Because if you had bought the into inaugural 30Y SGS issue at its auction in March this year, you would be sitting on an 8% return (10% if you had sold 2 weeks… Continue reading →

There are now at least 5 major central banks officially on QE – Fed, BOJ, BOE, SNB and the latest ECB. Some matter more to ‘them’, some matter more to us – us… Continue reading →

As expected, we have reached the EUR euphoria stage after our expected Jackson Hole disappointment. Despite our Dow Jones industrial making an eye-watering 1.87% jump overnight, yours truly is not bullish. Sorry bulls.… Continue reading →

Communist Paper Editor blasts legacy of outgoing leaders. Sept. 4 (South China Morning Post) — A senior editor of Study Times ,a Communist Party mouthpiece, has launched a blistering broadside at the country’s… Continue reading →

There are many ways to give to charity and it looks like Keppel is certainly one of them. Within 6 months, the company potentially made over SGD 6 million off investors of her… Continue reading →

This is really history in making – internationalising a currency before it is fully convertible. This is what China has been doing for the past 5 years since it allowed a Chinese bank… Continue reading →

I think about my future most when I am behind my wheels. Of the different encounters you get on the road – traffic jams, Singaporean drivers, radio news, trivials and songs, the pedestrians,… Continue reading →

Can we really believe Bernanke when he said he’s all ready to ramp up QE again? Even so, the question right after that would be “so now what”. Basically, QE has reached diminishing… Continue reading →

As we said 2 weeks ago, Europe had solved itself. The ever so influential Medley was said to report that the ECB was close to a bonds program deal. Sep 6 ECB meeting… Continue reading →

IT’S ONLY A SONG ! link. Not that I can claim I had my first Walkman then. Although I can attest to my light blue Sony Walkman procured sometime during the Tiananmen fiasco… Continue reading →