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Unemployment rate plunged to 2.9% in November 2025, reaching its lowest level in 11 years. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim quickly claimed the credit in January 2026, attributing the milestone to his Madani Government’s so-called economic reforms. Today, with Johor state election at high gear, Deput
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Ever wonder why Najib Razak’s lawyer - Muhammad Shafee Abdullah – has suddenly gone silent over a royal pardon and house arrest? Shafee, who had whined, cried, and bitched till foaming at the mouth about the government’s obstruction of a purported "addendum order" by the previous King allowin
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While Malaysia's multi-coalition Unity Government remains intact at the federal level, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), a governing partner, is waging selective wars in its strongholds that are threatening to expose the fragility and weakness of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s admin
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You don’t actually have to win your match to reach the knockout stage at the FIFA World Cup. At a time when Asian soccer giant South Korea failed to make it, a tiny island with the same population as Maldives but few people knew existed stunningly made it through – without winning a single matc
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UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (BN) may have miscalculated when Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi arrogantly declared war on Pakatan Harapan (PH). Not only he announced that BN will “go solo”, will contest all 56 seats in the next Johor state election, and will leave no space for cooperation or n
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On May 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) – under Executive Order (E.O.) 13902 - designated three Iranian foreign currency exchange houses and their associated front companies as part of Economic Fury and Treasury’s ongoing efforts to disrup
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One of the easiest gimmicks to scam voters to win elections is to create problems and then pretend to solve them, and voila, people would burst into tears in appreciation and gratitude. Taking away something before giving it back has been one of the oldest tricks used by many parents to handle misb
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What goes around comes around - meaning your actions, whether good or bad, will eventually have consequences that return to you. When politicians from Bersatu, Barisan Nasional, PAS, and a splinter faction of PKR met at the Sheraton Hotel on February 23, 2020, all eyes were on Muhyiddin Yassin and
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Among the 40 DAP Members of Parliament, Hannah Yeoh arguably is the most rewarded lawmaker. Not only Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd, owned by her husband, was awarded the Selangor's Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) controversial billion-ringgit project, but she also received a promotion as the F
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President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the U.S. and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday (June 14), despite Iran casting doubt on the timing. On Saturday, Pakistan, a key mediator, also said the deal was "likely expected" to be finalized within 24 hours and they were "pr
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January 5th, 2008 by financetwitter
Weaker job growth and a rise in the unemployment rate enabled Wall Street to take the 3-digit plunge again Friday. The Dow fell 256.54 (1.96 percent) to 12,800.18, below the psychological 13,000 points while the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 35.53 (2.46 percent) to 1,411.63. Meanwhile The [...]
January 4th, 2008 by financetwitter
Who would have thought that the traditional boring plantation stocks will be the sector that jump-starts the New Year 2008 with a bang? People would most likely put their bet on financial, property or even oil and gas companies to be the hero entering the new calendar. But the crude palm oil (CPO) p [...]
January 3rd, 2008 by financetwitter
While Baidu.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU, stock), the Chinese search engine that often said to be Chinese version of Google, lost their Chief Financial Officer, Shawn Wang, who died in an accident in China, its stock is still mourning. With the next support at $350 the stock could see further downtrend � [...]
January 3rd, 2008 by financetwitter
Fuel prices touched the frightening level of $100 a barrel before eased Thursday. Light, sweet crude for February delivery fell 38 cents to $99.24 a barrel in Asian electronic trading but not before rose $4.02 to $100 a barrel Wednesday, only to slipped back below $100 to a record $99.62 – up $3.6 [...]
January 2nd, 2008 by financetwitter
The first political casualty from the ruling government starts the second day of the New Year 2008 today when Malaysian Health Minister cum MCA vice president, Dr Chua Soi Lek, announced his resignation (or sacked by his own boss?) one day after he refused to do so. Chua Soi Lek’s sex DVDs scandal [...]
January 1st, 2008 by financetwitter
What a day to start the first day of the New Year 2008. And if you’re living in the land of a nation called Malaysia, you should be proud of the great abundant of stories that never fail to amuse you. While everyone was celebrating the New Year with great fireworks, you have groups of Mat Rempit ( [...]
December 31st, 2007 by financetwitter
StockTube first blogged about Vincent Tan’s stocks in Oct 2006 when Berjaya Capital Berhad was still a listed company. Then Berjaya Corporation Berhad (KLSE: BJCORP, stock-code 3395), formerly known as Berjaya Group Berhad together with its Irredeemable Convertible Loan Stocks, ICULS (2005/2015) B [...]
December 30th, 2007 by financetwitter
Not many hours left before we welcome yet another new year and bid farewell to the year 2007. The holiday mood should have started since the middle of Dec 2007 when most of you are clearing your annual leaves and probably will see your colleagues again in 2008. Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange is set to [...]
December 28th, 2007 by financetwitter
Globalization seems to be the magic bullet which is slowly but surely taking its effect on everyone including the world of stocks investing. When I first started FinanceTwitter about slightly more than a year ago, I wasn’t too sure if I should write about the hidden opportunity in investing not on [...]
December 28th, 2007 by financetwitter
Dow Jones plunged over 190 points after the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto together with Commerce Department's durable goods orders raised concerns about the U.S. economy. Bhutto's assassination in Rawalpindi raised the possibility of increasing political unrest in Pakis [...]
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