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Added $ 888 saving for October 2009.This September marks the anniversary of Lehman Brothers collapsed - a 150 years old instituition went under water. How could that possible? It was an important date to be remembered in the Financial History - Sept 15, 2008. That day was mother of worldwide financial melt down and panics. Let’s pretend today is Sept 15, 2008, what would you do for the next 180 da……
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As of the end of August, the MSCI Emerging Market Index have gained 48% year to date, while MSCI global equities have increased 18%. High global liquidity, improvements in risk appetite, falling core markets volatility (VIX), rebounding commodity prices and relatively stable emerging markets fundamentals in comparison to past episodes of crisis are behind the recovery. Moreover, EM countries’ pol……
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Many years ago, 18 Jan 2006, to be exact, I wrote the following… I Do.. The Losers! So what’s left for Intan Utlities?After scrapping their proposal to buy Berjaya Sports Toto shares, the company announced it plans to consolidate its business by selling all its non-core businesses and concentrate on its chain of 7-Eleven business.Sounds fair.But what about the market players who ‘invested’ in In……
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It is always interesting to see how foreign media view Malaysia. This is the latest article from the influential FT paper:More than $13bn has been committed to an ambitious plan to create a metropolis at the southern tip of Malaysia three times the size of Singapore, says the chief executive of the state agency set up to drive the project.Arlida Ariff, chief of Iskandar Investments, told the Finan……
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Just for the record, published on CNBC: This Crisis Was Just the Appetizer: Marc Faber”It’s a total and complete disaster and the crisis we had is just the appetizer to the big total breakdown of financial markets and of governments in five or 10 years time when the whole system goes bust,” Faber told “Worldwide Exchange.”The G20 meeting is not likely to find a solution that would prevent a future……
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Internet makes it incredibly easy to get information but sometimes so much information makes me giddy. Who should I listened? A more practical question is: can I monetized on the views and information I received? What the hell is the meaning of monetize? Simple term, did you make money? When S&P took off from 666 to 1068, a 60% gain, those stay bearish would have missed out this fantastic gain……
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This is tough, its taking me 2 hours to write this and the bloody stock is moving as I write. Everybody should know TAE and what it does well, its a solid retail client based stockbroker. However, it has failed to broaden its investment banking side of things, and that has always relegated TAE to a discount to other players. The fact that it is not bank backed may have been a huge reason for not b……
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HK IPOs are very very hot. The few that listed in August and early September were fantastic performers. Our own Quek Leng Chan and Chua Ma Yu have latched onto the IPO of Wynn Macau (please read my posting on Wynn Macau http://malaysiafinance.blogspot.com/2009/09/and-they-say-there-is-no-collusion.html ) . Last week saw Glorious Property pricing its IPO in the bottom half for a $1.28 billion dea……
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Posted the other day: Incredible Talk From Green Packet Yet Again! Got the following comments from singer …I think you have misunderstood the comment from Green Packet.As I understand the target is ‘revenue’ of RM1bn, and not profit as stated in your article.RM1bn is big target but possible and if an operator in this telco space is not aiming and planning big then they are unlikely to survive.Si……
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