The Singapore stocks markets for the trading week of 13 Oct 2014 to 17 Oct 2014 has not fared very well and the reason is due to, from what I read, US stocks markets once again.
There is a Chinese saying in local stocks parlance that, in a nutshell describes the “butterfly effect” of US stocks. This is inevitable as the US is a world’s superpower and has great influences in many domains, including the stocks markets.
I am not sure how your portfolio has panned out in the aforementioned trading week. But if there is one good thing that has come out from the local stocks markets’ performance, it is this: the aforementioned trading week gives investors an opportunity to look at just how resilient their stock portfolio is.
If your stocks portfolio is composed of cyclical stocks, then perhaps your portfolio may now be not very good. However ......
