Genting (ext: Edge)

CIMB today raised its target price on Genting to RM9.40 from RM7.90. Shares of the company, based in Kuala Lumpur, gained 1.9 per cent to RM6.42 at 12:05pm, set to become the third-best performer on the Malaysian benchmark stock index today.

Genting’s Singapore project is one of two casino resorts the government has allowed to be built in the city-state as part of its goal to lure 17 million visitors and triple annual tourism revenue to S$30 billion by 2015. Genting Singapore Plc, partly owned by Malaysia’s Genting, said on June 25 the resort in Singapore is on track to open in early 2010.