Friday 21 October 2016

The Singapore Market this Week: Golden Agri-Resources Ltd Leads the Herd

Amid the week, Singapore's securities exchange, as spoke to by the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), crept up by 0.6% to end Friday at 2,831 focuses.

Of the 30 stocks that make up the list, 16 had made increases amid the week while 10 saw misfortunes. The staying four were level.

The greatest victor in the file was palm oil maker Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (SGX: E5H). The stock that fared the most exceedingly terrible was property equip UOL Group Limited (SGX: U14). Brilliant Agri's shares moved by 2.8% to S$0.37 while UOL' s offers snuck past 1.7% to end the week at S$5.70.

Keppel Corporation Limited (SGX: BN4), in spite of discharging troubling second from last quarter comes about on Thursday, saw its share cost increment by 0.4% to S$5.31 amid the week.

Keppel Corp reported that its income for the three months finished 30 September 2016 had diminished by 40% year-on-year to S$1.5 billion, mostly because of a 63% decrease in income from the Offshore and Marine (O&M) division.

The lower general income had influenced the primary concern too. Keppel Corp's net benefit for the quarter tumbled by 38.1% from S$362.9 million a year prior to S$224.5 million..

With respect to fate of its O&M division, this is the thing that Keppel Corp said:

"Rightsizing of our Keppel O&M business will proceed as we plan for an amplified time of weaker interest for new oil rigs. We are not simply cutting expenses and surviving the downturn in the seaward business, but on the other hand are putting wisely in new capacities and investigating new markets and openings."

Outside the universe of the blue chips, M1 Ltd (SGX: B2F), one of the three media communications benefit suppliers in Singapore, additionally observed a poor second from last quarter.

M1's quarterly income drooped by 10.3% year-on-year to S$249.1 million on the back of lower handset deals. In the interim, net benefit after duty fell by 23.4% year-on-year to S$34.4 million. M1 refered to "expanded deterioration and amortization costs from higher altered resource base in regard of 4G system and new administrations" for the lower benefit.

The telco's shares shut at a cost of S$2.15 each on Friday, in the wake of declining by 8.1% amid the week.

On Thursday, Singapore's securities exchange saw the introduction of a land venture trust trade exchanged store (ETF), the SGX APAC Dividend Leaders REIT ETF (SGX: BYJ).

As per the ETF's support Phillip Capital, the ETF is the principal REIT ETF recorded in Singapore that tracks both nearby and territorial REITS latently. The ETF shut at a unit cost of S$1.288 on Friday. My partner Ong Kai Kiat had as of late penned an awesome piece on essential things financial specialists ought to think about the ETF. Look at it here.

The SPDR STI ETF (SGX: ES3), a trade exchanged reserve that tracks the basics of the Straits Times Index, is currently exchanging at 11.9 times trailing income and has a profit yield of 3.2%.
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