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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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August 19th, 2015 by financetwitter
First, the RM2.62 billion (US$696 Million) exposed in the private account of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was claimed to be a "donation", courtesy of some rich Arabians. Then they changed the story that the free money was given by Saudi to Najib personally for "fighting ISIS", never mind ISI [...]
August 18th, 2015 by financetwitter
In the food and beverage (F&B) industry, you're only as good as your distinct formulas. But what was constituted as a winning formula strategy in the past may no longer applicable today. It's still alright if the formulas were your invention or family-inherited secret recipe. However, it's defin [...]
August 17th, 2015 by financetwitter
Flashback: From a record low of RM2.10 to US$1 in October 1978, the Malaysian Ringgit hit its all time high of RM4.73 to US$1 in January 1998. Prior to the infamous Asian Financial Crisis, the ringgit was trading at about RM2.40 to a US dollar in 1997. Nobody could have predicted the type of economi [...]
August 16th, 2015 by financetwitter
1MDB scandal is a blessing in disguise. Malaysians and the international community have learned more in the last 5-weeks than 50-years this country was under UMNO's rule. People around the world were simply amazed and flabbergasted over how great a liar Prime Minister Najib Razak has demonstrated so [...]
August 15th, 2015 by financetwitter
A total of 5,270 Yazidis women and girls were abducted last year, and at least 3,144 are still being held. Amazingly, the Islamic State has developed a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales contracts endorsed by ISIS-run Islamic courts. It has become a very effective tool to lure men [...]
August 14th, 2015 by financetwitter
The first ever mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Motorola's Martin Cooper. That's right, before most of you were born to this planet; Motorola had already done the "Connecting People" revolution, which later used as a slogan by Nokia. But the first cell phone wasn't ready until 1983, when Motoro [...]
August 13th, 2015 by financetwitter
Bank Negara Malaysia’s (Central Bank of Malaysia) governor - Zeti Akhtar Aziz – has finally revealed herself to the public since the mass “arrest, firing and hiring” exercise carried out by Prime Minister Najib Razak to “cleanse” himself from an allegation of pocketing a staggering RM2.6 [...]
August 13th, 2015 by financetwitter
The U.S. federal government is reportedly hit another record in tax collection. The first 10-months of United States fiscal year 2015 (Oct 1, 2014 through the end of July 2015) saw a mind-boggling tax revenues of US$2,672,414,000,000. The figure released by Treasury means a new record in federal tax [...]
August 12th, 2015 by financetwitter
By now, you should know why we had screamed "The Chinese Are Coming!!" about three weeks ago. That's because the China's economy is crashing, for real. Xi Jinping administration has been fire fighting ever since the terrifying 30% crash within 3-weeks in the country's stock market.
It certain [...]
August 11th, 2015 by financetwitter
You've read about the prospect of Johor declaring Independence and how the remote possibility of UMNO losing the state is actually very real. Now that desperado Najib son of Razak had axed his former deputy Muhyiddin, a Johor warlord, the chances are even higher that UMNO would lose its fortress for [...]
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