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Popular Foods That Might Kill You

On Dec. 5, New York City's Board of Health voted to ban the use of artery-clogging trans fats at all city restaurants, from local pizzerias to national chains to high-end hot spots. Restaurants will have to stop using frying oils with trans fats by July, 2007, and eliminate trans fats from all foods [...]

Stocks Which Triggered Buy Signal – 5Dec2006

After closing today, Bursa Malaysia (KLCI) Composite Index recorded another high with volume above 1.5 billion. It makes one wonder if this trend will ever stop for a while to catch some breathesI haven't seen any major correction except on the 1 day negative reaction in response to the U.S. major i [...]

FARMBES Ready To Take Off Again?

I watch with great interest the way Farm's Best Bhd (FARMBES : stock-code 9776) and its' daughter stock Warrant (FARMBES-WA : stock-code 9776W) perform right after 4 pm (1 hour left before closing bell) today. While the mother share up almost 12% to close at RM 1.22, the daughter share closed 55% up [...]

Options Trading – Assignment

How can I tell when I will be assigned?You can never tell when you will be assigned. Once you sell an option (put or call), you have the potential for being assigned to fulfill your obligation to receive (and pay for) or deliver (and get paid for) shares of stock on any business day. In some circums [...]

Options Trading – Exercise

What is "automatic exercise" of an option?The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) has provisions for the automatic exercise of certain in-the-money options at expiration, a procedure also referred to as "exercise by exception." Generally, OCC will automatically exercise any expiring equity call or pu [...]

Have Camera Phone Will Travel – Become A Photo-Journalist

What was your childhood's dream? To become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, teacher or a journalist? But you didn't like to study and you came out second from the bottom, most of the time. You hate science, mathematics, arts and most of the subjects taught in school but you love to hang around with a bun [...]

End Of The Year Merger – Momentum Afresh

Latest financial breaking news from AP reported that Bank of New York Co. (NYSE : BK, quote) has agreed to take over Mellon Financial Corp. (NYSE : MEL, quote) in a $16.5 billion all-stock deal that will create the world's largest securities servicing company and one of the biggest asset managers.Th [...]

Why Mega-Mergers Happens End Of The Year?

If you ever observe, mega-mergers involving multi-billions takeovers usually happens at the end of every year. Some of the merger and acquisition (M&A) examples:Nov-20-2006: Blackstone Group agreed to buy U.S. office building owner Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE : EOP) in a deal valued at [...]

World's Largest Plantation Merger Details

CIMB Investment Bank Berhad (CIMB) officially announced a proposal for the merger of Sime Darby Berhad, Golden Hope Plantations Berhad and Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad to create the world’s largest listed oil palm plantation player valued at RM 31 billion. A special purpose vehicle, Synergy Drive Sdn B [...]

Telekom Malaysia TM To The Rescue – TimeDotCom

Will TM, previously known as Telekom Malaysia (TM : stock-code 4863) finally acquire Time DotCom Berhad (TIMECOM : stock-code 5031) after talk about it was in the air for some time? The news resurfaced again in a local media.Sources said that the telecommunication giant is considering a plan to acqu [...]


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