Genneva Gold
Image via Wikipedia There have been a lot of talk on using gold as an investment vehicle. To most, it is the face of the commodity bull run. Given if that one invested in gold rather than stocks in 2008, one would yield helluva decent returns in the former than a loss in the latter. [...]
Consumer Spending Trends in China – 2010
Image by Newton Free Library via Flickr A remiser sent an article to me which i’d thought it was quite insightful into the Chinese economy. It talks about top consumer spending trends in China last year. See this blog post.
Securities Lending in Singapore
Image by zizzybaloobah via Flickr Always looking at new ways to boost passive income, I have come across securities lending but never really delve much into it. It seems like a very good prospect. Basically it is lending some people the shares so they can short them. I wonder what is the risk. Securities Lending [...]
Capitamall Asia IPO
When the IPO was first launched, it received much fanfare and hype. We can see that it was oversubscribed due to the great interest in a great brand name and that it is the 2nd largest IPO, $2.8B, ever. The lure of a huge potential upside to growth in China with a good management behind [...]
Pennies in Play
Having had not much time these few weeks to analyze the stock market proper, I only managed to steal glances at EOD indices and at my portfolio. I’m about 1k plus (less than 3%) away from my breakeven since the stock market peak in 2007. Gosh, it’s really a long time. I am at this [...]
