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STI to cross 3000 boosted by long-term investors
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smartrader
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22-Feb-2010 09:30
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STI will get stronger closer to the budget announcement... |
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kellychang
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22-Feb-2010 09:19
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me!
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22-Feb-2010 09:00
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So who is crying today huh?
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WLBO_BB
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21-Feb-2010 23:01
Yells: "Warren Look Before Others _ Buffett Best " |
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Wall Street's big week ahead NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After a two-week advance, stocks are just shy of crossing into positive territory for 2010, but the week ahead brings hurdles that could challenge the momentum. "The economy is in recovery mode, but it doesn't feel like it for most people," said John Canally, economist at LPL. "Add to that the issues being debated in Washington, ongoing questions about China and Greece and when the Fed might start to raise rates, and you're bound to see a volatile market." Selling peters out: Four weeks of declining markets were followed by two weeks of gains as the panic about China slowing its growth and Greece's debt crisis spreading to the rest of Europe began to dissipate. The S&P 500 plunged 9.2% between January 2010 highs and early February lows, a loss that was shy of the technical definition of a correction, but sufficient to bring in some buyers. But with the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 all hovering just below where they ended last year, investors may be reluctant to push stocks much higher, particularly with concerns about unemployment, the U.S. deficit, inflation and Fed policy in play. "I see stocks in a trading range for the rest of the first half," said Stephen Leeb, president at Leeb Capital Management. "I think fears of inflation are well founded and they will cap the market, but the Fed will do what it can to make sure the economy doesn't dip, so you're left with a trading range." |
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smartrader
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21-Feb-2010 22:11
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this is for emergency fund... when the economy recovers, there is no such thing as emergency fund anymore... Obama is angry that the banks are not heeding the advice to moderate bonus, so the increase will receive support from the markets.. | ||||
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Sarahli
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21-Feb-2010 21:16
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Honestly, how the markets can be rattled by this discount rate hike of 0.25% baffles me when banks are reporting huge profits or much lower losses which signal banks are on their way out of the recession. This low lending rate to the banks have to stop. The people cannot be subsidising their profits indefinitely esp when they are already making money. Imagine the Fed is paying more interest borrowing the funds from other countries and then having to loan them to fat banks at almost zero interest rate. How can this be healthy for US? If anyone seriously want to see the US coming out of recession and erasing their huge deficit or lowering their debt level, this is a good sign. It is not a scary hike anyway. Chill. Of course, people can argue about the banks passing on the rate hike to borrowers, etc. But on the flip side, it is time, depositors see a little more money for their buck in the bank. That should attract more people to buy USD or even invest in the US stock market (double gain when the stock market improves). I see more good than bad out of this move when the markets come to their senses. | ||||
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smartrader
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21-Feb-2010 20:57
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economy on recovery ..focus on individual company growth for stars.. STI component stocks may be due for review.... wonder why SMRT and Comfort Delgro are not included in the index...too many property counters, no tech companies after Chartered, no logistics companies, no water industry .... |
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soloman
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21-Feb-2010 20:27
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Once rate starts markets will plunge ......................... | ||||
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alexchia01
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21-Feb-2010 18:07
Yells: "Catch The Stars And Ride With Them" |
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HSI falls below SMA(20) last Friday, there is still no sign of a Bull run for HK. I fear there maybe more downside to come for HSI. But, I don't think this has much effect over STI. The Singapore Government is announcing the 2010 Budget on Monday. All eyes will be on the result. If there is good news, than STI will continue to rise. If there is no good news, as long as STI stays above SMA(20), I think it's pretty much out of the woods. Based on what I saw on Friday's last minute surge, I'm guessing there are some good news coming. Let's cross our fingers and hope for the best. |
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WLBO_BB
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21-Feb-2010 17:41
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quite true, now STI seem to be following China and HK rather than DOW hor... most ppl will feel that chinese during their festive season should be in the good mood to buy... however, i believe the volume on monday will be miserable even if can go up...
