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FRESH weakness in the greenback gave a spur to regional bourses yesterday as big funds, which have borrowed in the ailing dollar, kept up their strategy of buying Asian blue chip stocks.
In Singapore, the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) closed a tad below the 2,800 level, gaining 36.34 points to end at a 15-month high of 2,797.88.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 1.4 per cent to 22,771…. more

As Elkhart and other areas show steps toward economic recovery, local governments are also trying to help business along by providing tax incentives — a strategy that experts say to use with caution.

Business – Local government – Tax – Accounting – Taxation

(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

Speculative investors re-entered the USD shorts that were unwound prior to the publication of US non-farm payrolls. This has been a profitable strategy, as the dollar came under renewed pressure in the week to 6 October. Coinciding with the correction higher in US yields last Friday, however, the dollar has…

THE phrase ‘exit strategy’ holds plenty of meaning for investors these days.
At the geopolitical level, you might say it applies to when foreign troops will pull out permanently from Iraq or Afghanistan.
At the macro level, it might refer to how and when central banks such as the US Federal Reserve, which have propped up failed banks and pumped billions to try and support collapsed economies, sho… more

Where do you see this?
In investment-related documents and websites.
What does it mean?
A regular savings plan is a monthly subscription plan that enables you to invest a little money at a time, say $200, in a particular investment such as a unit trust, on a regular basis. It is an effective strategy that avoids trying to time the markets. By investing regularly, more units are bought when prices … more

With the economy on the mend, the Fed has been openly contemplating its exit strategy. More and more economic indicators are improving with each passing week and most forecasters inside and outside the Fed now believe a recovery is underway. The challenge for the Fed will be to remove stimulus…

After last week’s European central bank announcements, attention turns to Wednesday’s US FOMC meeting. We expect an unchanged 0-0.25% federal funds target range and for the policy statement to reiterate that this is likely to continue for an extended period. The statement may also touch on the exit strategy from…

GM and Chrysler defended their plans Wednesday to eliminate about 3,000 dealerships, calling it a vital piece of their strategy to rebound from government-led bankruptcies.

THE US dollar will not be replaced by special drawing rights (SDRs) as the global reserve currency in the short term, Societe General’s head of strategy and economic research Michala Marcussen said yesterday.

The SDR is the International Monetary Fund’s unit of account and is made up of the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling. ‘The idea doesn’t fly,’ Ms Marcussen told reporters, say… more