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Having finally pushed through its Oct 13’09 low/range lows at 1.5706 the past week, we are now looking for further downside weakness towards its major support at the 1.5276 level, its .50 Fib Ret(1.3501-1.7041 rally). Before here lies a minor support at the 1.5351 level, its May 12’09 high. With…

The stock market zigzagged in a tight range on the last day of the year as weekly unemployment claims fell to the lowest level since July 2008.









Trading day – Business – Investing – Stocks and Bonds – Equities

MOST Asian markets fell yesterday amid continuing global jitters over debt levels, especially in Europe.
In Singapore, traders were more interested in the welcome distraction of year-end festive activities, with precious few attractions to lure them into a tepid market.
The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) stuck to its recent boring routine, moving mostly in a range of just a couple of points a… more

The House voted Wednesday to slap higher taxes on Wall Street investment managers to help pay to extend $31 billion in tax breaks for a wide range of Americans.







Wall Street – Business – Tax break – Investing – Financial Services

In currency trading, the greenback has only benefitted from lower equities and generally supportive comments from a variety of sources, with the exception of some non-conciliatory rhetoric out of the Sino-American summit. Traders were fixated all week on an alleged defense of a binary option with a range of 1.48…

Key Points

A range bound stock market has left some investors on the sidelines waiting for the next rally
We conducted a study of historical returns for the S&P 500 between 1928 and 2009 to test the benefits and detriments of timing the market
Avoiding the ten worst months resulted in an annualised 8.3% return, versus the annualised 5.1% return for remaining invested from 1928 t… more

(SINGAPORE) Inflation is now expected to be higher in 2010, as a result of increased Housing and Development Board property values.
The government has revised its consumer price index (CPI) inflation forecast to between 2.5 and 3.5 per cent, from a one to 2 per cent range previously.
This is to account for the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore’s recent revision of annual values of HDB properti… more

ASIAN bourses were trapped in a narrow range of trading yesterday, with investors adopting a wait-and-see approach as the greenback stabilised against the region’s currencies.
Blue chips did their best to rally – and they did manage to get the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) up by 13.75 points to 2,758.79 – but other Asian markets were mixed.
China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.53 per c… more

SINGAPORE may be buzzing amid the arrival of top global leaders for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit but nothing, it seems, can stir the local stock market – and others around the region – from a decidedly lacklustre patch.
Blue-chip stocks around the region stayed trapped within a tight trading range throughout the trading session yesterday.
Even the ailing greenback’s renewed weaknes… more

The risk rally extended gains this past week as optimism over the global recovery beat out concerns that rising unemployment may lead to continued sluggishness. The USD, meanwhile, finished out roughly in the middle of the week’s range after testing near to its recent lows against the EUR and other…