tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43488264258923579942024-08-28T15:19:17.530+08:00MARGIN OF SAFETY - the 3 most important words in investingvaluelifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14499740404634099278noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4348826425892357994.post-539503447134045812009-04-10T14:22:00.000+08:002009-04-10T14:22:37.411+08:00

Has the bear market ended in March 2009 (17 months later) ???Bear market in US started in October 2007 and is expected to end in March 2010. The forecast is based on the average bear market period since 1929. Lets wait and see...

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One of my favorite songs by Zhang Hui Mei -记得 (Remember). This song was written by JJ Lin when he was around 19. What an excellent effort! Maybe this song is about his own feelings!Ah Mei is certainly one of the best Chinese female singer in the world. She sings with her heart and soul, and you just can feel it. What a wonderful voice. Hats off to Ah Mei!Enjoy!

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These are "highly recommended" TVB dramas. Although I have forgotten the storyline of the first drama starring wang ze liang, the song nevertheless reminds me of some priceless moments during my school time. The second drama is, in my opinion, the best drama since the beginning of the 20th century, and one of the best in the history of TVB drama. You can learn a lot from the drama. Again, highly

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World stocks plummet as auto sector reelsMon Mar 30, 5:26 am ET LONDON (AFP) – European and Asian stock markets dived on Monday as fresh woes for the global auto sector and extremely weak economic data triggered a rush to dump shares, traders said.Tokyo closed down 4.53 percent as bad industrial and auto production data fed the gloomy economic outlook and traders rushed to lock in profits made

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Why so serious? Everyone is happy on Friday (The reason for the existent of TGIF?), but boring on Monday. Why? Tell my why!!! Everyday is Friday if you like your job. If not, then you should change your job. And soon someone will come out with TGINF. Guess what?Answer: Thanks God Its Not Friday!!!

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.- Turnaround rarely works.Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Experience and Knowledge are what counts in investing.The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.- Its the

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Being a footballer myself, I think I should be able to give some comments on the topic. Why Malaysian football so hopeless?Every player on the field, excluding the goalkeeper, is so eager to become the next Eric Cantona (or Messi - the new legend).See here for example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZnUr8lcqjoI dont understand why the defenders tend to play like strikers, though their main job

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Buffett says US in 'economic Pearl Harbor'By TIMBERLY ROSS – 1 day agoOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says the U.S. is engaged in an "economic Pearl Harbor."The comment from the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. came during an interview that aired Sunday on "Dateline NBC." Buffett spoke about President-elect Barack Obama and the nation's economic

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"The stock market usually make people suffer more than prosper." "Only less than 10% investors can beat the market, the rest are eaten by the market." "Investing is like gambling. You see outside TOTO shops, see inside GENTING. People have the tendency to gamble. They want to get rich fast, but it doesn't happen that way."

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A Daily Snapshot of Market Moving Developmentsby David A.RosenbergOn the data frontThis is a truly global recession. We learned overnight that Japanese exports collapsed 26.7% year-over-year in November; that's the biggest drop on record. Shipments to the US plunged at an unprecedented 34% year-over-year rate. Meanwhile, imports into Japan sank 14.4% year-over-year in a sign of weakening domestic

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The Federal Reserve cut its target interest rate Tuesday to historic lows between zero and a quarter percentage point and said it could expand a program of unorthodox lending and securities purchases.Wells Fargo, Wachovia and U.S. Bancorp immediately lowered their prime lending rates from 4 percent to 3.25 percent, and other banks will probably follow suit. Economists cautioned, though, that

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How long will the latest bear markets last? 18 months or 24 months or...?For future reference.

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"Give a man some monies, he who is frugal can save some, but he who is a big spender will consume every penny." - value-life

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Stocks to Survive OnKen Fisher (10.02.08)Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil. Seems that almost everyone else does, though. Most investors need their investments to last them a long, long time, yet they're acting like the next few months are everything. The shadow of death is an illusion. In the long term equities always do well. They will now, too, even if they

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US tech firms in Malaysia face falling sales, job cutsSource: BloombergSALES by US electronics makers in Malaysia will fall this year and next as a global recession saps demand for Dell Inc computers and other devices, the head of an industry group said.Electronics manufacturers in the Southeast Asian nation will probably have to cut jobs next year after reducing overtime and letting workers take

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During the period of 1998-2008, the US economy grew by a staggering 65.5%! On the other hand, US stock market's performance looks pale in comparison with its economy. DowJones, the indicator of US stock market performance as a whole, contracted by 7.5% for the last ten years! Is it amazing?? The stock market index, which is also supposely track the performance of the economy of the country, did

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German Economy Enters Worst Recession in 12 Years (Update2)By Gabi ThesingNov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The German economy, Europe's largest, contracted more than economists expected in the third quarter, confirming it has entered its worst recession in at least 12 years as the global financial crisis curbs exports.Gross domestic product dropped a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent from the second quarter,

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GM's Skid Quickens as Crunch Raises Bankruptcy Threat (Update1)By Mike RamseyNov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., burning cash as U.S. sales slide, is being pushed closer to bankruptcy as it waits to learn whether the auto industry will win a new round of government loans. Only federal aid can prevent a collapse by the largest U.S. automaker, analysts including Buckingham Research Group's

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Oil prices near US$60 on recession fearsSource: msnbcHOUSTON: Oil prices neared $60 a barrel Thursday, their lowest point in about a year and a half, as a growing number of economic reports point to a long and painful recession.The number of Americans continuing to draw unemployment benefits surged to a 25-year high, the Labor Department said Thursday, and the U.S. retailers saw their sales

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This is the text of an opinion piece written by Warren Buffett and published in the New York Times on Friday, October 17, 2008:Buy American. I am. By Warren E. Buffett The financial world is a mess, both in the United States and abroad. Its problems, moreover, have been leaking into the general economy, and the leaks are now turning into a gusher. In the near term, unemployment will rise,

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Robert Shiller, professor of finance at Yale University and chief economist for MacroMarkets LLC, tracks what he calls the "Graham P/E," a measure of market valuation he adapted from an observation Graham made many years ago. The Graham P/E divides the price of major U.S. stocks by their net earnings averaged over the past 10 years, adjusted for inflation. After this week's bloodbath, the

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Market is still unattractive at current level of around 935 points for KLCI. Is it time to accumulate?? I dont think so. Better be approximate right than precisely wrong! Keep in mind that KLCI represents only 100 top stocks by market cap. But when the market falls, the second and third liners would be the most affected. Wait for the right time to enter again. What say you? The market is always

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Source: thesimpledollar.comPeter Lynch is a Wall Street legend. He drove Fidelity’s Magellan mutual fund to some incredible returns in the 1970s and 1980s, year after year. From 1977, when he took over the fund, to 1990, when he retired, that fund grew from $18 million in assets to $14 billion. In those thirteen years, a single share of the Magellan fund increased 900% in value - a 29.2% annual

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Japan's Nikkei plunges 9.4%, biggest drop in 21 yearsTOKYO: Japan's stock market plummeted 9.4 percent, Its biggest one-day drop in 21 years, on Wednesday as investors rushed for the exits on deepening fears over the global financial crisis. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index nose-dived 952.58 points to 9,203.32, a five-year low. That was its third-biggest drop in percentage terms and largest plunge

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