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Tag Archives: STI
Don’t make the same mistake that I made 2 decades ago
For the calendar year 2018, the Straits Times Index (STI) retreated from 3400.91 at the close of Year 2017 to 3068.76 at the close of Year 2018. The absolute fall for the calendar year 2018 was more than 10%. It … Continue reading
Are we over yet?
Just two days ago, the FED raised the interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.5%. Going into year 2019, it is expected that there will be another two more hikes. In a scenario when global stock markets have already … Continue reading
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Tagged global markets, STI, Stock indices
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Reading too much into news & Wall Street movement can derail our financial plan
Very often we try to check the Wall Street movement and the futures to have an idea of what is likely to happen in the local stock market at the start of the trading day. After all, the Wall Street … Continue reading
Posted in OCBC, Z-FINANCIAL EDUCATION, Z-INVESTMENTS, Z-Personal Finance, Z-STOCK INDICES
Tagged brokerage, Dow Jones, NASDAQ, OCBC, STI, Wall Street
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The need for mindset change in investing (2)
In any stock seminar, we often hear of the same question over and over again. What are the stocks to buy and what to sell? In fact, it is probably the only question in the mind of investors when they … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort Delgro, investing psychology, investing strategies, Noble, SPH, STI
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Stock investing – The need for mindset change (1)
In the discussion during a webinar that spanned over 2 hours yesterday evening, it was a natural progression that participants touched on the subject related to Straits Times Index (STI) movement. Almost all the participants lamented that the STI has … Continue reading
The shock that finally comes
Investors had a rude shock on Tuesday morning when they found out that Dow Jones fell a whopping 1075.21 points the night before. That followed by an after-shock tremor of another 1032.89 on Thursday, 8 Feb 2018. In total, the … Continue reading
Being rational in the crowd of madness
Today, the STI ended up at 3567.14 or about 240 points (or about 6-7%) short of the all-time high made by the STI in 2007. By now, it appeared more and more people are thinking that a crash is around … Continue reading
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Tagged Dow Jones, Hang Sheng, Nikkei 225, STI
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Starting 2018 positively
Despite closing the year 2017 with an 18% upside in the Straits Times Index (STI), we saw another 90 points increase in the STI to end at 3489.45 in the first week of 2018. For myself, I am happy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Investment, STI, stock market, Stocks
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Final post for the year 2017
Yesterday marked the end of the last trading day for the year. On the whole, it has been a great year even though the advancement of STI could not match that of the other markets like Dow Jones, Nikkei 225 … Continue reading
Any time is a good time to invest
We often heard colleagues or friends mentioning that they were right now on the sideline waiting to pounce aggressively into the stock market when the stock market crashed. It was as though they were seeking a revenge that the stock … Continue reading
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Tagged Dow Jones, Hang Sheng, Nikkei 225, STI
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