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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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February 13th, 2008 by financetwitter
One day after Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi lied denied the Parliament will be dissolved (today) the guessing game came to an end when the PM announced today that he had met the Yang Di Pertuan Agong (King) in the morning and received His Majesty's consent to dissolve Parliament. The PM ap [...]
February 12th, 2008 by financetwitter
There’re not many investment heavens in this globe with Malaysia being one of the paradise. To justify Malaysia as one of the best managed countries you just got to look at some of the astounding announcements by the government. Heck, this could be the only nation that everyone should fight their [...]
February 10th, 2008 by financetwitter
As expected Yahoo Inc.’s board is set to reject Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid with an official announcement on Monday’s morning. Yahoo’s board was merely doing their job with this decision as analysts expect the board members to at least do whatever in their capacity to force [...]
February 8th, 2008 by financetwitter
Every year you can read without fail the stock markets forecast from feng shui experts, especially when you enter the yearly Chinese New Year (such as today which officially is the Year of Rat). FinanceTwitter received numerous emails asking which sector to watch out (more like what stocks I predict [...]
February 5th, 2008 by financetwitter
Yahoo might hates Microsoft and Microsoft in turns hates Google but Google hates Microsoft even more. Looks like a love (or rather hate) triangle relationship, don’t you think? In theory if Microsoft were to leave Google alone without putting a stick between Google’s legs everything would be cal [...]
February 4th, 2008 by financetwitter
Despite its highest offer to buy RHB (Rashid Hussain Bhd) at an offer price of RM1.97 a share and RM5.00 a share for RHB Capital Berhad (KLSE: RHBCAP, stock-code 1066), EON Capital Berhad lost the bid to a lower but government-linked entity EPF (Employess Provident Fund) which only offered RM1.80 an [...]
February 3rd, 2008 by financetwitter
Almost every blog that I visited has the story about the Microsoft and Yahoo in the making – probably the deal of the year 2008. A mind-boggling $44.6 billion offer with half of it in cash that will indeed drains Microsoft’s cash reserve, some reports said this is perhaps the last thing Bill Gat [...]
February 1st, 2008 by financetwitter
Let’s continue with internet search engine story and the consequences from their own screwed-up. One day after Yahoo screwed, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT, stock) leaped in joy and pounced on the little pig which lost its way when the latter announced today an offer Yahoo shareholders may find ha [...]
February 1st, 2008 by financetwitter
It appears after Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO, stock) screwed with its earning announcement, Google followed although with a smaller magnitude. While Yahoo reported a 23 percent drop in its fourth-quarter profit, Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, stock) registered a higher profit of $1.41 billion – 14% jump [...]
January 31st, 2008 by financetwitter
United Arab Emirates is probably one of the most successful Arab countries in the Middle East in attracting tourism and foreign investment in property markets. With population of only 4.5 million (2006) but GDP of well over US$160 billion mainly due to oil and natural gas, you might think the govern [...]
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