wahkao3
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linxiaobei
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dont be hard up over growth!!
Huh? Then what are you looking for in a stock? Don't want blue chips, don't want dividends, don't want growth stocks, want small cap and mid cap.
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Huh? Then what are you looking for in a stock? Don't want blue chips, don't want dividends, don't want growth stocks, want small cap and mid cap.
He hard up over low risk high return counter which he also cannot define, meaning it doesn't exist. It all depends on what you think is low risk high returns.
Anyway,
This year, just plug in the numbers for my US counters. I have managed to not only decrease my capital in the market, but increase my portfolio market value. So far it's a 3% rise from last I calculated my P/L in Dec 2014.
dont be hard up over growth!!
It's my only criteria now. I don't need dividends, especially not with a withholding tax on them. SG has no tax on capital gains so why not take advantage of that?
felixleong
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just ignore the troll
dividends or capitals also ask ppl not to be hard over it
for me dividends is very important
i believe that stocks are worth their cash flow over their life span
dividends or capitals also ask ppl not to be hard over it
for me dividends is very important
i believe that stocks are worth their cash flow over their life span
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Fed rate rise timing back in the spotlight | TODAYonline
LONDON - Greece's struggles with its euro zone creditors may have grabbed much of the world's attention, but U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is likely to reclaim the spotlight this week with testimony on a long-anticipated shift in policy.
If the Fed sticks to mid-year for its first interest rate rise in a decade, it will be perceived as a reflection of the world economy's growing resilience.
U.S. core CPI inflation data due next week will also give some idea of just how much the collapse in oil prices which has tamped down inflation globally will work as a counterweight to the Fed's apparent comfort so far with higher rates in June.
But the fretting over Greece -- which makes up less than half of one percent of world GDP -- has underscored the impression that for all of the piles of monetary stimulus over the past few years, much of the troubles remain the same.
While purchasing managers' data for the euro zone in February are pointing in the right direction, Europe is still struggling to create meaningful growth that would generate the kind of strong hiring that might in turn push up wage inflation.
China is grappling with a property market and debt overhang as it tries to rebalance its slowing economy and a purchasing managers' index due on Wednesday is expected to show persistent stagnation in its once-booming manufacturing industry.
Much of Latin America, particularly Brazil, has slipped back even further from a past position of strength and has very little to offer a world economy that the World Bank warns is now running on one engine, made in America.
Minutes to the Fed's latest policy-setting meeting suggested to some analysts that policymakers might be backing off a June rate rise. But the strongest set of jobs data in many years were published after that late January Fed meeting took place.
"If unemployment keeps falling, the laws of supply and demand have not been repealed, we will get inflation out of this," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
"In terms of going to the next step, does that mean they're tightening in June? Not necessarily," he said.
O'Sullivan expects Yellen to sound optimistic on the full employment part of the Fed's dual mandate when she delivers her twice-annual testimony to Congress on monetary policy, starting with the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
The majority of forecasters still expect June for lift-off on U.S. rates, and the latest Reuters poll suggested that about two-thirds of them had held to the same conviction over the timing over the course of the past month.
What hasn't been working in the Fed's favor is evidence that inflation is picking up. Core inflation, which strips out food and energy prices, is expected to hold steady at 1.6 percent when data are due Thursday, according to a Reuters poll.
With a few notable exceptions, like Brazil, inflation has been far too low for comfort, and continues to fall, triggering surprise central bank monetary easings from Canada to Sweden to Australia to Indonesia over the past several weeks.
To many, that makes the Fed's continued focus on soon doing the opposite seem out of step. But perhaps not for long.
"The outlook for some large emerging market economies such as Brazil, Mexico and Russia has deteriorated but the meaningful tailwinds of lower energy prices and global policy easing are likely to persist," wrote Gustavo Reis, global economist at BofA-ML.
Much will depend on whether the euro zone, where some signs of economic revival have drawn stock markets to multi-year peaks, can sail through the latest bout of wrangling over its future without too much damage.
The European Central Bank's bond purchase program announced at its January meeting, worth 60 billion euros ($68 billion) a month, will begin in March, many years behind its peers. But it may have arrived at a particularly good time.
Any risk of investor flight over the outcome of heated negotiations over Greece's debt burden and the future of the euro now will at least have one of the world's largest central banks acting as a backstop scooping up sovereign debt.
And the economic news is not all bad. The German Ifo business climate index, due at the start of the week, is expected to rise for a fourth straight month in February.
German gross domestic product (GDP) is also expected to be confirmed as growing a solid 0.7 percent quarter-on-quarter in the final months of last year.
"Europe's biggest economy is clearly entering 2015 with more momentum than we and the consensus had expected," wrote analysts at Morgan Stanley, who expect first quarter growth of 0.5 percent. REUTERS
Market to chiong next week?
LONDON - Greece's struggles with its euro zone creditors may have grabbed much of the world's attention, but U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is likely to reclaim the spotlight this week with testimony on a long-anticipated shift in policy.
If the Fed sticks to mid-year for its first interest rate rise in a decade, it will be perceived as a reflection of the world economy's growing resilience.
U.S. core CPI inflation data due next week will also give some idea of just how much the collapse in oil prices which has tamped down inflation globally will work as a counterweight to the Fed's apparent comfort so far with higher rates in June.
