Stock Market Superbubble We are once again witnessing a pretty familiar scene. The bears are “out in force” as the US market hits correction mode. While we are yet to be in bear market territory, there is already an expert out there who warns of a 70% pullback amid an “extreme” bubble. John Hussman, the
Interest Rate Hikes. Should you be concerned? The latest December data indicated that inflation in the US is running at the hottest level since 1982, as prices rose for an array of goods especially housing, cars, and food. The Consumer Price Index or CPI climbed 7% in 2021, the largest 12-month gain over the last
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Finding the best portfolio allocation strategies Back in late 2020, I did a write-up on the Best Portfolio Allocation Strategies. For readers who are not familiar with portfolio allocation, it is the “ART” of investing in different asset classes to achieve proper diversification that fits an investor’s risk profile. For example, investing 100% of your
Market Correction: Is the sky falling again in 2022? The sky is falling “yet again” as the stock market experience its first significant market correction in 2022 with the S&P 500 declining by almost 2% and the Nasdaq tanking 3.3% last night (5th Jan) as meetings from the Fed spooked the market. Minutes from the
Stock Rover Review 2023: Best Fundamental Stock Screener Stock Rover is perhaps one of the most comprehensive fundamental stock screeners out there, an almost perfect ALL-IN-ONE stock screener that allows one to screen for fundamental results on the more than 6,000+ US and Canadian stocks/ETFs out there. Unfortunately, it does not provide international stock screening.
How to beat inflation and protect your investment portfolio “Inflation is transitory”. That is no longer the buzzword used by the Fed, instead, the world’s largest central bank is acknowledging that price increases had exceeded its 2% target “for some time”. Should we still hold the Fed’s words as the gospel truth? Well, not according
Is this cooling measure going to be like 2013 or 2018? The talk of the town in sunny Singapore over the past couple of days has been the fact that new property cooling measures were announced by the government to cool the private residential and HDB resale markets. With these new measures in place, should
How much is required for your child education? For some Singaporean parents, seeing their kids being accepted into a local university is a dream come true, particularly if they themselves are not “fortunate” enough to have gone to one. “Boy ah, study hard in University and get a good degree. Then you can find a
Top 3 Singapore Condos for Rent. Where are the most rentable condos in Singapore? I have been curious about the rentability nature of condos here in Singapore and thus decided to dig a little deeper to uncover condos in Singapore that are worth looking at from a rental income standpoint. Which are the condos in
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Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are some of the hottest asset classes of 2021. Is it a mega bubble waiting to POP or can its red-hot momentum continue into 2022? We that discussion to another day. In this article, I will like to highlight what the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, or GBTC for short, and how its transition
Facebook metaverse story. Social media giant transiting to the virtual world Metaverse has been the “buzz” word of late and the company spearheading this trend is none other than Facebook, the world’s biggest social network company that has officially changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc. The company’s sudden pivot into the metaverse world, where
Which companies own the most popular apps in the world? Over the past week, Facebook changing its name to Meta has been the talk of the town. The move to rebrand itself is seen to distance itself from a social media business, one which has been embroiled in a crisis, into a creator of a
I recently wrote 2 articles on the semiconductor industry (see links below). I will like to follow up with a 3rd article that seeks to look at the valuation of different semiconductor stocks. Semiconductor stocks can be broadly categorized into 5 segments: 1) Design, 2) Foundry, 3) IDMs, 4) OSATs and 5) Equipment Manufacturers. Global
Global semiconductor supply chain I recently wrote a piece on the semiconductor industry, providing a basic introduction of what this industry is all about and throwing light on the key players, namely the 1) equipment makers, 2) the foundries/IDMs and 3) fabless design companies. The second part of that article seeks to highlight 5 small-cap
