The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), Singapore's key stock market barometer, has had a rough 2018, falling 9.1% from the start of this year until the end of November. But some blue-chips performed bet... ( read original story ...)
Genting Singapore Ltd Is Down 30% From Its High In 2018: Is It Cheap Now?
Finally, the casino operator’s dividend yield of 3.6% is marginally lower to the market’s yield of 3.7%. The lower a stock’s yield is, the less attractive its stock is. In sum, we can argue that Genti... ( read original story ...)
Stock Carnage Deepens, With Asia Equities Set for 20-Month Low
in Singapore: “The less-dovish-than-expected perception towards ... more to smaller companies to combat a slowdown in the economy. That didn’t help the stock market, though, with the Shanghai Composit... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Top 10 Blue-Chips That Pay You A Dividend
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), Singapore’s key stock market barometer, has had a rough 2018, falling 9.1% from the start of this year until the end of November. Apart from being well-known among ... ( read original story ...)
Mnuchin called top US bank executives on market stability
“The stock market goes up, the stock market goes down,” Mulvaney ... and Tim Sloan of Wells Fargo. SINGAPORE (Dec 24): OCBC Investment Research is projecting for the Straits Times Index (STI) to trade ... ( read original story ...)
battered stock market
SINGAPORE — European and Asian markets were mostly lower in light trading on Monday as a partial U.S. government shutdown stemmed holiday cheer. KEEPING SCORE: France’s CAC 40 dropped 0.9 percent to 4 ... ( read original story ...)
Stock Angst Snowballs as Japan’s Nikkei 225 Enters Bear Market
(Bloomberg) -- The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged below the 20,000 level and entered bear market territory ... Keiko Ujikane in Tokyo at kujikane@bloomberg.net;Tom Redmond in Singapore at tredmond3@ ... ( read original story ...)
Oil at lowest in year following global stock market tumble
Oil fell more than 2 percent on Monday to the lowest in over a year as global stock markets tumbled under pressure from ... Should that fail to balance the market, OPEC and its allies will hold an ext... ( read original story ...)
What rising interest rates mean for Singapore property
Homeowner Grace Koh had barely settled into her new condominium apartment along Singapore’s breezy East Coast in August, when the interest rate on her mortgage jumped from 1.5 per cent to 1.8 per cent ... ( read original story ...)
Golf: Top golfers send festive greetings to Singapore ahead of the HSBC Women’s World Championship
SINGAPORE - Merry Christmas, Singapore! And hope to see you at the HSBC Women's World Championship in February 2019. With the holiday season in full swing, some of the world's top female golfers who w... ( read original story ...)
Is fixed-rate mortgage the best for a new home purchase?
For the floating rate mortgage, it is a variable interest rate, usually based on the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate (SIBOR) or Singapore Swap Offer Rate (SOR) By: Phoenix Lee/ As the name implies, f... ( read original story ...)
Finance firms’ loans hit records on relaxed SME lending rules
Singapore's finance companies are on a roll, with loans boosted by liberalised rules on lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Hong Leong Finance (HLF) and Sing Investments & Finance (S... ( read original story ...)
Singapore pvt. banks target NRIs in Middle East expansion
Singapore with 22 percent is number one and London is third at 13 percent. Bank of Singapore (BOS), the eighth largest private bank in Asia (ex-China), based on assets under management, which opened i... ( read original story ...)
HSBC: Financial Management Greatly Stresses Singapore Millennials
YOLO. You only live once. This is the great line of the millennials and the overused hashtag in Twitter. Oxford Dictionary defines YOLO as expressing the view that one should make the most of the ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore private banks target Non-Resident Indians in Middle East expansion
Singapore with 22 percent is number one and London is third at 13 percent. Bank of Singapore (BOS), the eighth largest private bank in Asia (ex-China), based on assets under management, which opened i... ( read original story ...)
“Singapore figured very highly as a place from which money laundering occurred”: Veteran business journalist on 1MDB fiasco
The report highlighted that "five wire transfers totaling $636,000,000 were sent from the Aabar-BVI Swiss Account to an account at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore held in the name of Blackstone A... ( read original story ...)