by winston » Wed May 11, 2011 11:38 am
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Singapore Hot Stocks-CapitaLand down on policy tightening worries
SINGAPORE, May 11 (Reuters) - Shares of Singapore's CapitaLand , Southeast Asia's largest property developer, fell as much as 2.2 percent on Wednesday on worries about further cooling measures in China, which contributes around 27 percent to total company revenue.
In CapitaLand's first quarter, revenue from China was S$163.4 billion ($132.7 billion), out of total revenue of S$611.5 billion, according to its financial result announced last month.
China's April headline consumer price inflation slowed to 5.3 percent in the year to April from 5.4 percent in March, but still exceeding a 5.2 percent rise forecast by economists polled by Reuters.
CapitaLand stock has also been soft as pressure mounts on the Singapore government to make housing more affordable in the city state.
Singapore's ruling party predictably returned to power in the general election last week, but its share of the popular vote slipped to around 60 percent, its worst showing since independence.
At 0308 GMT, CapitaLand shares were down 1.6 percent at S$3.17 on a volume of 12 million shares. The stock has fallen around 3 percent so far this week.
"There has been a confluence of worries with regard to policy risk, be it in Singapore or China," said Wilson Liew, an analyst at Kim Eng Securities.
"CapitaLand has often been taken as one of the bellwether stocks for property in the Singapore market. Some people also see it as a proxy to the China property market, so if there is news of cooling measures in China, it will also get affected."
Source: Reuters
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