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Archive for November 11th, 2009

Maybe, or maybe not.
It’s what a lot of experts are saying, and it’s what some of us who work at FSM believed will happen. So we liquidated a part of our portfolios and kept some cash, some of us as early as June 2009, and we waited for the correction to come so that we would have some cash to buy in when share prices fell.
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A PUSH on the banks helped the Straits Times Index yesterday rise 14.22 points to 2,707.6 in a tepid session that saw the broad market record 163 rises against 218 falls excluding derivatives.
The softness was not overly surprising given that the index had already risen sharply on Monday ahead of the US rally which meant that it made sense for investors to sell into strength yesterday. Providing a… more

IT HAS been reassuring to learn how the Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) Regulatory Conflicts Committee (RCC) reviews perceived and actual conflicts that could arise from the exchange’s status as a self-regulated organisation and its dual role as a listed company and a market regulator.
Among various things, the committee looked into how SGX handled the recent lapses at S-chips here and scrutinised deal… more

FINANCE Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday said the government will use every tool at its disposal ‘in a calibrated fashion’ to prevent boom and bust in the property market. One day after the Monetary Authority of Singapore served notice of further action to cool the housing market if needed, in the face of growing speculation risks, Mr Tharman spoke about the need to manage the property cy… more

(SINGAPORE) Go for higher growth and develop ‘real depths of capabilities’ in seven or eight areas. That, in a nutshell, is an economic strategy Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam sees for Singapore in the face of growing volatility.
‘Don’t go for a lower growth path for the sake of managing volatility. Go for a higher growth path but prepare our businesses and our workers well for the occas… more

Oil prices fell Tuesday as workers headed back to deep sea platforms that were bypassed by a rapidly weakening storm in the Gulf of Mexico.