Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister said that the government had reached an agreement with the private sector on the need for a minimum wage policy. Based on a certain website, it was rumored that the Cabinet had agreed to set a minimum wage of below RM1,000 for the 3.2million workers in ...
On 05/Mar, Singapore shares ended lower after China issued a lower economic growth forecast for this year STI ended lower at 2991.80 (0.06%) with LOW VOL of 1.41 billion shares traded compared with 1.31 billion shares Friday. In the broader market, losers outnumbered gainers 275 to 14...
Learn how to sell by Greatsage on March 5, 2012 When I just started working as a manufacturing engineer in the aerospace sector, I always thought that my department (operations) was the most important department in my company. This was because I felt that without engineers solving pro...
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Since beginning of the year, global equity markets started to rallied, brought on by inflow of liquidity, amid concern in the Euro zone. The Straits Times Index (STI) has gone up 14%, with the rally lasting a full 7 weeks. In my opinion, the market is tired of whether Greece will defa...
VIX – how useful is it as an indicator and hedge? by Jared Seah on March 4, 2012 Who knew my previous post (or non-post) on index investing turned out to be one of those “throw brick; attract jade” kind of catalyst where the comments got veered towards hedging at the very end… In my s...
The stock market quadrant – who to buy from and who to sell to? by Alvin on March 4, 2012 Jon was sharing with me this diagram. Not exactly the words in the oval (I added them), but pretty much for the scale from pessimism to optimism and belief to skepticism. I found it apt to relate...
This morning, I conducted an investment workshop entitled “Money Supply and Economics” at my office’s training room. It was well attended with many questions from the attendees. I had deliberately limited the size of the workshop as I wanted more interaction with the attendees. In fac...
Singapore Property Blog | Investing in Singapore Real Estate, HDB, Condos, Houses 1970-01-01 08:00:00 by Singapore Property Blog | Investing in Singapore Real Estate, HDB, Condos, Houses on March 4, 2012 [unable to retrieve full-text content] Read the full article → Related posts:Sing...
CH Offshore-6% dividend yielder at 60% payout ratio, zero debts by Drizzt on March 3, 2012 CH Offshore is an offshore ship services company for the oil and gas industry. I knew about CH Offshore since it was spinned off from Chuan Hup and recently took notice due to the price drawdown...
If you were given a choice between having $1 million and the gaining the ability to make multi-millions, which one would you choose? Many people, including me, would normally choose the former. After all, its human nature to dream of being rich, not having to work and to indulge ourse...
By now, many would have seen the advertisement of standard chartered bank BonusSaver splashed across the newspapers and internet. They are giving 1.88%p.a. interest, when $500 is spent through mastercard each month. Well, doing some calculation on my own and comparison, it wasn’t a de...
Tug of war – Bull vs. Bear Part 2 by Patrick See on March 2, 2012 A similar post was published last week on Feb 23rd . Since then, there were a lot of happening in Asia and on both sides of the Atlantic. As you probably know, Europe was overwhelmed with their 2nd LTRO, US had a better...
Financial institutions who provide housing loans will now be required to provide a loan fact sheet to the person taking the loan. The objective of the fact sheet is to help potential borrowers see the basic information of the loan in an easy to read format. Borrowers will also be give...
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Making Passive Income hits 50,000 Users before End of 10th Month! In fact, I totally missed the 50k mark and it is actually close to 60k already! Considering that Making Passive Income hit 25,000 users in the 1st 6 months, more than doubling within less than a year. Making Passive Inc...
What is the likely impact of additional property buyer stamp duty on inflation? by Property Buyer on March 1, 2012 Let’s just say the risk is not about whether it will Cool inflation, but rather whether it will totally put out the fire and Freeze the property market in Singapore. Infl...
The more I travel along this journey towards financial freedom , the more I realise that I’ve grown a lot over the past few years. Partly it is due to growing older as I am approaching 41 years of age this year 2012. My coming to four years old daughter has also taught me more about t...
I attended a seminar yesterday where the speaker spoke about how we can make money from options. Since the majority of options expire worthless, he would rather be a seller than buyer of options. After a long session introducing the concept of options, calls, puts, strike price, premi...
For fellow veterans, I think we’ve all been through our early low conviction days. This month say long term investing is the way to go, only to switch to contra trading the next month, then join IPO staging, then switch to dividend investing, punting small caps to S-chips, and now sin...
Focus for Feb 29th 2012 by Patrick See on March 1, 2012 In my previous post, US Consumer confidence is high , what’s next? The focus was on US confidence data and oil prices. However, the focus for Feb 29th was different. Amidst the news released for Europe’s 2nd LTRO, US GDP 2nd esti...
We as humans are naturally greedy and for everything we want more. “The more the merrier” as many people say. When a stock is rising (especially in a bull run), you feel good about the stock and this heavenly feeling and optimism is percolating. Even if your original target price on t...
US Consumer confidence is high, what’s next? by Patrick See on February 29, 2012 As you probably know, the US indexes closed ABOVE psychological resistance last night. The Dow closed at 13005.10; S&P500 closes 1372.18 while the NASDAQ closed 2986.76. There were 3 economic data release...
Another one of my portfolio alcohol stocks, Carlsberg Brewery Berhad released results for FY 2011. Like Guinness Anchor Berhad , the results were excellent as Carlsberg strategy to focus on the local market and produce premium beers locally pay off. Carlsberg, a Danish brand is a prod...
We were talking about the major incidents that happened during the past eight years and that’s when the topic shifted to our health. While our physical appearance has not changed much, our body has. One of my classmates shared with us on his experience during a routine tonsil and sinu...
You can’t out run the bear! by Jared Seah on February 28, 2012 2 Greek friends were having beer one evening in the local taverna. “How about coming with me to the rekcus forest this weekend? I know a spot where there are lots of wild Saffron flowers!” Dimitris asked Yiannis excitedly....
March has typically been a quiet month for equities trading as mentioned in the Straits Times on 27th Feb. We also know that the March we are heralding is a month of uncertainty after 2 months of strong uptrend. The market is struggling with an effort to make a decision and is swingin...
CSE results wasn’t that much of a shocker given they had already issued a profit warning and FY11 PAT was indeed aligned with the forecast given in its profit warning. Despite experiencing a record plunge in its PAT, I view the result as favourable. Result so was because after factori...
Perhaps I had been a little too cautious to call on time to this rally last week when some technical indicators began showing some retreat being on the cards. Of course, I have always believed in trading with the trend and in an uptrend that hasn’t been broken, my view of this uptrend...
