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teeth53 Supreme	10-Mar-2008 15:54        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	Spilling over asfor today from KL... Symbol   Index   KLSE Composite  -130.01  1,166.32
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cyjjerry85 Elite	10-Mar-2008 15:11        cyjjerry85 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Technical   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	technical rebound happening currently...
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DnApeh Master	10-Mar-2008 15:10        DnApeh About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Do u think will affect us?
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Arbitrager Senior	10-Mar-2008 15:05        Arbitrager About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	KLCI dropped drastically by 10%, hit circuit breaker.. closed for 1hour.
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Arbitrager Senior	10-Mar-2008 14:33        Arbitrager About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Big caps will still continue to come down lower.. cos' economic health is deteriorating.. even our only hope, China is also affected by the slowdown in US. So Singapore will be more adversely affected by US recession.. latest news from bloomberg on China. expect 1Q and 2Q gdp results to be very ugly.. more coming... China Trade Surplus Narrows as U.S. Demand Weakens By Nipa Piboontanasawat and Li Yanping   March 10 (Bloomberg) -- China's trade surplus dropped for the first time in almost a year and export growth plunged as the worst blizzards in half a century disrupted shipments and U.S. demand weakened. The gap narrowed 64 percent in February from a year earlier to $8.56 billion, the customs bureau said today on its Web site. The surplus was less than half the $22.5 billion median estimate of 14 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Exports rose 6.5 percent, the slowest pace in almost six years, aiding government efforts to cool the world's fourth- biggest economy. China's surpluses cause tension with trading partners and threaten to worsen 11-year high inflation by flooding the financial system with cash. ``The decline is due to weaker demand from overseas and the disruption from the snowstorms -- it's too early to say that the surplus will keep slowing sharply,'' said Sun Mingchun, an economist at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in Hong Kong. For the first two months combined, the surplus narrowed 29 percent to $28 billion from a year earlier. Imports increased 35.1 percent in February, the biggest gain in more than three years, as commodity prices rose. In January, exports rose 26.6 percent and imports climbed 27.6 percent. China's producer prices, the cost of goods as they leave the factory, climbed 6.6 percent last month, the fastest pace in more than three years, the government said today. Accelerating Inflation Economists expect February consumer-price inflation of 7.9 percent, the highest rate in 11 years, according to a Bloomberg News survey. That figure is released tomorrow. The yuan traded near the highest since a dollar link ended in July 2005 on the prospect of a faster appreciation of the currency to lower import costs and quell inflation. It was at 7.1090 per dollar as of 12:37 p.m. in Shanghai, compared with 7.1110 on March 7. Lawmakers and manufacturers in the U.S. say the currency should strengthen more quickly to reduce China's alleged unfair trading advantage. Unsafe exports have added to tensions. The drop in the pace of export growth also reflected the ``abnormally high'' 52 percent increase a year earlier, when exporters pushed shipments through early to beat tax increases, Sun said. Snowstorms, Holiday Snowstorms paralyzed parts of the transport system and stalled deliveries to ports in January and February. China's week-long Lunar New Year holiday also started earlier this year than last, leading exporters to bring some shipments forward to January. Exports to the U.S., where a housing recession is sapping demand, fell in February to $15.5 billion. That was down from $19.2 billion in January and $16.3 billion a year earlier. ``The remarkable rise in China's trade surplus is nearing its end,'' Ben Simpfendorfer, a strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Plc in Hong Kong, said in a report. ``However, the trade surplus will not evaporate abruptly and China will remain a global liquidity provider as it continues to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves.'' Exports of Chinese steel products fell 29 percent in February from a year earlier. To contact the reporter on this story: Nipa Piboontanasawat in Hong Kong at npiboontanas@bloomberg.netLi Yanping in Beijing at yli16@bloomberg.net Last Updated: March 10, 2008 02:17 EDT
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cyjjerry85 Elite	10-Mar-2008 14:21        cyjjerry85 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Technical   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	look at Jardine C&C...City Dev...SGX...these counters are leading the fall...and i noticed that SGX is doing really what looks like a deep plunge from morning till now..and afternoon session continued with the dive
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cyjjerry85 Elite	10-Mar-2008 14:09        cyjjerry85 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Technical   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	the region is really so in the red...
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aoeuidht Member	10-Mar-2008 13:53        aoeuidht About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	2600 is possible & likely. - The sky is unlikely to fall. If  it feel  like it  - it's not the sky but bird crap.
