Booking Holdings Stock Rises on Strong Q4, Dividend Hike, $20B Buyback Plan
Shares of Booking Holdings rose in premarket trading on Friday after its fourth-quarter results topped expectations.
Shares of Booking Holdings rose in premarket trading on Friday after its fourth-quarter results topped expectations.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore announced on Friday a set of measures to rejuvenate its equities market, including a 20% tax rebate for primary listings and a S$5 billion ($3.74 billion) program that focuses on investing in domestic stocks. The statement offers more details on measures Singapore's equities market review group announced on February 13 to revive its stock market that has come under pressure from a dearth of mega listings and softer trading liquidity. "We aim to have these measures lay the foundations for a sustainable and well functioning equities market, and we think if we take the proposed measures together, they will hopefully make an impact," Singapore's second finance minister Chee Hong Tat said in a briefing on Friday.
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Chinese tech stocks listed in Hong Kong advanced on Friday for their best weekly winning streak since 2020, as earnings surprises and optimism about the artificial intelligence sector drew global investors rotating funds into the sector. The Hang Seng Tech Index closed up 6.5%, its best single-day gain since October, to reach its highest in three years. That took its weekly gain to more than 6% in its sixth straight week of advances, the longest winning streak since May 2020.
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