The Straits Times Index’s Best Performers for the Year

9 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
2013’s coming to a close and so far, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) has been somewhat of a disappointment, dropping 1.7% to 3,114 points since the end of last year. That said, since the index is made up of a collection of 30 of the largest publicly-listed companies in Singapore, there’s always a ...
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One Key to Finding Solid Dividends, And Four Shares with the Key

9 Dec 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I guess it’s only right that there are many investors out there who value their dividends. After all, it represents a true source of passive income stretching many years into future, provided the homework was done right when selecting the share. And for that, there’s something that isn’t right. You see, ...
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Three Shares That Lost To The Market Today

19 Nov 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s another slow day for Singapore’s stock market as the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) is down by 0.3% to 3,192 points. The 30 blue chips that make up the index had a rather mixed day as well as 13 of them ended the trading session in the black while 16 shares had lost some ground. Let’s take a closer ...
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Two Simple Things To Help You Do Well At Investing

11 Oct 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Nate Silver is a statistician and political forecaster with The New York Times. To describe his ability in political forecasting as top-notch would be a severe understatement. In 2012, he cemented his reputation by accurately predicting the outcomes of the presidential election in the USA in 50 out of ...
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How To Value A Company - Redux

25 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
How am I supposed to value a company? That’s a question a few investors asked us in our Ask a Foolish Question exercise. We’ve often, and will always, preach about the importance of buying the shares of a company only if we think it proves to be a discount to its estimated underlying intrinsic value. ...
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Three Shares With Fortress-like Balance Sheets

17 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
A company’s balance sheet gives investors clues on its financial stability. When balance sheets become bloated with debt, it gets riskier for investors. One of the sure-fire ways for investors to lose money is for the companies they’re invested in to undergo bankruptcy when debts can’t be repaid. Bondholders ...
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3 Investing Tips from Warren Buffett

16 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Warren Buffet is arguably one of the world’s most famous investor. Many know him as one of the world’s wealthiest men who built his remarkable fortune largely through investing through his company, the American conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. Here at the Motley Fool Singapore, we’ve been touting that ...
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Why Interest Rates Might Not Matter

11 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
There has been plenty of chatter over the past few months on when the US Federal Reserve will start tapering its stimulus efforts (known as Quantitative Easing). The Fed’s Chairman Ben Bernanke first gave a hint of a slowdown in QE back in late May, which caused a pullback in stock markets around the ...
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One Important Cash Flow Metric You Can Focus On

3 Sep 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Warren Buffett, arguably the world’s best investor, once said that “to value something, you simply have to take its free cash flows from now until kingdom come and then discount them back to the present using an appropriate discount rate.” That illustrates the importance of a company’s Free Cash Flow ...
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What If…The Entire Stock Market Halts

26 Aug 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Last Thursday night, the Nasdaq exchange in the USA had to halt trading for three hours due to certain technical glitches before trading resumed. The outage prompted a flurry of discussion in the American financial media (as a quick Google search of ‘Nasdaq halt’ would attest to) and even led a trader ...
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