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SINGAPORE (May 11): Singapore scaled a 21-month peak on Thursday, powered by banks, with Southeast Asian stock markets largely upbeat, mirroring broader positive sentiment in Asia and Wall Street.

SINGAPORE (Feb 13): The woes of Singaporean energy-services provider Ezra Holdings are a stark reminder to the city’s biggest banks of the threat souring oil and gas loans pose to their earnings.

SINGAPORE (Jan 17): Moody's Investors Service says Singapore’s three largest banks are poised to weather further weakening in asset quality and continued downward pressure on profitability in 2017.

SINGAPORE (Dec 23): Singapore stocks ended lower in line with most of the market's regional peers, as volumes remained thin ahead of the year-end holidays.

SINGAPORE (Nov 30): UBS Global Research does not expect the recent share price rally of Singapore banking stocks to be sustainable.

SINGAPORE (Nov 8): Singapore banks could see better days after the US Federal Reserve announces its rate hike later this year, according to RHB Research which is maintaining its “neutral” rating on the sector.

SINGAPORE (Nov 7): Maybank Kim Eng is maintaining its “negative” recommendation on Singapore banks, in anticipation of further asset quality deterioration, even as the local lenders have focused on revenue generation in 3QFY16.

SINGAPORE (Nov 3): UOB Kay Hian is maintaining its “overweight” recommendation on the Singapore banking sector after the three local lenders posted healthy results for 3QFY16, on the back of strong non-interest income.

SINGAPORE (Oct 26): DBS Group Holdings, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp and United Overseas Bank, arguably the most closely followed stocks within the finance sector, did not come out tops in any of the three metrics by which the Billion Dollar Club companie

SINGAPORE (Oct 25): Singapore’s three largest banks are poised to report higher impairment charges for loans to the struggling oil and gas industry and weaker interest margins when they post third-quarter earnings in coming days.