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Economy

Are you waiting for a second market crash?

September 17, 2009

It’s been months that people are speculating the shape of the financial recovery all around the world. Some believe that we are now on an uptrend and that the recovery is a V-shaped one while others are hoarding their cash and not willing to invest just yet because they feel that the market is going [...]

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Price of petrol going up in September?

May 12, 2009

I read this piece of news about the launch of a premium petrol called RON97 this September that will cost RM2 per litre and a regular petrol called RON95 that will cost RM1.75 per litre. In view of this, the current cheapest choice of petrol, RON92 will be taken off the market.
Does this mean a rise [...]

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Local companies snapping up MNC operations for RM1

May 6, 2009

This week’s The Edge has an interesting article about how some ailing multinational corporations (MNCs) in  Malaysia are looking at disposing their operations as exit strategies due to the slow down in businesses.
Some of these MNCs include Dell, Western Digital and Flextronics. These companies have made known in recent months that they will be laying off employees [...]

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Would you invest your cash or start a business?

April 21, 2009

Imagine you have some cash in hand at the moment, and there are 2 options for you to use the money wisely to generate more income. These two options are:
1) Put it into an investment (buy a share, invest in gold, buy unit trust funds, buy property, etc)
2) Start a small part time business
Which would [...]

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20% drop in EPF dividend for 2008

March 17, 2009

Today EPF made the official announcement of the dividend payout for the year 2008 and it is only at 4.5%, versus the previous year’s dividend payout of 5.8%. This is a drop of 22% in dividend payout which is quite substantial.
It was reported that the returns for the year 2008 was in fact better than 2007, but due [...]

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