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STI to cross 3000 boosted by long-term investors
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GorgeousOng
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03-Jun-2016 22:04
Yells: "Hehehaha...enjoy life n live to the fullest..." |
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Market shock as May US nonfarms add just 38,000 jobs......🙄 🙄 🙄 Indeed many are sunbathing now...😎 😎 😎 |
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GorgeousOng
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03-Jun-2016 21:46
Yells: "Hehehaha...enjoy life n live to the fullest..." |
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Thank you! I am doing great! Any Ah Kong's company is good! LOL At this time is still too high, wait for two more weeks. All are wearing bikinis now.... Kakakakaaaa!
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03-Jun-2016 17:39
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Straits Times Index 2,809.23 0.51% +14.14 
Singapore shares close higher with Noble, Yeo Hiap Seng in focus during the week A SURGE in volume on Tuesday most probably because of month-end window-dressing, a play on food and beverage stocks led by Yeo Hiap Seng, and a focus on Noble Group after its chief executive officer resigned early in the week and the company on friday announced a rights issue - these were the main features of interest for the past week during which the Straits Times Index (STI) managed a seven-point rise to 2,809.23. The burst of interest on Tuesday took turnover that day to S $ 2 billion and involved mainly the banks and other large index stocks. The STI that day rose 38 points but lost all of this by the end of the session as traders focused on weakness in the Dow futures and Europe Daily business since then has dropped drastically -. on Friday when the STI rose 14.14 points, only 962 million units worth S $ 741 million was done. Yeo Hiap Seng' s meteoric jump of S $ 0.275 or 21 per cent to S $ 1.56 from Monday to Thursday was accompanied by a query from the Singapore Exchange (SGX), to which YHS replied that it did not know why its shares were in play. In today' s market if a stock was to surge as YHS did, the inevitable speculation is of an impending takeover-privatisation-delisting and this was the case with YHS. Commodities firm Noble early in the week announced the resignation of its CEO Yusuf Alireza for family reasons and the appointment of two co-CEOs, followed by a US $ 500 million one-for-one rights issue on Friday at S $ 0.11 per share, a 63.3 per cent discount to Noble' s closing price of S $ 0.30 on Thursday. The stock collapsed S $ 0.04 on Friday to a 52-week low of S $ 0.26. |
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03-Jun-2016 16:50
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Stocks Steady Ahead of U.S. Jobs Report Global stocks were steady Friday ahead of the U.S. jobs report, a key reading which could help determine the course for interest rates in the world' s largest economy. The Stoxx Europe 600 inched up 0.2% in morning trade, following a higher close on Wall Street and in Asia. Energy and mining shares led gains in Europe as Brent crude oil held firm just above $ 50 a barrel. Weekly US crude inventories and production data by the Energy Information Administration showed steady declines, helping traders overlook a decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries not to impose a production ceiling. Investors have avoided making big bets on stocks in the run-up to the monthly employment report, due at 8:30 a.m. ET, which is the final major release on the U.S. labor market before the Federal Reserve' s June meeting. A strong report could encourage Fed officials to raise benchmark interest rates this summer for the first time this year. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Friday the U.S. economy continues to be dominated by downside risks, suggesting he' s still on the fence about rates. " I see the value in making small and gradual adjustments to the fed-funds rate as the data improve and confirm my positive baseline outlook for the U.S.," he said. |
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03-Jun-2016 15:34
Yells: "I love my evil cute cute darling" |
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lol you damn funny
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03-Jun-2016 15:33
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Take some profit from oil... Re long when it retrace... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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03-Jun-2016 15:23
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European stocks open higher, focus switches to US jobs European stocks opened higher on Friday as investors turned their attention to a key U.S. jobs report that could hold the key to a Federal Reserve interest rate hike this month. The FTSE opened 0.5 percent higher, the German DAX was up 0.3 percent and the French CAC 40 up 0.3 percent. US employers were expected to have added 164,000 jobs in May, according to Reuters. US stocks closed at session highs on Thursday, with health care stocks leading, ahead of the highly anticipated nonfarm payrolls report. The S & P 500 topped 2,100 for the first time in the close since April 20, ending at its highest since Nov. 3, 2015. Brent oil prices held around $ 50 a barrel on Friday following an OPEC meeting that failed to agree on output targets, but that was seen as price-supportive as Saudi Arabia pledged not to flood the market with more fuel. European Indexes
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03-Jun-2016 12:08
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betul cakap dik...how r u??? long time no see...huat big big yah...tikam tikam mana satu???
