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STI to cross 3000 boosted by long-term investors
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SupremeA
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28-Jul-2008 17:15
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Hmm moving closer together? | ||||
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Sporeguy
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28-Jul-2008 17:13
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STI has been performing worse than DJIA since the end of last yr, subprimes, what subprimes. |
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CWQuah
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28-Jul-2008 16:35
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This is really one of those super-rare days when the STI intraday range never break 25 points. Wow. It almost feels like a Friday. Will trading vol even hit 800m today??? |
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SupremeA
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28-Jul-2008 15:59
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zz and my stock collapsed sian |
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Blastoff
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28-Jul-2008 15:54
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Pretty low volume today... only 605m. | ||||
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ozone2002
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28-Jul-2008 15:05
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OLYMPIC RALLY!~!!!! 28 July 08, 1015 China signals easier monetary policy in shift to growth - Lehman Bros (XFN-ASIA) - China has signalled a subtle shift in its policy focus away from fighting inflation to promoting growth, Lehman Brothers said in a research note. The investment bank said that a statement released in the official media from a meeting of the Politburo, the ruling Communist Party's top decision-making body, showed there is no longer a tightening policy bias, despite continued efforts to combat inflation. After a meeting of the Politburo late on Friday, a statement indicated the party's policy priority has changed from "preventing overheating and preventing inflation" - which was set in November last year - to "ensuring stable and fast growth and preventing inflation." While China's leaders still put combating inflation in a significant place in their policy agenda, the task is no longer at the top. There is no mention of policy tightening in the news release. In a separate statement last night after the second quarter statement of the central bank's monetary policy committee, the People's Bank of China emphasized the continuity and stability of monetary policies without mentioning monetary tightening. "Because of these changes, we think we will see some gradual shifts in macroeconomic policies over the next few months," said the note by Lehman economist Sun Mingchun. "In the next couple of months, we may first see changes on the fiscal policy side, including potential changes in tax policies (e.g. tax rate cuts, increasing the threshold for paying personal income tax, increasing value added tax rebates for certain types of exporters, or increasing fiscal expenditure). "On the monetary policy front, we judge the loosening of monetary tightening will be gradual and slight, at least in the next 2-3 months. In the near term, the main efforts will likely be to provide credit to small- and medium-sized enterprises who have been affected most by the credit tightening since November 2007," it said. This could mean a slight relaxation of the lending quotas in the coming months to accommodate the needs of small and medium enterprises, it said, referring to tighter caps on lending growth set by banking regulators. Lehman added that it maintains its forecast of the yuan at 6.70 to the dollar by the year-end and no interest rate hike through the year-end. It also said that the there is no mention of liquidity management in the central bank statement, adding that suggests there is limited room for further bank reserve rate hikes. It added that it maintains its assessment of another 250 basis points in reserve rate hikes before the year-end. Commercial banks in China must now hold 17.5 pct of their deposits on reserve. bjburo@xfn.com |
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SupremeA
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28-Jul-2008 14:00
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Just had a v full lunch, watching the way nikkei gyrate is making me seasick | ||||
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ozone2002
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28-Jul-2008 13:46
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NDP & olympics rally coming soon.. maybe be good to load up on dips | ||||
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aleoleo
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28-Jul-2008 08:48
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Will STI up later ? yes, think morning session will up, but afternoon might down, let's see what will happen later... |
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novena_33
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28-Jul-2008 08:44
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bro...now a days ppl think very much different from those folks from last time.....
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novena_33
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28-Jul-2008 08:34
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u better bank in the BOA cheque..before the SGP dollar get too strong....  or maybe u can wait till the US dollar get stronger and get back to a higher level.... 
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Blastoff
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28-Jul-2008 07:58
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Congrats & Enjoy your honeymoon!
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AK_Francis
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28-Jul-2008 01:52
Yells: "Happy go lucky, cheers." |
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ha ah now we are talking about Wedding Dinner Index. ang bow anything below 100 is below bar, esp in ball room in known hotel. Lately, I had attended a wedding dinner without liquor, only wine and beer were served. save cost loh. | ||||
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elfinchilde
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28-Jul-2008 00:41
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just wondering in general.... are our people really so calculative when it comes to angpows and/or weddings... had a friend of a friend who was doing the same thing you were doing, jj....(-_-").... enjoy your honeymoon! :) |
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jackjames
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28-Jul-2008 00:29
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ha ha.... my average ang pow is SGD 99.28.... and my breakeven cost for the dinner is SGD 77.38.... ha ha.. I calculated the angpow until 2.45 am in the morning, win liao... the biggest ang pow (exclude my parents) from the guest is a cheque issued from Bank of America, of USD1000..... anyway, everything is smooth, and I am taking 2 days off... honeymoon in the preparation..... I have my wedding at Holiday Inn Parkview..
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Livermore
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27-Jul-2008 20:58
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Another thing I mentioned before is don't buy so many shares. It is sometimes hard to track your risk profile when you have too many shares. | ||||
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iPunter
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27-Jul-2008 20:31
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Livermore
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27-Jul-2008 20:03
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How much position you put in the market now has to be relative to how much you made before the bull run ended. Having many shares with huge paper loss under current market condition can eventually lead to even greater losses. |
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Livermore
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27-Jul-2008 19:59
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It is not hindsight. My strategy when price comes down is buy minimal lots at wide price difference. I have mentioned this in my earlier posts long time back. On my first buy, I never put all my lots at one price. Whether it goes up or down, there is a way. Previously I would average up if price go up and only up to a certain range then stop. But now for current market condition, averaging up can be tricky. When you don't put all your lots at one price, you are able to "corner" the share price and share price can never be of zero value. Averaging down is a tricky issue. I have a friend who does it really well. It does not make sense to average down with huge paper loss and find yourself with not much "bullets" left though. In the market all of us need some form of strategy.
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SmartBear
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27-Jul-2008 18:20
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Well said, but thats when u have the benefit of hindsight. When u made ur 1st purchase of US$48, no one knows for sure if the price will rise or drop. If it rises, your "theory" wun work...
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