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Healthcare
Post-pandemic blues or boon?
Now that the pandemic is moving towards an endemic, is the healthcare sector still worth looking into?
March 09, 2023
Investing strategies
Bleak external outlook but Singapore offers defensive shelter, says Maybank Securities
The market outlook may be cloudy, but Maybank Securities has its defensive shelter ready.
August 18, 2022
DBS 2019 stock market outlook
3 defensive consumer stocks to ride out near-term headwinds
SINGAPORE (Dec 17): DBS Vickers Securities is “overweight” on the consumer goods sector, on the belief that F&B and retail services in Singapore are likely to outperform other cyclical industries amid trade-war related uncertainties in 2019.
December 17, 2018
Broker's Calls
This consumer stock offers 'unexciting growth', but excellent shelter in volatile times
SINGAPORE (June 28): OCBC is maintaining its “buy” call on Sheng Siong Group with an unchanged fair value estimate of $1.12, highlighting it as a defensive business in times of volatility given ongoing trade tensions between US and China as well as Eu
June 28, 2018
In print this week
Heavyweight stocks disrupted by new technologies, shifting consumer behaviour
SINGAPORE (June 17): New technologies and shifting consumer behaviour are destroying the reliable returns once offered by some widely owned heavyweight stocks.
June 17, 2017
Broker's Calls
3 S-REITs to ‘buy’ in a slower growth environment
SINGAPORE (Jan 12): HSBC Global Research expects to see a “relatively uneventful reporting period” as Singapore REITs (S-REITs) gear up to report their financial results for the quarter ended Dec 2016 over the coming weeks.
January 12, 2017
Stay defensive, advises DBS, and remember H.I.D.E.
SINGAPORE (June 28): Investors should stay defensive and favour stocks which are “High growth, Infrastructure-related with Dividends and Earnings visibility” in the low growth high volatility environment after Brexit.
June 28, 2016