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GorgeousOng
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03-Jun-2016 12:05
Yells: "Hehehaha...enjoy life n live to the fullest..." |
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Hard earned money only put in blue chips & no contra..... |
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GorgeousOng
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03-Jun-2016 11:42
Yells: "Hehehaha...enjoy life n live to the fullest..." |
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No hurry to take huge position....🐢 🐢 🐢 Enjoy sunbathing first!!!😎 😎 😎 |
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WanSiTong
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03-Jun-2016 10:11
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Asia: Stocks rise before US jobs data as Japanese shares advance Asian stocks rose on Friday as Japanese shares climbed for the first time in three days before a monthly US government jobs report. Equities in Tokyo have been pressured after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe failed to provide details of a fiscal stimulus package as he announced a delay to a sales-tax increase. Investors are turning their focus on macro-economic events this month, with the UK vote on whether to remain in the European Union and investors watchful of economic data that may provide clues on when the US central bank will raise borrowing costs. " Tonight we have the all important US payrolls figure," said Niv Dagan, executive director at Peak Asset Management LLC in Melbourne. " Investors are evaluating economic data to determine whether the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates as soon as its next meeting." Stocks in the US rose to a seven-month high on optimism the American economy is strong enough to withstand higher interest rates. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg forecast employers added 160,000 jobs in May, the same as in April, with the unemployment rate slipping to 4.9 per cent. Hong Kong and Shanghai stocks rose in early trade Friday, extending the previous day' s gains, following a strong lead from Wall Street and ahead of the release of US jobs data later in the day. In Shanghai, the benchmark composite index gained 0.16 per cent, or 4.56 points, to 2,929.79, while the Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China' s second exchange, edged up 0.49 points to 1,905.23. |
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03-Jun-2016 09:31
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Stocks to watch: Noble, Keppel, Sembcorp, Otto Marine NOBLE Group - before the market opened on Friday - requested for a trading halt before announcing a US $ 500 million rights issue, cost-reduction programmes and changes to its board of directors. Keppel Corporation on Thursday reiterated cable operator Basslink' s belief that the outage of the only electricity interconnector between Tasmania and mainland Australia is a force majeure event and the fault is covered by insurance. Responding to The Business Times' request for comments on reports that Australia-based energy advisory firm EnergyQuest has estimated that the failure of the Basslink interconnector has cost Tasmania at least A $ 560 million (S $ 555.8 million) to date, a Keppel Corp spokesman said: " Based on current circumstances and subject to further professional advice and investigation, Basslink believes that the outage is a force majeure event and the fault is covered by insurance." " The cause of the outage is currently being investigated and Basslink will make the necessary announcements when appropriate," the spokesman said, adding: " It is currently estimated that the link may resume operations around end June 2016, based on current estimates and allowing contingency for weather and other unforeseeable conditions. " Keppel Corporation, Sembcorp Industries and Sembcorp Marine on Thursday denied allegations raised against them in a lawsuit filed by US investment company EIG Management. EIG Management and eight of its managed funds have added several companies as defendants in an action that it commenced against Petrobras in the US District Court of Columbia. EIG alleged that the defendants participated in an unlawful conspiracy in which EIG was induced to invest over US $ 221 million in Petrobras' rig owning unit Sete Brasil. Otto Marine, following a trading halt on Thursday morning, announced that a potential buyer is eyeing the offshore marine group. In a release to the Singapore exchange on Thursday afternoon, Otto Marine said that it received a letter from RHB Securities Singapore, the financial adviser to the potential buyer. The letter said: " On behalf of the offeror, we would like to inform the board of directors that we may initiate a transaction which may or may not lead to an acquisition of the issued share capital of the company." |
