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Raffles Med’s lucrative medical tourism cash cow under threat
Raffles Med’s lucrative medical tourism cash cow under threat
Foreign patients account for half of its revenue.
S-REITs recorded 3.9% total return YTD: SGX
Following the SIBOR gain on Monday.
MND injects $450m to boost construction sector productivity
Under the Construction Productivity and Capability Fund.
Chart of the Day: Singapore’s hotels to see a sharp rebound after a weak 2014
Occupancy levels to rise in the coming years.
Daily Briefing: Harsher penalties for construction safety violations; Gov't urged to review HDB's studio apartment scheme
And SIBOR up 115% from last year's low.
Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.2%
Expect anothe pull back today.
Private property still expensive due to developers' healthy balance sheets
They to not to lower prices.
Luxury home builders turn to crafty marketing ploys to drive sales in 2015
High-end home prices slipped 6.2% last year.
Yanzijiang unlikely to rescue cash-strapped shipbuilder
It plans to exit the offshore market.
Will SIA ever privatise Tigerair?
It will only need to spend $400m for such a move.
REITs grapple with intensifying refinancing risks as interest rates rise
The end of cheap financing is here.
Expect higher returns from Temasek-linked firms as government hikes spending
Listed firms under its portfolio have an ROE of at least 12%.
Orchard Road rents to trend up on back of prime retail space scarcity
No new developments are expected in the next 5 years.
Discover SGX’s highest turnover stocks over the past 3 months
Nine of the ten most active are constituents of the STI.
Private condo resale prices slipped 3.2% in February
On back of low resale volume.
Daily Briefing: Still no Bukit Panjang LRT services this morning; Sentosa Cove bungalow sales down sharply from 2013
And apartments at Marina Bay condo fetch above $3,000 psf.
Chart of the Day: 4G subscribers soon to overtake 3G as telcos brace for higher data usage
However, most subscribers would rather use free WiFi.
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