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teeth53 Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:46        teeth53 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "don't learn through life, learn to grow with life "
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	After the Berkshire downgrade he said: “They’re doing that to all the insurance companies. They said they’d do that last week.” Berkshire also made headlines today by agreeing to buy reinsurer TransAtlantic Holdings (TRH). Moody’s (MCO) reaffirmed the U.S.’s Aaa rating today Buffett just happens to be Moody’s largest shareholder. teeth53 thot: Sounded like more and more rating agency is power in play against each other. S& P is having the first strike by telling the truth. Err....half the truth, leaving d others half for guessing. timqoo      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:32) Posted: Buffett probably won't be sitting still. No wonder The Oracle of Omaha gave the US Treasury An Imaginary Quadruple A rating over gthe weekend. He must have known that his huge conglomerate was about to be downgraded from  stable to negative from safe as $41 billion in cash and $180 billion in market value can make it to not so safe, maybe even dangerously unsafe. I’m shocked.  This is  beyond any  upsetting decision I’ve seen. To move Berkshire’s credit rating from atable to negative implies that there’s something wrong  in the state of   Berkshire.  It will trigger one scare story after another. If I were Warren or Charlie I’d be outraged. I suspect they were blindsided, as insiders know little about it. What a bloody insult.   Source: Warren Buffett’s Empire Is Declared Unsafe timqoo      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 20:29) Posted: Buffett vs S& P. who is the more powerful? his Berkshire kena downgraded. Buffett maybe planning or already executed his next big steps. He may be an octogenarian, but Warren Buffett is plenty feisty. And today he got into a bit of a back-and-forth with Standard & Poor’s over the ratings agency’s decision to downgrade U.S. debt to AA+ from AAA. Standard & Poor’s later came out with a decision to change the outlook on Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRKB) credit rating to Negative from Stable. Berkshire currently has a AA+ rating. Berkshire was one of five insurers that had their ratings placed on watch for a possible downgrade five others had their ratings cut to AA+ from AAA. “The 10 affected insurance groups operate in the U.S. and generally have significant holdings of U.S. Treasury and agency securities,” S& P said. Buffett said in an interview today with Fox Business Network that S& P was essentially confused about its job. “Their [S& P] job is to say whether bond instruments will be fulfilled, and they will be fulfilled… people confuse ability of the U.S. to pay debt obligations in dollars vs. what the dollar is actually worth.” After the Berkshire downgrade he said: “They’re doing that to all the insurance companies. They said they’d do that last week.” Source: Wrestling with the Oracle
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rotijai Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:45        rotijai About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	dont gap down can? gap up to my juicy peaks can ? Isolator      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 23:36) Posted: Dow will drop later on.....  It will close red..... Even it is green, STI will still need to drop 100 over pts.... Tmr gap down for most counters is unavoidable..... Once again...SELL ON REBOUND.... Gd luck...
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Isolator Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:36        Isolator About Contact  Quote this Post!   Mood: Yells: "STI is hard landing to below 2000..."
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Dow will drop later on.....  It will close red..... Even it is green, STI will still need to drop 100 over pts.... Tmr gap down for most counters is unavoidable..... Once again...SELL ON REBOUND.... Gd luck...
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rotijai Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:35        rotijai About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	buy tmr ? i am looking for juicy peaks sinetic8      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 23:29) Posted: wan to buy tmr? think again. job claims coming out. Fed always speak with positive attitude just to push market up. But the downgrade of US just came out, effects not know yet. With the US and europe economy, how will the future be? My call... dow to drop further!
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sinetic8 Senior	09-Aug-2011 23:29        sinetic8 About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	wan to buy tmr? think again. job claims coming out. Fed always speak with positive attitude just to push market up. But the downgrade of US just came out, effects not know yet. With the US and europe economy, how will the future be? My call... dow to drop further!
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rotijai Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:17        rotijai About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	BBs are happily harvesting profits from shorts.. iPunter      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 23:16) Posted: No point for anyone to buy cheap-cheap,      let it go up till they made millions, and then let it go back               down to their buying price again. In this way, fortunes are                       made and lost, even though the principal amount                                 may still be there...  ... louis001      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:41) Posted: I know someone who bot Noble between 0.86 and 1.02 during 11/2008-1/2009 after Lehman Crisis...offloaded some and still holding some of them....that's really buy cheap cheap.....
