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In a move widely anticipated by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve unanimously raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point – with a possibility of one more increase in the cards before year-end. Effectively, the rate hike moves the central bank’s target range on the overnight
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For months, many investors had viewed the 4.5% yield on the benchmark 10-year note as an attractive point to step in and buy bonds. But as yields surged through that level, market participants adjusted their view and opinion. Analysts and economists then believed that the 10-year yield was headi
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On the day the United States remembered the terrorist attacks 25 years ago, Malaysia was almost hit by a huge explosion on September 11 – a sudden release of Najib Razak from jail. Currently in Kajang Prison, Najib was scheduled to complete his term only on Aug 23, 2028 after securing a part
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Brent, the international benchmark, jumped above US$99 a barrel on Tuesday (Sept 8) - the highest since July - after Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen conducted strikes on energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. The oil prices also jumped as a result of retaliation from the U.S. that d
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Don’t criticize UMNO-Malays as we need their votes in the next general election - Anwar Ibrahim told Anthony Loke Siew Fook, the secretary-general of Democratic Action Party (DAP) who gladly obliged after Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition formed a unity government with UMNO-led Barisan Nas
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Donald Trump hails “historic” deal for the U.S. to control 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil, which critics slammed as a deal made at “gunpoint”. Of course, the U.S. has denied that the energy deal, which the U.S. president bragged as “the biggest oil deal in world history”, is an e
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Despite approval rating hitting 32%, Donald Trump’s worry isn’t about re-election or the Iran war. Instead, the U.S. president, whose second-term has seen the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq rallied 57%, 70%, and 142% respectively, is deeply worried about a stock market crash. After all, he h
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A day before former human resources minister M Saravanan was charged on Friday (August 28) with receiving bribes amounting to RM1.097 million to approve foreign worker quotas, he publicly trumpeted how he had written to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday about what he called the Malaysian An
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Everybody from teachers to retirees joined South Korea’s stock market frenzy, betting prices would rise forever. Samsung Elecronics share price was up by 320% in June 2026 – a staggering jump from October 2025. In the same period of nine months, SK Hynix jumped by 710%. KOSPI Composite Index sk
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Wall Street's massive data edge is evaporating. The elite technology that once required a multi-million-dollar quantitative setup, dedicated server rooms, and teams of PhD mathematicians is now sitting on consumer laptops. This isn't about magical market forecasting or finding a flawless crystal ba
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December 2nd, 2020 by financetwitter
Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) has just announced the criteria or terms and conditions with regard to the withdrawal of retirement savings under "i-Sinar" scheme. A whopping 8 million members are eligible to apply online beginning 21 Dec, 2020. According to EPF (KWSP, Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Peker [...]
December 1st, 2020 by financetwitter
An image of a grinning Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to an Afghanistan child's throat has sparked a new problem to the already souring relationship between China and Australia. The fact that the image, which appeared to show the soldier slitting the child’s throat, was posted by Zhao [...]
November 30th, 2020 by financetwitter
When a crook like Najib Razak proposes something, just do the opposite and it should be the best solution. The former premier's insistence, or rather blackmails without which he threatened to withdraw his support for the fragile backdoor Muhyiddin government, that EPF members must be allowed to with [...]
November 28th, 2020 by financetwitter
When the Democratic Action Party (DAP) sided with former PM Mahathir in June, Anwar hardcore supporters went berserk and accused DAP of being power-hungry and corrupted. DAP leaders were mocked and ridiculed for blindly supporting Mahathir. They urged Anwar Ibrahim, the president of People's Justice [...]
November 26th, 2020 by financetwitter
When British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced on Monday that it too has developed a Covid-19 vaccine, celebration exploded - from the stock markets to lower and middle-income countries. Unlike Pfizer and Moderna's effectiveness of 95% and 94.5% respectively, AstraZeneca's vaccine has an a [...]
November 25th, 2020 by financetwitter
Donald Trump has lost his re-election - for real. And he has no one to blame but himself. His messages to the voters - a great economy and an untrustworthy Biden - didn't work. He had tried to blame the Covid outbreak squarely on China. But the election results clearly showed that while very few bla [...]
November 24th, 2020 by financetwitter
Backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin's D-Day is on Thursday (Nov 26). If the regime's Budget 2021 is passed, the usefulness of UMNO (and Barisan Nasional for that matter) would be over, at least temporarily. In short, until the next Budget 2022, the premier's Perikatan Nasional (National Alliance) gove [...]
November 23rd, 2020 by financetwitter
Following Coronavirus vaccines revealed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna after encouraging late-stage trial results, British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced on Monday that it too has developed a Covid-19 vaccine. Unlike Pfizer and Moderna's effectiveness of 95% and 94.5%, respectively, Ast [...]
November 21st, 2020 by financetwitter
Why don't poor countries just print more money? Likewise, why can't the central bank print money and give the free cash to the people who have become jobless or under-employed due to Covid-19 pandemic? Those are excellent questions - if came from a curious kid. But coming from a deputy minister, it [...]
November 19th, 2020 by financetwitter
Australia was hoping that by signing the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) deal on Sunday, it will automatically fix, or at least improve the country's strained relations with China. If only it was so easy. It would take more than an insignificant deal like RCEP, of whi [...]
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