PRE-MARKET TAIWAN AND SINGAPORE STOCKS NEWS: Earnings from OCBC, Sembcorp Industries, Singapore Airlines & Singapore Post

TAIWAN

ChipMOS Technologies (8150 TT) - Co. plans to increase capital expenditure this year to 22-27% of revenue from 16% last year to expand advanced chip packaging capacity for next-generation AI and data centre chips. (Taipei Times)

E.Sun Financial Holding (2884 TT) - Co. FY (TWD) net income rose 31.2% Y/Y to 34.29bln, rev. rose to 91.77bln, and co. outlined an expansion plan to deepen integration across its banking, securities and asset management businesses. (Taipei Times)

Other News

Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan is set to forward the Executive Yuan’s proposed special defence budget to a plenary session next Friday following cross-party consensus. (Taipei Times)

SINGAPORE

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. (OCBC SP) - Co. FY (SGD) net profit fell 2% Y/Y to 7.42bln, total income rose 1% Y/Y to 14.61bln, net interest margin fell 29bps Y/Y to 1.91%. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Sembcorp Industries (SCI SP) - Co. H2 (SGD) net profit fell 5% Y/Y to 448mln, turnover fell 11% Y/Y to 2.86bln; Co. FY (SGD) net profit fell 4% Y/Y to 984mln, turnover fell 10% Y/Y to 5.80bln. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Singapore Airlines (SIA SP) - Co. Q3 (SGD) net profit fell 69% Y/Y to 505mln amid the absence of a one-off Vistara disposal gain, cargo revenue fell 5% Y/Y to 581mln, while passenger traffic rose 6% Y/Y to 10.9mln. (Straits Times)

Singapore Post (SPOST SP) - Co. Q3 (SGD) rev. fell 2% Q/Q to 92.3mln, operating profit rose 23% Q/Q to 3.8mln. (Dow Jones Newsplus)

Tech - Singapore authorities plan to tighten data centre regulations. (Straits Times)