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Governor Dr Zeti to resign, getting rid of final gatekeeper?

Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank) Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz’s resignation as director from the Board of Khazanah Nasional Bhd effective from Apr 21 has raised a few eyebrows. It’s not everyday you read resignation in the name of “to avoid any potential conflict of interest” simp [...]

Slaughter Day for Financial, Automotive and Tech stocks

Bad news, bad news and more bad news – that’s what happened from the opening till the closing bell on Wall Street. It was as if the Dow Jones was released from the cage after years and bloods are all it needs. That’s right, the Dow plunged almost 360 points to their lowest level in almost two [...]

Fed maintains rate, stock trading guerilla warfare style

Remember the Isaac Newton’s law of gravity? Well, it’s happening to the U.S. interest rates now - the series of rate reductions since Sept 2007 is about to make a U-turn. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday and hinted that the next direction for rates could be up. Investors and [...]

SIME aborts cable, no more cheese or the Rats move it?

If not for the news that Sime Darby Berhad (SIME: stock-code 4197) decided not to play the game of undersea cable, I would have forgotten about the highly controversial Bakun project. It was almost a year ago when I wrote about this to-be-white-elephant project unless of course the government could [...]

FinanceTwitter clocked 1,000 posts, expect weak 2Q earnings

Basically all the stocks’ performance depends on one factor – consumers. It’s a no-brainer statement but many investors or traders tend to forget this. Every sector from airlines to healthcare would be affected, one way or another. Let’s look at the big brother Uncle Sam. According to Thomso [...]

Airline Stocks – Can See but Cannot Touch, Not Yet

Before the invention of internet on the scale we’re seeing today there were not many nice and exciting stocks investing game around. If my old memory still serves me right, the games available during the old time were developed for MS-DOS, the oldest Microsoft operating system. Somehow I was hooke [...]

When Scandal and Crisis are thicker than Stocks

Whoa! I was out of town for a short break and when I came back there were so many happenings, not the same type of happenings you get during clubbing mind you. Some friends suggested we should try one more round of cheap foods before it disappears thanks to the recent 41 percent fuel hike. At first [...]

POS Malaysia, New Scandal after Transmile Irregularities?

Seriously if not for the name Robert Kuok, Transmile Group Berhad (KLSE: TRANMIL, stock-code 7000) could turn to penny stock today – name speaks volume. Despite huge debts amounting to RM535.8 million thanks to accounting irregularities discovered about a year ago, the tycoon continues to hold on. [...]

Ten years after 1997 Crisis, another Window of Opportunity?

After the recent 12th general election on 8th Mar 2008 that saw the once giant National Front (Barisan Nasional) tumbled without knowing what hit them, I’ve wrote that the political landscape has changed and one should really take this into consideration before commit any more money into the stock [...]

The law of Gravity works either in Stocks or Politics

Guess the law has been proven right again – whatever goes up must comes down and vice versa. This does not applies only to stock investing or option trading but also to other fields such as politics and lifes. You experience ups and downs throughout the journey of your life and so the end of the p [...]


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