How To Be An Astute Investor

21 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet As investors, we make individual stock selection by focusing on the business economics of the companies, by learning about the products, customers, process, cost etc. In addition to the business economics, we might also want to know something about the macro economy and something about the external ...
sgx:c6l sgx:s51 sgx:u96

---

1 Key Investing Point You Should Remember For 2016

21 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet As 2015 comes to a close, it is worth remembering a few of the events that have happened in preparation for 2016. Portfolio manager Ben Carlson wrote an interesting ode last week: “Remember when the end of QE was going to cause an enormous market crash? Remember when Greece was going to cause a ...
sgx:bn4 sgx:s51 sgx:s58

---

Here Are the Blue Chip Stocks in Singapore with the Best Dividend Yields

16 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet In case you haven’t noticed, Singapore’s market benchmark, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), is offering the highest dividend yield among all Asian indexes, as of Monday. Let’s take a quick look at the top five yielding stocks from the 30 blue chips that make up the index. At first place is ...
sgx:bn4 sgx:s51 sgx:a17u sgx:c31 sgx:c38u sgx:5ly sgx:ns8u sgx:^sti

---

Who Will Survive Low Oil Prices?

15 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Something has gone very wrong with the oil market. It is not that the price of crude has fallen from over $100 a barrel to less than $40 a barrel. Instead, it is that free marketers are crying foul over the audacity of Saudi Arabia to allow oil prices to find their own level. It would seem that ...
sgx:bn4 sgx:s51

---

Keppel Corporation Limited – Is Its Dividend Sustainable?

15 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet By now, we all know what the slump in oil prices have done to two of the world’s largest rig builders. Both these companies happen to be listed on the Singapore exchange too and they are Keppel Corporation Limited (SGX: BN4) and Sembcorp Marine Ltd (SGX: S51). Some nice values Over the course of ...
sgx:bn4 sgx:s51

---

1 Key Investing Lesson for 2015

15 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet The current year is winding down. It may be a good time to reflect on the happenings in world of finance in 2015 and pick out lessons that we can take away from it. There have been a few notable events this year, like the fall in oil prices and the depreciation of the Chinese Yuan. Coming to home, ...
sgx:bn4 sgx:s51 sgx:^sti

---

Just How Bad Is The Oil Price Rout?

15 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet There seems to be no respite from bad news for companies in the oil & sector. The price of oil tumbled last night to below US$35 per barrel at one point, a price last seen only in 2009, amid jitters of a pricing war between OPEC members and non-OPEC countries. What actually happened? On 4 December ...
sgx:5nf sgx:s51 sgx:ms7 sgx:5ly

---

3 Things You Need To Know About the Singapore Stock Market Today

14 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 rest of the week. 1. The blue chip stock SembCorp Marine Ltd (SGX: S51) has a very attractive dividend yield of 7.8% now. But, that yield number ...
sgx:s51

---

Can High-Yielding Blue Chip SembCorp Marine Ltd Raise Its Dividends In 2015?

14 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Oil-rig and vessels builder SembCorp Marine Ltd (SGX: S51) has a fantastic dividend yield at the moment. Based on its current share price of S$1.665 and its dividend of S$0.13 per share in 2014, the blue chip stock (Sembcorp Marine is one of the 30 shares in the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) ...
sgx:s51 sgx:es3 sgx:^sti

---

Why Investors Should Give Sembcorp Industries a Second Look

14 Dec 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet With the slump in oil prices, shares in Sembcorp Marine Ltd (SGX: S51), the offshore and marine arm of SembCorp Industries Limited (SGX: U96), declined further this week. Shares of the latter were not spared from the sell-off, either. The decline is understandable given that oil prices have plunged ...
sgx:s51 sgx:u96

---