We Dont Need Growth, Just Self Fulfilling Valuations – Lessons From The Market

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It is harder to grow revenues and easy to grow valuations. In the past 5 years, we learnt the easy way – valuations. Same old company, same old house, same old building, same… Continue reading

Antipodean Alert : AUD and NZD

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2 Main Developments in Australia last week No shutdown in Australia and the debt ceiling hike went as smooth as a whistle and Fitch  affirmed their ratings. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fitch-aussie-debt-ceiling-hike-080558388.html A cash injection of AUD… Continue reading

Code Red, Red Alert, It’s All Red – Borrowing Without Repaying

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In a G Zero world, there is no leadership but one big vacuum. When the Fed tells us that they do not exist for global good, people and countries start looking inwards. “You… Continue reading

A Simple Life Into Month End – FOMC & BoJ Special

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Month end on Thursday, 31st October and we have 2 big central bank meetings that are poised to be non events. BOJ BOJ rate decision day and a glimpse into 2014 monetary base… Continue reading

Idiot’s Guide To Global COOLING Not Warming

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Some weekend trivia for readers. The earth was much hotter 1,000-2,000 years ago and even hotter during the Cretaceous period some 100 million years ago when dinosaurs were at their peak. The atmospheric… Continue reading

Greenspan & The S&P

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“In the U.S. stock market, EPS this year may be nearly 30% above 2007’s level, yet share prices are just over 10% higher than 2007’s peak.” taken from a private banking report. What… Continue reading

Chinese Tapering While The World Eases

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It is easy to ease but hard to taper – just look at the Fed. The mini liquidity crunch in China appears to be expected even as CNY fixes to a new record… Continue reading

OCBC Goes To Hong Kong, Everybody Wing Hang Tonight

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302 HK – had my eye on it at HKD 78 thinking it was a good takeover target but missed out because I thought I would have had more time. Last done HKD… Continue reading

I Am Not Loonie, Are You ? CADSGD at 4 year low

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The Bank of Canada “BoC” gave the USDCAD “Loonie” a nice little spanking last night but it sends a clear message for the months ahead. The market had not expected the drastic event… Continue reading

Bonds In Conversation : Desperately Seeking Some Value, Starting With Donuts

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It is called a sandwich and its HKD 58 which is about SGD 9.25, roughly what you would pay for a sandwich in MBFC. It is, however, done the proper Parisienne way, according… Continue reading