9 Big Investing Mistakes to Avoid For the Year of the Money And Beyond

10 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Monday was the Chinese New Year, the start of the Lunar Year of the Monkey. In Chinese cultural traditions, there is a cycle of 12 lunar years in which each year is represented by one of 12 animals. With us being at the start of a new year and the Monkey being the ninth animal in the 12-animal cycle, ...
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The Market’s Special Winners and a Story of Pain and Losses

10 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Raffles Medical Group Limited (SGX: R01), Vicom Limited (SGX: V01), Straco Corporation Ltd (SGX: S85), and Riverstone Holdings Limited (SGX: AP4) can be considered to be special stocks in Singapore’s stock market. Since the start of 2007, Singapore’s market barometer, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), ...
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3 Things You Need To Know About the Singapore Stock Market Today

5 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Welcome to Friday evening! Here’s wishing you an advanced Happy Chinese New Year! Below, you can find three things about Singapore’s stock market and investing in general that you might want to look at today and over the upcoming long weekend. 1. The earnings season is still chugging along. Here are ...
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VICOM Limited’s Latest Earnings: Dividend Increases 8%

5 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Vicom Limited (SGX: V01) released its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings yesterday evening. The reporting period was for 1 October 2015 to 31 December 2015. Vicom is a leading provider of technical testing and inspection services with operations primarily in Singapore. The company is majority-owned by land-transport ...
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7 Big Investing Mistakes to Avoid

4 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It appears to me that most investors are often on the lookout for winners. But, that may be the wrong focus, especially for newer investors. Here’s economist Erik Falkenstein explaining: “In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, ...
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The Dangers of Seeing a Market Crash at Every Corner

3 Feb 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Thomas McCrae, an early 20th century physician, once wrote about diagnosing a patient with a common abdominal disease. McCrae’s teacher — far more experienced — examined the patient and came to a different conclusion. He diagnosed an extremely rare disease McCrae had never heard of. The only way to determine ...
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Do Great Companies Recover From Great Stock Price Declines?

20 Jan 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
I had dinner with a really close friend awhile back. He works in a bank and is very interested about investing and finance. During the course of our dinner, he asked an interesting question: Do companies with good businesses really see their shares recover after huge market declines? I thought it’s a ...
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This Little-Known Australian Retailer Has An Invaluable Lesson For Investors Here

15 Jan 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Dick Smith Holdings Ltd (ASX: DSH) is an Australian-listed retailer. It is unlikely that Singaporeans are familiar with the company given that its retail operations are seated in Australia and New Zealand. But, the company should be of interest to investors here in Singapore. Dick Smith had listed only ...
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Fazed By The Market Turmoil? Here’s Something To Help

14 Jan 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Singapore’s stock market is not an easy place to be right now. The Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) has clocked losses in six of the first eight trading days in 2016. And, at its current level of 2,652 points as of the time of writing (4:18 pm), the market bellwether is sitting at a painful 25% ...
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The Road Ahead For Singapore’s Stock Market In 2016

4 Jan 2016 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tweet Welcome to 2016! Singapore’s stock market barometer, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI), has started the first trading day of the year on what seems like a sour note – as of the time of writing (2:15 pm), the index is down by 1.7% to 2,834 points. Major developments that have happened so far ...
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