Daily BriefsSingapore

Daily Brief Singapore: Singapore Post, SGX Rubber Future TSR20, Continuum Green Energy and more

In today’s briefing:

  • SingPost (SPOST SP): What Next After FMH Sale?
  • Rains Continue To Pummel SL Rubber, Percolate To Downstream Too
  • Lucror Analytics – Morning Views Asia


SingPost (SPOST SP): What Next After FMH Sale?

By David Blennerhassett

  • Singapore Post (SPOST SP) is selling its key asset, Australian-based Freight Management Holdings (FMH), for an enterprise value of S$897.6mn, which will generate a gain on disposal of S$312.1mn.
  • SingPost will apply the proceeds to paring down its Aussie dollar-denominated debt. SingPost will also consider, in due course, the payment of a special dividend.
  • Once the FMH transaction completes, the board will “review and reset the Group’s strategic plan, with a continued focus on shareholder value“.

Rains Continue To Pummel SL Rubber, Percolate To Downstream Too

By Vinod Nedumudy

  • Squeezed supply owing to rains lifts prices in domestic market
  • Exports down 23.4% MoM at US$79.5 million in Sept
  • Michelin seeks proactive policies to up rubber production 

Lucror Analytics – Morning Views Asia

By Tanvi Arora

  • In today’s Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Continuum Green, Sunny Optical
  • Wall Street has been expressing confusion over the Fed’s potential decision (according to minutes of the November meeting) to lower the rate on its overnight reverse repo facility (RRP) by 5 bps, possibly as early as next week.
  • This adjustment comes alongside expectations of a quarter-point cut in the Fed’s main policy benchmark. 

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