News
Venture’s net profit jumps by 22.2% to $51.6m
On back of aggressive productivity drives.
Chart of the Day: Here’s solid proof that Singapore’s outstanding loans are plummeting
It has contracted by 2.7% in June.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.02%
Expect some profit-taking today.
Daily Briefing: DBS profit plummets on Swiber provisions; Half of Singaporeans looking to buy home
And here are Singapore’s most unique landmarks.
Newly created jobs inched up to a measly 5,500 in 2Q16
It’s the slowest pace of growth in 5 quarters.
Singapore’s yearly population growth rate feared to creep down to 1%
Blame it on sluggish immigration flow and ageing residents.
Hub Singapore, IDA spur Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative via The Mission Movement
It aims to nurture citizens’ entrepreneurial mindset.
Headwinds will continue to batter CapitaLand’s core operating markets, say analysts
It’s had to slash prices to boost sales volume.
Bleak manufacturing, services growth figures haunt Singapore
How badly will the GDP growth be affected?
Singapore banks bleed as Swiber fiasco drags on energy firms: Bloomberg
SGX Oil and Gas index sank to new lows.
Perennial's net profit tumbles 25.6% to $594,000
On back of the absence of a one-off gain.
F&N’s net profit surges 43% to $127.2m
But its scrapped brewery dragged profit after taxation by 29%.
Genting Singapore's core earnings crash 96.3% to $2.2m in Q2
Blame it on weak premium market win rate.
Yangzijiang’s net profit sinks by 60% to $83.8m in 2Q
It didn’t have a one-off gain to bank on for this quarter.
SingPost’s net profit plummets by 23% to $35.9m in 1Q17
Skyrocketing expenses are to blame.
SGX extends $136.6m offer to acquire Baltic Exchange
It’s offering GBP160.41 per share.
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