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SME business sentiment rises cautiously to neutral levels

SME business sentiment rises cautiously to neutral levels

Negative sentiment is expected to ease across all business sectors over the next six months.

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Retail sales to continue rebounding streak: OCBC

February saw a positive 5.2% boost in retail sales, when compared to the same time period last year.

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Travel to Singapore resumes in May for IATA pass holders

The IATA Travel Pass contains the passenger's pre-departure COVID-19 test result and relevant details.

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Hospitality REITs to stay below pre-pandemic levels until 2023: Moody's

Moody's Investor Services said travel disruptions would keep hospitality REITs revenue weak for the near future.

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Singtel credit quality remains resilient amidst Optus downgrade: Moody's

Lower dividend payouts can support its free cash flow and liquidity, if sustained.

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Pandemic spurs companies to invest in power management

One out of three Singaporean companies increased their investments in power management in 2020.

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Monetary policy to remain unchanged despite February inflation data: analysts

February's inflation figures is the last key data to be released before April's monetary policy meeting.

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CapitaLand restructuring to create more value to shareholders

The group plans to consolidate its investment management platforms.

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HR Briefing: How shifting careers amidst the pandemic works

Transferring from the aviation to the logistics sector wasn’t as tough as expected.

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Digitalisation to drive SME revenue rise: UOB

The push to digitalisation will help SMEs in the long run.

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NODX to stay positive in 2021: analysts

Analysts expect the full-year non-oil domestic exports to grow by 1%-2% in 2021.

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Labour market to make uneven recovery

OCBC bank said the labour market has improved, but not out of the woods yet.

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Singaporeans less willing to work abroad: Jobstreet

Only 44% of Singaporeans are willing to work abroad.

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Vaccine rollout may stimulate property buying frenzy: analysts

Lack of new launches is said to cause slowdown of property sales in February.

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Jardine Matheson posts US$394m net loss for FY2020

Its revenue for the year is US$32.65b.

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Jardine Matheson to restructure via US$5.5b cash acquisition

It will acquire 15% issued share capital of Jardine Strategic Holdings.

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Singapore retail sales hit 24th month of contraction

This is amidst the 6.1% decline to $3.8b in January 2021.

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