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US$ woes a booster for Asian bourses

News Feed — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:21:21 +0000

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

Move over, feds, as locals try stimulus too

News Feed — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:36:16 +0000

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

S’pore won’t take slow road to avoid the bumps

News Feed — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:38:55 +0000

(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

IMM Positioning – Speculative Investors Are Accumulating CAD Longs

News Feed — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:23:14 +0000

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…

Exit strategies are back on traders’ radar screens

News Feed — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:54:09 +0000

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

Er, what is a regular savings plan?

News Feed — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:51:14 +0000

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