Friday, 24 November 2017

A Tale of Two Currencies

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In 1965, the Singapore dollar and Ringgit Malaysia were on parity i.e. S$1.00=RM1.00. From 1973, Ringgit began its long slide against the Si...
Friday, 17 November 2017

Machine Learning – A Simple Example for Stock Market Prediction

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Machine Learning (ML) is an application or methodology to analyse input data and then predict an output value using statistical analysis.  I...
Friday, 10 November 2017

Cryptocurrency: 21st Century Bane or Boon?

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Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of Bitcoin, never intended to invent a currency. It was a “peer to peer electronic cash system”. The key part wa...
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Friday, 3 November 2017

War and Capital Markets!

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We often read headlines relating stock market declines with regional military tensions.  On 28 Aug 2017, North Korea fired a missile that f...
Friday, 27 October 2017

India’s GST of 28%: Is This A Valid Benchmark?

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The concept of goods and services tax (“GST”) is not new to the world. About 160 countries have opted to adopt GST as a tax mode. France wa...
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Friday, 20 October 2017

Detecting Potential Financial Manipulation

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In fundamental analysis, besides looking for the potential earnings growth of a company, one has to ensure that the company’s financial pos...
Friday, 13 October 2017

What’s My Budget for 2018?

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At a pre-Halloween party, I was appointed the shadow Minister of Finance for a “virtual” nation. My job entails how to address the followin...