Category: IPO / Equity / Stock Market
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Alarming? Huge losses for airlines?
Just a few days ago, a good friend who’s a manager and an avid investor (stocks and property) reiterated that we need to look beyond the current happening in order to really understand the investment potential, whether it’s stock market or the property market. Even though we were drinking at the time, I think his…
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Did not do well first 6 months. Will still hit yearly target.
How many companies do we know who did not perform well for the first 6 months BUT they could still hit their yearly target because they will start to do well in the second half of the year? Not many of these companies around that I know. Of course even during this COVID-19 situation, there…
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Doing nothing versus getting ready, the signs may be almost the same
Are you saving more of your salary (if you still have them) since you are at home and could not use much of it anyway? Are you liquidating some of your illiquid assets and keep them into liquid ones like cash in bank so that at any point in time, you could draw upon them…
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Maybank’s Q1 is still going up. Erm… quarters ahead?
Maybank is Malaysia’s largest bank by total asset-size. It has just reported a growing profit for Q1 2020 versus a year ago. Movement Control Order (MCO) did not affect it? Banks’ are a great sign of the market health. The market cannot be growing if the banks are not financing the growth. If the markets…
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Not an easy time for developers. Results are affected.
We occasionally read about some developers receiving some bookings when they launched their properties online even during the COVID-19 period. Frankly, even if the numbers look okay, this is still a very small representation to the whole property market. Current times are not the best times, especially for property developers. Sales galleries, even if they…
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Profits are down. A sign of time, perhaps.
If we want to understand how is the overall stock market doing in the U.S, we may want to refer to the DOW 500 or the S&P 500. It is considered a representation of the over 4,000 publicly listed companies there. Here in Malaysia, it would be our FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI, also known as…