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I have stated my views honestly, guided by my conscience and with the best interests of the nation in mind – says Hannah Yeoh. About a week later, the Federal Territories Minister, who is also a critical member of the Pardons Board, denied ever signing a house arrest order for former Prime Minist
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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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October 30th, 2007 by financetwitter
Diversification, diversification and diversification – that’s one of the strategies in stocks investing if you wish to make money. Why diversify? To old birds (veteran investors) you should know what does that mean. To new birds (newbies) it simply means not all stocks will go up or down at the [...]
October 29th, 2007 by financetwitter
Oil prices continue to surge but that is not going to stop investors from feeling optimistic about the stock market. At least the expectation from the Federal Reserve to cut interest rate again is high and strong. And this (optimism) is sufficient for the investors to ignore the fact that crude oil [...]
October 28th, 2007 by financetwitter
It’s not difficult to become a Finance Minister, especially when you’re also holding the position as the Prime Minister cum Minister of Internal Security. Malaysian Prime Minister (PM) could easily be one of the most powerful positions in the world, holding the other two very important ministers [...]
October 27th, 2007 by financetwitter
You might not know this but time really flies. I have almost forgotten that this month is actually FinanceTwitter’s “1st Anniversary” in the blogosphere. It was a year ago when I discovered the fun of blogging and immediately started with Google Blogger’s platform. Since then FinanceTwitter [...]
October 26th, 2007 by financetwitter
Yesterday, Thursday, was rather a boring trading day as both my Google Inc. and Apple Inc. were not performing as expected. If you were monitoring both stocks yesterday, you will know what I mean. Anyway, you can always scout for some of the stocks and scalp some profit out of it. Really, there’re [...]
October 26th, 2007 by financetwitter
Oil prices closed above $90 a barrel for the first time officially Thursday, on news that Lebanese troops had fired on Israeli warplanes. Even though the new conflict will not affect oil supplies directly, it would however indirectly “invite” other Middle-East countries such as Saudi Arabia and [...]
October 25th, 2007 by financetwitter
Tony Fernandes’s grumbling about the bias protectionism rule in favor of Malaysia Airline System (KLSE: MAS, stock-code 3786) appears to bring positive result after all. Today Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that budget carrier AirAsia Berhad (KLSE: AIRASIA, stock-code 5099) ha [...]
October 24th, 2007 by financetwitter
Rashid Hussain Berhad (now delisted) was started with a big-bang under the ambitious mission to turn the empire under the founder Tan Sri Rashid Hussain into a major financial supermarket in the 1990s. Although no longer the captain of the ship, Tan Sri Rashid should be able to smile as the RHB bran [...]
October 24th, 2007 by financetwitter
You might get sick and tired with me for being so obsessed about Apple Inc. and Google Inc. Forgive me but somehow I couldn’t think of any other technology stocks that grow as fast as these two mean machines. Contrary to the basic rule of fundamental investing that says you shouldn’t invest in s [...]
October 23rd, 2007 by financetwitter
Malaysia’s third richest man and the founder of Genting Group (KLSE: GENTING, stock-code 3182), Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, passed away at 11.20am Tuesday at the Subang Jaya Medical Centre. The tycoon who was 90, leave behind a diverse business empire worth US$22 billion. He survived by wife Puan Sri Le [...]
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