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Retail sales jump 8.7% YoY in March
Retail sales jump 8.7% YoY in March
The increase was driven by larger growth in mutiple industries.
Market update: STI down 0.17%
ThaiBev showed the most growth.
HDB resale prices up 1.1% MoM in April
On a yearly basis, overall price for HDB resale increased by 11.9%
Yangzijiang Financial Holding targets CPF investment by next week
The company said it regrets the inconvenience it may cause to shareholders.
Sembcorp gets $1.2b sustainability-linked loan facility
The green loan is pegged to Singapore Overnight Rate Average.
Singapore’s manufacturing sector expands for 22nd consecutive month
The Purchasing Manager's Index edged up to 0.2.
Lendlease logs almost 100% occupancy due to high quality tenants
It also reported a healthy retention rate of 71.1%.
ThaiBev resumes listing plans for beer business spinoff on SGX-ST mainboard
Once materialised, the listing is expected to improve ThaiBev's financial position.
STI gains 7.5% with majority of flows going to telcos, industrials
Dividends of Straits Times Index boosted a total return of 8.7%.
ESR-LOGOS REIT debuts in SGX-ST
With its entry, ARA LOGOS has been delisted from the bourse.
Market update: STI down 0.36%
Venture Manufacturing was at the top.
Big 3 banks suffer YoY declines in non-interest income in Q122
UOB posted the biggest decline at 30%.
Real-time payments to boost SG's GDP by $793.2m in 2026
In 2021, total transactions facilitated $483.1m of additional economic output.
Grab obtains Data Protection Trustmark certification from IMDA
It's the first super app to be awarded the certificate.
After merger, Keppel, Sembcorp Marine to see long-term, short-term benefits
Keppel will focus on asset-light businesses whilst Sembcorp will be more competitive.
Grace Fu goes to Switzerland, Denmark to tackle climate action progress
Both events will be held in the first week and second week of May.
Far East Hospitality Trust’s distribution yield to improve by 5.7% in 2023: UOB KayHian
Reopening borders and hotel contracts will improve distribution yield.
The distribution yield of Far East Hospitality Trust (FEHT), a real estate investment trust, could improve by 5.7% in 2023, triggered by rapid opening of international borders last month as well as redeployed hotel contracts, investment banking firm, UOB KayHian, said.
In its report, UOB KayHian bared that there are three hotels under government contracts that were redeployed, which will serve business and leisure travellers in the first quarter of 2022 (Q1 2022).
UOB KayHian also reported hotel stability from fixed rents and an unchanged hotel revenue at $14.3m.
However, occupancy for hotels went down 8.2 percentage points, on a yearly basis, to 67.7% in Q1 2022 which stemmed from the ending of government contracts of three hotels, which will be used for isolation purposes. These hotels are Village Hotel Albert Court, Quincy Hotel and Elizabeth Hotel.
To date, FEHT has only three out of its nine hotels on government contracts whilst the remaining three government contracts were extended by two to three months until the middle of 2022.
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