2015 Review For The Singapore Stock Market: Oil and Gas Companies

29 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet We are nearing the end of 2015. For many investors in Singapore, it has been a year of pain and hardship. The SPDR STI ETF (SGX: ES3), an exchange-traded fund which tracks the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), has seen its net asset value per unit fall 14% from S$3.408 at end-2014 to S$2.93 yesterday. ...
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3 Stocks That Have Cut Their Dividends

29 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet It has been a rocky year for the stock market. The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) looks likely to shed 15% for 2015. While a falling stock market can be discomforting, some companies have actually made positive business developments such as raising their dividends. Unfortunately, there are also ...
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3 Things You Need To Know About the Singapore Stock Market Today

28 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Welcome to Monday evening! Here are three things about Singapore’s stock market and investing in general that you might want to look at today and over the weekend. 1. Christmas has just ended, but that doesn’t mean that Christmas shopping needs to stop. For those of you who would like to get some ...
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Stock Market Predictions For 2016: The Optimist’s View

28 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Every year in the period of December, there will tend to be talks given or reports published by brokerage firms, investment houses, and banks on what is installed for the following year. Sometimes, even geomancers (practitioners of the Chinese art of Feng Shui) will join in the fray with financial ...
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2 Companies with Insider Activity

28 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet One of the more commonly used strategies by investors is to follow insider transactions. Some might even assume that since insiders are “in the know”, they might be better equipped to predict the share price of a company. Consistent insider purchases may indicate an undervalued share price. On ...
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What Christmas Shopping Can Teach Us About Investing

25 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Merry Christmas Folks! Lately, I’ve been walking along the main shopping street in CunXi Road in Chengdu, China, shopping for Christmas presents. Just like capitalism, Christmas celebrations seem – to me at least -to have been successfully ’imported and assimilated’ in China. As I walked the streets, ...
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The Christmas Week In Numbers Here Comes Santa Claus

25 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Merry Christmas everyone! It might well be a holiday-shortened Christmas trading week on the Singapore markets, but there was no shortage of numbers to keep everyone on their toes. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer appeared on the scene through China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). ...
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Investors Take Note: There Are Troubling Signs for SembCorp Marine Ltd

24 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Rig builder SembCorp Marine Ltd (SGX: S51) has had a rough 2015. Since the start of the year, the company’s shares have fallen by 44% to S$1.83 currently even as the broader market, represented by the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), has slipped by ‘just’ 14%. SembCorp Marine’s stock market woes ...
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How to Protect Your Investment Portfolio

23 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.” – Warren Buffett As investors, we could aspire to achieve what Warren Buffett has been able to do. As the chairman and chief executive of the U.S.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc since 1965, the ...
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Oil Prices: Is A Historical Spike Poised to Repeat Itself?

22 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Right now, the oil market is in the doldrums. The price of crude is hitting multi-year lows, with some in the market suggesting oil could go even lower. While that’s quite possible, the longer-term outlook for crude is much different. In fact, there’s an eerily similar setup happening that could ...
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