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Credit Card, A Monster or A Friend?

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RM250b Stimulus Package? Good or Bad?

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I Didn't Buy Any Glove Stock. Here's Why

As fear lingers around the latest Coronavirus outbreak in China, I have chosen not to hop myself into the bandwagon of 'buy buy glove sector confirm rocket since China virus glove and plastic demand confirm up'. Glove sector was one of the few sector that I put in a lot of hours and here are a few reasons that I don't join the "rocket": What style of investor are you? There are many types of investors around the world, but i group them together which is Value Investor, Growth Investor, Dividend Investor, and finally, Trader. Value investing was largely made popular by Warren Buffet and his teacher Benjamin Graham, using Golden Rules such as buying a stock when they are under their intrinsic price or actual value, only buy the business that you understand, and buy businesses that has good future prospects. Growth investing is an investing strategies that ignore high price-to-earning (P/E) ratio and continue to buy in trending stocks or sector that has b...

Did KLCI Really Performed That Bad in 2019？

Did KLCI Really Performed That Bad in 2019? (Image Source: Google) KLCI in year 2019 has been up and down throughout the years, with multiple events occurring globally including not only the US-China trade war, British Exit (BREXIT), together with the latest Soleimani’s drone attack in Iran. Nevertheless, with Dow index (DJIA) currently at 29,297 points, it surged a staggering 29%, outperforming many fund managers under Trump’s ‘so-called’ America’s Greatest Year. NASDAQ and S&P 500 also rallied up 31% and 25% throughout 2019 as displayed in the figured above. A picture is worth a thousand words, Malaysia was rated as the worst performing share market in SEA region, as quoted by TheStar with its index points dropped 9% throughout year 2019. Did Malaysia’s investors really suffer such a devastating fate as compared to the US? Did global investors lose appetite for the once-“Asian-Tiger”? KLCI Index Jan’18- Jan’20 (Source: Bursa Malaysia) It all ha...

Rate Cut. How to Select a Bank Stock?

Hello, Today BNM announced another rate cut by 25 bps to 2.50% from 2.75% as the central bank is "intended to provide a more accommodative monetary environment to support the projected improvement in economic growth amid price stability". This is the SECOND time the central bank cut the overnight policy rate (OPR) this year and it is expected as the political uncertainties domestically and the economy slowdown globally will starts to drag down Malaysia's economy growth in the next few quarters. Rate cut will stimulate the economy's growth positive but it is too broad to talk about all aspects. Hence I would like to focus on How to select a Bank Stock? The Rate Cut's Impact Interest rate cut lowers the minimum interest charged by the banks to the lessee (the tenant), with the intention to stimulate growth with the loan interest getting lower and more money will flow into the market. Everybody said banks will get affected by interest rate cut but how ex...

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