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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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March 2nd, 2016 by financetwitter
Effective Dec 2014, Malaysia scrapped decades-old fuel subsidy and the prices of RON-95, RON-97 petrol and diesel have been based on a "managed float system". It's been 15 months now since the implementation and so far so good. Malaysians can proudly say they can survive without subsidy, even though [...]
March 1st, 2016 by financetwitter
Mahathir Mohamad has quit (*yawn*) UMNO, the political party he formed 28 years ago after the 1988 Judicial Crisis when the (old) UMNO was declared "an unlawful society". In short, the original UMNO party formed by Onn Jaafar had already died since 1988. Today, Mahathir has merely quit from his own [...]
February 29th, 2016 by financetwitter
Warren Buffett has just published his latest annual letter to shareholders. Why should you care, you may ask yourself. After all, you didn't own and perhaps will never own Berkshire Hathaway stock. At roughly US$200,000 (£144,434; RM842,568) a share, perhaps it's impossible for you to afford even " [...]
February 28th, 2016 by financetwitter
After more than a year in development and testing, Facebook has expanded its popular "Like" button to include other "reactions". Four days ago, people can see and choose "love," "haha," "wow," "sad," and "angry" gesture. There's no "Dislike" button as requested because Facebook claims that the new [...]
February 27th, 2016 by financetwitter
Malaysia, under Najib Razak administration, is a cowboy town now with very little respect for law and order. If this can be made into a film, Sheriff Najib, caught with US$700 million (RM2.6 billion) in his personal bank account, is being questioned by everyone in town as to the source and purpose o [...]
February 25th, 2016 by financetwitter
China has been hitting the news for the wrong reasons - economic slowdown, stock market meltdown, corruption crackdown, and billionaires' disappearance. However, like its factories, the country assembly lines are producing billionaires faster than any other countries, including United States. Now, C [...]
February 24th, 2016 by financetwitter
On the surface, it looks like any innocent military exercises which the proven Malaysian soldiers had engaged in the past. Apparently, Malaysia's involvement in a Saudi Arabia's sponsored military exercise - Northern Thunder - raises concern as to the actual reason why Malaysian military personnel w [...]
February 23rd, 2016 by financetwitter
Apple iPhone 7 is roughly 7-month away so it's not fair to put the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S7 and 5-month-old iPhone 6S on the table for a comparison. But this is a never-ending game because Samsung and Apple deliberately design their new products launching date roughly half a year apart - to [...]
February 22nd, 2016 by financetwitter
Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were often associated as Asia's pariah people due primarily to their poverty. They form a huge pool of cheap labours or slaves ready to do 3D jobs - dirty, dangerous and difficult. They were cheated by agents before they could be exported and were mistreated by e [...]
February 19th, 2016 by financetwitter
Does China own South China Sea so much so that nobody, including the supposedly superpower United States, dares to retaliate - militarily - when Beijing happily parked some HQ-9 air defence missile system on Woody Island, the largest of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, which is also claim [...]
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