Japan

SINGAPORE (Nov 28): OCBC Investment Research is reiterating its “sell” call on casino operator Genting Singapore with a fair value of 75 cents, in light of the current economic policy uncertainties faced by Japan.

SINGAPORE (Nov 23): MMP Resources has signed a service agreement with Sean Tedore, to review winter travel and leisure assets in Japan that the group intends to acquire.

SINGAPORE (Nov 21): Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm and a business unit of China’s Alibaba Group, says it aims to open four new data centres by end-2016 in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Japan.

TOKYO (Nov 21): The global stock market’s biggest comeback story of 2016 isn’t over yet. So say Citigroup Inc., AllianceBernstein and Bordier & Cie, who all see further gains for Japanese shares after the Nikkei 225 Stock Average climbed more than 20%

SINGAPORE (Nov 17): Currencies used to be influenced by a number of different factors, political, structural and cyclical.  However, HSBC FX Strategy now believes the dominant driver is politics.

SINGAPORE (Nov 11): DBS is maintaining a “buy” call on Ascendas Hospitality Trust (AH-Trust) with a target price of 84 cents.

SINGAPORE (Nov 3): Credit Suisse analysts Sakthi Siva and Kin Nang Chik are maintaining their “underweight” rating on Asia Pacific REITs even as valuations have fallen 12% over the past three months and are trading at 1.23 times book value.

SINGAPORE (Oct 31): iX Biopharma announced that it has secured a Canadian patent for its WaferiX drug delivery technology.

SINGAPORE (Oct 24): Mapletree Logistics Trust has declared a 1.86 cents distribution per unit for 2QFY17, unchanged from the DPU announced in 2QFY16.

SINGAPORE (Oct 12): Seventy-six percent of Singaporean employees prefer to work for a male direct manager, exceeding the global average of 65%, according to Randstad’s global Q3 2016 Workmonitor report.