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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 12th, 2018 by financetwitter
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Beijing in October to mark the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two countries, it appeared that Japan and China have put aside territorial disputes in the East China Sea as part of a new effort to improve ties. But all those e [...]
December 9th, 2018 by financetwitter
The anti-ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) rally ended at 5pm yesterday (Dec 8), about one hour earlier than the 2pm-6pm schedule. Like any other rallies, the main thing people were looking at is the turnout. The number of participants would de [...]
December 7th, 2018 by financetwitter
PTPTN - National Higher Education Fund Corporation - is supposed to be a noble plan to extend loans to help students pursuing tertiary education in Malaysia. It was formed in 1997 during the Mahathir 1.0 era. Now that Mahathir 2.0 has returned as the prime minister for the second time, the PTPTN h [...]
December 6th, 2018 by financetwitter
Canadian authorities have arrested Huawei's CFO (chief financial officer), Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver while she was transferring flights in the country. Sabrina, a leading contender to succeed her father, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec 1 as she is facing extradition to [...]
December 6th, 2018 by financetwitter
We raised our suspicions two years ago in 2016 when Saudi Arabia bragged about their massive military exercise - Northern Thunder - which involved 350,000 troops from 20 countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Jordan, Pakistan, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan, [...]
December 5th, 2018 by financetwitter
Singapore shot to first place last year (2017) when Paraguay decided to remove visa requirements for those carrying Singapore's passports. Armed with 159 countries that Singaporeans can visit "visa-free" or visa-on-arrival, the tiny nation located in the Southeast Asia became the first Asian nation [...]
December 4th, 2018 by financetwitter
Qatar's Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi dropped a bombshell on Monday (Dec 3) - Doha would leave OPEC on January 1, 2019. Clearly, it was a big news, considering that the small kingdom has been an official OPEC member since 1961. The timing of the announcement was suspicious - just days before OPEC [...]
December 4th, 2018 by financetwitter
Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris, known as blogger "Papagomo", has recently insulted ethnic Indians as “squatters” and urged for ethnic minorities to be stripped of voting rights. The notorious blogger, also the UMNO Youth Exco (Executive Council), was detained on Thursday (Nov 29) but released on Sa [...]
December 3rd, 2018 by financetwitter
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) futures skyrocketed 463 points after the world's two biggest economies - United States and China - agreed to a ceasefire on their bilateral trade war at the G-20 summit in Argentina. Stocks in Asia, as do commodities like oil and copper, also jumped higher on hope [...]
December 2nd, 2018 by financetwitter
The U.S. Senate took a dramatic step on Thursday, moving to block U.S. involvement in the Saudi war in Yemen and sending a powerful message to Riyadh - the US-Saudi relationship is on the rocks. For Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, life goes on as usual as he can't bring the dead back to life, not [...]
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