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Westpac profit holds steady on rise in margins and higher lending
AUSTRALIA’S Westpac Banking Corp posted a steady third-quarter profit on Thursday, buoyed by wider margins, on the back of fewer liquid…
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Westpac profit grows 5% on margin lift and higher lending
Australia’s Westpac Banking on Thursday (Aug 14) said wider margins and lending and deposits gains helped it post slightly higher…
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Stocks to watch: StarHub, Olam, CapitaLand Investment, Mapletree Logistics Trust, ComfortDelGro
The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Thursday (Aug 14): StarHub: The telco on…
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Sasseur Reit posts 3.1% lower Q2 DPU of S$0.03055
The manager of Sasseur Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) on Thursday (Aug 14) said that its distribution per unit (DPU) for the second…
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Sasseur Reit posts 3.1% lower H1 DPU of S$0.03055
The manager of Sasseur Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) on Thursday (Aug 14) said that its distribution per unit (DPU) for the first…
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Telstra logs higher annual profit, announces A$1 billion buyback
Australian telecom firm Telstra Group forecast higher operating earnings for fiscal 2026 and reported a 31 per cent rise in its fiscal…
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Thailand’s Delta sees AI boom boosting sales for coming years
Delta Electronics (Thailand), the country’s most valuable publicly traded company, is predicting “double-digit” sales growth to continue…
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Aoxin Q&M Dental H1 net profit down 44.3% at 2.7 million yuan
Revenue rises 4.6% to 86.8 million yuan, from 83 million yuan in the year-ago period Catalist-listed Aoxin Q&M Dental on Thursday (Aug 14)…
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CapitaLand Investment H1 profit down 13% at S$287 million
CapitaLand Investment (CLI) on Thursday (Aug 14) posted a net profit of S$287 million for its first half ended Jun 30, 2025, 13 per cent…
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CapitaLand Investment H1 profit down 13% at S$287 million on lower revenue
The decline is due to the deconsolidation of CapitaLand Ascott Trust and the loss of contributions from divested US and China assets…
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US chip-gear maker sued in China over alleged trade secret theft
Top US chip-equipment supplier Applied Materials was sued by a rival in China over what that company characterised as trade secret theft,…
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Google pledges US$9 billion to expand AI, cloud infrastructure in Oklahoma
ABET’S Google said on Wednesday it will spend an additional US$9 billion in Oklahoma over the next two years to expand cloud and…
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New acquisition, healthcare segment fuelling Sunningdale Tech: non-exec chairman Koh Boon Hwee
Precision plastics engineering company Sunningdale Tech has continued to grow even after delisting from the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in…
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Apple plots expansion into AI robots, home security and smart displays
Apple is plotting its artificial intelligence (AI) comeback with an ambitious slate of new devices, including robots, a lifelike version…
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Oracle cuts cloud division jobs amid surge in AI spending
Many tech giants have sought to deal with the surging costs of AI by reducing expenses in other parts of the business Oracle is cutting…
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Europe: Shares near two-week highs on Fed rate cut expectations
EUROPEAN shares hit a near two-week high on Wednesday, underpinned by gains in heavyweight healthcare and technology stocks, as…
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Cisco sees AI sales picking up but sticks to cautious outlook
Cisco Systems, the largest maker of machines that run computer networks and the internet, gave a cautious forecast for the current fiscal…
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Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms And a Test to Recognize Them
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most emotionally intense and misunderstood mental health conditions. Mislabeled or…
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Bryan Kohberger Is Having Miserable Time Inside Prison as Inmates Are Making His Life Hell Even in Solitary Confinement: Report
Inmates at the high-security Idaho prison knew that quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger was being transferred there and planned how to…
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Mapletree Logistics Trust to divest logistics property in Australia for A$60 million
Its manager says the capital freed up will give MLT room to pursue investment openings in modern, high-spec facilities with more growth…
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EC World Reit’s H1 net property income falls 60.3% to S$18.7 million
EC World Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) reported a 60.3 per cent decline in net property income to S$18.7 million in the first half…
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US: S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs at open on September rate cut hopes
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Wednesday (Aug 13) with the benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hitting record highs, underpinned…
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Food Empire reports net loss of US$1.5 million, declares first-ever interim dividend of S$0.03
Food Empire reported a net loss of US$1.5 million for the first half-year ended Jun 30, the group said in a bourse filing on Wednesday…
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AEM net profit more than doubles to S$3.1 million
AEM Holdings posted a 245 per cent increase in net profit to S$3.1 million for the half-year ended Jun 30, from S$895,000 the year before.…