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03-Jun-2016 08:55
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Stocks To Watch Cityneon, Acromec, GLP, GKE, Trek 2000 |
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03-Jun-2016 08:25
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Asia stocks look slightly higher US jobs, yen strength in focus Futures suggested Asian stocks could advance Friday, as markets awaited key U.S. jobs data. The Japanese yen will also likely be in focus, after the dollar-yen fell below 109 levels in the U.S. Thursday session. Angus Nicholson, market analyst at IG, said in a morning note, " Asian markets look keen to follow US markets higher after a difficult session yesterday. Iron ore and the copper price both dropped further overnight, but BHP' s ADR managed to move higher so the materials and energy sectors may not be too much of a drag on the market today. " Nicholson said markets had hoped Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would announce a major fiscal spending package at the same time on Thursday as he announced he would delay an increase on sales tax, which had been due to come in in April 2017. " Expectations for further stimulus from the Bank of Japan at 16 June meeting are fairly low, so the market was really looking to the government to step up the fiscal easing to help weaken the Japanese yen," he said. " The market was ultimately disappointed . " Oil prices shrugged off losses on OPEC' s decision not to set an output ceiling, rising after EIA data showed a weekly fall in U.S. crude stock piles. U.S. crude futures settled 16 cents or 0.3 percent higher at $ 49.17 a barrel, while Brent futures ended at $ 50.04, up 0.6 percent and the first settlement above $ 50 since November 3. On Friday the Caixin China services PMI is due, followed by the closely-watched U.S. nonfarm payrolls, factory orders, ISM services and trade. The consensus estimate is for nonfarm payrolls to come in weaker than April figures at 164,000, with the unemployment rate at 4.9 percent, according to Reuters. Asian Indexes
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03-Jun-2016 07:11
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S & P closes at highest since November Street awaits jobs Friday U.S. stocks closed at session highs Thursday, with health care stocks leading, ahead of the highly anticipated employment report due Friday morning. The S & P 500 topped 2,100 for the first time in the close since April 20 to end at its highest since Nov. 3, 2015. " It' s a positive sign. ... It' s going to come down to tomorrow' s jobs report," said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade. " I think it' s really just people covering positions on the close," he said. U.S. crude oil futures settled up 16 cents, or 0.33 percent, at $ 49.17 a barrel. Oil turned higher after weekly crude oil inventories showed a draw of 1.4 million barrels. Earlier, oil traded lower after OPEC agreed to no change in policy and no output ceiling. " I think oil prices will have less of an impact on stocks because there' s less concern that stresses there will lead to impairment of bank capital," said David Lefkowitz, senior equity strategist at UBS Wealth Management Americas. The Russell 2000 outperformed, closing up about two thirds of a percent for its first four-day win streak since April 20 and within 10 percent of its 52-week intraday high, out of correction territory. In U.S. economic news, the private sector ADP payroll report was 173,000 in May, a touch below Reuters expectations for 175,000 jobs. The April report was revised up to 166,000 from 156,000. " Everyone' s going to be holding their breath for the jobs number tomorrow," said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management. The May non-farm payrolls report is expected Friday morning before the opening bell. Read more... |
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03-Jun-2016 05:43
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WTI back to 49.....
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03-Jun-2016 00:07
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Dow breaking new high soon... Gold is dying... Enjoy the rally... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-Jun-2016 22:41
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Gold cashing out... Going below 900.. Oil go about 60... Penny rally strongly... Enjoy..
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02-Jun-2016 22:04
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Agree cus need to clear the path first | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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02-Jun-2016 21:48
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This opec meeting is a waste of time only | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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