Singtel: Its Australian subsidiary Optus faced another round of mobile service disruptions on Monday. Around 220,000 customers were affected by the outage. Separately, Nxera, Singtel’s regional data centre arm, opened its largest and multi-tenanted data centre in Tuas. Shares of Singtel ended 1.3 per cent or S$0.06 higher at S$4.78.
This week, two earnings were out with mixed results. $Keppel(BN4.SI)$ surged 6%, reaching a 12-year high, while $SGX(S68.SI)$ despite posting its strongest half-year results ever — saw its share price dip 0.6%.
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August’s weak payrolls data (just 22K jobs added) and a rising unemployment rate (4.3%) led markets to fully price in a September rate cut. Treasury yields fell sharply. Meanwhile, manufacturing activity shrank for the sixth month (ISM PMI: 48.7%), while the services sector expanded (ISM Services PMI: 52%).