Commodities
Are you curious about gold investments? Many investors are, as this commodity is considered safe with an extensive track record of gains. When inflation spikes and the stock market seems unstable, individuals turn to gold. This asset has numerous attributes that make it even more attractive than stocks and bonds. It’s an inflation hedge and […]
... written on Feb 21 2022While Australia, the United States’ “deputy sheriff” in the Asia-Pacific region, has chosen to remain hostile with China, it’s a different story with its neighbour, New Zealand. The Kiwi has just officially upgraded its 2008 free-trade agreement (FTA) with China that will give exports greater access to the Chinese market. New Zealand was the first […]
... written on Feb 15 2022About 2 years since a trade deal between the United States and China – called “Phase One” – went into effect on 14 February 2020, the deal appears to be nothing but a promise meant to be broken. From the start, the deal was doomed to fail simply because it lacks sincerity, not to mention […]
... written on Feb 10 2022As Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, people are increasingly getting pessimistic about what’s in store in the year 2022. In the first year of the outbreak (2020), most thought the Coronavirus would be a temporary hiccup. When vaccines were developed – and rushed to the market – people thought the worst would be over […]
... written on Jan 21 2022Most 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 2021
