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This Digital Copy Is Brought to You By FBM KLCI 1822.29 2.10 KLCI FUTURES 1821.00 3.00 STI 3315.60 18.96 RM/USD 3.3650 CPO RM2223.00 22.00 OIL US$77.73 0.37 GOLD US$1195.70 1.80 PP 9974/08/2013 (032820) PENINSULAR MALAYSIA RM1.50 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2014 ISSUE 1844/2014 FINANCIAL MAKE BETTER DAILY DECISIONS S-CROSS — Stylish, practical and effi cient www.theedgemarkets.com 4 6 HOME BUSINESS Mah Sing makes RM630m cash call to trim gearing ratio 8 HOME BUSINESS 1MDB to be profi table in FY15, says Ahmad Maslan 10 HOME BUSINESS Malton lines up property launches worth up to RM1.2b 18 HOME Azmin vows stern action against breach in payouts 25 WORLDWORLLD BUSINESSBUSINESS Ma warns Alibaba faces its ‘most dangerous moment’ This digital copy is brought to you by FBM KLCI 1822.29 2.10 KLCI FUTURES 1821.00 3.00 STI 3315.60 18.96 RM/USD 3.3650 CPO RM2223.00 22.00 OIL US$77.73 0.37 GOLD US$1195.70 1.80 PP 9974/08/2013 (032820) PENINSULAR MALAYSIA RM1.50 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2014 ISSUE 1844/2014 FINANCIAL MAKE BETTER DAILY DECISIONS S-CROSS — Stylish, practical and effi cient www.theedgemarkets.com 4 6 HOME BUSINESS Mah Sing makes RM630m cash call to trim gearing ratio 8 HOME BUSINESS 1MDB to be profi table in FY15, says Ahmad Maslan 10 HOME BUSINESS Malton lines up property launches worth up to RM1.2b 18 HOME Azmin vows stern action against breach in payouts 25 WORLD BUSINESS Ma warns Alibaba faces its ‘most dangerous moment’ 4 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2014 • THEEDGE FINANCIAL DAILY For breaking news updates go to www.theedgemarkets.com ON EDGE TV IN BRIEF www.theedgemarkets.com Alibaba order books of US More than a fad dollar bond at US$40b LONDON: Order books on Chi- nese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s seven-tranche US dollar bond China’s tech giants are racing to build a great wall of content are at US$40 billion (RM134.8 billion), according to a mar- Ronser comes ket source. Alibaba is looking out with BY ROBYN MAK with another popular video site, almost 90% of its revenue. As us- to sell up to seven tranches in- Youku Tudou. Alibaba is similarly ers move from desktops to smaller cluding three-, fi ve-, seven-, 10- innovative HONG KONG: China’s tech giants stretching its business model. Th e screens, it gets harder to make ad- and 20-year fi xed rate tranches, palm oil waste are racing to build a great wall of company and its chief executive vertisers pay. TV makers like Xiaomi and three- and fi ve-year fl oating treatment content. Smartphone maker Xiaomi have splashed out some US$3 billion are facing competition from compa- rate notes. On Wednesday, initial method Inc and e-commerce group Alibaba this year in entertainment alone. nies like Alibaba and search engine price thoughts were set at 80 ba- Group Holding Ltd have channelled Watching online shows on a televi- operator Baidu fl ooding the market sis point area over Treasuries for billions of dollars into programming sion is a new idea for China’s 618 mil- with smart TV sets boasting exclusive the three-year fi xed, 110bp area for Internet TV. lion Internet users, many of whom use content. For all of them, charging for for the fi ve-year, 135bp area for It could be more than a fad. If smartphones. Sales of Internet-con- content is a way of locking in more the seven-year, 150bp area for viewers pay up, content can bring nected TVs and set-top boxes were predictable revenue streams — which the 10-year and 175bp area for in revenue streams more stable and just 24 million in 2013, according to investors should in theory support. the 20-year. Th e price talk on the lucrative than ad dollars and one- iResearch. In contrast, Youku Tudou Th e question is whether viewers two fl oating rate note tranches off hardware sales. For investors, has over 500 million people streaming will pay. Achieving a victory over con- are the 3-month Libor equivalent that’s something worth tuning in to. shows for free at least once a month. sumers’ wallets like that of US-based of the fi xed rate notes. — AFP Xiaomi’s US$300 million (RM1 While Goldman Sachs reckons the Netfl ix Inc is easier said than done. New SUV to billion) investment in online video audience for Internet TV could hit 77 Enticing viewers with content could Volvo Cars plots contribute up to site iQiyi, announced on Nov 18, is million by 2015, it has so far been hard backfi re and rile the country’s unpre- US resurgence 10% of Suzuki’s the latest instalment of a US$1 bil- to pin down a decent business model. dictable censors. Th e race for who STOCKHOLM: Chinese-owned lion planned investment in Internet Yet there could be more to this gets a slice of the lucrative Internet TV Volvo Car Group said on total sales TV content. Just a week earlier, the content craze. Th e loss-making You- market is getting dramatic, but there Wednesday that a sweeping company sealed a separate alliance ku Tudou relies on advertising for is still time for spoilers. — Reuters overhaul of its model range over the next fi ve years would propel its long-suff ering sales volumes in the United States back above 100,000 cars per year. Strong growth in China The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd Outward Bound turns 60 (266980-X) and more modest gains in Eu- Level 3, Menara KLK, No 1 Jalan PJU 7/6, rope have helped Volvo grow Mutiara Damansara, 47810 Petaling Jaya, KUALA LUMPUR: Th e Outward sales for 16 straight months. 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Th e Sultan served as Outward 1987, with the Outward Mexico’s president Senior Managing Editor Azam Aris Bound Trust Malaysia president Bound Trust Malaysia reveals US$3m in assets Executive Editors Kathy Fong, from 1989 to 2002 and Tuanku president, Maybank MEXICO CITY: Facing confl ict of Jenny Ng, Siow Chen Ming, Islamic chairman Datuk Surinder Jessy, Ooi Inn Leong Zara has been an OBS alumni interest accusations over a luxury Associate Editors R B Bhattacharjee, since 1987. 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