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tanglinboy Elite	10-Mar-2008 13:49        tanglinboy About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Combined   Mood: Yells: "hello!"
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	2600 !!!  That's crap !!
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Farmer Master	10-Mar-2008 11:30        Farmer About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Fundamental   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Lets see 2800 can hold for today or not. If not we'll be looking at 2600(66% from all time high) pretty soon.
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cyjjerry85 Elite	10-Mar-2008 10:52        cyjjerry85 About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Technical   Mood:
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	probably see some soft support at 2800
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teeth53 Supreme	10-Mar-2008 09:19        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	Code F34 Wilmar shot down by Wilmar   CD --   Opened 4.150    Last: 4.120    -0.080cents    -1.9%    Vol: 873,000
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teeth53 Supreme	10-Mar-2008 09:13        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	Code C68 SGX shot down  by 30cents   SGX -- --  Opened: 6.950   Last: 6.860   -0.300cents   -4.2%   Vol: 1,331,000
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pikachu Veteran	10-Mar-2008 09:08        pikachu About Contact  Quote this Post!   Mood: Yells: "Holy Cow!"
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Market is down by 40 points but volume is very thin.
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AK_Francis Supreme	10-Mar-2008 02:14        AK_Francis About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Fundamental   Mood: Yells: "Happy go lucky, cheers."
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Sorry should be 2866, blur blur just woke up. Cheers.
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AK_Francis Supreme	10-Mar-2008 02:04        AK_Francis About Contact  Quote this Post! Style: Fundamental   Mood: Yells: "Happy go lucky, cheers."
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Agreed. Likely ST will slide from last Fri of 2917.92 to around 2850 on Mon. The besty shooting target is still SGX. Q the burger ready at 7.06 at 0855hrs. If you miss the boat then 7.16-0.20 is the profitable range for follow up. Good luck. Buy Low is not applicable during this coming weeks unless the stock is given high devidend and the EX date is near,say one or two weeks. Look out for the following: Keppel Corp-30 cents Div and 25 cents cash return. Ex Date 29 Apr 08 SPC- 40 cents Ex Date 25 Apr 08
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teeth53 Supreme	10-Mar-2008 01:44        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	Shooting time ?? Shot time spilling over from M'Sia for this coming Monday. Just my tot.
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elfinchilde Elite	08-Mar-2008 16:10        elfinchilde About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	2,800 is a temporary support. the more firm support is at 2,600, actually. i'm still holding out a call for the STI call. but will see when to enter, as according to the above. there'll either be a brief rebound from 2,800, or else just regularly dip to 2,600. if the latter is the case, don't buy calls. short market all the way. means the foreign funds are leaving. it is wise to follow the trend. i'll need to do wave calculation to see long term; haven't done it yet since i've been very short term on the market in order to survive. yea. as for yzj. i can't remember which thread i posted on; but kinda hinted just as much: that there will be a rebound, but not to what levels people are hoping it will go to. Valuations go back to fair value: ie, PE of <10x. it depends on the specific industry tho. on the bright side: it is only this 1H of the year that will be down. things should improve in the 2H. if only cos of beijing olympics and US elections. Expect major manipulation then. "Face" being the only reason.
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Eldarchen Member	08-Mar-2008 07:36        Eldarchen About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	Yo Elfie, Remembered some analyst saying SG will sorta see bottom ard 2,600-2,800  , somehow does the chart says that ? cause it still looks choppy. Its kinda weird that though corp are still making money but the stocks are still going down so badly. Just curious, back in the Asian Crisis, what were the valuations for the companies like ? 5-10 PE or ? The way things are going, seems like we'll never see 3,800 but rather 3,200 by end year max. Which means whoever bought YZJ will not see 2.50 but would be even lucky to see 1.50 . Question is, is it time to buy stocks on Tuesday after we drop to 2800 (maybe)? Or better to wait it out? Thanks bud !
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jasonrxz Senior	07-Mar-2008 20:54        jasonrxz About Contact  Quote this Post!
x 0   x 0  Alert Admin	We must know the intent of why we hold or just take any profit when investment are done.....   To me... really now is take and go style rather than holding to average out cheaper in turn will invests more than expected.... Well.... therer are always many angles to look into a picture so........ pls take good care of whatever u invest and the limit u have . Though the sky is the limit...ha
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