Thursday, June 23, 2016

ARA Asset, HTL, Guocoland, Cityneon, Cosco

Here are some stocks that could move the market this Thursday morning.

ARA Asset Management is bidding for a stake in Singapore's Capital Square office tower in the city's central business district, according to Bloomberg. ARA is seeking the 50% stake in the building, said the people. Donald Han, managing director at real estate broker Chestertons, estimates that the tower could fetch about $2,500 psf, valuing the 50% stake at $415 million. ARA shares closed at $1.32 on Wednesday.

Leather furniture distributor HTL International has received an offer from Ideal Homes International to acquire all its issued shares. Ideal Homes plans to acquire all 399.8 million issued shares for $1 each. This is 20% higher than HTL last traded price of 80 cents on June 17. This offer values HTL at nearly $400 million. Ideal Homes is a subsidiary of Shanghai-listed wood furniture and floor manufacturer Yihua Group. HTL will be delisted after the acquisition.

Guocoland on Wednesday announced that 70% of retail space at Tanjong Pagar Centre has been taken up, ahead of the development’s scheduled completion in 3Q16. Tanjong Pagar Centre is a large scale, integrated mixed-use project located above the Tanjong Pagar MRT station, and is set to become the tallest building in Singapore at 290 metres high. Guocoland closed flat at $1.85 on Wednesday.

Cityneon’s subsidiary Victory Hill Exhibitions (VHE) says its Marvel Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. exhibition on Wednesday opened to the world-famous public on the Las Vegas Strip at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. “Las Vegas has a total of about 43 million visitors in a year and we are targeting to secure 1 to 1.5% of that market to visit the attraction,” says Ron Tan, CEO of VHE. Shares of Cityneon closed at 89 cents on Wednesday.

Cosco Corporation (Singapore) says Cosco (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., a subsidiary of the company’s 51% owned Cosco Shipyard Group Co., has delivered a 111,000 DWT oil tanker, Front Jaguar, to its European buyer. Cosco Corp closed flat at 30 cents on Wednesday.

Markets
US stocks finished narrowly lower on Wednesday on the eve of a closely-contested British referendum on whether to leave the European Union. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3% to 17,780.83. The broad-based S&P 500 shed 0.2% at 2,085.45, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 0.2% to 4,833.32.

Earlier, the Straits Times Index closed 3.32 points lower at 2,786.13.

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