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<p>Lousy. EVEn death row pple have better last meals!
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<p> AS DBS Group Holdings staff filed into The Rock auditorium at Suntec City on Friday morning for their quarterly townhall meeting with senior management, they already had some inkling the news wouldn’t be good.
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</div>After all, the economy wasn’t doing well, the bank was under fire for its sales of Lehman Brothers-linked structured products, and the other two local banks had posted lower earnings for the quarter ended Sept 30.
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BS, Singapore’s largest lender, had laid out a breakfast spread of <font size="5">bee hoon, fried carrot cake and sandwiches</font> for the more than 1,000 staff. At 9am, they trooped into the hall, joining some 500 colleagues from around the region listening in via videoconference to what chief executive Richard Stanley, chief financial officer Chng Sok Hui and board chairman Koh Boon Hwee had to say about third-quarter earnings.
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<p> AS DBS Group Holdings staff filed into The Rock auditorium at Suntec City on Friday morning for their quarterly townhall meeting with senior management, they already had some inkling the news wouldn’t be good.
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</div>After all, the economy wasn’t doing well, the bank was under fire for its sales of Lehman Brothers-linked structured products, and the other two local banks had posted lower earnings for the quarter ended Sept 30.
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