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US$ woes a booster for Asian bourses
November 25th, 2009 | 
Author: FRESH weakness in the greenback gave a spur to regional bourses yesterday as big funds, which have borrowed in the ailing dollar, kept up their strategy of buying Asian blue chip stocks.
In Singapore, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) closed a tad below the 2,800 level, gaining 36.34 points to end at a 15-month high of 2,797.88.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 1.4 per cent to 22,771…. more
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Life insurance sector sees 2 straight quarters of recovery
SINGAPORE’S life insurance industry marked a second consecutive quarter of recovery with $426 million of total weighted new business premiums in the third quarter, placing the industry near levels before the global recession.
While this is a tad lower than the weighted new business premiums of $444.8 million in the third quarter of last year, it is a jump of 40 per cent from the second quarter and… more
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Tags: business, business premiums, cent, consecutive quarter, global recession, industry, insurance, jump, life, life insurance industry, new business, quarter, recession, recovery, second quarter, Singapore, tad, year |
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