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Airline passenger numbers show healthy growth in H1
August 17th, 2010 | 
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(SINGAPORE) The global airline industry enjoyed a strong rebound in travel demand during the first half of this year, with premium travel rising 11.9 per cent, while economy travel was up 6.3 per cent.
The latest data released by the International Air Transport Association show, however, that travel demand growth has softened sequentially from quarter-to-quarter.
In June, premium seat demand was 1... more
Posted in Singapore Financial News | 
Tags: air, air transport association, airline, airline industry, Association, cent, data, demand, economy, economy travel, global airline, growth, half, industry, International, international air transport, international air transport association, June, premium, rebound, seat, show, Singapore, transport, travel, travel demand, year | 
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Slump hits pay of 44% of bosses
THE financial crisis put the squeeze on executive pay last year, with almost half of the top brass at Singapore's leading firms having their salaries frozen or even cut.
A survey has found that 44 per cent of chief executives, chief financial officers and business unit heads saw their salaries staying flat or falling last year, compared with 23 per cent of executives in the 2008 financial year.
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Posted in Singapore Financial News |
Tags: brass, business, business unit, cent, chief, chief executives, crisis, executive, financial crisis, financial officers, half, pay, salaries, Singapore, squeeze, survey, top brass, Unit, unit heads, year |
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Chinese developers eye Spore property
CHINESE developers eager for a slice of the red-hot housing pie are nudging their way into Singapore's property scene.
Chinese developers bid for at least 10 out of the 15 residential land sites put up for tender in the Government Land Sales (GLS) programme for the first half of this year.
They have landed three plots and narrowly missed out with second-place bids on at least two other sites.
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Tags: Chinese, developers, GLS, government, government land, half, housing, Land, pie, programme, property, residential land, scene, Singapore, slice, tender, way, year |
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Federal deficit slashed by 8 percent, say officials
The federal deficit was down 8 percent for the first half of fiscal 2010 over the same period a year ago, Obama administration officials say.
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Posted in Stocks Unit Trust ETF Investment |
Tags: administration, administration officials, Barack, barack obama, debt, deficit, federal deficit, half, Obama, percent, period, presidency, President, public debt, United States, year |
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Discount Blues
The Federal Reserve 25 basis point discount rate increase on Thursday to 0.75% was not a market moving event. The first Fed hike in either the discount rate or the more important fed funds rate in almost two and a half years will have little direct economic impact. It had…
Posted in Forex Trading |
Tags: basis, basis point, discount, economic impact, event, Fed, fed funds rate, Federal, federal reserve, first fed, half, hike, impact, increase, market, point, rate, rate increase, Reserve, Thursday, two and a half years |
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Weekly Technical Commentary
Slow work, but perhaps understandable as we hover not that far above key ultra-long term support between 87.00 and 85.00. We have retraced half of the year-end rally and are hovering at the bottom edge of a decent-sized flat-bottomed daily Ichimoku ‘cloud’. Fibonacci retracement support at the 61% level will…
Posted in Forex Trading |
Tags: bottom edge, cloud, edge, Fibonacci, half, hover, Ichimoku, ichimoku cloud, level, rally, retracement, Slow, support, term, work, year-end |
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