Posts by Kim Browne
OUE Reit H2 DPU up 10.6% at S$0.0125
However, revenue falls 4.2% due to no contributions from Lippo Plaza Shanghai, which the Reit had divested [SINGAPORE] The manager of OUE Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) on Monday (Jan 26) posted a distribution per unit (DPU) of S$0.0125 for the second-half ended December, up 10.6 per cent year on year from S$0.0113. The stronger…
Read MoreTrump Doubling Down on Minneapolis Takeover After Alex Pretti Shooting
“If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, OK, if the mayor and governor are going put our ICE officials in harm’s way and there’s a chance of losing more innocent lives, or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide: Do we want to continue to…
Read MoreKeppel Infrastructure Trust secures S$100 million loan facility
[SINGAPORE] The trustee-manager of Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT) on Monday (Jan 26) announced that it has obtained a S$100 million loan facility. It has also secured 50 million euros (S$75.3 million) in uncommitted revolving credit and banker’s guarantee facilities. These facilities require KIT’s trustee-manager to remain wholly owned by Keppel Capital and/or Keppel. Under the…
Read MoreCICC rebuilds IPO pipeline to focus on ‘most promising’ deals
Talent retention remains a strategic focus for CICC amid industry-wide competition Published Mon, Jan 26, 2026 · 08:50 PM [BEIJING] China International Capital Corporation (CICC) is rebuilding its pipeline of initial public offerings (IPOs) and conducting thorough due diligence as scrutiny has grown after a boom in Hong Kong share sales. The current deal surge…
Read MoreLow Keng Huat privatisation crosses 90% threshold
Consistent Record’s final offer of S$0.78 a share is 8.3% or S$0.06 higher than its initial price [SINGAPORE] Mainboard-listed construction and property developer Low Keng Huat (LKH) is set to be privatised, as the offeror has secured 93.84 per cent of the company’s total issued share capital as at Monday (Jan 26). This brings the…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Wrecks Own Case for Tariffs in Truly Weird Tirade
Sargent: To circle back to where this all started, Trump just revealed yet again that the whole thing is really absurd. So we talked earlier about how he recently threatened tariffs on European countries because they weren’t letting him annex Greenland. And then, as soon as they started entering into talks with Donald Trump about…
Read MoreDonald Trump Wants This Chaos. It Means More Power in His Hands.
These people are very clearly under orders, of at least the nudge and wink variety, to shoot first and ask questions later. Besides, when they watch their leaders smear the people they just executed with their itchy fingers, what lesson do we suppose they take away? Good, said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem before her body…
Read MoreThe Narrative Genius of Heated Rivalry
Heated Rivalry is, almost exclusively, the story of Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two high-level professional hockey prospects who fall in love. One’s Canadian, the other’s Russian; one is soft-spoken, the other is brazen and bombastic; one is a squeaky-clean national hero with a supportive family, and the other is a…
Read MoreMapletree Logistics Trust Q3 DPU falls to S$0.01816
Amount distributable to unitholders declines 8.5% year on year to S$92.7 million in Q3 [SINGAPORE] Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT) posted a distribution per unit (DPU) of S$0.01816 for the third quarter ended Dec 31. This was a 9.3 per cent decline from the DPU of S$0.02003 in the corresponding year-ago period. In a bourse filing…
Read MoreTrump Accidentally Wrecks His Own Case for Tariffs in 3 Crazed Tirades
The Supreme Court is about to rule on Donald Trump’s tariffs, which lower courts deem illegal. But guess what: Trump himself has badly undermined his own case for them. He’s claimed broad tariff powers by absurdly declaring trade deficits an economic emergency. But he keeps admitting to other rationales for them. In a crazed and…
Read MoreBanking trio ends lower, weighing on STI
Across the broader market, decliners outnumber gainers 310 to 259 after 1.6 billion securities worth S$1.7 billion change hands [SINGAPORE] Singapore shares finished mixed on Monday (Jan 26), with the Straits Times Index (STI) falling as the iEdge Singapore Next 50 Index rose. The STI was down 0.6 per cent or 30.52 points at 4,860.93,…
Read MoreSingapore turns to next-generation power systems to scale AI, train future workforce
This comes as the Republic transitions to a low-carbon energy grid while advancing regional net-zero ambitions [SINGAPORE] As artificial intelligence (AI) drives rising energy demand, data-centre operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is deploying more efficient power systems to scale its operations, through a pilot it described as being the first in South-east…
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