Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Apr 19: Ascendas, CapitaLand, Qian Hu, SGX

The following companies may have unusual price changes in Singapore trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and share prices are from the previous close. Singapore’s Straits Times Index fell 0.3% to 3,144.38.

Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (AREIT SP): Singapore’s biggest industrial property trust said the amount available for its dividend payout in the year ended March 31 rose 5.6% to $248 million from a year earlier. The stock fell 0.5% to $1.97.

CapitaLand (CAPL SP), CapitaCommercial Trust (CCT SP): Southeast Asia’s biggest developer and its commercial property trust will spend about $1.4 billion developing a downtown Singapore office tower at its Market Street Car Park site. CapitaCommercial will hold 40% of the venture, which is expected to generate a yield exceeding 6%. The trust said separately its first-quarter distributable income for dividend payouts fell 4.1% to $52.1 million. CapitaLand lost 0.9% to $3.38. CapitaCommercial dropped 0.7% to $1.42.

Qian Hu Corp. (QIAN SP): The supplier of ornamental fish said net income for the three months ended March 31 fell 29% to $1 million from a year earlier. The stock was unchanged at 12 cents.

Sakae Holdings (SAKAE SP): The owner and operator of restaurants said it has named Voon Sze Yin as the company’s chief financial officer. The stock surged 8.1% to 20 cents.

Singapore Exchange (SGX SP): The operator of the city-state’s securities and derivatives markets said third-quarter profit fell 10% to $67 million on costs linked to its failed attempt to buy Australia’s ASX. Singapore Exchange declined 0.9% to $8.08.


 

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