Singapore Hot Stocks-Spotlight on CapitaLand, SingTel

SINGAPORE, July 30 (Reuters) - CapitaLand (CATL.SI),
Southeast Asia's biggest developer, may be in focus on Thursday
after it posted its first quarterly loss since 2003 and said
its 2009 outlook was uncertain.

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as investors worried that
China might be ready to hit the brakes on lending, a move that
could curb demand and hinder a global economic recovery.
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S&P 500 .SPX 975.15 -0.46% -4.470
USD/JPY JPY= 95.13 0.08% 0.080
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US CRUDE CLc1 62.95 -0.63% -0.400
DOW JONES .DJI 9070.72 -0.29% -26.00
ASIA ADRS .BKAS 116.02 -0.49% -0.57
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Gold slides as rising risk aversion boosts dollar [GOL/] >
Oil posts biggest loss since April as supplies jump [O/R]

Stocks and factors to watch:

-- CAPITALAND (CATL.SI)

CapitaLand, which is 40 percent held by Singapore state
investor Temasek [TEM.UL], reported a net loss of S$156.9
million ($108.4 million) for April-June compared with a net
profit of S$515.2 million a year earlier due to write downs on
investments. [ID:nSGC001241]

-- SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (STEL.SI)

BNP Paribas on Thursday cut its investment recommendation
on Singapore Telecommunications (STEL.SI) to "hold" from "buy,"
but raised its target price to S$3.64 ($2.52) from S$3.33,
citing a 35.7 percent rise of the stock price this year as a
reason. [ID:nSGC001240]

- Singapore's benchmark Straits Times Index .FTSTI fell
0.76 percent to 2,604.06 on Wednesday.

- The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 0.29 percent
to 9,070.72 points. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down
0.39 percent at 1,967.76 points.

(Reporting by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Dhara
Ranasinghe)