Market Review and Trends
Recap 2017 & Looking Ahead 2018
By ccloh Strategic Investor Zone  •  January 14, 2018
Global markets ended the year 2017 with a gain of almost 20% and FTSE STI was up 18.13% for the same period.  It was nevertheless a very good year for global stock markets with many believe the bull market since 2009 recovery of the GFC was back and expecting more good years ahead. Recap As mentioned in Recap 2016 & Looking Ahead 2017, 2017 was all about execution and how markets react to those.  US Fed did what was being projected to do in end of 2016 that was to hike rate 3 times so nothing surprise about it and markets reacted well for those execution.  UK also manged to strike a deal with other EU nations on the Brexit.  However, what US President and its lawmakers did were rather a little missing the expectation in term of expectation.  The healthcare plan that ......
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By ccloh Strategic Investor Zone
Am a typical retail investor who started investing in stock market in 1993, the same length of period as SingTel was listed in SGX and ironically SingTel was my first vested stock. Back then was a passive investor and started to turn more active in stock market in 2006. A year later when I switched my engineering job to a finance related one, I became what commonly known as trader ( trade for living ) and at the same time also strongly believe in fundamental/value investing that is the way to growth wealth. In a way I classify myself as a "Strategic Investor". As a trader, I track market movement daily and as an value investor, I am always on the lookout for cheap bargain to hold for long term.
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