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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 26th, 2008 by financetwitter
Seriously, if you have this problem of falling in love with your portfolio, either stocks or options, you’ve better leverage on the limit order function to enter the price(s) you desire to sell or buy. It’s not too much to say that almost all the investors who trade on behalf of their own accoun [...]
March 26th, 2008 by financetwitter
Remember how the whopping $30 million tax-payers money evaporated into thin air by sending a Malaysian space tourist as part of the “controversial” $1 billion Russian arms deal back in Oct 2007? Some said the space tourist idea was never part of the original plan but since the enormous amount of [...]
March 25th, 2008 by financetwitter
Speaking at the “Invest Malaysia 2008” conference here today (25th Mar 2008), the Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi announced that local stock market would merge its Main and Second boards to set up a single and unified board for more established companies with strong financial records (huh?). The [...]
March 25th, 2008 by financetwitter
Looks like good news are aplenty right after the Easter – JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM, stock) ups its bid for The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC, stock) and stronger than expected housing report pleased the stock investors. Like it or not the Feds would have no choice but to allow [...]
March 24th, 2008 by financetwitter
Unless you’re living in Stone Age, you must have heard about one of the greatest mega-sale of the century – the $2 a share sale of The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC, stock) to JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM, stock). Bear Stearns was facing collapse because of the U.S. mortgage cri [...]
March 23rd, 2008 by financetwitter
Just what are the factors foreign investors are looking at before they pour in millions or billions of dollars of investment money into a country? There’re many but certain mandatory or fundamental foundations must be in place before these foreign hot monies would find their new parking lots. Suff [...]
March 20th, 2008 by financetwitter
Going by normal circumstances, Malaysia stock market should have staged a gap-up post-election but the reverse happened when the KLCI (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) gap-down instead by more than 130 points or more than 10 percent (investors who short the futures were smiling from ear to ear). Foreign [...]
March 19th, 2008 by financetwitter
Credit card giant Visa Inc. raised more than US$17 billion Tuesday in the largest share offering in US history but short of world’s largest IPO - the US$21.9-billion offering by Chinese bank ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China), on Shanghai and Hong Kong stocks markets in October 2006. V [...]
March 19th, 2008 by financetwitter
Dow Jones Industrial Average soared a whopping 420 points, its biggest one-day gain in more than five years - since a 447-point advance on July 29, 2002. The question that demanded Federal Reserve’s answer was pretty simple, what’s the rate cut quantum – 50, 75 or 100 basis points. While many [...]
March 18th, 2008 by financetwitter
So, the sleepy Prime Minister has unveils a trimmed-down cabinet *yawn* albeit the line-up is a boring one which doesn’t offers much excitement from the previous old faces. There’s not a single soul made of admired professionals, technocrats or intellectuals who are not politician included in th [...]
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