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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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April 11th, 2017 by financetwitter
Once you decide that it's time to make your business more profitable, it's important to know that there are numerous strategies you can use to engender the desired outcome. Below you'll find just three of many techniques you can implement to ensure that your company begins attaining a more substanti [...]
April 11th, 2017 by financetwitter
Unless Trump is interested to start World War 3, or another Vietnam War, he should stop bitching about attacking Syria again. He has made his statement. The world is impressed on how the U.S. military fired 59 Tomahawks to a deserted Syrian airbase. Shares of Raytheon, the manufacturer of the cruise [...]
April 9th, 2017 by financetwitter
Don't read too much into the Tomahawk missile strikes in Syria. As a TV-reality star, Donald Trump is a master of playing audience emotion. His authorization to strike Syria was a calculated move to tell Americans that Captain America Donald Trump is here. And the American hero is ready to slaughter [...]
April 8th, 2017 by financetwitter
The past few years have been an interesting ride for Americans. Once the campaigns for the 2016 presidential election began, it was only a matter of time until statistics and specific tactics were able to uncover how divided the nation truly is. While it can be a bit overwhelming to turn on the news [...]
April 8th, 2017 by financetwitter
Her mother was born in Malaysia, while her father was born Taiwan. She was only a 5-year-old girl when she left Malaysia to the United States. That was 12 years ago in 2005, when Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was the Malaysian Prime Minister. Little did America realize that they are about to get a genius fr [...]
April 7th, 2017 by financetwitter
October 21, 2015 was the date Singapore's wealthiest evangelical churches - City Harvest Church (CHC) - plunged into a shameful scandal. The church's founder, together with 5 (five) other church leaders, were found guilty of misappropriating S$50 million of church funds and falsifying the church� [...]
April 7th, 2017 by financetwitter
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were supposed to be making friends, not making war. Both military superpowers were supposed to make the world a safer and better place. But that won't happen, at least for now, because for United States and Russia to become buddies will upset many politicians and defe [...]
April 6th, 2017 by financetwitter
European Union is cracking and will disintegrate if France's National Front leader - Marine Le Pen - could pull an unexpected victory to become the nation's next president. When that happens; Britain, United States and France would be leading the world's populism and nationalism while liberalism and [...]
April 5th, 2017 by financetwitter
There have been quite a number of Indian Islamic preachers who try to be more Islamic than the Islam itself. Salafist preacher Zakir Naik is one of the controversial and dangerous Indian Islamic preachers who have been banned in his own country - India. However, Mr. Zakir is treated like a demi-God [...]
April 5th, 2017 by financetwitter
At a Sotheby's auction Tuesday in Hong Kong, a mind-boggling 59.6 carat diamond - "Pink Star" - sold for US$71.2 million, a new world record for any diamond or jewel. The sale comes 3 years after the stone was sold at an even higher price at another Sotheby's auction in Geneva. However, that deal [...]
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