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The Straits Times Index added just 3 points at 3,083.85; Wall St’s all-time highs had little or no effect here; Daily turnover sank after Tuesday’s portfolio rebalancing; Poor Friday US jobs report could be positive for US stocks; Jardine group among STI’s worst performers; Yangzijiang is the STI’s best performer; SGX announced its SPAC listing rules; Proxy adviser for SPH’s restructuring plan said benefits outweigh costs In an uninspiring week, 3 features stood out The week that just passed was notable for three reasons, two relating to the local market and the third to Wall Street. The first was that the local market’s decoupling from Wall Street that started several weeks ago appeared to continue last week, and the second was that the large, mid-week plunge in the Straits

Read? The stock market is weird. (2)Real examples from our local investment bloggers!Blog post 1 on Monday, August 16, 2021Cut loss: Diary Farm 30 Percent loss.I finally decided to part way with Diary Farm.Maybe years down the route, they might recover, or maybe mainland visitors will start visiting and give a boast to the health care and beauty segment. Maybe YongHui loss is one off.Blog post 2 on Tuesday, August 17, 2021BUY INTO DAIRY FARM INTERNATIONAL, CHINESE TECH AND CONSIDER SECURED WEALTH LENDINGAnyway, Jardine-owned Asian retail giant Dairy Farm International announced its 1H21 earnings more than 2 weeks ago and it was bad. Since then, its share price has fallen significantly. It seems like shopper behaviour during this Covid pandemic is still erratic and given the ongoing re

This article has been updated with new information. Additional reporting by Jorinda Hsu. Introduced in September 1998 to curb and ease peak hour jams, Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) was an enhancement of its predecessor, the Area Licensing Scheme (ALS), which was launched in 1975 to target reducing traffic congestion in the Central Business District. Today, ERP is used to manage road congestion by charging drivers passing through ERP gantries during operational hours. The aim – though not necessarily the result – is for drivers to use alternative routes, travel outside ERP hours or take alternative forms of transport to avoid ERP charges. Here’s a guide to all the gantries in Singapore, their operational hours, and the exact charges. Complete List Of ERP Gantry Loc

It has been more than a year since Singapore went into Circuit Breaker on 7th April 2020. During Circuit Breaker, the supermarkets were filled with people as we all rushed to get essentials for our stay-home period. Eventually, the “kiasu-ness” faded, and we continue to get our groceries as usual. This year, we are back in our homes again for Phase 2 (Heightened Measures). Compared to last year, we are allowed more mobility and access to retail options. Regardless, the intention of having stricter safe distancing measure in place is to reduce our exposure to COVID-19. As most of us have started to get used to food delivery, we can do the same for groceries shopping by ordering online. For a reasonable delivery fee, groceries will be delivered to our doorstep. We no longer need to carry

This article was originally published on 6 March 2020 and updated to reflect the latest information. Additional reporting by Angela Koo and Jorinda Hsu.   Apart from the usual black PAssion card we are used to seeing, there are actually 2 other types of PAssion Cards meant for Singaporeans aged 60-years old and above. Currently, eligible senior Singaporeans may be holding onto either one of the three different types of PAssion Cards depending on their age range. They are the PAssion EZ-link Card, PAssion Silver Concession Card, and PAssion Silver Card (non-concession). Singaporeans will have their Senior Citizen Concession Card (purple) replaced by PAssion Silver Concession Card/PAssion Silver Card (non-concession) if they have applied after for PAssion Silver after December 2016.

