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Market Analysis — 19th Dec 15
By ccloh Strategic Investor Zone  •  December 20, 2015
The last market analysis for 2015. Finally, US Fed did the long-awaited and overdue rate hike with a 25 basis point increment bring the US Fed fund rate from 0 - 0.25% to 0.25% - 0.50%.  The came after more than 1 year after US Fed completely withdrew the QE3 and also the first rate hike since 2006.  There should be no disagreement now on US Fed decision to start normalizing its interest rate despite the fact that it should have done so much early, probably 6-month earlier.  Then again there should be no fear of the next rate hike as US Fed pledged to a gradual increment and again it is data dependent.  That action from the 15th - 16th Dec 2015 FOMC meeting removed one of the uncertainties from global stock markets in which for most part of 2015 has ......
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By ccloh Strategic Investor Zone
Am a typical retail investor who started investing in stock market in 1993, the same length of period as SingTel was listed in SGX and ironically SingTel was my first vested stock. Back then was a passive investor and started to turn more active in stock market in 2006. A year later when I switched my engineering job to a finance related one, I became what commonly known as trader ( trade for living ) and at the same time also strongly believe in fundamental/value investing that is the way to growth wealth. In a way I classify myself as a "Strategic Investor". As a trader, I track market movement daily and as an value investor, I am always on the lookout for cheap bargain to hold for long term.
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