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Singapore to enjoy stable and steady growth picture for 2018: OCBC
SINGAPORE (Dec 20): OCBC is projecting for Singapore’s full year gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 2-4% in 2018 – a slightly more sanguine estimation compared to the anticipated 3.4% y-o-y growth for this year, amid the broadening domestic gr
December 20, 2017
Broker's Calls
OCBC is top banking stock on cost efficiencies: UOB
SINGAPORE (Dec 14): UOB Kay Hian says Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) leads local banks in cost efficiency with the lowest staff cost per employee at $83,333 and lean other non-wage expenses.
December 14, 2017
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Prudential Singapore takes market share as innovation boosts productivity
(Nov 13): Last month’s launch of Prudential Singapore’s Fintegrate Partnership, which seeks to collaborate with fintech startups in Singapore and globally, and co-develop digital solutions for customers, is one of many steps that the long-standing ins
November 10, 2017
Singapore economy
How much is pain costing Singapore’s economy?
SINGAPORE (June 20): Pain conditions are costing Southeast Asian economies about US$44.6 billion ($61.9 billion) in productivity losses on an annual basis – out of which Singapore’s estimated productivity losses make up about US$6.2 billion per year,
June 20, 2017
Global Economy
Lost sleep is costing Japan's economy billions
TOKYO (Feb 16): Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy.
February 16, 2017
Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy
Changi Airport partners EDB to launch $50 mil innovation programme
SINGAPORE (Jan 5): Changi Airport Group (CAG) has partnered the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to launch a new $50 million programme with the aim of driving innovation for next-generation airport solutions over the next five years.
January 05, 2017
In print this week
Is it time for Singapore Inc to change?
SINGAPORE (Dec 23): More than five decades after Singapore first successfully adopted an export oriented economic model, it may be time for a change.
December 23, 2016
Payback time for the demographic dividend
SINGAPORE (Nov 15): The world's demographic is in the midst of unravelling as population growth is rapidly declining in the US, Europe, Japan, China and most of Asia, according to the latest data from DBS Group Research.
November 15, 2016
Focus on increasing productivity, not manpower: DPM Tharman
SINGAPORE (Sept 29): Singapore is no stranger to disappointing gross domestic product (GDP) growth and alarming unemployment figures of late.
September 29, 2016