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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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November 17th, 2008 by financetwitter
One of the scary parts about recession is the fact that it does not infect only a certain sector. It is just like a virus or worm and it will not stop infecting until the right antivirus signature is used to uniquely identifies and quarantine or clean the specific virus. For this same reason people [...]
November 15th, 2008 by financetwitter
By now you should know why stimulus package or rescue plan is not the magic bullet that could solve any economic problems created by greedy top management. I’ve wrote four basic “for dummy” initiatives that a country could take in the event of or about to enter a recession. Announcing or launc [...]
November 12th, 2008 by financetwitter
Readers who thought that I was being negative with the so-called RM7 billion stimulus plan announced by de-facto PM Najib recently obviously do not have a clue about the global stock markets mechanism. These readers are still hiding behind the closet and preferred to adopt the “hear no evil, see n [...]
November 10th, 2008 by financetwitter
China has announced 4 trillion yuan or $586 billion stimulus package (does it have a choice?) - the largest so far to prevent a real disaster from wiping out all the wealth and prosperity built over the decades. That was a lot of money and immediately investors cheer the plan to cushion the world’ [...]
November 8th, 2008 by financetwitter
Once I read that we shouldn’t jump as we would not be affected by the U.S. sub-prime crisis because the engines from China and India were running at full steam. I almost fell off my chair because such article could mislead novice investors in snapping up stocks without knowing what they were doing [...]
November 6th, 2008 by financetwitter
Outgoing PM Abdullah Badawi said “Anyone can be PM” after reporters asked the sleeping beauty if it were possible for a person from a minority group to become Prime Minister in Malaysia, apparently referred to President-elect Barack Obama. That would be a bold and positive statement that would r [...]
November 5th, 2008 by financetwitter
Barack Obama, 47, the son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas was elected as the 44th President of the United States on Tuesday. America has again show why the country is the greatest nation ever. America is a place where all things are possible. Who would have thought that a black man, [...]
November 4th, 2008 by financetwitter
Ever wonder why those casinos, lottery and 3-D, 4-D & 5-D businesses were almost recession-proof? Besides opportunity to make money if you strike, people tends to feel great when their bets hit the bull-eye. The feeling was just unbelievable as if it was better than sex. And it’s not funny at [...]
November 3rd, 2008 by financetwitter
Technical recession may already hits the economy in about 15 European Union countries and the EU forecast unemployment to climb to 8.4 percent in 2009 which literally means another 2 million people will be out of job. Even Hong Kong’s oldest stockbroker David Tung said he has not seen a financial [...]
November 2nd, 2008 by financetwitter
One of my favorite cakes is indeed the tiramisu cake from Secret Recipe. My only complaint is its price because I normally will buy the whole cake instead of a slice or two. I’m not sure if the cake has shrunk since the price increases but I suppose if you like it so much you’ll still pay for it [...]
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