What happened? US stocks dropped briefly last week after news broke that US President Joe Biden is looking to almost double capital gains tax rate for the rich (those earning $1 million or more) to 39.6% from the current base rate of 20%. The increase would equalize the tax rate between wage and capital gains […]

What happened in markets this week, and what are analysts talking about? Sembcorp Industries • Credit Suisse: Initiate coverage on SCI with an OUTPERFORM rating and TP of S$2.40, based on Sum of the parts valuation implying ~1.2x FY21F P/B. SCI is shifting to renewables as it looks to grow its renewables capacity to 4,000MW […]

What happened? Bitcoin saw a massive sell-down over the weekend, plunging more than 12% – the biggest intraday drop since February 2021. While Bitcoin crawled back part of its losses, the cryptocurrency was still down more than 10% from its high of nearly US$65,000, at about US$57,000 as at time of writing. At one point, […]

What happened in markets this week, and what are analysts talking about? Alibaba Group  China authorities imposed a record antitrust fine of US$2.8 billion on Alibaba Group, representing 4% of the Group’s 2019 revenue. This is triple of the previous US$975 million fine by Qualcomm in 2015, but far less than the maximum 10% allowed […]

The joy of finding a good deal always makes my day.  Here is a compilation (those that we can find) of the stores opened by former restaurant chefs, at affordable hawker prices.  Disclosure: The accuracy of the material found in this article cannot be guaranteed

This article is written by Small Cap Asia. Upon the RTO of Catalist-listed Artivision Technologies Ltd., MC Payment is set to become the first digital payments service provider listed on SGX. With digital payments all the rage these days, it pays (pun intended) to take a deep look at this company. Here are 10 quick […]

While I studied in Banking & Finance and Accountancy in school, the best investing knowledge I got was from the books of other investors. This is not to say that the knowledge we learnt in school is useless, but it provides us with the basic fundamentals on how to read the financial statements and value […]

We all know what went down in 2020.  The world got hit with a pandemic, and global economic and trade was severely disrupted. The 2020 economic outlook took a sharp turn, and stock markets crashed globally. There were many reports about the 2020 stock market crash all across social media back then. Even if you […]