These 3 Shares May Be Able To Reward Investors with Rock-Solid Dividends

19 Jun 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-09 was a truly devastating time. Singapore’s economy fell by 0.6% in 2009 after enjoying years of uninterrupted growth since 2002. The stock market was also torn to shreds, with the SPDR STI ETF (SGX: ES3) – an exchange-traded fund tracking Singapore’s market benchmark, ...
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This Share Might Help Scratch Your Urge for a Growing Dividend

18 Jun 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I’d say it straight: Tourism asset owner Straco Corporation Ltd (SGX: S85) is not a share that can set a dividend investor’s heart aflutter at the moment. At its current price of S$1.00, Straco has a yield of just 2% thanks to its annual dividend of S$0.02 per share in 2014. In contrast, the SPDR STI ...
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2 Quick Lessons from the 2014 Oil Price Crash

16 Jun 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s been about a year since the price of oil nose-dived from more than US$100 per barrel to around US$65 currently. Source: Nasdaq The impact has certainly been felt at a number of oil-related companies in Singapore. For instance, shares of rig builders Keppel Corporation Limited (SGX: BN4) and SembCorp ...
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1 Surprising Thing You Have To Know About The Stock Market’s Best Winners

10 Jun 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tourism asset owner Straco Corporation Ltd (SGX: S85) and healthcare services provider Raffles Medical Group Ltd (SGX: R01) have been massive long-term winners in Singapore’s stock market. Over the past 10 years since 10 June 2005, Straco and Raffles Medical have seen their share prices soar by 644% ...
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The 1 Thing You Should Never Do In the Stock Market

10 Jun 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Professional money managers have millions, sometimes even billions, of dollars at their disposal and it’s easy to think that with the resources they have, making quick trades profitably shouldn’t be a problem at all. But is that really true? Short-term pains In a research paper titled Short-term Institutional ...
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You Must Prepare For This If You Want To Be A Successful Investor

3 Jun 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
This is the last thing we hope for as a student. This is also not something we look forward to in our day job. Yet, this is something we must all be comfortable with making if we want to be a successful investor. I am talking about Making Mistakes. As famous investor, Peter Lynch, once said “In this ...
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The Week In Numbers: Five Is The Limit

29 May 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will be pumping S$20m into a global marketing campaign. The promotional push is timed to coincide with the Great Singapore Sale, which takes place in June and July. The concerted promotion could benefit the many shopping malls in Singapore that include upmarket Paragon, ...
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Straco Corporation Ltd’s Latest Earnings: Flying Profits from the Singapore Flyer

11 May 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Straco Corporation Ltd (SGX: S85) reported its fiscal first-quarter earnings for the three months ended 31 March 2015 last Friday evening. The company’s a developer and operator of tourism attractions and it has three such assets in China (two flagship aquariums in Shanghai Ocean Aquarium and Underwater ...
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3 Things You Need To Know About the Singapore Share Market Today

11 May 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Welcome to Monday evening! Here are three things about Singapore’s share market and investing in general that you might want to look at today and over the rest of the week. 1. We’re in the midst of earnings season now and with each new day comes a whole list of companies that have released their latest ...
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Should You Sell Your Stocks in May and Go Away?

4 May 2015 - The Motley Fool Singapore
You may have heard of the old stock market adage “Sell in May and Go Away”. The adage comes from the theory that stocks tend to underperform from May to September. As such, it is suggested that investors would be better off avoiding such months all together. To dive deeper into this, an article on 1 ...
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