Market Journal
Trade wars and geopolitical tensions in 2019 muted global economic activity and created a volatile stock market. In fact, consequential events such as the on-going trade war between China and United States and months of prolonged protest in Hong Kong resulted in the IMF taking a step back on its growth global forecast1, as well…Read More
Doing good with my hard earned money As a parent, my biggest wish is for my children to be responsible with their money. This is why I gave them 3 piggy banks; for long-term and short-term savings as well as for donations or giving. Singapore was built on the philanthropy and kindness of Singaporean businessmen…Read More
It is evident that financial markets move in cycles. As the saying goes “What goes up, must come down”. Investors who spend time studying the price movement and cycles of the assets they intend to invest in could be rewarded with profits earned from uptrends and downtrends. If you have never attempted short-selling before, maybe…Read More
When Google announced Stadia, a new cloud-based gaming platform in March 2019, the world turned their attention to the video game industry. Cloud-based gaming is just one of the many segments in the fast growing video game industry, which also comprises traditional computer, console and mobile games. The video game industry generated USD131 billion as…Read More
FX or forex, is commonly referred to as the foreign exchange market. In layman’s term, FX trading is the exchange of one currency for another at a predetermined exchange rate. Forex CFD (FX CFD) is a form of Contract for Differences (CFD) that allows you to participate in the price movements of the underlying forex…Read More
Summary There are almost three times more Internet users in China than in the US even though the Internet penetration rate in China is only 59.6 per cent as of December 2018. China’s “Great Firewall” of Internet censorship has inevitably allowed China Internet companies to establish market dominance in China. Structural trends like rapid urbanisation,…Read More
Summary Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing has taken on increased significance in the investing world, with ESG incorporation asset under management accounting for one in four dollars of the total asset under professional management in the United States in 2018. There is an increasing number of research that shows a positive relationship between a…Read More
In our Go Global article published earlier, we discussed on the topic of home country bias – something that is prevalent amongst investors. Aside from this, general investors also suffer from availability bias, whereby investors only invest in what they heard of or easily recall from their mind. These biases usually result in an investor’s…Read More
Introduction to Traditional Sector Classifications A sector refers to an area of an economy in which the businesses share the same operating characteristics, related products or services. Each sector may contain a subset of industries. For example, healthcare firms may include hospitals and medical equipment providers while consumer staples firms produce essential products like food,…Read More
Pinpointing market tops is difficult. In recent years, market reports and commentaries from financial analysts to investment gurus have warned their readers and viewers about “how the US bull market is losing steam…”1, “how the US market correction is way overdue…”2 and that the “Trump Rally will eventually fail”.3 While Wall Street sceptics have been…Read More
