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SINGAPORE Stocks Earnings Announcement Dates (05/02/12)!

February 5, 2012 by Dou
Reits / Biz Trusts CitySpring Infrastructure Trust Feb 09 Banking / Finance DBS Feb 10 Great Eastern Holdings Feb 14 OCBC Feb 20 UOB Feb 23 Property / Hotels CapitaMalls Asia Feb 10 CapitaLand Feb 14 ARA Asset Feb 21 Pan Pacific Hotels Feb 24 UOL Feb 24 Ho Bee Feb 28 City Dev Feb [...]
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Fundamental versus Technical analysis – Final part 3 of 3

February 5, 2012 by Jared Seah
The Moon Let me us a Buddhist analogy to illustrate why some people are better at using Fundamental analysis to make profitable investments. Published accounting statements, brokerage reports, company’s spin (opps, I meant presentations), media commentaries, and so on are akin to the finger pointing to the Moon. The finger is not the Moon. It [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-05

February 5, 2012 by Ivan Guan
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-29 http://t.co/7PVK0mja #

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Market Outlook (04/02/12): STI Flat For Week As Rally Weaken!

February 4, 2012 by Dou
In last week, STI merely gain 2 points from the opening of 2916 and close higher at 2918. A white candle sticks with upper/lower shadow affirms that rally was getting weaker as it climb higher. Key Economics Data report: In last Friday, US January jobs report was a major surprise which causes investors to speculate [...]
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STI closed almost flat for the week. What lies ahead?

February 4, 2012 by Ernest
Asian stocks (represented by the MSCI Asia Pacific Index) logged its longest winning streak since 2005 amid the backdrop of improving manufacturing reports in China, Europe, India and U.S. S&P 500 jumped 2.2% higher for the week on the back of better than expected U.S. jobs report. STI has surged 272 points or 10.3% year [...]

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"Why would I trade my asset with a liability" – JP Morgan CEO

February 4, 2012 by B
A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an [...]

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My Investment Research Process (Part 2)

February 4, 2012 by dzwm87
So, as mentioned in the earlier part of this blog series, investment research is essential for every investor as it provides a holistic analysis which is able to build on your investment thesis’s conviction. In Part 2 of this blog series, I will be going through on my own investment research process. By no means [...]

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Investing Made Simple by Uncle8888 (31)

February 4, 2012 by Createwealth8888
Read? Investing Made Simple by Uncle8888 (30) Read? Why it is easier to become rich from property and not stocks? (3) Uncle8888 is NOT 股神(God of Stocks) Uncle8888 is NOT faithful Uncle8888 loves to keep mistresses! As of today, he has joys, fun and saddness with a total of 56 different types of mistresses. 30% of mistresses [...]
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Financial matters for 2012

February 4, 2012 by Guru
A couple of years back, I used to envy people driving that Lexus luxury car and was so tempted to get one for myself, I told my friends I will get one of those as my next car, a rich man son’s friend of mine even encouraged me to get one as he said this might enhanced my image in [...]
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Extraordinary Item – How They Should be Treated

February 4, 2012 by The 20 Years Old Investor
The much awaited reporting season is here again and a careful review of any vested company should be done for an understanding of the direction of which the company is heading towards. Such a review can be timely to provide sufficient reasons in divesting or investing in a company, especially so when the reason for [...]

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Watch Video Presentation on "Investment Market Update for July 2011"

February 4, 2012 by Wilfred Ling
Watch Video Presentation on “Investment Market Update for July 2011″ Written by Wilfred Ling    Saturday, 04 February 2012 Where the economy is going? How should one invest? While there are market news that you can get from the Internet, newspapers and friends, it is too easy to be overwhelmed by the large amount of [...]

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KepCorp Prices S$400M 10-Year Bond At Swaps!

February 3, 2012 by Dou
On 03/Feb, Singapore shares ended higher as investors are bullish ahead of the Jan U.S. employment report. STI ended higher at 2917.95 (0.6%) with HIGH VOL of 3.43 billion shares traded compared with 2.99 billion shares Thursday. In the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers 275 to 142. Today investors continue to buy on the exceptions [...]
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Which method(s) should I use?

February 3, 2012 by OT83
Many of us including me are always wondering which is the best method to invest/trade? Which books should I read to learn more? Which guru’s seminars should I attend so that I can invest/trade better? Which blogs should I visit? SO the QUESTION is: Which method should I use? FA? TA? value investing? value growth [...]

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Jan 2012 Global Dividend Growth Portfolio Update

February 3, 2012 by Dividends Warrior
No. Stock Shares Dividends Collected (US$) % of Portfolio Yield on cost             (after withholding tax) 1 Coca Cola 50 $0.00 25.73% 1.90% 2 Johnson & Johnson 50 $0.00 25.02% 2.45% 3 Verizon 50 $0.00 14.20% 3.70% 4 AT&T 55 $0.00 12.24% 4.10% 5 *Vodafone (ADR) 50 $0.00 10.36% 5.10% 6 Procter and Gamble 10 $0.00 [...]
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David Dreman–Stocks have never been so cheap since 1982, good opportunity to buy

February 3, 2012 by Drizzt
Joe Granville recently predicted DOW to drop by 4000pts. Today I came across contrarian investor David Dreman saying stocks have never been so cheap since 1982 So now we have one that offers a technical take and now David Dreman offers a fundamental take People currently do not want to be in the market because [...]

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Bogle, Volcker Discuss State of U.S. Financial System

February 3, 2012 by Wilfred Ling
Written by Wilfred Ling    Thursday, 02 February 2012 John Bogle, the founder of mutual fund company Vanguard Group Inc. who popularized index investing, and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker discuss the U.S. financial system and investor confidence: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you’re [...]

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Retirement Planning Mistakes

February 2, 2012 by FF
[Photo credits: Image by kwerfeldein] For most people, retirement is probably the best part of  life they look forward to. Yet, many people often make certain mistakes in retirement planning.  In this article, you will find out what are some of the common mistakes made and how you can probably avoid them. Introduction Retirement is a [...]

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Mistake #3 – Compromising on your margin of safety

February 2, 2012 by dzwm87
“Human emotion and irrationality often lead to market folly as investors are driven by the typical fear and greed.” And this is the focal point of my mistake #3. If you have been sticking closely to the market (SGX) announcements for the past year till date, you will have realised there had been several takeover [...]

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