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Posts Tagged ‘segment’

(SINGAPORE) The stock market in 2009 may have regained much of the ground lost during the US sub-prime bear market of 2008, but the same cannot be said of the structured warrants market.

There, turnover last year sank to $10.9 billion, down by half from 2008 and by 61 per cent from 2007’s all-time high of $28 billion.

Such has been the drop in interest that the once-promising segment’s 2009 tu… more

AFTER two straight quarters of strong growth, Singapore’s economy looks likely to have hit a speed bump in the fourth quarter of this year, according to economists.
A surprise slump in the volatile biomedicals segment resulted in manufacturers producing less than expected between September and this month – possibly leading to zero or minimal economic growth over the period.
Despite this flat fourt… more

(SINGAPORE) The number of new private homes sold in November fell 26 per cent month-on-month to 600 – the fourth straight monthly fall since July’s peak.
November sales were also the lowest since January, when just 108 units were sold.
Analysts say the month by month decline is due to cooling interest among mass-market buyers – typically HDB upgraders – as prices in this segment have climbed since… more

(SINGAPORE) The number of private homes that developers launched and sold in October slowed to their lowest levels since housing sales began their revival in February, according to latest official figures. While the outcome was expected, the big question is how long it will take for home sales to rev up again.
Buyers, especially in the price-sensitive mass-market segment, had begun to be fatigued … more

ANZ bank will not bother targeting heartlanders here but focus its energies on affluent customers with assets of at least $100,000.
Mr Alex Thursby, ANZ’s chief executive for Asia-Pacific, Europe and America, told a briefing yesterday that it did not have the firepower to take on local banks in the mass market.

‘We have no ability to compete with that segment, frankly, with DBS, OCBC or UOB,’ sa… more

On the surface, the 5 million mommy bloggers across the country seem like a harmless bunch. But it turns out that companies like Wal-Mart, General Mills and Johnson & Johnson are betting that these women are the gatekeepers to a huge segment of the market.