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Market Review and Trends

Tug of war – Bull vs. Bear Ends. Financial market plunges. What’s next

May 22, 2012 by Patrick See
Published Singapore Monday 1pm. The above article commenced mid February with Part 2 in March and Part 3 in April. My benchmark for the tug of war list of events is the DJI ranging from 12800 to 13000. I had picked the above title, then, is because my speculation was that market would trend sideways [...]

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Skyscraper Curse Predicts Huge Market Draw Downs?

May 21, 2012 by Drizzt
Now this is seldom heard of but I noticed this at Jeffrey Gundlach’s bloomberg interview where he draws the similarity of the World Trade Center Tower becoming the tallest building in New York. Why does this matter? Apparently building of huge tall infrastructure seems to be a psychological indication of human ego at its peak [...]

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Greece elections could trigger the "Great Stock Sale" GSS in June 2012……..what investment strategy should we adopt during these uncertain times …..

May 21, 2012 by Kevin Scully
Greece elections could trigger the “Great Stock Sale” GSS in June 2012……..what investment strategy should we adopt during these uncertain times ….. Monday, 21 May, 2012  11:35 AM Posted by Kevin Scully  Last Friday, I was invited by Lim & Tan to do an investment presentation on the Investment Strategies for the Singapore market in 2012.  [...]

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Why you should invest during a market downturn?

May 21, 2012 by financiallyfreenow
The stock markets have once again gone into panic mode. Investors are fearful of a Greece exit from the Euro and are dreading the repercussions it will bring. With such fear in the markets and dropping prices, opportunities are once again presented to those who have a long-term view of the stock market. Below is something I [...]

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Portfolio riding market cycles of Bull and Bear

May 19, 2012 by Createwealth8888
  How bad will the portfolio value fall this time?   STI down -8.2% from its recent peak at 3,026 in 65 days? Where is STI’s Investor emotion in this cycle now? Fear or depression???

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Financial May-hem

May 15, 2012 by Lau
May is the month for mother’s day so first and foremost, Happy Mom’s Day! On the financial front, May 2012 seems to be an eventful month for the Euro zone. A new French leader has been elected in power who threatens to ratify the financial treaty due to growing dissent from the population because of [...]

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Bookmakers call it off on Greece exit!!!

May 12, 2012 by B
I’ve come across this interesting article on bookmakers across the Euro region on the betting for Greece exit. I already have an account with Betfair which I have used to bet on soccer rather than political regime betting. So do you have an account with them? :p Bookmakers in Britain have suspended all bets; if [...]

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Sugar Business : Opportunity Strikes Again

May 12, 2012 by Dave
Smart Passive Cash Flow Presents another opportunity For Sugar Business.

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My views on Singapore’s low birth rate

May 11, 2012 by Greatsage
In my previous post, “Sentiments of a Singaporean”, one of my readers pointed out whether it is fair to burden taxpayers who are single and do not have children with heavy costs of baby bonuses. Actually before he responded, I already knew where he is coming from. It is human nature to feel sour grape [...]

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Should have sold in May and gone away?

May 7, 2012 by AK71
In The Straits Times and The Business Times today, there are at least three articles which mentioned “sell in May and go away” and whether it holds any water. Has anyone sold a large part or all of their investments in the last few trading sessions? Well, today, global stock markets retreated as the Greeks and [...]

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Drag!

May 6, 2012 by angel*
Look at STI Weekly chart and Monthly chart below:   What the 2 charts above tell me: 1. Market has been in such a DRAG! Investors are undecided, BUT 2. Market is at a decision point and a resolution will be coming soon. Personally, I still am more inclined to think that there is still [...]

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Travel Investing – Beijing, China

May 1, 2012 by Alvin
Cars Beijing itself has more cars than the population in Singapore. It currently has over 5 million cars in the city and to my surprise, I saw a lot of European brands like Audi, BMW and Volkswagen running the streets. There were also the familiar Japanese brands like Mazda, Honda and Toyota. The cabs were [...]

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Who or what can stop this "Penny Cap" rally ?

April 26, 2012 by Kevin Scully
Who or what can stop this “Penny Cap” rally ? Thursday, 26 April, 2012  2:19 PM Posted by Kevin Scully Penny stocks have been dominating the volume on the SGX since February 2012.   This is not unusual as we had our blue chip rally from Oct 2011 to Jan 2012 and through normal rotational [...]

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Solving the COE Price Escalation Problem

April 25, 2012 by Martin Lee
It was reported that our March inflation figures (measured year on year) was 5.2%. Part of this increase was attributed to a sharper increase in Certificate of Entitlement (COE) prices, which led to higher car prices. We all know that a declining COE supply had led to a huge increase in the prices of COEs. [...]

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Hunting elephants or rabbits?

April 24, 2012 by brokercalls
Market has not been too good to the blue chips and second-liner stocks recently as the major indices find no catalysts to move higher. STI is still range-bound between 2950 and 3000 while DJIA keep flirting with the 13K level. There seems to be only two themes in the Singapore market for the past one [...]

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Stock Market Outlook Going Forward…

April 24, 2012 by James Yeo
If you take a look at these 2 links, read the newspapers about huge capital outflow from BIG funds and coupled with the “Sell in May and go Away” phrase… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/business/daily-stock-market-activity.html http://www.shareinvestor.com/news/news.html?source=si_express&nid=47402 You can jolly well be right to sell away all your holdings now and keep an eye on when you can enter again after the correction has [...]

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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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The world is sitting on ageing ‘time bomb’

April 19, 2012 by Ivan Guan
One of the news headlines today is The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that the World is sitting on ageing ‘time bomb’. The good news, given from the article, is that “we will live longer than we expect”. Ironically, the bad news associated with this is that “we won’t be able to afford it”. Today, [...]

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