Best and Worst Shares in the Straits Times Index for the Week

21 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore’s stock market benchmark, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), closed at 3,094 points on Friday for a weekly gain of 0.9%. It was a rather eventful week for the global markets as the US Federal Reserve finally announced its plans to taper its quantitative easing programme by reducing its monthly ...
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The Singapore Market This Week

13 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed at 3,066 points this week, slipping 1.5% or 48 points. It has had four straight “down days” from Monday to Thursday, before breaking the trend on Friday. All components of the STI, except Thai Beverage, Sembcorp Marine (SGX: S51), Golden Agri-Resources (SGX: ...
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Is Keppel Corp Really Cheap?

12 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Based on the price-to-earnings (PE) metric – a fancy way of saying how much we are paying for each dollar of a company’s earnings – conglomerate Keppel Corporation (SGX: BN4) seems one of the cheapest of the lot at the moment among the blue chips within the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) Here is the ...
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How to Be Rich by Ignoring the Market

10 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In the hustle and bustle of the investing world, it’s easy to lose perspective on the big picture. But even though it runs counter to everything that advancing technology and information at your fingertips provides, there’s a simple way you can get back to basics. Instead of obsessing over your portfolio ...
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Where Will Interest Rates Be?

30 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Since the start of the year, I’ve been writing, on occasion, about a possible rise in interest rates and how it might have adverse impacts for heavily indebted companies and real estate investment trusts (see here, here, and here). A significant amount of the financial commentary I’m seeing speaks of ...
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Singapore’s Cheapest and Most Expensive Blue Chips

29 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Singapore’s stock market barometer, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), is currently selling for around 12.5 times its trailing earnings as of Thursday’s close at 3,186 points. So while that does seem to be ostensibly cheap, that does not mean that every single one of its constituents is in the same ...
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The Singapore Market This Week

15 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Commodity companies surged. Golden Agri-Resources Limited (SGX: E5H) added 5.2% to $0.605, Wilmar International put on 5% to $3.55 and Olam International (SGX: O32) climbed 4.1% to $1.53, most probably on the back of speculation. There were concerns that the typhoon in the Philippines might tighten supplies ...
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The Singapore Market This Week

26 Oct 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) closed at 3,205 points for this week. This was a gain, albeit a modest one, of 0.4% over the previous week. Even though our benchmark index barely moved, the same can’t be said of some STI component stocks, which moved considerably. One of the biggest fallers within ...
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Singapore’s Fastest-Growing Blue Chips

25 Oct 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Probably one of the biggest misconceptions about large-cap stocks is that they don’t grow quickly. Hence the well-trodden but, nonetheless, inappropriate stock market saying that “elephants don’t gallop”. Admittedly, large cap stocks generally don’t grow as quickly as more nimble small caps. That is ...
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Trading Resumes For Erratic Trio

7 Oct 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Asiasons Capital Limited (SGX: 5ET), Blumont Group Limited (SGX: A33) and LionGold Corp Limited (SGX: A78), saw their trading suspensions lifted this morning. The erratic trio was suspended by the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on Friday after their shares slumped unexpectedly. However, the lifting of suspension ...
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