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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 5th, 2013 by financetwitter
Thank God it's Friday. It's a well know fact that one of the biggest problems facing Malaysian Najib Razak is the candidates list. If only his party, UMNO, has young talents such as Nurul Izzah, Rafizi Ramli, Tony Pua, Liew Chin Tong and Gorbind Singh Deo, he would not have constipation problem that [...]
April 3rd, 2013 by financetwitter
Given a choice, Malaysian (PM) Najib Razak would like to cling to power via emergency rule, the same way his father did after 1969 racial riots post opposition huge victory in the general election during the same year. However unlike 44 years ago, today is the age of information where people get the [...]
March 22nd, 2013 by financetwitter
Everyone is waiting for the next general election to be called but the cunning Malaysian Prime Minister Najib is toying and having fun with it. He's dragging his feet over the matter and seriously, he was right with this strategy. In actual fact, PM Najib has nothing to lose but everything to gain b [...]
March 20th, 2013 by financetwitter
Samsung and Apple are the two dominant players in the smartphone market and most likely will stay that way for some years to come. Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT, stock) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, stock) tried to amaze us with their phones but so far they fails miserably, though Google's Android [...]
March 15th, 2013 by financetwitter
Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone is here - same size and weight as its predecessor, Galaxy S3. Well, actually the new S4 is less than 1-millimeter thinner and a few grams lighter, if you can really notice the difference at all. To be precise, S4 is 69-mm wide, and 7.9-mm thick, and weighs just 130 grams [...]
March 8th, 2013 by financetwitter
Malaysian superior and mighty security forces has flushed out the Sulu Sultanate armed invaders - BRAVO to our brave and courageous boys. It was reported 52 of the intruders, together with their general were killed. Although there're still leftover from the 100 - 500 who came and try to invade Sabah [...]
March 4th, 2013 by financetwitter
Sabah (Lahat Datu) invasion by the self-proclaimed Royal Army of the Sultanate of Sulu on February 9th 2013 has entered its second week, without any clear sign that a solution is on the horizon. A rough estimate of between 100 to 500 heavily armed men entered Lahat Datu, a mere 30-minutes away, with [...]
February 27th, 2013 by financetwitter
How do you know who will win the next 13th general election? Simple - if PM Najib Razak select Ng Yen Yen as one of the "winnable" candidates, then the current BN (Barisan Nasional) regime will collapse and vice-versa. Well, that's the joke on the street. But after the Minister of Tourism's screw-up [...]
February 8th, 2013 by financetwitter
If there's one hot topic of discussion during the coming Chinese New Year, it has to be the Mother of General Elections - the 2013 Malaysia General Election. This is perhaps the final time family members would sit together, cracking garlic-flavour groundnuts sipping Anglia Shandy or Carlsberg, and d [...]
January 15th, 2013 by financetwitter
Two persons expressed their opinions against the present Malaysian federal government. One got suspended while the other was bullied. The one who got suspended was the chief economist of Bank Islam - Azrul Anwar Ahmad - after his presentation at the Regional Outlook Forum in Singapore, which amongst [...]
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