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Malaysia wants SGX-Bursa trading link back on the table: Zafrul

THE Singapore and Malaysia bourses may be poised to jumpstart talks for a "seamless" trading link, more than 3 years after a plan to have an end-to-end link up between both exchanges got the chop following a regime change in Malaysia.

HDB resale prices, transaction volumes see continued growth in November: SRX

PRICES of HDB resale flats climbed for the 17th straight month in November 2021 while transaction volumes continued to see a steady uptrend, according to flash data released by real estate portal SRX on Thursday (Dec 9).

Billion-dollar en bloc sites: the flops, the dogged and the successful

JUGGERNAUT developments in Singapore have continued to gun for collective sales with billion-dollar price tags, undaunted by the hurdles in the path of large en bloc candidates.

Keppel shareholders vote in favour of SPH acquisition

SHAREHOLDERS of Keppel Corporation have voted in favour of the proposal to acquire Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). Its final offer for SPH is S$2.351 per share, consisting of S$0.868 per share in cash, 0.596 of a Keppel Reit unit and 0.782 of an SPH Reit unit.

Barclays plots Asia revival with strategic hires after hiatus

BARCLAYS plans to make key hires in investment banking and wealth management across Asia next year as the British lender plots its return to some of the world's fastest growing economies after a 2016 restructuring.

The STI today

Singapore shares and most regional peers rise as Wall Street rallies SINGAPORE shares advanced along with most regional peers on Thursday (Dec 9) as Wall Street's major indices rallied for the third straight session amid diminishing Omicron coronavirus variant fears.