But the fretting over Greece -- which makes up less than half of one percent of world GDP -- has underscored the impression that for all of the piles of monetary stimulus over the past few years, much of the troubles remain the same.
While purchasing managers' data for the euro zone in February are pointing in the right direction, Europe is still struggling to create meaningful growth that would generate the kind of strong hiring that might in turn push up wage inflation.
China is grappling with a property market and debt overhang as it tries to rebalance its slowing economy and a purchasing managers' index due on Wednesday is expected to show persistent stagnation in its once-booming manufacturing industry.
Much of Latin America, particularly Brazil, has slipped back even further from a past position of strength and has very little to offer a world economy that the World Bank warns is now running on one engine, made in America.
Minutes to the Fed's latest policy-setting meeting suggested to some analysts that policymakers might be backing off a June rate rise. But the strongest set of jobs data in many years were published after that late January Fed meeting took place.
"If unemployment keeps falling, the laws of supply and demand have not been repealed, we will get inflation out of this," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
"In terms of going to the next step, does that mean they're tightening in June? Not necessarily," he said.
O'Sullivan expects Yellen to sound optimistic on the full employment part of the Fed's dual mandate when she delivers her twice-annual testimony to Congress on monetary policy, starting with the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
The majority of forecasters still expect June for lift-off on U.S. rates, and the latest Reuters poll suggested that about two-thirds of them had held to the same conviction over the timing over the course of the past month.
What hasn't been working in the Fed's favor is evidence that inflation is picking up. Core inflation, which strips out food and energy prices, is expected to hold steady at 1.6 percent when data are due Thursday, according to a Reuters poll.
With a few notable exceptions, like Brazil, inflation has been far too low for comfort, and continues to fall, triggering surprise central bank monetary easings from Canada to Sweden to Australia to Indonesia over the past several weeks.
To many, that makes the Fed's continued focus on soon doing the opposite seem out of step. But perhaps not for long.
"The outlook for some large emerging market economies such as Brazil, Mexico and Russia has deteriorated but the meaningful tailwinds of lower energy prices and global policy easing are likely to persist," wrote Gustavo Reis, global economist at BofA-ML.
Much will depend on whether the euro zone, where some signs of economic revival have drawn stock markets to multi-year peaks, can sail through the latest bout of wrangling over its future without too much damage.
The European Central Bank's bond purchase program announced at its January meeting, worth 60 billion euros ($68 billion) a month, will begin in March, many years behind its peers. But it may have arrived at a particularly good time.
Any risk of investor flight over the outcome of heated negotiations over Greece's debt burden and the future of the euro now will at least have one of the world's largest central banks acting as a backstop scooping up sovereign debt.
And the economic news is not all bad. The German Ifo business climate index, due at the start of the week, is expected to rise for a fourth straight month in February.
German gross domestic product (GDP) is also expected to be confirmed as growing a solid 0.7 percent quarter-on-quarter in the final months of last year.
"Europe's biggest economy is clearly entering 2015 with more momentum than we and the consensus had expected," wrote analysts at Morgan Stanley, who expect first quarter growth of 0.5 percent. REUTERS
Market to chiong next week?
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im out of this thread. this thread is ****-ed when wahkao is in. not that i dont agree with him. but he is as good as a troll. good luck to all other yahoo vestor 
Anyone's got Transocean? I'm With SCB. There is a corporate action which requires my reply by 4pm today. Just got the sms but no letter. Called them up, its whether to take dividend by cash in USD (default) or in French Franc. I chose USD. Just want to ask if there are major implications choosing either one. Thanks.
mikezuper
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You can just put him on ignore list - no?im out of this thread. this thread is ****-ed when wahkao is in. not that i dont agree with him. but he is as good as a troll. good luck to all other yahoo vestor
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im out of this thread. this thread is ****-ed when wahkao is in. not that i dont agree with him. but he is as good as a troll. good luck to all other yahoo vestor
awww dont be silly. just join in and ignore who u dont like. We would love your sharing too. =)
we need everyone contribution to huat huat!
beside, just treat wahkao as entertainment... some of his stuff is nonsense, some of it is actually good advice hidden in the trolling....
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im out of this thread. this thread is ****-ed when wahkao is in. not that i dont agree with him. but he is as good as a troll. good luck to all other yahoo vestor
ya wah kao is trash king
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I am not certain of any ETF healthcare
but I am looking at two healthcare company
ANTM - health insurance
UNH - health carrier
Obamacare, right? 2% tax on household income for households that do not have healthcare insurance...
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S&P does "SPDR Select Sector" ETFs for each of the industry sectors in the S&P 500 - they're hugely liquid, actively traded, and usually competitively priced. The one for the healthcare sector is XLV, and the expense ratio is 0.15%.
Be careful, though. Healthcare has had a monster run over the last five years or so - the odds that it'll keep outperforming like it has are pretty slim.
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Knew you have the answer. Thank.
Thank for the caution too, but as I'm overly diversified, and I nimble along the way, no fear of huge drop. I knew healthcare ETF would be worth investing in a year or two back, just never got around to thinking buying a whole sector on it. The monster run sure puts me off a tiny bit.
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hehe, made a quick buck off cybersecurity stocks.
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