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WHO would you trust more? A fireman, or a real estate agent?
Thought so.
So did 760 Singapore residents who took part in an online poll conducted by Reader’s Digest magazine on the most trusted professionals in the country.
Conducted last October, the poll gave them two lists of 55 individuals and 40 professions and asked them to rate their trustworthiness on a scale of one to 10.
The results show… more

Sequential attempts to deal with particular problems in our economy have not solved any problems since the recession began. Instead, we have simply pushed the economic pressures in the economy, as if it were a child’s balloon, to another part of the balloon. Almost four years ago we published an…

Between Christmas and New Year, the US currency remained firm for the most part. The dollar was boosted primarily by hopes of the economic recovery continuing and the upbeat mood in equity markets. Although the Fed is trying hard not to alarm bond markets prematurely, market participants are bracing themselves…

EQUITY weightings of private clients’ portfolios are expected to remain elevated relative to bonds going into 2010, in a sign of continuing optimism over global growth and, in particular, growth in Asia and the emerging markets.
Strategists are less upbeat on fixed income assets, citing a backdrop of possible interest rate rises as part of central banks’ exit strategies.
So far, there are a number… more

SINGAPORE stocks struggled for direction in a muted day of trading yesterday, even though the market briefly touched a year-high early in the trading day.
For the most part, however, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) danced around the psychologically key 2,800 mark in what is turning out to be a typically quiet December season.
The general mood was lethargic as some fund managers had closed … more

The moves this week should convince anyone that had any doubt, that the correlation between equity markets and currencies remains alive and well. It was a rollercoaster, with EUR/USD oscillating between 1.4800 support and 1.5000 resistance for the better part of the week. The S&P 500 meanwhile continued to find…

President Obama’s trip to Asia is one part introduction, one part diplomatic dialogue and eight parts competitive economics. Whatever agreements are met with leaders of Japan, and South Korean or communiqués are issued from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC) in Singapore, it is the visit to Beijing that matters….

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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In FX, the greenback tried its best to break key levels during the early part of the trading week and ditch the carry-trade funding reputation it has acquired since spring, but EUR/USD managed to hold the key 1.4630 March uptrend line. The dollar’s price action sustained its inverse relationship to…

The proposals by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission were part of the administration’s plan to overhaul financial rules.