April 2009

China Heart Taiwan

What does it take for a country's stock market to rise 6% in a day? What kind of news can jump start that? Apparently, very little. Chin...

Banks may need to write down another $1,000 billion, and this is already widely hinted in the markets. I would rather not take this as a neg...

Impressions and how you present yourself are very important for an executive. In a world where first impressions are made in the first 3 to ...

Well, to really appreciate this posting, you have to be a fan of cricket like me. Sports mad fans will stand or sit and drink their Tooheys ...

The next catalyst for the US markets has to be the government's stress-testing of banks' results. Most analysts and commentators ca...

Can something like an unknown swine flu affect financial market? One need only ask Hong Kong, and the rest of Asia during the SARS outbreak....

By Unknown Saturday, April 25, 2009

There have been a few readers who have asked me what business books to recommend. I am not going to recommend textbooks, as you can go and d...

The Susan Boyle youtube video now has been seen by more than 100m people collectively in just one week. While I am happy for her, I am a bit...

University endowment funds are widely tracked and followed. Yale, Harvard, Virginia, etc... have high profile managers and there is a strong...

Sometimes the media can drive something into orbit and then take the other side and whack the same thing down, after being largely responsib...

HK and Singapore properties went down sharply at the beginning of the crisis. Singapore is still nursing a down trending market. However thi...

You can only listen to economists for so long. They are generally depressing. Have you ever seen a bullish economist? Start of a bull market...

The Thais still don't know what they really want. Three years on and they are still at it. As neighbours, we need to keep watch on why t...