Tag Archive: NASDAQ

The Age of Giants in the Sharing Economy – To Eat, To Shop, To Invest or To Read Chinese Literature

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* We are still living in the dream in the record stock market rally even though we hit some snags last week observing the first signs of volatility in a while * JPM… Continue reading →

A Suicidal Time For the Markets

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Mental Health Problems – Continued Suicide has been quite the theme for parents this week as a dear friend informed me that her parent group chat has been abuzz with interest, on the… Continue reading →

Zico Files : Corrections – they come and go

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Corrections are part and parcel of the life as an investor – they come and the go. In the week that past, there is always that “end of the world” feeling which often give rise to… Continue reading →

Equity Wednesday : No Guts No Glory, Remember Oct 87

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I am beginning to think its a market plague even as the world has a few real diseases outbreaks to worry about. BUBONIC PLAGUE A Chinese town has been sealed off and 151… Continue reading →

Mid Year Musings : Engineering A Perfect Market At A Price

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My son deceived me into borrowing Season 1 and 2 of the Game of Thrones before I realised that they were both rated M18 and bordered very closely, to my limited understanding, on… Continue reading →

The Moral of The Ali Baba Story

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Let’s be clear that Ali Baba is no child’s story as far as I am concerned. And I see myself having some affinity to the folktale given that my nickname in primary school… Continue reading →

Constructive Ideas For Singapore Markets : GLP and MLT

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Some readers may have noticed that I pulled the post on the idea of how some bonds could be issued more profitably for some than others. As it turned out, opinions were that… Continue reading →

Ad Hoc Commentary – the new Dow is skewed towards financials: Visa and Goldman

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Yesterday, the Dow Index threw out Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa and Bank of America. And they took in Visa, Nike and Goldman Sachs. Since the Dow is a price weighted index, the table below shows… Continue reading →

Why Not Tech Stocks ? Part 2

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Bebo founder Michael Birch buys back website for $1m after selling it for $850m   The founder of Bebo has bought the social network for $1m just five years after selling it for… Continue reading →

Why No Tech For Buffet ?

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Buffet is not the best investor this year but he certainly still holds a pretty unblemished track record that is longer than many banker’s ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Berkshire_Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway is the largest financial institutions… Continue reading →