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At a glance: Dow Jones and S&P 500 piggybacked on reflation trades to close near record levels. Rising bond yields and reopening put pressure on tech stocks, leading to NASDAQ’s underperformance. NASDAQ manged to climb back to 13,000 from a low of 12,600. Reflation trades continued to benefit cyclical stocks, aided by full-force vaccination across…Read More
At a glance: Advanced Order Types are risk-management tools that help investors and traders enter or exit the market according to their specified prices and quantities Advantages of using them include improved execution speed and minimised losses. Disadvantages include order execution is not guaranteed and the chance of you paying higher prices Know your…Read More
Over the past five years from 2016 to 2020, global indices broke record after record in scaling new highs. One contributing factor was an influx of retail investors with ready access to global markets. As the table below shows, the average price change of the five global indices – S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, Hang…Read More
What this report is about: REITs own, operate and manage income-generating real estate such as serviced apartments, offices, hotels, retail malls, medical facilities, business parks, warehouses and data centres. You can invest in REITs by purchasing their shares directly on the stock exchange or trade REITs with CFDs, using both short-term (opportunistic short-term trading and…Read More
What this article is about: InfoTech overtook finance as the largest industry on Hong Kong’s stock exchange in 2019 More and more mainland Chinese companies have been making their mark in Hong Kong’s market Revamp of HSI is overdue to reflect these shifts Potential winners of the index’s overhaul are consumer and healthcare stocks, Chinese…Read More
What is it: Rule of 40 is the idea that revenue growth rates plus profitability margins should be equal to or greater than 40%. Venture capitalists came up with this simple method to decide whether or not to invest in young software start-ups. It is a rule-of-thumb for sizing up the health of a software…Read More
This article was first published in The Edge on 15 March 2021. Reproduced by permission of The Edge Publishing Pte Ltd. Copyright © 2021 The Edge Publishing Ptd Ltd. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. The Paradox of Choice In this modern era, investors are spoilt for choice. They are inundated by a plethora of financial instruments…Read More
At some point, people will make mistakes with their personal finances. I have personally seen too many examples. In my five years working as a financial advisory consultant, I have helped over a thousand people plan their finances. Some things which I have heard or seen have stuck with me, leaving me pondering, “Why do…Read More
At a glance: All three US major indices had a volatile month in February, closing lower after hitting record highs. Amid concerns about rising bond yields which may hurt high-growth tech stocks the most, the Nasdaq Composite underperformed, with an 8% correction from its 14,000 high. Investors rotated from high-growth tech stocks to cyclical sectors…Read More
At a glance: Charting tools are commonly used to identify patterns and trend directions of counters. They assist traders and investors in locating the best entry and exit points into a stock or market. ChartView is POEMS Pro’s unique charting tool that provides high-performance, intuitive and fully-customisable charting solutions. The tool is packed with more…Read More