Foreign property developers, mainly China property developers, have a real fascination with Singapore. That’s good news for government land sales, because if you haven’t noticed, this island is damned tiny. That means they’re forced to bid ... ( read original story ...)
Why tech giants see Singapore as the next Artificial Intelligence hub
Singapore is attracting the world’s leading artificial intelligence talent because of its status as a cosmopolitan society and strong state backing for technology research, according to the head of the private equity firm building a mega hub in the city ... ( read original story ...)
How Singapore sees itself complementing China’s Belt and Road
China is Singapore's biggest export market. If the relationship is further strengthened ... "where the infrastructure can be put out either on the stock exchange, or bonds can be issued." Stressing the importance of arbitration in promoting the Belt ... ( read original story ...)
Beginner’s Guide To Investing In Asia (#5): How To Read A Stock Code?
What Is A Stock Index? A stock index is a collection of ... Singapore: Straits Times Index (30) Similarly, the main index in Singapore is the Straits Times Index. It is a market capitalization weighted index of some of the thirty largest companies listed ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore unicorn Sea’s stock has a rollercoaster ride on first day of US IPO
Shares of Singapore’s online gaming, ecommerce, and digital payments company Sea had a rollercoaster ride on the first day of its US$884 million IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE ... roughly US$270 billion in market capitalization. ( read original story ...)
End of an era as Hong Kong stock trading floor set to close
HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s last remaining stock market floor traders are taking their final orders ... follows other global peers like Tokyo, Singapore and London that have eliminated their trading floors In the U.S., floor traders at the New York Stock ... ( read original story ...)
This is how ETFs have performed in Singapore in 2017
Source: Bloomberg The Straits Times Index or STI as widely known by all local Singapore stock market investors have performed remarkably in year 2017 to-date. The oil and gas slump which started in 2015 and China slowdown have come to past. The STI Is ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (T39) Jumped 1.49% on Oct 21
The stock is a component of the two leading indices in the country, the MSCI Singapore Free Index and the Straits Times Index (STI). The STI monitors the top 30 companies listed on the SGX in terms of market capitalization every quarter. Singapore Press ... ( read original story ...)
Q & M Dental Group (Singapore) Limited (QC7) Is Yet to See Trading Action on Oct 21
The stock is a component of the two leading indices in the country, the MSCI Singapore Free Index and the Straits Times Index (STI). The STI monitors the top 30 companies listed on the SGX in terms of market capitalization every quarter. Q & M Dental Group ... ( read original story ...)
End of an Era as Hong Kong Stock Trading Floor to Close
Photo: Kin Cheung HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s last remaining stock market floor traders are taking their final ... follows other global peers like Tokyo, Singapore and London that have eliminated their trading floors In the United States, floor traders ... ( read original story ...)
UOB-Kay Hian Holdings Limited (U10) Is Yet to See Trading Action on Oct 21
UOB-Kay Hian Holdings Limited currently has a total float of 792.82M shares and on average sees 100,223 shares exchange hands each day. The stock now has a 52-week low of 1.2 and high of 1.42. The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is the primary stock exchange ... ( read original story ...)
Low bar set for Singapore Prime Minister Lee’s trip to meet Trump
(CNN)If Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong can return home from his visit to the White House with nothing more than a photo op with Donald Trump, some good headlines in the Singapore press and a contract to buy a few billion dollars' worth of planes ... ( read original story ...)
When will consumers in Hong Kong ditch their wallets for the mobile version?
Three to four times a week, Stephanie Lui orders a car on ride-hailing app Grab to take her home from work in Singapore. Instead of paying cash, she pays for her rides using prepaid credits in her GrabPay mobile wallet because, for her, convenience is all ... ( read original story ...)
How Satellites Could Make Singapore A Spacetech Leader
Prof. Kay Soon Low, director of the Satellite Technology and Research Centre (STAR) at the National University Singapore, said domestic and foreign interest in satellites has ramped up in recent years, bolstering Singapore’s status as a hotspot for space ... ( read original story ...)
Singaporean students pay for meals with wearables fingerprints
At participating elementary schools across Singapore, students will soon be able to make purchases with the touch of a finger thanks to a new biometric program from POSB Bank. The addition of biometrics will be a new feature added to the existing Smart ... ( read original story ...)
Camera-disabling app designer among Defence Technology Prize winners
SINGAPORE — Switching phones and removing the camera from ... The creation of Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) director Leong See Sum, the app is integrated with a building’s access systems barring entry by temporarily disabling a staff ... ( read original story ...)