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... written on Nov 28 2006Amazon is an over-hyped, overpriced stock, with an over-ambitious management team that routinely over promises profits – that’s what some of the analysts feel. This quarter has been particularly good for Amazon (Nasdaq : AMZN) when it reported net income of $19 million or 5 cents a share, beating estimates by 2 cents, on sales […]
... written on Nov 27 2006Kuwait Finance House ( KFH ) has expressed interest in buying a stake in Malaysian financial house Rashid Hussain Bhd (RHB : stock-code 1309) which controls Malaysia’s fourth-largest banking group, RHB Capital (RHBCAP : stock-code 1066). According to unnamed sources, Kuwait Finance House met Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud last week, whose family controls […]
... written on Nov 26 2006I think Google (Nasdaq : GOOG) is lucky, very lucky indeed to be born after Internet Version 1. After the burst of Internet first generation, only a handful can claim victory to be able to surf passed the giant tsunami. The rest of the dotcom startups are either folded or still licking their wounds, till […]
... written on Nov 25 2006I guess the super-merger of Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad (GUTHRIE : stock-code 3131), Sime Darby Berhad (SIME : stock-code 4197) and Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (GHOPE : stock-code 1953) announcement is going to hog the main business page for the next coming weeks simply because of the size and the people behind it. But what everyone […]
... written on Nov 24 2006With the current “presume” bull-market in Bursa (KLSE), it seems everything looks attractive. Retails no doubt will re-look at the usual cheaper exposure – warrants. Compare with old time where warrants were the buzz-word for retails-investors, now they are spoilt for more option such as call-warrants, basket-warrants etc. But before an investors/speculators/punters jump into the […]
... written on Nov 24 2006Three of Malaysia’s largest palm oil producers – Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad (GUTHRIE : stock-code 3131), Sime Darby Berhad (SIME : stock-code 4197) and Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (GHOPE : stock-code 1953) are to merge, potentially create the world’s biggest bio-fuels company and its largest publicly-traded palm oil entity. All three stocks halted trading in their […]
... written on Nov 23 2006I read with great interest the comment by Bursa Malaysia CEO, Yusli today who expect the average daily trading volume for 2007 to hit 1.2 billion units – about 50% more than the current figure. Is this guy serious with what he was talking about ? Or does he know something which the public doesn’t […]
... written on Nov 22 2006Sales figures are a key measure of a company’s strength – the figure which will tell you to investigate more or simply ignore a particular stock altogether. This piece of financial information reflects growth, a yardstick of how efficient a management is running the company. Companies basically have two ways to increase earnings – either […]
... written on Nov 22 2006Believe it or not, the stock market tends to do better or worse depending on where we are in the lunar cycle. That’s the conclusion of two studies that have circulated for a couple of years in academic circles. The studies, “Lunar Cycle Effects in Stock Returns” and “Are Investors Moonstruck? Lunar Phases and Stock […]
... written on Nov 22 2006
