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ROXY-PACIFIC: Record 3Q profit, robust insider buying
COMBINE WILL 9M profit up 169%; COURAGE MARINE swings into black
SUPER: 3Q10 ingredient sales surge 47% to S$14.5 million on headway in China
SUNPOWER, SINOMEM TECHNOLOGY: What analysts say now…
SINOTEL: The return of hey-days for Sinotel [...]

Five reasons why you should buy a property now
With house prices on the rise, despite the new cooling measures, is now really the right time to buy a property? Award-winning property agent Kelvin Fong thinks so. Here are his five reasons why buying a property today could be the best decision you ever make.
1. Low interest [...]

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So what are some of the changes? To summarise, the latest round of anti-speculation measures for private properties are as follows:
Increase the holding period for imposition of Seller’s Stamp Duty (SSD) from the current one year to three years.
Increase the minimum cash payment from 5 percent to 10 percent of [...]

Singapore real estate prices jumped to a record high in the second quarter as the city-state’s economic recovery broadened.
Private residential property prices rose 5.2 percent in the April-to-June period to the highest level since the government began the index in 1975, the Urban Redevelopment Authority said Thursday.
Prices leapt 5.6 percent in the first quarter and [...]

Singapore’s factory output sees record rise in May
Singapore said Friday that manufacturing output surged a record 58.6 percent year on year in May as factories raced to meet robust foreign orders for electronics and pharmaceuticals.
Last month’s factory production, which eclipsed the previous record high of 49.7 percent posted in April, was almost double the 32.1 [...]

Credit Suisse says Genting is ‘one of the most expensive casino stocks in the world’
UK impairment: Genting Singapore’s (GENS) 1Q10 results were hit by a S$478 mn impairment relating to its UK gaming operations, and we have cut our FY10 estimates to a net loss of S$76 mn to reflect this.
■ Boosted by Singapore contributions: [...]

Singapore’s SingTel 1Q profit rises 12 percent,singapore stock market, singapore stock market news
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. said its profit rose 12 percent last quarter, boosted by higher income from its local and Indonesian businesses.
The company, also known as SingTel, said in a statement Thursday that net profit for the January-March period rose to 1.02 billion Singapore [...]

Singapore ups growth view but may stand pat on policy,singapore stock market news,singapore stock market ,singapore stockmarket news
Govt ups 2010 GDP growth forecast to 4.5-6.5 pct vs 3-5 pct
* Economy shrank annualised 2.8 pct q/q s/adj in Q4
* Economists expect c.bank to stand pat on policy in Apr
* Inflation outlook lowered slightly due to rebasing [...]

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Singapore benchmark index, the Straits Times Index closed down 42pts
yesterday. Market turnover amounted to 2.3bn units worth S$1.96bn. The big
drag that constitute to the decline was CapitaLand. Sentiments will
outweigh fundamentals at this point in time. As of writing, the Aussie and
Japanese indices are already down close to 2%, suggesting that more
selling pressure ahead when [...]

PM Lee identifies 3 areas of priority for govt
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday identified three areas of priority for the government: restructuring the economy, addressing the population shortfall and updating the political system.
In a wide—ranging speech to the annual Singapore Perspective Conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies, Mr Lee [...]