapore’s industrial production
Adding to a worsening manufacturing landscape.
SGX unveils new thematic equity indices
It’s focused on 5 key sectors.
Newcomers spice up bus industry as incumbents lose out to foreigners on tenders
Incumbents are up for long term challenges.
Ho Bee snaps up two prime London offices for $210m
This is its sixth acquisition in the city.
Taxi firms to experience subdued fleet growth as car hire apps flourish outside regulation
Growth is projected at a muted 1.5%.
Can local insurers survive interest rate hikes?
Investment portfolios might be at risk.
Work in progress: Older workers clamour for more inclusion as unemployment swells
Programmes have a long way to go.
Chart of the Day: Almost everything is going south for Singapore’s plummeting bank loans
Total loans and advances contracted by 0.4%.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.11%
Brace for a pullback today.
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