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I’ve just got an email from a friend about wedding ang paos (red packets). According to traditonal Chinese customs, ang paos are symbols of prosperity and we give them during weddings as a wish of such to the couple. And of course to help them offset their wedding dinner costs. As a young adult with [...]
Recently, NTUC has launched a promotion on a Free upgrade for their IncomeShield Plan. You can find more about it here. Mike has also blogged about it briefly here with a summary. Well, as with all good deals, it spurred me on to find out more so I emailed by financial advisor about it. This [...]
Image via Wikipedia I’ve just received an email from my financial advisor about “Shoots Topping Out”. I’ve uploaded the investment commentary in my usual shared folder for everyone but here’s a direct link. Funny that it comes after I just made the switch back into China Funds. This is what was mentioned: We view as [...]
Image by babblingdweeb via Flickr I think it goes without saying that the Indian Stock Market stunned everyone to death today. 17% up in one day is amazing compared to STI’s gains over the last few weeks. I wonder whether a total market halt was triggered cos when it did a more than 10% fall [...]
The past week has been spectacular again. Another jab in the heart. A fellow blogger on his post, “Green Shoots” Sprouting In Global Markets, quoted a very interesting piece of article. Sometimes it makes me wonder how come the stock market does not really translate the performance of the sectors. Given that Taiwan and Singapore [...]