<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p><span style="font-style: italics;">This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily on May 16, 2019</span></p></div><div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p><strong>Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd (-ve)</strong></p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd (fundamental: 0.40/3, valuation 1.50/3) made it into our Stocks with Momentum list yesterday for the eighth time this year.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The stock closed six sen or 10.26% higher at 64.5 sen yesterday, after some 15.09 million shares were done.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>In its 2018 annual report released on April 30, Ho Hup said it is positive about the construction and building materials&nbsp; sector, following the government’s decision to restart some mega infrastructure projects after reviewing their feasibility.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>“We believe that project flows (expected in second half of 2019) would give a boost to the contract pipeline in both sectors, especially the improved deal of East Coast Rail Link, the resumption of work on Light Rail Transit 3, the retendering of Klang Valley Double Track works, public hospital works, Putrajaya Monorail, full roll-out of Pan Borneo Highway and potential infrastructure spending by the Sarawak government,” it added.</p></div>


Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd (-ve)

Ho Hup Construction Company Bhd (fundamental: 0.40/3, valuation 1.50/3) made it into our Stocks with Momentum list yesterday for the eighth time this year.

The stock closed six sen or 10.26% higher at 64.5 sen yesterday, a...

Stock With Momentum: Ho Hup Construction Company

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<p>Here is a brief recap of some business news and corporate announcements that made the headlines on Tuesday (April 30):</p>


Bursa, SimePlant, SEGi, Capital A, Duopharma, Rimbunan Sawit, MKHOP, Tasco, CIMB, Atrium REIT, KSL, GUH, Lebtech, Mentiga, Ge-Shen, Green Packet, Apex Equity

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<p>The proposed sale of Cyberjaya Education Group Bhd's Asia Metropolitan University license and business to Austin Legacy Education Sdn Bhd for RM15 million cash has fallen through.</p>


Cyberjaya Education's RM15 mil sale of Asia Metropolitan University falls through

<p>Duopharma Biotech Bhd has accepted 11 letters of offers from a subsidiary of Pharmaniaga Bhd to supply 86 pharmaceutical and/or non-pharmaceutical products worth RM578.09 million in total, to government offices and facilities that Pharmaniaga operates.</p>


Duopharma secures RM578 mil supply contracts from Pharmaniaga

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<p>Starbucks Corp sales fell for the first time since 2020 as half-off deals and new lavender lattes weren’t enough to entice increasingly budget-conscious consumers.</p>


<p>Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has slammed Bersatu supreme council member Dr Afif Bahardin for making sexist remarks against Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) Kuala Kubu Baharu (KKB) by-election candidate Pang Sock Tao.</p>


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<p>Apex Equity Holdings Bhd's external auditor is unconvinced that the group will be able to recover RM23.8 million in loan receivable, though its directors is confident that the sum is recoverable and had made no impairment loss in its financial statements for the year ended Dec 31, 2023.</p>


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<p>Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.</p>


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<p>Logistics solutions provider Tasco Bhd saw its net profit for the financial quarter ended March 31, 2024 (4QFY2024) fell 18% year-on-year, attributable to lower profit reported in its air freight forwarding and ocean freight forwarding divisions, as freight rates fell to pre-pandemic levels.</p>


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<p>US stocks ended lower on Tuesday as markets weighed economic data showing rising labour costs and deteriorating consumer confidence on the day of a key Federal Reserve policy meeting to decide the direction of interest rates.</p>


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Malaysia received 5.8 mil tourists from January to March this year — Tiong

<p>An early investor in bitcoins dubbed the "Bitcoin Jesus" has been arrested in Spain on US charges that he evaded paying at least US$48 million (RM228.9 million) in taxes, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday.</p>


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