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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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December 19th, 2007 by financetwitter
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo seems to be the latest partner that Steve Jobs is trying to court. Rumours were spreading that NTT and Apple Inc.’s (Nasdaq: AAPL, stock) were cooking something before the former confirmed on Wed 19th Dec that its president, Masao Nakamura, had met with Apple’s Steve Jobs. T [...]
December 18th, 2007 by financetwitter
Gone were the days when you need to satisfy the tight requirements before you can walk away as the proud owner of a credit card. Recently I received a credit card issued by Citibank that comes specifically with goodies if you're a frequent traveller of AirAsia. Credit card marketing is getting creat [...]
December 18th, 2007 by financetwitter
Less than a month since ailing Malaysian carmaker Proton Holdings Bhd (KLSE: PROTON, stock-code 5304) abruptly called off any negotiation with both Germany's Volkswagen (FRA: VOW) and US-based General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM, stock), the reason begun to appears although it’s still hard to determine [...]
December 17th, 2007 by financetwitter
There’re not many crazy stock investors or traders around, at least not that FinanceTwitter is aware of. However when you have someone as crazy and mad as Jim Cramer you just got to be both flabbergasted and thrilled. If you’ve been trading for a while in the US stock markets chances are you sho [...]
December 16th, 2007 by financetwitter
Money from Middle East is basically screaming to be flushed elsewhere. While the US dollar is flushing down the toilet, Middle East’s fortune is looking into, well, Islamic countries to be flushed. One of the countries that attracted these hot monies is Malaysia, not a hard thing to understand sin [...]
December 15th, 2007 by financetwitter
Does financial or stock markets related to politic in one way or another? It’s no brainer that the answer is an obvious “Yes”. A government that is unstable, lack of transparency, policies that forever changes, weak and poor governance, bias and so on could only scare off potential investors ( [...]
December 14th, 2007 by financetwitter
Just what was Ben Bernanke and company was thinking that it kept cutting the interest rate (the recent being the 25 basis points on 11th Dec 2007) to satisfy the investors and economists? Didn’t the sight of cheaper dollar scare the shit out of Ben to cut it further? How about inflation? Could the [...]
December 13th, 2007 by financetwitter
Before the 8 million Malaysian viewers happily paid, despite the forever-long advertisements, for Astro’s channels, people in Malaysia relied on VCR (video cassette recorders) for entertainment. Those were the days when Malaysians, regardless of their race would grab a seat and order a glass of � [...]
December 13th, 2007 by financetwitter
Although it wasn’t published officially the people around the palm oil industry knew what awaken the plantation sector. It used to be one of the most boring sectors and the related stocks’ movement could out you to sleep. It started with the Super-Merger that saw the merger of Kumpulan Guthrie B [...]
December 12th, 2007 by financetwitter
FOMC’s announcement at 2:16 ET Tuesday that the Fed decided to cut the rates by 25 basis points to 4.25% didn’t go well with stocks investors. The Dow, Nasdaq and S&P plunged 344, 83 and 46 points, respectively. The sell-off was expected since the investors appetite was for 50 basis points c [...]
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