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BoCom announces final schedule for Rmb33b rights issue, revised downward from the previous target of Rmb42b
BoCom announces final schedule for Rmb33b rights issue, revised downward
from the previous target of Rmb42b
Analyst: Nan Sheng      Tel: (8621) 5404 7225 x809
Final schedule for Rmb33b rights issue. BoCom announced its final schedule for its 1.5 for 10 A+H [...]

The recent articles in this series on Santos (STO:ASX) have been inspired by a lesson from the WD Gann Stock Market Course where he teaches his Mechanical Stock Trading Method and tests it over a 15-year period in US Steel. In the last section of the lesson he covers a situation very similar to ours [...]

Korean war ‘may break out at any moment’: North Korea
A North Korean diplomat said Thursday that tensions on the Korean peninsula were running so high over the sinking of a South Korean warship that “war may break out at any moment.”
In a speech to the international Conference on Disarmament, Ri Jang-Gon, deputy permanent representative for [...]

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ADB asks Sri Lanka to reduce size of budget
The Asian Development Bank on Friday asked Sri Lanka to prune the size of its budget to sustain economic stability as the island emerges from decades of ethnic conflict.
The Manila-based bank’s President Haruhiko Kuroda said [...]

The current market conditions and volatility are causing a huge amount of consternation amongst investors and traders around the globe. Although those more advanced clients are continuing to thrive in the market action, many novices are confused into inaction and have been missing out on some of the opportunities available. Not that this is surprising, [...]

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World stocks fall on euro debt, growth fears
Global stock markets reeled Tuesday amid growing fears the European debt crisis threatens a return to recession and a spike in dangerous tensions between North and South Korea.
Investors, rocked by fresh turmoil in the Spanish banking sector, were also hit by the prospect of severe [...]

Remembering Dr. Goh Keng Swee
Singapore’s former Deputy Prime Minister and chief economic architect, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, has passed away after a long illness. He was 91.
Dr Goh is best remembered as one of the key architects behind Singapore’s  economic success. His daughter-in-law, Tan Siok Sun described the story of his life in the new book Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait. The biography features many of [...]

For weeks we’ve seen “experts” telling us that Greece will be an isolated event. That it could have an impact elsewhere in Europe, but it shouldn’t have any bearing on the US or Australia (Australia’s different you see).
Then at the start of this week talk of contagion started to do the rounds. But again, maybe [...]

Greek’s debt troubles raise contagion worries
The Greek debt crisis sent a shudder through global financial markets and served as a dramatic reminder of how vulnerable the world economy remains to the threat of a fast-spreading financial panic.
To many, market developments this week served as a spooky reminder of the fall of 2008 and the panic [...]

Overseas S’poreans should look at home growth post—crisis & return
CHICAGO: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hopes that Singaporeans based overseas will realise the country’s developments and economic growth particularly after the financial crisis and return home soon.
He was speaking to some 150 Singaporeans who are studying and working in Chicago. Mr Lee was wrapping up [...]