A hypothetical pessimistic scenario painted by Jay on what could have happened. It’s like comparing the worst with the current situation now and one will feel that it’s actually not that bad after all. By: Jay The past few weeks actually went passed normally for most people NOT reading this blog. Common folks getting on [...]

By: musicwhiz As I was journeying on the bus and the MRT, I was thinking of how accurate the stock market is as a predictor of things to come. The market started its bear run in Oct 2007, and now Singapore is in a technical recession because of 2Q and 3Q 2008 GDP. So in [...]

By: Wilfred Ling My opinion is that the stock market will go down further although there is a good chance of a very strong bear rally happening soon. My reasoning is this: Governments in the world are thinking of injecting cash into banks through equity stakes. If these banks “suddenly” have new major shareholders, what would happen [...]

By: Adrian Khiat Blood on the street / Maximum Pessimism??? There was blood everywhere round the world. The Financial markets are flushed with a sea of red. There is so much fear and uncertainty that the market becomes psychologically driven. There was also a lot of frustration and unhappiness on all the mis-sellings of certain [...]

By: La Papillion It’s been a while since I blogged because I am too busy with work to do anything. There’s so much happening in the world today that I had barely enough time to catch up on the major developments unfolding right now. There is no shred of doubt that we’re all sitting right [...]

By: musicwhiz We have now come to a stage in the economic cycle which can best be described as “unbridled pessimism”, if such a term actually exists. A few investing blogs such as Jeflin’s have written about such events and how it has translated into pervasive fear in the stock markets. One would recall that [...]