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Dr Doom Nouriel Roubini is bullish!

February 8, 2012 by Drizzt
This could be the ultimate contrarian indicator but when one of the most depressing market watch says this bull has a few months of legs to run, do you listen? From CNBC.com: “We’re a believer; we’re celebrating. We think the rally has legs,” explains Gina Sanchez, Roubini’s director of equity and allocation strategy. (She is [...]

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Market Updates For Feb 2012 and Portfolio Adjustments

February 8, 2012 by Sgbluechip
1)Local market STI increased approximately 11% year to date, 17% from Oct 2011 lows. There were similar returns across regional markets. US markets increase at a lower rate, roughly about 7% YTD. 2)The reasons contributing to the buoyant stock markets have little to do with market fundamentals. It is the consequent of central banks printing [...]

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Did you know?

February 8, 2012 by Patrick See
Despite the events in Greece and Portugal, US and European markets are climbing. The DOW is testing 2008 resistance while the Nasdaq is testing the resistance before the internet bubble. All the above IS bullish. In intermarket analysis, I tend to take note of all sorts of data as many as possible? Are the following [...]

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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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What does Better (Global PMI + US payroll data) equates to?

February 6, 2012 by Patrick See
(Posted Monday 250am) The equation,   Better (Global PMI + US paroll data) = RISK ON! As you probably know, PMI data coming from US, China, UK, etc has been better than expected. Global equity markets extended their weekly climb with the exception for Mexico, Australia, KL and Japan, just to name a few. Some of [...]

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Economics 2012: Off the top of my head.

February 4, 2012 by AK71
I have been doing more thinking. OK, so what’s new? In recent weeks, the stock markets rallied and with the strong closing on Wall Street last night, they look like they could move even higher next week. The bulls say that the tide has turned and things are moving higher from here and that we [...]

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Golden cross in S&P? Should we chase the market?

February 2, 2012 by Patrick See
(Posted Singapore time, Thursday 120 am) As you probably know, the S&P is forming a Golden Cross lately. This is where the 50 days moving average passes through (up) the 200 days moving average. To most technicians, it would be a bullish signal for the US markets! Or is the S&P forming a doji? The [...]

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I like to be proven wrong sometimes…

January 30, 2012 by Patrick See
Year 2011 was a very volatile year. Topping in Q2 2011 and then falling in Q3. Global equity markets reversed in 2011 Oct and kept on climbing. That’s when I started to speculate that we’re out of the bear market. Though the market was volatile, I mentioned the markets were trending North despite the volatility. [...]

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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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Is the January 2012 rally the real McCoy or another false dawn similar to October 2011 ?

January 30, 2012 by Kevin Scully
Is the January 2012 rally the real McCoy or another false dawn similar to October 2011 ? Monday, 30 January, 2012  3:27 PM Posted by Kevin Scully  The October 2011 stock rally – STI rose from 2630 to 2904 before moving down to the 2600 level until the rally in early 2012 (see chart below). [...]

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What lies ahead for this week? Bull or Bear?

January 28, 2012 by Ernest
Last week, Asian stocks posted their sixth weekly gain, the longest winning streak since 2010 amid a dovish Federal Reserve and optimism that Greece would successfully negotiate a deal with the private creditors. STI has surged 10.2% or 270 points year to date (STI closed at 2,646 on 30 Dec). On the charts, it is [...]

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Roar Of The Dragon Babies!

January 27, 2012 by Lau
The Chinese zodiac dragon year is here once every 12 years. The birth rate this year has a significant impact to the whole country in the years to come. For example, primary school intake has to be expended to accommodate the larger intake, right up to secondary school, National Service and post secondary education. The [...]

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cashing in on the lunar new year?

January 26, 2012 by Patrick Lim
during the first 2 days of the lunar new year, many consumers (including myself and my family) would have discovered that stalls levied a ‘premium’ for food and drinks purchased during this festive period. just to cite an example, hot drinks like coffee and tea has been hiked to $0.90 to $1.20 instead of the [...]

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the dragon year, in more ways than one

January 25, 2012 by Patrick Lim
i read the abovementioned article with great interest by mr toh yong chuan, senior correspondent, published in today’s edition of the straits times. he started off by illustrating that the word, dragon denotes firstly prosperity or something that is grand. he cites the local stock market using the example of the sti which ended the [...]

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US taxpayers bear the loss

January 24, 2012 by Tan Kin Lian
Read this story about the burden that will be shouldered by the US tax payers over the losses that are suffered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: http://www.cnbc.com//id/46106075Here is the background to this state of affairs: The real estate market in the US was a bubble for one or two decades before it finally burst in [...]

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Genting SP breakout

January 23, 2012 by P-T Trader
Happy new year to all! Yes, i have not posted for quite a while due to work commitments but i have not stopped trading. I have every intention to keep the blog going but it is tough to post on a higher frequency. I have also adjusted my trading style towards Swing trading as i [...]

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My AUM performance for Year 2011

January 20, 2012 by Patrick See
In my previous post on global equity performance, the median on the average is (slightly above) a loss of 20% with the best performer Indonesia at -0.7% and the weakest performer Greece at -50.31%. As for my (Asset Under Management) AUM for Year 2011, the median is -2.32% with the best performer at 3.85% and [...]

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The year ALL stock markets failed to deliver as of Dec 15th 2011.

January 19, 2012 by Patrick See
The year ALL stock markets failed to deliver as of Dec 15th 2011. Correction made for date to December 15th 2011 on Jan 15th 2012. The following is an extract from a UK financial website “This is Money”. The best performer is Indonesia followed by Philippines, Thailand, US and Malaysia, out of which, 4 out [...]

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