1 Important Thing to Remember In today’s Market

14 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Overnight, the American share market added to its losses as the S&P 500, a broad market index, slid by 1.65% – all told, the S&P has lost 7.1% of its value from its recent high. In Singapore, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) has slid by more than 5% from its high of 3,374 points this year which was ...
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Is Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited A Cheap Blue Chip?

14 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Looking at the price-to-earnings (PE) ratio – a measure of how much we are paying for each dollar of a company’s profit – the conglomerate Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited (SGX: C07) seems to be cheap when compared against the broader market. Currently, Singapore’s market barometer, the Straits Times ...
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Can Jardine Cycle and Carriage Continue to Outperform?

13 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Jardine Cycle and Carriage Limited (SGX:C07) or Jardine C&C has been an out-performer over the last five plus years. The share price has recorded returns of about 316% from 1 Jan 2009 to the closing price on 7 October 2014. By comparison, the capital gain returns of the SPDR STI ETF (SGX:ES3), a proxy ...
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Finding Reliable Income from Shares Even In the Worst Of Times

9 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A few days back, I came across a remarkable tweet (shown below) from investment manager and financial blogger Ben Carlson: From peak to trough 1929-1932 the S&P fell 81%, but real dividends only fell 11%. — Ben Carlson (@awealthofcs) September 12, 2014 (Note: the S&P 500 is a broad market index in the ...
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How You Can Better Handle Market Volatility

7 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Investment manager and financial columnist Barry Ritholtz had recently teased out some fascinating statistics from a number of U.S.-listed shares, namely Google, Tesla, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Netflix,and Apple. He reveals: Short-term pain for long-term gain If you’re wondering what’s fascinating about ...
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Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited Leads the Market Lower This Week

4 Oct 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on changes – just in case they’re material to our investing thesis. This week, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) had slumped to 3,253 points, some 1.2% lower than last Friday’s close. This is ...
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Where’s The Value In Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd?

28 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore’s ten largest consumer services stocks by market capitalisation cover seven different business streams and some of Singapore Stock Exchanges most popular blue chip stocks. Two of the larger ones are Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited (SGX: C07) and Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited (SGX: ...
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A Good Reason To Sell?

24 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
My fellow Fool David Kuo had previously shared two very good reasons to sell a share: when he needs the cash; and when his investment thesis in the company has changed. Those are great. But, he also got me thinking about another reason to sell a share. You see, at the Motley Fool Singapore, we are staunch ...
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Best of the Fool: Top 3 Stories of the Week

20 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Here are three of the Motley Fool’s best stories for the week. 1. 3 Quick Steps to Protect Your Portfolio from a Market Crash With a huge rise in the share market now behind us, it may be natural for individual investors to start worrying that a market crash might be lurking around the corner. Here are ...
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Invest Now Or Wait For A Correction?

18 Sep 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Someone politely confronted me the other day (that is…if a polite confrontation is ever possible) and asked what seemed like a very logical question. The person wanted to know why anyone would want to buy shares now, if an imminent stock market correction was a distinct possibility. My confronter pointed ...
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