Commodities
Most investors’ portfolios are paper-heavy since stocks, bonds, and other options in that class tend to produce tremendous gains in the fastest time frame. The problem is the correlation with the market increasing the volatility. When the economy spirals, something it tends to do often, paper assets join it, fluctuating holdings wildly, making a […]
... written on Jan 17 2022On Christmas Eve, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that the United States grew “arrogant and self-confident” after the collapse of the Soviet Union, leading to the expansion of the NATO military alliance. Russian president Vladimir Putin, who once called the humiliating collapse “the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century”, was determined to bring […]
... written on Jan 04 2022XAG (formerly known as XAircraft), a Guangzhou-based manufacturer of agricultural drones, is sending robots and drones to rice, wheat and cotton fields to do something unimaginable by aging farmers – automating seeding, pesticide spraying and weather monitoring. Last month, it launched V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone that can conduct mapping, spraying, and broadcast on the […]
... written on Dec 15 2021From Malaysia to the United States and from Australia to India, more countries have reported their first cases of the latest Coronavirus variant – Omicron. However, chances are the variant has already spread domestically by the time those countries announced the first case. For example, New York City reported 5 cases just hours after infections […]
... written on Dec 03 2021Exactly what has happened to the meat cartel scandal? First exposed in December last year, millions of Malaysian Muslims have consumed fake halal beef for the last 40 years. The scandal, involving agencies like the Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Services Department, Customs Department and Port Police, clearly was an example of powerful Malays cheating ordinary Malays. […]
... written on Nov 28 2021Najib Razak, the disgraced former Malaysian prime minister who has been sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined RM210 million after he was found guilty of all charges of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust (CBT), and money laundering in the 1MDB scandal, had infamously pledged to bathe the “Keris (Malay dagger)” with Chinese blood. […]
... written on Oct 27 2021Technically, China and the United States are still in a trade war, which was started by former U.S. president Donald Trump. At the same time, the new POTUS – Joe Biden – has started a Cold War with China. To make matters worse, a shortage of coal has forced power cuts at Chinese factories. Yet, […]
... written on Oct 13 2021West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures, the U.S. oil benchmark, crossed US$80 per barrel on Friday – the highest since November 2014. The Brent crude, the international benchmark, had already breached US$80 mark days ago. And it appears the oil price will continue skyrocket as WTI is on track for its 7 straight gains week, […]
... written on Oct 08 2021When Najib Razak became the prime minister, he told the Borneo states – Sabah and Sarawak – that his government was committed to the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), pledging to protect the rights of the East Malaysians. He said a high-level committee will be set up to discuss the MA63. Sabah and Sarawak leaders applauded and […]
... written on Sep 20 2021When the U.S. decided to withdraw from Afghanistan after a 20-year war that it could not win from the beginning, many Western countries said it was a mistake. Even its closest ally, the United Kingdom, has criticised the American decision to leave Afghanistan as a “mistake” that has handed the Taliban “momentum”, not to mention a return of terror […]
... written on Sep 11 2021
