consumer

Subway has long been a potential target for private equity firms, as well as other corporations.

The Singapore dollar is now at an all-time high against the euro.

Consumer companies need to be increasingly forward-looking and invest time and effort to anticipate potential disruptions.

Besides investing in enterprise software and financial services technology, Goldman is also betting on consumer and healthcare

SINGAPORE (April 29): US GDP contracted by 4.8% y-o-y in 1Q2020 according to the "advance" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), and below economists’ expectations of a 4% contraction in the US economy. In the fourth quart

SINGAPORE (Apr 5): RHB Research is maintaining its sector “overweight” on consumer stocks although it cautions of benign consumer sentiment for 2019, with Singaporeans expected to spend more prudently amid an uncertain macroeconomic outlook.

SINGAPORE (Mar 20): RHB Research is upgrading its call on Dairy Farm from “neutral” to “buy” despite lowering its target price to US$8.25 from US$8.64 previously with the view that long-term investors may look to accumulate the stock at its curren

SINGAPORE (Mar 19): Maybank Kim Eng is starting coverage on Sheng Siong Group (SSG) at “sell” with a  target price of 95 cents, which implies 19.5 times FY19F P/E – 1 S.D. below the stocks’ five-year mean.

SINGAPORE (Aug 20): RHB Research is highlighting Sheng Siong Group (SSG) as its top consumer cyclical “buy” pick with a higher target price of $1.30 compared to $1.27 previously, upon raising 2019-2020F earnings by 2-3% on larger-than-expected retail

SINGAPORE (Aug 3): RHB Research is downgrading its call on BreadTalk to “sell” from “neutral” with a lower target price of $1 compared to $1.04 previously, as the research house expects FY18F earnings to decline on rising overhead costs and weaker