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Posts Tagged ‘share prices’

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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(SINGAPORE) Share placements this year have confirmed a slight variation of the trite adage – it is not what you know, but rather who you know is buying into the company.
Locally listed firms have tapped investors for almost $4 billion in 45 placements of new shares so far this year, making the market that raised $600 million in 2008 look like a mausoleum in comparison.
While the share prices of f… more

EVEN as global equity markets hit new highs for the year last week, there was a renewed vigour in the debate over whether the seven-month-old rally can be sustained.
The advance in share prices was due to a slew of forecast-beating reports from US multinational giants such as Microsoft and Apple Computer.
This had raised hopes that the United States, the world’s No.1 economy, is slowly back up on … more

Some investors and market watchers say the stock market may have overestimated the prospects for an economic rebound — and share prices could be due for a big pullback.

THE stock market paused to take a breather yesterday, following three days of spectacular gains that saw share prices return to levels not seen for 11 months.

After breaking through the 2,700-level soon after the opening bell, profit-taking in blue chips then dragged the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) down 32.88 points to 2648.76.

What put the dampeners on sentiment was market perception … more