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Post-pandemic blues or boon? - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

Healthcare

Post-pandemic blues or boon?

Now that the pandemic is moving towards an endemic, is the healthcare sector still worth looking into?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.
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