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iPunter Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:16        iPunter About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	No point for anyone to buy cheap-cheap,      let it go up till they made millions, and then let it go back               down to their buying price again. In this way, fortunes are                       made and lost, even though the principal amount                                 may still be there...  ... louis001      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:41) Posted: I know someone who bot Noble between 0.86 and 1.02 during 11/2008-1/2009 after Lehman Crisis...offloaded some and still holding some of them....that's really buy cheap cheap...... 5spice      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:32) Posted: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE !!! Singapore's National Day has saved STI going lau sai hahaha emmm.... HSI has over reacted? I wish to buy cheap cheap :D Waiting and watching.
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rotijai Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:07        rotijai About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	so.. just as if ah ben didnt mention a single word of QE.. market will drop mad :X   iPunter      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 23:03) Posted: No need to be bullish... after the recent sheet drops,     it is not easy for the market to climb back up...                   Some may have already lost very big amounts,                           especially those who have been holding on... rotijai      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:56) Posted: suddenly everyone is so bullish :)
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5spice Member	09-Aug-2011 23:06        5spice About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Yes Noble excellent counter,one of my favourite.  Watching. I am looking forward to dow another two black candles. My own study on HSI when closed red, Dow may closed red. I maybe wrong :)   louis001      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:41) Posted: I know someone who bot Noble between 0.86 and 1.02 during 11/2008-1/2009 after Lehman Crisis...offloaded some and still holding some of them....that's really buy cheap cheap...... 5spice      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:32) Posted: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE !!! Singapore's National Day has saved STI going lau sai hahaha emmm.... HSI has over reacted? I wish to buy cheap cheap :D Waiting and watching.
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iPunter Supreme	09-Aug-2011 23:03        iPunter About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	No need to be bullish... after the recent sheet drops,     it is not easy for the market to climb back up...                   Some may have already lost very big amounts,                           especially those who have been holding on... rotijai      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:56) Posted: suddenly everyone is so bullish :)
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andreytan Veteran	09-Aug-2011 23:00        andreytan About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	This was taken from CNBC, since 1950, there are 15 ,... 6% drop, and if u see chart, that means after one month it recover only ave 2.43% in another word, the s& p did not recover back the 6 % it lost. so this is to tell you that the recovery is a journey on as long way down. so be careful...still sell to strength, hope this rally is mere correction on the way down for us to profit and get out for good, when next yr hell come over.
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chriscyng Member	09-Aug-2011 23:00        chriscyng About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Shld 11000 hold, 11500 will see in days to come..
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rotijai Supreme	09-Aug-2011 22:56        rotijai About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	suddenly everyone is so bullish :)
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teeth53 Supreme	09-Aug-2011 22:43        teeth53 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood: Yells: "don't learn through life, learn to grow with life "
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Sounded like more and more rating agency is power in play against each other. S& P is having the first strike by telling the truth. Err....half the truth, leaving d others half for guessing. timqoo      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:32) Posted: Buffett probably won't be sitting still. No wonder The Oracle of Omaha gave the US Treasury An Imaginary Quadruple A rating over gthe weekend. He must have known that his huge conglomerate was about to be downgraded from  stable to negative from safe as $41 billion in cash and $180 billion in market value can make it to not so safe, maybe even dangerously unsafe. I’m shocked.  This is  beyond any  upsetting decision I’ve seen. To move Berkshire’s credit rating from atable to negative implies that there’s something wrong  in the state of   Berkshire.  It will trigger one scare story after another. If I were Warren or Charlie I’d be outraged. I suspect they were blindsided, as insiders know little about it. What a bloody insult.   Source: Warren Buffett’s Empire Is Declared Unsafe timqoo      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 20:29) Posted: Buffett vs S& P. who is the more powerful? his Berkshire kena downgraded. Buffett maybe planning or already executed his next big steps. He may be an octogenarian, but Warren Buffett is plenty feisty. And today he got into a bit of a back-and-forth with Standard & Poor’s over the ratings agency’s decision to downgrade U.S. debt to AA+ from AAA. Standard & Poor’s later came out with a decision to change the outlook on Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRKB) credit rating to Negative from Stable. Berkshire currently has a AA+ rating. Berkshire was one of five insurers that had their ratings placed on watch for a possible downgrade five others had their ratings cut to AA+ from AAA. “The 10 affected insurance groups operate in the U.S. and generally have significant holdings of U.S. Treasury and agency securities,” S& P said. Buffett said in an interview today with Fox Business Network that S& P was essentially confused about its job. “Their [S& P] job is to say whether bond instruments will be fulfilled, and they will be fulfilled… people confuse ability of the U.S. to pay debt obligations in dollars vs. what the dollar is actually worth.” After the Berkshire downgrade he said: “They’re doing that to all the insurance companies. They said they’d do that last week.” Source: Wrestling with the Oracle
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louis001 Master	09-Aug-2011 22:41        louis001 About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	I know someone who bot Noble between 0.86 and 1.02 during 11/2008-1/2009 after Lehman Crisis...offloaded some and still holding some of them....that's really buy cheap cheap...... 5spice      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 22:32) Posted: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE !!! Singapore's National Day has saved STI going lau sai hahaha emmm.... HSI has over reacted? I wish to buy cheap cheap :D Waiting and watching.
