http://finance.webstrait.com finance.webstrait.com Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's human nature for man to follow those winners in their lives. E.g. the champions in the sports, the most successful investors in the world & etc. Therefore, there might not be too many investors who are really interested in knowing the ugliest side of data. However, such data could ... http://finance.webstrait.com/the-25-biggest-quarterly-losses-in-us-history/54/ I had recently found a very interesting article from Yahoo! Finance. It lists out 6 deadly investing mistakes in which commonly made by the investors. From my point of view, it had somehow shown us those bad habits in which should be abandoned by the investors if they intended to ... http://finance.webstrait.com/6-deadly-investing-mistakes/53/ Do you still remember that most of the market analysts(including our government) in Malaysia claimed that "Malaysia is a safe haven" when credit crunch crisis started deteriorating in U.S.? Yea, they may be right, this is simply because none of our banks or financial institutions involved directly in U.S. Supreme ... http://finance.webstrait.com/fuel-and-food-price-hikes-could-cause-recession/51/ First of all, how do you describe the unit price or NAV(Net Asset Value) of mutual funds? Investopedia says "In the context of mutual funds, Net Asset Value per share is computed once a day based on the closing market prices of the securities in the fund's portfolio.". Indeed, the ... http://finance.webstrait.com/should-we-buy-funds-with-lower-unit-price/50/ NEW YORK (AP) -- Citigroup Inc. shareholders may have finally gotten what they wanted -- the resignation of Chairman and Chief Executive Charles Prince -- but Wall Street's worries are far from over. At an emergency meeting of the Citi board Sunday, the nation's largest bank announced Prince's widely expected departure, ... http://finance.webstrait.com/citigroup-inc-searches-for-new-ceo-and-prepares-for-losses/49/ In finance, the Rule of 72 is a simple but powerful method for estimating an investment's doubling time. That is for finding out how long your investment will take to double your money. It's based on the compound interest as opposed to the simple interest. For e.g., if you have put ... http://finance.webstrait.com/the-rule-of-72-will-help-you-in-financial-planning/48/ The major stocks of US fell sharply on Friday, The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq tumbled 2.4% on average. The Dow Jones industrial average down more than 280 points after some bad news emerged from the market regarding the credit crunch and the rise of US unemployment rate in July. The ... http://finance.webstrait.com/us-subprime-mortgages-crisis/45/ KLCI from February 2007 - July 2007 Most of the Asian stock markets tumbled on Friday due to the fears of global credit crunch and the US market plunge overnight(i.e. on thursday). In Malaysia, KLCI was unable to be exempted from it too by dropping -26.12(i.e. -1.89%) to ... http://finance.webstrait.com/worst-week-in-5-years-dow-continues-to-sheds-208-on-friday/44/ I think most of the investors like fund's distributions/devidends. Sincerely, I would like it too. Because only the funds with good performance can make the distributions to it's unit's holders (based on rules). That means distributions will some how hints that you are investing in a fund with good performance. ... http://finance.webstrait.com/are-distributions-of-unit-trust-really-beneficial/41/ "What are the differences between wants and needs?" How likely your answer would be? Sincerely, it would not be too important if you can get the correct answer. You would probably answer such question correctly; even a school boy may know the answer. Basically, "needs" refers to those things required for ... http://finance.webstrait.com/wants-or-needs/40/ After dropping badly for several transaction days, KLCI had started to increase in last tuesday (i.e. 6th, March). Furthermore, KLCI had continued it's rise on wednesday and the following transaction days of last week (i.e. from 7th to 9th of March). Anyway, such rising trend may not be ... http://finance.webstrait.com/klci-be-aware-of-profit-taking-activities-in-next-week/38/ The nightmare seems still haven't ended yet, most of the markets in Asia fell sharply on this Monday. Hong Kong - Hang Seng dropped 777.13 points (or 4.00%) to 18664.88, Japan - Nikkei 225 index fell 575.68 (or 3.34%) to 16642.25, U.S. - Dow Jones fell 120.24 (or 120.24) to ... http://finance.webstrait.com/black-monday-nightmare-still-continues-in-global-market/35/ Last week must be one of the most horrible weeks to those stocks investors around the world. All of the main indexes for China, Hong Kong, Japan, United States, Europe and Southeast Asia plunged into darkness. Most of the Asia markets continued to be weak on ... http://finance.webstrait.com/klci-the-reasons-behind-the-tragedy/28/ BANK Negara Malaysia decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) - which determines interest rates - at the current level of 3.5%. This decision has been made during the monetary policy committee meets today. http://finance.webstrait.com/bank-negara-likely-to-maintain-opr-rate/27/ The Central Bank of Thailand has just announced that the Capital Control Policy will be adopted to prevent the foreign investors from withdrawing their capitals out of Thailand within the 1st year of investments. As an result, the Stock Exchange of Thailand Index dropped more than 10% just after the ... http://finance.webstrait.com/thailand-announced-capital-control/26/