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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (23/04/2012)

April 23, 2012 by The SG Investor
The Bears’ Checklist US earning period so far had shown extraordinary results on the major companies’ performances but the this April, the DJIA had been underperforming so far. Even companies which announced good results were met with profit taking rather than appreciation in prices. The market had suddenly decided to give up support for these companies. [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (08/04/2012)

April 8, 2012 by The SG Investor
Market Correction or Buying Into Earnings? Last week was the bumpy ride into the stock market with DJIA posting one of the biggest drop in 2012. The reason (or blame) was Fed Reserve did not expect to come out with QE3 and subsequently Spain’s lacklustre bond demand pulled the trigger. On Friday, Non-Farm Employment Change [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (27/03/2012)

March 27, 2012 by The SG Investor
Positive US Economic Data Is A Given, Earnings To Be In Play For the past few months, US economy has shown much improvements and the market has also been suppotive to equity prices. At this moment, even though weekly data may not need expectation or even take a step or two back, the market is [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (19/03/2012)

March 19, 2012 by The SG Investor
Bears Subdued For the past 2 or 3 weeks, the market has been anxiously looking at whether DJIA can hold at 13,000 (or 13,050 which was my resistance level). At that time many funds had been caught off guard and had not purchased stocks. When the market dropped 200+ pts on the 6th of March, [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (12/03/2012)

March 12, 2012 by The SG Investor
Staying Focus on US Economy, But Cautious on Oil These few weeks, my family had been going through a roller coaster ride as my Dad fought with cancer and bacteria infection. Hedid not pull through. I wasn’t quite motivated to write or post anything on my blog and I spent some time with my family. And after we [...]

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Case Study: Packaging And Marketing Education

February 22, 2012 by The SG Investor
About a month back, I was attending a colleague’s housewarming near National University of Singapore and I offered my cousin who was studying there a ride home as he was revising his studies in campus. I drove into NUS main campus and could not find his hostel. I gave him a call and realised that [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (19/02/2012)

February 19, 2012 by The SG Investor
US Unemployment Rate and the Presidential Election Last week, the market was still in a jitter as news reported Greece’s bailout remained a doubt. DJIA has run up quite a bit since the last Oct. However, not everybody managed to get on the ride. I believe some, if not many, funds were somewhat caught off guard. [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (12/02/2012)

February 12, 2012 by The SG Investor
Greece’s Comeback or Profit Take? In my last article I wrote that if DJIA broke above the last May high of 12,875 pts I would write another article on it, so here I go… When DJIA first broke this level, it closed at 12,878 and for the next 2 days, it closed at 12,884 and [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (07/02/2012)

February 7, 2012 by The SG Investor
DJIA Unable To Break Last May High; Eyes On Ben Bernanke About 2 weeks ago, I wrote that DJIA had faced a pretty strong resistance at around 12,500-12,550 level but the DJIA had surpassed that level with ease. Currently it is trading at 12,792 pts which is near last May high but have not managed [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (30/01/2012)

January 30, 2012 by The SG Investor
DJIA Performs Above Expectations DJIA has seen to make a run since last Nov. In fact, it has exceed my expectation to actually attemp last May high. Throughout this period, there were many news talking about how unstable the EU zone is and that Greece had given too many false hopes that it won’t default. [...]

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Weekly Comment on the US and SG market (16/01/2012)

January 16, 2012 by The SG Investor
S&P Downgrades 9 European Countries, Within Expectations It has been a week since I last posted an article. I wish to post more often but very frankly speaking I find it a bit hard to post due to the several factors. They include some family issues which require my attention more often, my new job, [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (07/01/2012)

January 8, 2012 by The SG Investor
France and Germany Meeting Eyed; US Earnings Will Be In Limelight.US economic data have been very positive for the past 2 days but if you look at DJIA or S&P500, you would have seen 2 consecutive weird formations. DJIA and S&P500 were unable to close positively in reflection of the economic data released. Most of [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (05/01/2011)

January 3, 2012 by The SG Investor
A New Chapter, Entering Into Year 2012 Before I begin writing today’s article, I wish to wish everyone who is reading this article a Happy New Year. I started this new year with my hands pretty tied due to my new job and I will try as much as possible to keep this blog updated. [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (29/12/2011)

December 28, 2011 by The SG Investor
Coming To The End Of 2011 The last time I wrote an article was about 2 weeks ago. I remember that I wrote 50MA has turned uptrend and my view is that the market has ended its bearish downtrend for now. Till today, my view of the market has not changed. These 2 weeks had [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (14/12/2011)

December 14, 2011 by The SG Investor
US Market Back To Normal Trading Since the Europe Summit, there is not much news around except US economic data and some analysts’ comments that the conclusions from the Summit is unable to resolve Europe debt problems. There are also some news on the bond market and on US payroll taxes. Some analysts are saying the [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (12/12/2011)

December 12, 2011 by The SG Investor
EU Summit Provides Relief, What Is The Current Crisis? News agencies reported many were disappointed that ECB did not announce to buy large quantity of government bonds during the EU summit. Were you disappointed too? Perhaps you are, for the reason that many in the market had hope ECB will provide some sort of stability [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (06/12/2011)

December 6, 2011 by The SG Investor
DJIA Trying To Breakout Resistance; S&P’s Warning Dampens Mood Yesterday, France President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made some positive developments on Europe debt crisis. Markets around the world rallied another round. DJIA was breaking out of its downward trendline resistance and it did seem to have the strength to do so, until S&P came out [...]

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Daily Comment on the US and SG market (5/12/2011)

December 5, 2011 by The SG Investor
China Cuts Reserve Requirement Ratio; Markets Eye On Europe This Week Last week, markets had a good run. This is because the leaders have begun to take actions on the debt crisis. Even China, as some others speculate as going to have a hard landing, has begun to reduce reserve requirement by 0.5%, a sign [...]

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