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Investors shrugged off rally in Wall Street overnight. Major U. S. indexes surged almost 1 percent or more as Apple and Boeing shares jumped after strong earnings reports this week. U.S. jobless claims figures also helped sentiment, with the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week falling to its lowest since April 2000.
Singapore's benchmark Straits Times Index fell 27.85 points to 3,391.20 points. Trading volume was 1.52 billion shares worth 1.76 billion Singapore dollars. Decliners outnumbered advancers 231 to 212, while 497 stocks did not move.
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Midas Holdings closed flat at 34 Singapore cents. Its Sino- foreign joint venture company, Nanjing SR Puzhen Rail Transport ( NPRT), has secured a 374.7-million-Singapore dollar metro train contract with a consortium partner. The contract was awarded by Shanghai Rail Transit Line 13 Development for the Shanghai Metro Line 13 Phases 2 and 3, with delivery scheduled between 2016 and 2017.
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CANBERRA, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The value of the global environment to human well-being Anthony Averett Youth Jersey , health and livelihoods fell by around 21.5 trillion AU dollars (20 trillion U.S. dollars) a year between 1997 and 2011 due to loss of wetlands, coral reefs and tropical forests, according to a latest research statement from the Australian National University (ANU) on Thursday.
The research report was written by scientists and economists from the ANU, Wageningen University in The Netherlands, the University of Denver in the United States Orlando Brown Jr. Youth Jersey , the University of South Australia, the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and the University of East Anglia in Britain.
According to the research, global ecosystem services measure the value of ecological systems to human well-being, on top of the usual economic measures contained in gross domestic product (GDP) figures.
The study, published in Global Environmental Change Maxx Williams Youth Jersey , found the total value of global ecosystem services in 2011 was 134 trillion AU dollars (124.8 trillion U.S. dollars) a year, down from 145 trillion U.S. dollars a year in 1997. That compares to global GDP of just 75.2 trillion U.S. dollars in 2011.
"Nature is not just a pretty place. Nature is a large and important part of the real economy which adds to human well-being," said lead author Professor Robert Costanza, from ANU's Crawford School of Public Policy.
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"It allows us to build a more comprehensive and balanced picture of the assets that support human well-being and human's interdependence with the well-being of all life on the planet," Professor Costanza said.
And he said Australia's ecosystem services were estimated to be worth around 5.4 trillion AU dollars (5 trillion U.S. dollars) a year, compared to GDP of around 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars. And the drop in the global value was partly due to the loss of tropical forests and wetlands around the world and loss of coral reefs.
In addition, the report found the global area of tropical forest had declined by 642 million hectares between 1997 and 2011, while deserts had grown by 234 million hectares.
It also found coral reefs have gradually been turned into seagrass and algae beds. The area of ocean coral has shrunk by 34 million hectares Marlon Humphrey Youth Jersey , while seagrass and algae beds had grown by the same amount between 1997 and 2011.
And it found the global area of wetlands has shrunk by 14 million hectares.
"We are losing wetlands as they are converted into farmlands, urban and other uses," Professor Costanza said.
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