Tag Archive: Singapore

SGX Is Left Quite High And Dry In The Global IPO Game – A Good Idea For Punters

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The SGX caught my attention earlier after reading a report of the FT that SGX is slipping fast and far behind her regional rivals. And with 8 IPO’s slated for this week in… Continue reading

1994 and 2014 – A Clockwork Orange ?

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For a Cold War era kid, I am mortified at the audacity of those 5 teenagers who were arrested on vandalism charges because it is not just vandalism they attempted – it is… Continue reading

Hard Choices (not the book) – SMRT, Starhub, delistings and the SGX

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Hard Choices : Challenging the Singaporean Consensus is the latest book hot off the press from our elite think tank incubators. This is not the be confused with Hillary Clinton’s memoir of the… Continue reading

Buy and Be Cursed …. Property Investments

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I felt quite snubbed earlier when I went to Holland Village and nobody bothered to market the new Commonwealth condo to me because I was wearing grubby sneakers and shorts. At least if… Continue reading

A World Without SOR – Singapore

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Let me congratulate everyone who has re-fixed their loans voluntarily or involuntarily from SOR because ….. since the clean up and the fool proof fixing methodology deployed, we have enjoyed no trading for… Continue reading

Post MPS – The Silent SGD On A Full Moon Eclipse Night

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Seems nobody is really interested in what happened in Singapore yesterday, just like nobody is really interested in the RBA minutes today because only America matters and we all know where we stand.… Continue reading

Trade Like A HFT, Is To Follow The Pain – AUDUSD

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A friend of a friend’s wanted to set up a branch of their HFT (high frequency trading) firm in Singapore a year back. Afterall, Singapore is the king of Asian foreign exchange and… Continue reading

PART ONE : 800 MILLION DOLLARS AND A SMILE FOR SINGAPOREANS

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My head busy is swimming with many threads of thoughts, so I thought writing should help me unravel some of them and make some sense of all these inputs and data. This is… Continue reading

My USDSGD Monetary Policy Statement Piece – Forward Guidance Please

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CONTINUED FROM Random Thoughts : Temasek, Olam and Watsons – When It is So Dumb, It Must Be Smart Recap.. My initial thought was that Temasek is getting out of SGD because Olam… Continue reading

Money Cannot Buy Happiness, Just A Different Set Of Problems – USDSGD

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My friend, the Retired Trader, was giving me an analogy about a rich chap who is not happy (as opposed to unhappy) but mightily relieved at his own set of problems. Problems like… Continue reading