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Christmas has been kind to Apple Inc. but definitely no Santa’s visit to Googleplex on the last remaining couple of trading hours before the happiest day of the year – Christmas 2007. Yeap, the stock markets will be close early on 24th Dec, Christmas Eve – three hours early for people to celebrate the holiday. […]
... written on Dec 24 2007Unofficial results (with 96% of the vote counted) from Sunday’s general election gave pro-Thaksin People Power Party (PPP) 232 of the 480 seats in parliament, just short of the absolute majority needed to govern Thailand alone. The party, which has promised to bring former premier Thaksin Shinawatra back from his self-imposed exile in Britain, claimed […]
... written on Dec 24 2007Obviously you should refrain yourself from thinking, let alone committing more money investing stocks related to stock-broking i.e. the stock-brokers or investment banks that are listed in the KLSE (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) – at least temporarily. Stock-brokers business is primarily depend on daily transaction volume. The more the merrier so when the daily volume […]
... written on Dec 22 2007Decided (not that I’ve other choice) to take profit today as it’s the Friday Expiration for options for the month of Dec 2007. Overall the stock markets were more positive and broad-based with Dow up by 3-digits and Nasdaq jumped more than 30-points. What a day to lock in profit. Please note that I let […]
... written on Dec 21 2007Thursday was the trading day that saw investors / traders primarily concentrated on technology stocks. The Dow didn’t perform and only managed to up by 0.29% or 38.37 points – still it was well above the support and psychological 13,000 level. However Nasdaq was up by 1.53% or 39.85 points to 2,640.86 points. That was […]
... written on Dec 21 2007Japan’s NTT DoCoMo seems to be the latest partner that Steve Jobs is trying to court. Rumours were spreading that NTT and Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL, stock) were cooking something before the former confirmed on Wed 19th Dec that its president, Masao Nakamura, had met with Apple’s Steve Jobs. The odd is getting higher that […]
... written on Dec 19 2007Gone were the days when you need to satisfy the tight requirements before you can walk away as the proud owner of a credit card. Recently I received a credit card issued by Citibank that comes specifically with goodies if you’re a frequent traveller of AirAsia. Credit card marketing is getting creative, what more with […]
... written on Dec 18 2007Less than a month since ailing Malaysian carmaker Proton Holdings Bhd (KLSE: PROTON, stock-code 5304) abruptly called off any negotiation with both Germany’s Volkswagen (FRA: VOW) and US-based General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM, stock), the reason begun to appears although it’s still hard to determine if this could be the actual reason – NAZA Group […]
... written on Dec 18 2007There’re not many crazy stock investors or traders around, at least not that FinanceTwitter is aware of. However when you have someone as crazy and mad as Jim Cramer you just got to be both flabbergasted and thrilled. If you’ve been trading for a while in the US stock markets chances are you should know […]
... written on Dec 17 2007Money from Middle East is basically screaming to be flushed elsewhere. While the US dollar is flushing down the toilet, Middle East’s fortune is looking into, well, Islamic countries to be flushed. One of the countries that attracted these hot monies is Malaysia, not a hard thing to understand since Malaysia premier PM has been […]
... written on Dec 16 2007
