Investing & Trading
Ever wonder why Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways could offer unbelievable low price tickets every now and then? That’s because those three Middle Eastern airlines have been receiving more than US$50 billion in subsidies over the past decade from their respective kingdom – U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) and Qatar. The U.S. and […]
... written on Jul 13 2017He had been condemned by Mahathir Mohamad, then-Prime Minister of Malaysia, as a notorious currency speculator. He lost about US$1 billion in the financial market betting against Donald Trump. The 86-year-old investor also lost millions – probably billions – betting against Brexit. Perhaps the billionaire should go back into retirement. To George Soros, however, […]
... written on Jul 11 2017South Australia will be home to the world’s largest lithium ion battery, thanks to a historic agreement between Tesla and the State Government. The good news didn’t stop here. The 30,000 lucky Australian homes will get the battery – for free – if “Ironman” Elon Musk fails to deliver the battery within 100 days. The […]
... written on Jul 08 2017Depending on your time zone, you might have gotten the official notification from your immediate superior of your layoff, if you’re under Microsoft payroll and not currently selling Azure – the Microsoft’s cloud computing product. And if you’re outside of United States, your chance of getting retrenched is at 75%, as compared to only 25% […]
... written on Jul 07 2017Last year, we wrote why crude oil above US$100 will never happen again – forever! One of the reasons was China. The Chinese provide the world’s largest market for new cars. Naturally, China has some of the world’s worst air pollution. Nope, the Chinese will not be choked or poisoned to death due to pollution. […]
... written on Jul 05 2017Planning for a holiday in Italy for the first time? Then you should be aware that city such as Rome is one of European top cities where you are most likely to be pick-pocketed. That would be the first advice your tour guide tells you. Believe it or not, thieves in Italy have more rights […]
... written on Jul 04 2017We understood why the U.S. Democratic Party loves “illegal immigrants” so much. The Democrats, also known as the liberals or left-wingers, would simply collapse without immigrants’ votes. Democrats prefer to call them “undocumented immigrant” instead. A latest estimation shows 11.1-milion illegal immigrants reside in the U.S. – roughly 3.5% of America total population. By […]
... written on Jul 03 2017Facebook has surpassed 2-billion active users. Officially, the social media is also used by 27% of the entire planet Earth. Its CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter of congratulations to Facebook users, thanking them for using his product. While it took 8 years – from 2004 until October 2012 – to reach the first billion […]
... written on Jun 29 2017Najib son of Razak will soon learn a painful lesson. The Malaysian prime minister will learn the real meaning of “a bird in hand is worth two in the bush”. He should have had honoured the deal that his administration made with IWC-CREC (Iskandar Waterfront Holdings-China Railway Engineering Corp) consortium and let the 1MDB scandal […]
... written on Jun 25 2017Acting as a Saudi Arabia’s middleman, Kuwait has presented a 13-point list to Qatar in order to end the diplomatic crisis. But the demands are insanely extreme that if Qatar agrees, it would be as good as surrendering the small kingdom’s sovereignty to the big bully Saudi. Perhaps that’s what Saudi tries to do – […]
... written on Jun 23 2017
