Singapore
Singapore resale home market soars 41.4% in Q2 2024
Singapore resale home market soars 41.4% in Q2 2024
This is the highest quarterly sales since Q2 2022.
Hatten Land files for judicial management
It has also proposed the appointment of Tan Wei Cheong and Lim Loo Khoon as joint judicial managers.
MTI taps Beh Swan Gin as new permanent secretary
She will replace Gabriel Lim, who is retiring after 24 years of service.
Luxury home sales rise in Q2 amidst lower rental rates
Lower luxury non-landed sales expected in H2.
F&B sales grow weaker in June
Sales rose 1.8% YoY and declined by 3.2% MoM.
Retail sales dip by 0.6% YoY in June
Excluding motor vehicles, sales would’ve suffered a deeper decline of 3.1% YoY.
REITs set to weather expected August market dip
In the past 14 years, the STI ended lower 12 times in August.
Office rental growth to slow as firms downsize and competition rises
Colliers expect full-year rental growth of 2.0%
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 4.22%; Top stock is JMH USD
JMH USD is the top stock with a 2.18% increase.
$8m donations kickstart SIM’s social entrepreneurship centre
They will also provide postgraduate and professional dev’t courses.
Medical data exchanges - A pipe dream or a nightmare?
Data exchanges promise us fruits of the future. For medical data, these exchanges are meant to
accelerate innovation, speed the pathway to personalised medicine, finding cures for long dreaded
diseases, extending life and the quality of life. There’s just one problem – and it’s summarised easily in
one question: “Which of you would like to post your medical data for the world to see?”
mm2 Asia to raise up to $40m new placement shares at $0.017 each
V3 Group intends to buy $15m of the placement shares.
Singapore's most traded stocks record significant gains in July
Over 60 of the top stocks were from the industrial, consumer, and technology sectors.
4 in 10 HR professionals oppose AI in hiring without safeguards
Only three in ten firms in Singapore have AI usage policies.
Lee Chong Kwee increases MLT stake with 134,000-unit purchase
He acquired the shares at $1.31 per unit.
DBS Bank cuts stake in Hoe Leong to 4.99% with share sale
It sold 29.477 million shares.
Manulife US REIT’s NPI drops 22.7% amidst higher vacancies
The REIT reported a lower occupancy rate of 78.4% in H1.
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