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At a low of seven Singapore cents, to which it had dived on Friday after falling 18 per cent and drawn the second trading activity query from the Singapore Exchange in three months, one would need binoculars to see its high of 74.5 cents reached last November.

A special auditor's report into a deal that went bad for Foreland Fabrictech has suggested the company may not have conducted proper due diligence before paying out compensation.

Flooring specialist Jason Holdings has suspended its chief executive Jason Sim and operations director New Sze Wei over allegations of improper transactions.

Missing corporate stamps, shuffled assets and disappearing executives have become the hallmarks of debt distress in China. Investors are starting to lose patience.

There should, therefore, be periodic updates on the status of these stocks, say every six months. If investigations are still ongoing, then that should be said. The alternative is silence that can drag on for years, which runs counter to the imperatives of a disclosure-based market.

Shunfu Ville was sold to developer Qingjian Realty for S$638 million on Thursday, marking the largest collective sale since 2007.

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A number of penny stocks linked to the 2013 penny stock crash saw their share prices jump on Monday amid heavy volumes, leaving traders mystified about who was doing the buying.

Whichever way you lean, one thing is for certain - the present hollowing out of the market, while reminiscent of previous episodes, is sufficiently different to be very troubling.

Yuuzoo was down 2.4 Singapore cents or 12 per cent to S$0.176 on Thursday at 12.42 pm, after its auditors, Moore Stephens LLP, in its finalised auditors' report included a disclaimer of opinion over the firm's audited FY15 consolidated financial statements.

Noble Group is set to clinch about US$3 billion in bank credit facilities, sources close to the matter said, but it will have to offer the highest interest rate it has ever paid as lenders are wary after its ratings downgrades to junk status.

Noble Group Ltd plunged the most in more than four years after Fitch Ratings Ltd placed the company's debt ratings on negative watch as Asia's largest commodity trader was seen facing less financial flexibility amid a challenging market.

After a decade in which hedge fund assets nearly doubled, there are several signs that the golden era for the US$2.9 trillion industry may be on the wane, draining the influence of fund managers who once considered themselves masters of the universe.

An appeal to lift the postponement of an $8 million lawsuit brought by a stockbroking firm against one of its remisiers was struck out by Singapore's apex court last month.

The last remaining credit rating agency with whom Noble Group still enjoys an investment-grade rating might now be changing its mind.

This came on the back of what YuuZoo described as "very strong" results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016, which it announced late on Thursday.

A rising tide ought to lift all boats. The recent tentative recovery in the local stock market, however, seems to have left a pool of laggards languishing behind.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday said that it has taken civil penalty action against Pu Weidong and Triumpus Assets Management Pte Ltd (Triumpus) for insider trading in the shares of Sinomem Technology. They will pay S$316,000 as a civil penalty.

History is replete with examples of insider trading, globally and in Singapore.

Professionals looking to make the switch to infocomm technology (ICT), or to upgrade their skills in the sector, can now sign up for eight new ICT conversion programmes.

A price war among the mainland’s brokerages is escalating as they rush to cut the fees charged on securities trading amid a slumbering stock market.