Archive for April, 2007
Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has not yet met the chairman of Germany’s Volkswagen (FRA: VOW) for talks on a possible tie-up with state-controlled carmaker Proton Holdings Bhd (KLSE: PROTON, stock-code, 5304). Loss-making Proton, which faces a shrinking market share in the increasingly competitive domestic market, is looking to tie up with a global car-maker to […]
... written on Apr 09 2007Warren Buffett’s appetite changed for one of the oldest transportation of mankind. Warren’s Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK.A, stock) has acquired 10.9 percent stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE: BNI, stock), instantly making Bershire the largest shareholder of the railroad company. Berkshire’s 39,027,430 shares in BNI are worth $3.23 billion based on the stock’s […]
... written on Apr 09 2007If you’re an employee, chances are you are either enjoying you current job to the fullest that you believe you might stay till you retire OR you’re so fed-up with your job (of your boss) that you’re spending extraordinary time looking for a new job. Depending on what you’re looking for in your new job, […]
... written on Apr 08 2007Green Packet Berhad (KLSE: GPACKET, stock-code 0082) which is one of the four companies awarded the WiMaX spectrum via its’ subsidiary Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd triggered FinanceTwitter and MACD Buy Signal after closing Apr-6-2007. RSI has climbed to about 66% and Stochastic shows a good sign of cross-over. It closed at RM 5.25 […]
... written on Apr 07 2007Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, stock) might merge with Amazon.com Inc (Nasdaq: AMZN, stock) to create a new devil so powerful and influence that your life actually depends on it. You’re looking at online package of news, entertainment, blogs, and services drawn from all the world’s up-to-the-minute knowledge and customized to match your preferences. And all […]
... written on Apr 06 2007Malaysia has dropped a plan to create an immigration free zone in a multibillion-dollar industrial park project in the southern state of Johor, bordering Singapore, newspapers reported Friday. Johor Chief Minister Abdul Ghani Othman said an area that allowed foreigners to come and go without passing immigration would no longer be set up because such […]
... written on Apr 06 2007Bloggers in Malaysia will soon be required to register with the authorities in a move that the government hope to curb the spread of malicious content on the net. The news from the local newspaper, theStar, immediately sparks outcries from web writers. Using national security as the excuse, a deputy minister told parliament that the […]
... written on Apr 05 2007Canada’s Bank of Nova Scotia (TSE: BNS) is open to talks to buy a stake in Malaysia’s fourth-largest lender, RHB Bank. Scotiabank, Canada’s third biggest bank in terms of assets now has just five branches in Malaysia after 14 years of presence. Citigroup (NYSE: C, stock) has seven after 49 years, Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) […]
... written on Apr 04 2007After Proton Edar Dealers’ Association (Peda) president Wan Ahmad Abdul Rahman cried that almost 70% if the 400 Proton dealers nationwide will be forced to close shop due to sluggish sale, Malaysian Prime Minister hinted that the dealers might be allowed to sell other cars as well to make ends meet. Today, the Prime Minister […]
... written on Apr 03 2007If you’re a frequent reader of FinanceTwitter, you might noticed there wasn’t any new post being updated yesterday. Reason being I was having problem login into Google Inc.’s (Nasdaq: GOOG, stock) Blogger since then. The normal URL link which I used to login didn’t seems to work. It happened before when Google’s Blogger team tried […]
... written on Apr 03 2007
