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MORE than two-thirds of local respondents to a recent survey said they expect a pay rise and an annual bonus soon.

Recruitment firm Ambition said yesterday that of the 489 Singapore-based hiring managers and human resources professionals polled in October, 68 per cent expect their companies to pay higher salaries in 2010, as well as annual bonuses for 2009.

This is a ‘healthy turnaround’ from … more

58% of respondents expect to spend more on research and development in next 12 months
MOST business leaders in the Asia-Pacific believe it will take two to three years for the global economy to recover fully.
In the meantime, many are gearing up for future growth and plan to spend more on research and development in the next 12 months.
These findings come from a survey conducted jointly by Pricewa… more

Due to uncertainty about the economic outlook, the University of Michigan’s (UMI) consumer sentiment fell back from 73.5 to 70.6 in October. But as the preliminary level was only 69.4, late respondents in the survey were much less pessimistic. We thus predict that UMI’s preliminary November consumer sentiment will go…

EVEN as the stock markets pick up, expect to see fewer designer labels on fellow passengers on the MRT in coming months, if the latest survey released yesterday by Omnicom Media Group (Asia Pacific) is anything to go by. Singaporeans ranked among the most thrifty in the region, with 45 per cent of respondents planning to be either ‘a little more cautious’ or ‘a lot more cautious’ with spending ove… more

FORGET the ‘flight to quality’ in turbulent times – locals have gone one better and are doing nothing with their money.
After seeing the bottom fall out of financial markets, more high-income earners here are saving most of their cash instead of putting it in investments or insurance.
A Nielsen survey found a 13 per cent spike in the number of high-income respondents who put most of their cash in … more