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THERE were some errors in our report, River Valley condo Luma relaunches with prices halved (BT, Nov 14). The condominium is located at River Valley Grove and not St Thomas Walk. The number of units sold earlier was not 10, but six. BT also understands that the developer, Novelty Group, purchased the site for around [...]

ZURICH – Swiss bank UBS AG, under pressure at home to give up on hefty bonus schemes in the face of its poor performance, said on Monday it will introduce a more transparent pay system for top executives. The bank, which is struggling in the sub-prime crisis and whose shares slumped to a new all-time [...]

SINGAPORE – The Encarta World English Dictionary defines ‘capitulate’ as ‘surrender, especially under specified conditions; consent or yield: to give in to an argument, request, pressure or something unavoidable’. It also defines ‘capitulation’ as ‘a giving up of resistance’. Much has been made of the selling of the past year, with some observers believing that [...]

FRANKFURT – Global central banks are ready to take further steps to ease market tensions and bolster faltering economic growth, top policymakers said on Friday, as world leaders gathered for talks on the economic crisis. Speaking at a conference in Frankfurt, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said [...]

NEW YORK – Merrill Lynch & Co said on Friday that the majority of its best-performing financial advisors will join Bank of America Corp (BOA) when that bank buys Merrill at the end of the year. More than 6,200 advisors accepted a retention package offered by BOA that was targeted at the top-producing brokers, a [...]

Oil, gold rise as bank results loom over dollar HONG KONG – OIL and gold prices gained on Tuesday as the dollar struggled to attract buyers due to signs of a weak earnings season for US banks, which could expose yet more subprime losses and punish stocks worldwide.Some Asian stocks edged higher, trimming losses from [...]