Olam Makes Headway On Strategic Initiatives

17 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Olam International Limited (SGX: O32), a leading agri-business with operations across the value chain of the industry in 65 countries, announced its second quarter results for its financial year 2014 (FY2014) last Friday, showing significant progress on the execution of its strategic plan. Olam, listed ...
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The Singapore Market this Week

15 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed at 3,039 points for the week. This is a rise of 0.9% over the previous week’s close of 3,013 points. Out of the 30 component stocks in the STI, commodities trader Olam International (SGX: O32) was the largest gainer at 5.4% while beverage (both alcoholic and ...
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Three Shares that Beat the Market Today

14 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) ended a six-day winning streak by the tinniest of margins after it slipped by 0.04% to 3,039 points today. Within the index, 14 shares had made losses while it was the same number of blue chips that had ended the trading session in the green. Oversea-Chinese Banking ...
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Three Shares that Beat the Market Today

7 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) followed up yesterday’s 1% gain with another good day as it moved up 0.8% to 3,013 points. It was a field of green within the index as 23 of its 30 components had managed to make some headway while only four were unfortunate enough to have clocked losses. Olam International ...
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Would Peter Lynch Buy Biosensors International?

6 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett could not be more different in their investing approaches. And yet the two legendary investors have separately achieved remarkable returns from their respective investments. What is even more amazing is that the two investors have openly shared their investing secrets. ...
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One Important Thing to Remember Now During Market Declines

5 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) in Singapore bottomed at 1,457 points on 9 March 2009 during the Great Financial Crisis that happened over the last decade. Since then, it has more than doubled – a gain of 104% to be precise – to its current level of 2,968 points. In the interim, the index climbed ...
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The Singapore Market this Week

1 Feb 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) galloped to a 1.6% weekly decline when it closed at 3,027 points on Thursday during the shortened week as a result of the Chinese New Year. Out of the 30 STI constituents, only seven stocks finished in the green while the rest finished in the red. Commodities trader ...
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Where Next For Emerging Market?

30 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Two points on a graph hardly constitutes a trend. But two successive months of money tightening by the US Federal Reserve might signal intent by America to start scaling back the amount the money that it will provide to American banks to do with as they wish. In December, Ben Bernanke, the outgoing Federal ...
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One of the Most Important Concepts in Investing – The Margin of Safety

28 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
After recently re-reading one of the all-time investment classics Margin of Safety written by Seth Klarman, I remembered where I first encountered the investment concept of a “margin of safety”. And funnily enough, it was from one of my engineering textbooks (I have an engineering background, by the ...
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Is the Stock Market Giving Out Chinese New Year “Hong Baos” In Advance?

27 Jan 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
As of the time of writing at 1 pm today, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) is down some 1.3% to 3,038 points. This represents a 4.1% decline from the index’s closing level of 3,167 points at the end of Dec 2013. As of 31 Dec 2013, the following five companies carried the lowest price-to-earnings ratio: ...
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