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Love Low Oil Prices
By Investment Stab  •  January 16, 2015
Oil prices have hit near 5 year low; trading at or more than 50% below their peak several months back. There have been many articles and reports stating that low prices are here to stay, and that a huge rebound is not expected within the next several years. Although the retail figures published yesterday was disappointing, dropping 0.9% in December, it is not the key figure we should be overly concerned with. Instead, more emphasis should be placed on the inflation index coming out today! Markets should be based on fundamentals - the underlying economy. However, since the beginning of the century, the markets have been dictated mostly by Central Banks' policies and their monetary stance. The markets have been flooded with easy money from Quantitative Easing (QE) and record low interest rates. These 2 reasons have result in an ever-growing asset prices in addition to the recovery of ......
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We are a group of Singaporean students who are curious and interested in Finance. As we dive deeper into this area in search of more knowledge, the more debates and differences we have. We also realised that financial literacy is not strongly inculcated in the younger generations, leading to numerous costly mistakes. Some of such includes believing in "high profiting" scams such as land banking and buying unnecessary investment schemes which are often motivated by the salesperson's personal interest ...
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