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WLBO_BB
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21-Feb-2010 17:36
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For me, if STI up...sell on rebound...... if STI down.... buy discounted good counter with good FA for keep... | ||||
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Hulumas
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21-Feb-2010 17:36
Yells: "INVEST but not TRADE please!" |
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Despite any good or bad news I keep buying! Ha. ha.. ha... | ||||
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soloman
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21-Feb-2010 17:25
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THINK MONDAY STI GO DOWN ............. CHINA YET TO TO DIGEST LATEST BANK MOVES ...................... ANYWAY, FROM NOW TILL RATES END, STI IS DOWNTREND. DO NOT BUY UNTIL RATES INCREASE OVER .......... |
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Laulan
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21-Feb-2010 17:22
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Don't study charts can lose money. Study can also lose money. So forget it, just use your "common cents". Monday stock market will go up. Why? Becos businessmen, speculators, and CEOs all coming back from overseas after their Lunar holidays. Have time to invest liao, can support prices also, so hotting up the market. Buy in the morning and sell on T+3 unless you just want to run with small gains. I will be buying too. |
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WLBO_BB
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21-Feb-2010 16:38
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - – US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke is expected to shed light this week on the central bank's sudden decision to hike an emergency bank-lending rate, triggering speculation on monetary tightening. Bernanke is scheduled to appear before the financial committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday and the Senate banking panel the next day, where his testimony will be closly scrutinized by jittery markets. The Fed's increase Friday of the discount rate, the interest it charges on emergency loans to banks, rattled stock markets. Investors feared the central bank might be moving faster than anticipated to withdraw critical support measures for the US economy, as it recovered from a brutal recession. It was the first major action by the Fed to remove some of the unprecedented monetary easing measures; and also the first tinkering of interest rates by a central bank from the Group of Seven industrialized nations after emerging from recession, analysts said. The markets were particularly concerned that the central bank was setting the stage for tightening the more significant federal funds rate, the benchmark interest rate that banks charge each other for loans now at virtually zero percent. "Hopefully, chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress (this) week will shed some important new light on the Fed's policy intentions," said Brian Bethune, chief US financial economist of IHS Global Insight. "It is indeed puzzling as to why the Fed made this move and announcement out of cycle with its meeting dates for 2010," he said. Although many had expected the Fed to raise the discount rate, considering the waning interest from banks for the short-term loan facility, the timing caught many by surprise, especially coming well ahead of the central bank's March 16 policy meeting. If the Fed was laying the groundwork for dismantling the easy money policy critical to accelerating the US recovery, it appeared premature, analysts said. The US economy expanded by a strong 5.7 percent in the final 2009 quarter after 2.2 percent growth in the preceding quarter, but unemployment near double digits is expected to persist for some time in the face of lagging job growth. In addition, the latest consumer price data for January showed tame inflation, underscoring weak demand and still-fragile recovery from a recession that began in December 2007 and has cost more than seven million jobs. "In some ways the timing of the Fed move is peculiar since growth is not exactly building in a clear way," said Robert Brusca, chief economist at FAO Economics. The economy "has been so weak for so long that if there is backsliding the possibility that economic weakness turns to financial catastrophe again is quite high," he said. Bernanke is likely to sound "cautiously upbeat on growth and inflation" in his congressional testimony and focus on the "exit" strategy for the radical measures introduced to haul the world's largest economy from recession, said Fabio Fois, an economist at Barclays Capital. "We believe it is likely that Bernanke will reiterate that he expects economic conditions to warrant exceptionally low levels of the fed funds rate for an extended period; it will be a hawkish signal if he does not," Fois said. It will be Bernanke's maiden appearance before lawmakers since his acrimonious confirmation by Congress for a second term beginning February 1. Aside from slashing the fed funds rate to an unprecedented range of zero to 0.25 percent during the financial crisis, the Fed also pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy to keep it afloat when the financial sector was reeling from a home mortage meltdown. "We dont expect (Bernanke) to hint at an imminent tightening in policy," said analyst Sal Guatieri of BMO Capital Markets. "Tightening is not expected until the Fed is convinced that the recovery is sustainable and the jobless rate is trending down," he said. |
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kellychang
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21-Feb-2010 11:43
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Ipunter will charge us... one head count, $3000... u want to learn?
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Bon3260
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21-Feb-2010 10:56
Yells: "Ooo Ooo Aaa Aaa!" |
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Kellychang, I dot we r talking abt iPunter willing 2 teach us how 2 study e Mkt chart? ('',)
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kellychang
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21-Feb-2010 10:18
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yes yes i know... i am not 17, 18 also.. of course i know all these things la..
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learningtheropes
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21-Feb-2010 10:12
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we are using brain to think..just that a guy's brain is filled with all this stuff
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loushare
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21-Feb-2010 00:38
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