Singapore

ISR Capital named Chen Tong as chairman

He has more than 29 years of experience in the field.

CapitaLand's net profit up 74% to $430.5m in 4Q16

Thanks to strong performance from China residential.

ST Engineering's profit slid 6% to $590.6m

But the group still expects better profit turnout by 2017.

DBS' net profit down 2% to $4.24b in 2016

Higher allowances offset stronger operating performance.

ThaiBev's profit up 28% to $311.9m

Despite sales declining across spirits and beer segments.

Sales of executive condominiums up 18% in January

Guess which projects had the highest sales volumes.

OCBC predicts no hike in Foreign Worker Levy for Budget 2017 announcement

There will be about 25,000-40,000 jobs in the next 3-5 years.

Hopes for more support for Singapore enterprises

Following the recommendations by the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE), the Monetary Authority of Singapore recently announced that it will relax some of its rules on finance companies to make it easier for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to obtain financing. The regulatory changes will see SMEs being granted more access to higher amount of uncollateralised loans and business customers will be able to contract more conveniently.

Daily Markets Briefing: STI up 0.52%

Local sentiment will be fairly buoyant today.

Developer sales up 18.3% to 381 units in January

This was despite the lack of new launches in the said month.