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Daily Markets Briefing: STI down 0.7%
But expect a rebound today.
Daily Briefing: PropertyGuru's 2015 outlook; Botanique at Bartley to be launched in March
And waste managememt study in Iskandar to be carried out.
Almost 4 out of 5 SMEs no longer keen on hiring foreigners: survey
Despite the worker levy deferral.
Construction, services growth set to shrink in Q1 in spite of public spending boost
Deflation risks are on the rise.
Domestic bank lending slips to $607.5b in January
Due to lower general commerce loans.
Yangzijiang's net profit up 13% to $753.9m in FY14
On back of healthy shipbuilding margins.
Super Group's net profit slipped 31% to $68.8m in FY14
Blame it on lower sales.
Here’s what analysts have to say about the accounting fraud claims versus Noble
Is the group’s damage control good enough?
Golden Agri’s net profit tumbled 63.5% to $154m in FY14
Due to a large fair value loss.
Petra Foods FY14 net profit slid 15.2% YoY
Due to flat revenue.
Singapore’s biggest Real Estate plays outperformed the STI by almost 5pp in 2014
Check out the five best performers.
ThaiBev’s net profit up 13% to $909.9m in FY14
Thanks to robust alcohol sales.
ST Engineering’s net profit down 8.4% to $532m in FY14
Due to lower contributions from almost all segments.
UOL’s net profit down 13% to $686.6m in FY14
Due to lower fair value gains.
Noble Group’s net profit crashed 66% to $328.2m in FY14
Due to massive impairments.
Chart of the Day: Singapore’s NODX print could finally see brighter days in 2015
Recent trends are pointing upwards.
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