SINGAPORE: Singapore’s biggest bank DBS Group is confident of achieving a return on equity (ROE) of 15 per cent to 17 per cent in the medium term or over the next three to five years, its chief executive said on Thursday. “Rates have come down from the 5.5 per cent,…
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See All:Keysight Technologies outbid rival Viavi Solutions to buy Spirent Communications for about 1.16 billion pounds ($1.46 billion) on Thursday, winning a battle over the UK telecoms testing firm’s expertise in automation.Shares in London-listed Spirent were up 10.6 per cent to 198.0 pence as of 0957 GMT. Electronic equipment maker Keysight offered 201.5 pence per share, topping Viavi’s 175 pence bid in early March.Spirent possesses capabilities in software, cloud, and automation technologies as next-generation communication networks…
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View MoreThe Waterloo study, whose results were released last November, followed previous surveys done in 2016 and 2020. The study showed that coffee shop toilets were seen to be as dirty as they were three years ago. Ms Rosie Ching, principal lecturer of Statistics at the Singapore Management University, who was…
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