The Straits Times Index (STI) is comprised of 30 of the largest and most liquid companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Account for nearly 80% of the entire value of all listed companies on the SGX, the STI is commonly referred to as Singapore’s benchmark or market return. We can gain exposure to the STI by investing in one of the two STI ETFs listed on the SGX. With one investment decision, we become broadly diversified to 30 high quality companies and will earn the Singapore market return. Read Also: Complete Guide To Investing In The Straits Times Index (STI) ETFs In Singapore How Did The STI Perform In Q1 2021? While many of us may be attracted to invest in U.S. or Chinese companies, the STI has been no slouch in 2021. According to SGX, the STI delivered a world-leading ret

According to the Singapore Exchange (SGX), there are a total of 29 companies that are secondary listed on the SGX. A secondary listing allows companies to have their shares traded in multiple countries. Some of us may already know that four prominent companies currently on the Straits Times Index (STI) are secondary-listed companies. These are Jardine Matheson Holdings (JMH), Jardine Strategic Holdings (JSH), Hongkong Land and Dairy Farm. JSH, which is poised to be merged into a simpler entity within JHM (who owns about 85% of the company), will soon be delisted and also removed from the STI constituents from 13 April 2021. Other than these, there are also other global companies that have a secondary listing on the SGX. Prudential plc (SGX: K6S) With a history spanning more than 170 years,

Despite a poor performing 2020 relative to other major indexes around the world, the Straits Times Index (STI) has been one of Asia’s best performing indexes in 2021 so far, with a year-to-date return of about 9%. It has also outperformed major U.S. indexes such as the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100. You can read more about the performance of the STI in an SGX Market Update report. The rise in the STI over the past couple of months has been supported by the performance of many companies that are components of the STI. These include the three local banks – DBS (up 11.7% in 2021), OCBC (up 16.2% in 2021) and UOB (up 12.8% in 2021) – all of whom have done well in 2021 thus far. Read Also: Singapore Banks Report Card: Share Price And Dividend Yield Performance – DBS (SGX: D05); UOB

Fraser & Neave Holdings Berhad (F&NHB) was founded in 1883 as a carbonated soft drinks producer by John Fraser and David Chalmers Neave. Listed on Bursa Malaysia, the company today owns a number of well-known household beverage and dairy brands like 100PLUS, F&N SEASONS, and FARMHOUSE. While the company maintains leading positions in the carbonated soft drink, tea, and canned milk segments in Malaysia as well as the sweetened condensed and evaporated milk segments in Thailand, its recent five-year growth was lacklustre. At the same time, the company’s venture into the dairy farming business did not pan out as planned. Here are eight things I learned from the 2021 F&NHB AGM and EGM: 1. Revenue decreased by 2.2% year-on-year to RM4.0 billion in 2020 while net pro

Performance of Straits Times Index (STI) Constituents in 2020 The Straits Times Index (STI) ended 379.02 points or 11.8% lower at 2843.81 in 2020.(compared to 3222.83 on 31-Dec-2019)Top Performers in 2020: Keppel DC REIT, Venture Corp, Mapletree Logistics Trust, Wilmar International & Mapletree Industrial Trust. Least Performers in 2020: Singapore Airlines, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, SingTel, ComfortDelGro. Most Volatile: Keppel DC REIT, Singapore Airlines, Sembcorp Industries. The STI's 30 constituent stocks are: ASCENDAS REIT (A17U.SI); CAPITALAND (C31.SI); VENTURE CORPORATION (V03.SI); CITY DEVELOPMENTS (C09.SI); SINGAPORE EXCHANGE LIMITED (S68.SI); UOB (U11.SI); SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES (U96.SI); DBS GROUP (D05.SI); SINGTEL (Z74.SI); GENTING SINGAPORE (G13.SI); THAI BEVERAGE (Y92.SI);

It has been a while since I wrote so often. While I talked about the Risk of Investing in ETF in the last post, I particularly mention about STI ETF. So I thought I should clarify my position and also address a particular question that I believe members of my Fundamental Scorecard Telegram Group will be interested (And maybe you who are reading this post). While everyone is busy looking at the US market tonight, I am writing about STI ETF. While everyone is raving about S&P 500 rising from the dead, here I am writing about STI ETF which is trying to go lower everyday. To start off, I don’t disagree in investing in US markets now. In fact, I encourage it. But one must make the purchase with the mindset that “this could be a permanent loss of capital” (Atas sentence cause I watch