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iPunter Supreme	09-Aug-2011 22:35        iPunter About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	The stock market is like a embattled war-zone...     Participants must expect to get hurt when they              choose to play... nobody should blame the market                       if they are hurt badly, since the choice to play                               is completely theirs... they chose to play...                                         It's not a " sng-sng" matter...
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timqoo Senior	09-Aug-2011 22:32        timqoo About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Flexible   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Buffett probably won't be sitting still. No wonder The Oracle of Omaha gave the US Treasury An Imaginary Quadruple A rating over gthe weekend. He must have known that his huge conglomerate was about to be downgraded from  stable to negative from safe as $41 billion in cash and $180 billion in market value can make it to not so safe, maybe even dangerously unsafe. I’m shocked.  This is  beyond any  upsetting decision I’ve seen. To move Berkshire’s credit rating from atable to negative implies that there’s something wrong  in the state of   Berkshire.  It will trigger one scare story after another. If I were Warren or Charlie I’d be outraged. I suspect they were blindsided, as insiders know little about it. What a bloody insult.   Source: Warren Buffett’s Empire Is Declared Unsafe timqoo      ( Date: 09-Aug-2011 20:29) Posted: Buffett vs S& P. who is the more powerful? his Berkshire kena downgraded. Buffett maybe planning or already executed his next big steps. He may be an octogenarian, but Warren Buffett is plenty feisty. And today he got into a bit of a back-and-forth with Standard & Poor’s over the ratings agency’s decision to downgrade U.S. debt to AA+ from AAA. Standard & Poor’s later came out with a decision to change the outlook on Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRKB) credit rating to Negative from Stable. Berkshire currently has a AA+ rating. Berkshire was one of five insurers that had their ratings placed on watch for a possible downgrade five others had their ratings cut to AA+ from AAA. “The 10 affected insurance groups operate in the U.S. and generally have significant holdings of U.S. Treasury and agency securities,” S& P said. Buffett said in an interview today with Fox Business Network that S& P was essentially confused about its job. “Their [S& P] job is to say whether bond instruments will be fulfilled, and they will be fulfilled… people confuse ability of the U.S. to pay debt obligations in dollars vs. what the dollar is actually worth.” After the Berkshire downgrade he said: “They’re doing that to all the insurance companies. They said they’d do that last week.” Source: Wrestling with the Oracle
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5spice Member	09-Aug-2011 22:32        5spice About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE !!! Singapore's National Day has saved STI going lau sai hahaha emmm.... HSI has over reacted? I wish to buy cheap cheap :D Waiting and watching.
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louis001 Master	09-Aug-2011 22:31        louis001 About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	DOW up 200+ points...at 11020... now they turn to wait for  Mr. Ben B. who has to make a lot more convincing statements to calm people and restore confidence in the market.... and not forgetting the CRAs: S& P, Moody, and Fitch.....who will probably fight among themselves up down left right centre... NEW YORK - Stocks rose at the open on Tuesday in a rebound from the previous session's nosedive, but an upcoming Fed statement could spark a reversal if investors are not convinced it has a plan to combat a market meltdown.
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rotijai Supreme	09-Aug-2011 22:28        rotijai About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	it's funny to see nowadays.. up or down +100-200 is actually nth.. in the previous days, -100 was already like the end of the world.. +100 was like.. ho seh liao..
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