3 Of Singapore’s Biggest Blue Chip Losers

23 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
2014 is coming to a close. What a year it has been. Let us look back and review three of the five worst-performing blue chips (as of 22 December 2014) within the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI). Rolling the dice At the very top of the list is Genting Singapore PLC (SGX: G13). The company has seen its ...
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The Singapore Market this Week: Noble Group Limited Leads The Market Lower

21 Dec 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. The Singapore market, represented by the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), lost 1.3% this week to end at 3,280 points. On Tuesday, ...
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How to Conquer Greed and Fear to Beat the Market

18 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There is an old saying that the share market is driven by two primary emotions: greed and fear. It stands to reason that if we are able to conquer both emotions, we may stand a chance to beat the market. However, the problem is that the emotions of greed and fear form part of what makes us human. So, ...
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Hard Questions For Greedy Investors on This Oil Price Rout

17 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
By now, avid Foolish readers may be aware that we are in the midst of an oil price rout. The financial media has been heavy with the latest on the price of oil, and other related news around the globe. This oil price rout has also caused the shares of many oil and gas companies to be battered. For instance, ...
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Why Investing Is Like A Game Of Chess?

17 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
For those who are studying investing in depth, you will realize that investing can be view as a game and it has many similarities with strategy board games such as chess. Here is what we can learn about investing from understanding the game of chess. “Chess is mental torture” Garry Kasparov Like chess, ...
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Has The Singapore Market Been Badly Hit By A Market Sell-off?

17 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I normally start my day with a with my daily dose of the Wall Street Journal. One headline in particular caught my attention this morning, “Emerging-markets selloff continues to rattle Asia: Singapore and Malaysia are worst hit”. I was surprised with the headline as I didn’t realise that Singapore was ...
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Is It Time To Be Greedy Or Fearful?

16 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Have you realized the sentiment on the news about the market has changed in recent months? Over the weekend, the top news articles on Bloomberg includes “Stocks just had their worst week in years” and “Oil freefall give Dow worst week since 2011 as anxiety grows”. Yet, as these “bad” news pour into the ...
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The Hidden Benefits to Investing No One Talks About

15 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
“I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor” — Warren Buffett Avid Foolish readers would be aware of the many benefits of investing for the long term. But there’s even better news for investors: You can reap more benefits from investing beyond ...
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Oil Price Slide and Seek

14 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Is it a sinister conspiracy? Is it a clever OPEC power-play? Or is it, as former US President Bill Clinton once remarked: “The economy, stupid”? There is certainly no shortage of opinions about why the price of crude oil has fallen so much, so quickly. It wasn’t that long ago when the price of black ...
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Here Are the Winners and Losers from the Oil Price Plunge

4 Dec 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The OPEC’s (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries; it controls roughly a third of global oil output) recent refusal to cut the production of oil had exacerbated the decline in the price of oil, culminating in Brent crude falling by almost 40% over just four short months to around US$70 per ...
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