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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 2nd, 2024 by financetwitter
As neighbouring Malaysia was plagued with dangerous religious extremism, where radical Islamist is known to calling for protest on foreign artists, as well as government officials introducing weird rules at the eleventh hour, Singapore saw a huge potential in concert as magnet to boost tourism. Clea [...]
February 28th, 2024 by financetwitter
Giving a much needed boost to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, the newly crowned Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim has decreed that he would not entertain any request to change the current government. However, one man's meat is another man's poison. The monarch's support and endorsement for Mr Anwar also m [...]
February 25th, 2024 by financetwitter
With 35 years experience under his belt in the public service, Dr Ammar Abdul Ghapar was one of Malaysia’s 1.7 million lucky bloated civil servants. Untouchable due to his skin colour, he was promoted as the new director general of Tourism Malaysia on April 12, 2023. But he mistook his promotion a [...]
February 24th, 2024 by financetwitter
Flying for the first time outside mainland China, state-owned planemaker COMAC proudly showed off its C919 and ARJ21 commercial aeroplanes at the Singapore Airshow - held between Feb 20 to 25. The Chinese homegrown planes raised eyebrows and caught the attention of thousands of audience at a time wh [...]
February 21st, 2024 by financetwitter
Making money in the forex (foreign exchange) is quite easy - just listen to research firms such as MIDF or Malaysian Industrial Development Finance, and bet the opposite. Led by a bunch of clueless management and researchers, the firm that specializes in development finance, investment banking, and [...]
February 17th, 2024 by financetwitter
Last August, despite US-led Western nations' relentless efforts in accusing Beijing of human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a stop in Xinjiang during his return trip to the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa and announced that a "beautiful X [...]
February 14th, 2024 by financetwitter
Malaysia is in financial deep shit, but most of its 33 million populations especially the largest ethnic group - Malay - doesn't realize it. The fact that 80% of the Malay voters chose Perikatan Nasional, a coalition comprising Malay nationalist Bersatu and PAS Islamist parties that subscribe to rad [...]
February 7th, 2024 by financetwitter
One of Boeing's selling points - or rather marketing gimmicks - in selling its 737 MAX jetliner was that pilots certified for an earlier generation of 737 jets only needed a short computer course to fly its fourth generation plane. That helped Boeing made tonnes of money as MAX quickly became its be [...]
February 5th, 2024 by financetwitter
How did Singapore-based Channel News Asia (CNA) know about imprisoned former Prime Minister Najib Razak's fate two days before his successful royal pardon? Or how did local daily Utusan Malaysia get it wrong for reporting that the crook would be released immediately, before retracting and apologisi [...]
February 3rd, 2024 by financetwitter
For four decades, Joe Biden has remained hopeful that the U.S. and Iran could find some common ground. Like other foolish Democrats leaders such as Barack Obama, they thought Iranian Mullahs could be brought into the U.S. orbit by being friendly with them. In fact, years before Obama ran for pre [...]
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