Dear readers, in today’s post, I will share my thoughts on how much HongBao monies one should give to relatives for the upcoming lunar new year 2020. Whenever it comes to discussing this topic, I will be rather relaxed for it is at this juncture that I would have completed most of the spring cleaning
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Dear readers, Chinese New Year is just next week! Are you ready for Chinese New Year and to welcome the wealth of God in the year of the rat? Yes, every time when it comes to Chinese New Year, all of us will make sure that prosperity along with peace and health are our goals
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Dear readers, these days, the term Marie Kondo is the buzzword. Marie Kondo is a famous Japanese lady organising consultant and cleaning up, organizing has now its spokesman in Marie Kondo. With Chinese New Year coming soon, I have been busy spring-cleaning or Marie Kondo-ing my house. I would like to share with all of
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Dear readers, it was reported yesterday that SGX would scrap the mandatory quarterly reporting with effect from early February 2020. Instead, companies with a certain level of risk would have to continue with the quarterly reporting. When I learnt of this proposed move, my first thinking was that this is not a good move though
THREE REASONS WHY SGX SCRAPPNG OF MANDATORY QUARTERLY REPORTING IS NOT A GOOD MOVE! Read More »
Dear readers, Wireless@SGX is such a free and convenient internet service that anyone with a mobile phone in Singapore could download and use for free to access the internet here. I am a frequent user of Wireless@SGX and through this service, I manage to use less of my mobile data plan and I would like
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Recently, I read an article on The Straits Times which talked about the lacklustre stocks markets here in Singapore. Lacklustre from the angle of shrinking total capitalisation of the Singapore stocks markets as well as a trend of more delisting versus IPOs. am not surprised at all at the article since being an avid
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Dear readers, the recent removal of Golden Agriculture stock from the Straits Times Index stocks has sparked some nostalgia for me. I recall a number of years ago when the local commodities stocks were in vogue. The four largest commodities stocks on the Singapore Stocks Exchange were Golden Agriculture stock, Olam, Wilmar International and Noble
Dear readers, it was reported that Mapletree Logistics Trust has been added to the Straits Times Index with Golden Agriculture stock being removed in parallel from the index with effect from 5 Dec 2019. With the addition of Mapletree Logistic Trust into the Straits Times Index, these are now more Reits and Trusts inside the
Dear readers, recently, I read the news that seven companies have joined the SGX’s watchlist. I will not be naming the names of the seven companies as they could be easily found in the news. The implication of a company being placed on watchlist is that the company would have to fulfil a set of
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Dear readers, on 25 Nov 2019, I wrote about the next big thing for Singapore Reits and Trusts which would be a consolidation so as to effect better efficiency. My comment was proven correct since it was announced on 28 Nov 2019 that according to sources, Frasers Logistics and Frasers Commercial Trust had made plans