Presenting Generation E : The Really Entitled Ones

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The Millenials (Gen Y) – 1980s-90s, the children of the late Baby Boomers. As a member of Gen X, empathy and antipathy results in a certain apathy for the next generation. I suppose… Continue reading

Singapore Precious Metals Exchange – Alchemy In Singapore

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“SINGAPORE: Precious metal investors now have a new platform to trade with the launch of the Singapore Precious Metals Exchange (SGPMX). It is the world’s first precious metal exchange that is fully backed… Continue reading

Singapore Housing and the $2 million sweet spot

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As a follow up to Wealth Fallacy of Singapore Property written in January. We had a slew of new rules, the latest being the Total Debt Servicing Ratio to cap at 60% while… Continue reading

Nailing it on U.S. employment day … better be lucky than smart

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My futures broker was calling to congratulate me for putting on the TYQ3 put condor before the economic figure release … but with humility, I told him I was probably more lucky than… Continue reading

It’s a few hours before U.S. employment report … Of Trees payoff & cheap optionality

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There’s a sense of palpitation in the air ahead of every U.S. employment report on the 1st Friday of the calendar month that will then set the tone of all markets across all… Continue reading

A Trade Suggestion : HDB Bonds

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It escaped my notice but I finally read something I wrote and a trade idea struck me. Bond trade ideas do not come to me easily these days because, 1. I am not… Continue reading

REHASH : The Economists in Feb Said USDSGD at 1.2 ! GDP Next Week

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In early Feb, I wrote Sunday Times, Coffee and Slight Nausea. Tired of reading the same old “piece of mind numbing happy utopia calls, I will protest at the Toto salaries they are… Continue reading

Bonds In Conversation : 4th July Was The Start Not The End ..of the war (UPDATED)

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Today is a US holiday. Independence Day was the day the Revolutionary War started and not the day it ended. The war lasted between 1776 till 1783. The big picture is starting to… Continue reading

Sovereign wealth fund rankings – money is not everything

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The main local headline here today was “Temasek’s assets surge to a record on recovery in stock markets“. It triggered the usual debate on how much is attributed to new money and FX… Continue reading

4th July Ironies : What a “Charm” (Hokkien) Life For Women

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Citigroup Economist Willem Buiter’s ‘Ex-mistress Sent Threatening Emails And Lewd Photos’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10157727/Citigroup-economist-Willem-Buiters-ex-mistress-sent-threatening-emails-and-lewd-photos.html http://www.businessinsider.com/heleen-mees-and-willem-buiter-2013-7 She actually looks quite good. Poor thing. Moral of the Story : Old Man Still Got Chance What About Old… Continue reading