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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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July 15th, 2011 by financetwitter
Seriously, I hate to see Najib goes down faster than his predecessor, although I did write an article back in Jan 2010 that Najib's administration may be short-lived, shorter than former PM Abdullah Badawi (you can read here). It seems there's serious brain-drain in premiership succession that every [...]
July 13th, 2011 by financetwitter
Entrepreneurs and founders have a common problem during their company setup - what shall be their company's name? It would be a challenge especially during current internet age because the domain name you desire may not be available. From product concept to their pet name, that's how some of these s [...]
July 11th, 2011 by financetwitter
My driver was anxiously telling me how he evaded the road block on his way to pick me up at the airport, on the eve of Bersih 2.0's July 9 rally. Before I can start telling him about my trip to Hong Kong and the wonderful foods that I had, he told me not to worry because he would use another route t [...]
June 30th, 2011 by financetwitter
Gosh, this is getting ridiculous but yet hilarious. While everybody knows Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, is super-panic with the coming Bersih 2.0 (Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections) rally this coming July 9, nobody would guess his administration would become as paranoid as now. Not onl [...]
June 28th, 2011 by financetwitter
History tends to repeat itself - a quote that is frequently used although nobody knows exactly who started using it or when it was first being used. Stock investors, analysts, traders and writers especially in the technical analysis field will tell you people still tend to repeat their own mistakes [...]
June 22nd, 2011 by financetwitter
Was away on a short holiday trip but that didn't stop me (or you) from selling or buying the stocks or options, as long as you're connected to the internet. Can you imagine the trading or investing landscape changes between now and ten years ago? Now, as long as you've a smartphone with connectivity [...]
June 17th, 2011 by financetwitter
Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said that it detected service outages due to attack to 91 websites, 51 websites of which are in the .gov.my domain and that 41 of the sites suffered various levels of disruption including http://malaysia.gov.my and http://sabahtourism.com. T [...]
June 17th, 2011 by financetwitter
I've said this before and I'm going to say this again - BlackBerry is toast and its latest earnings announced just after the stock market closed proves this. As expected Research In Motion Limited’s (Nasdaq: RIMM, stock) reported an awful set of forecast during the conference call. The fact that R [...]
June 15th, 2011 by financetwitter
Operation Malaysia - that's the code to all hackers within "Anonymous" hacker group interested in hacking Malaysian Government portal. The good news - the hackers were kind-hearted enough to give ample time (operation to be launched at 7:30am GMT Wed or 3:30am Thur Malaysia time) for the Government [...]
June 13th, 2011 by financetwitter
First, the bad news - the global economy may not recover to its glory time anytime soon as the U.S. economy is getting really choppy with stubborn unemployment, not to mention the risk of another round of recession. The good news - the global wealth increased by 8% last year to reach a record of $12 [...]
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