Will update you if you are curious to know. 

Vince will give Kenny Rogers vouchers I think.  (Nekobank gave rm20 KFC vouchers and nothing else).

Bro Dow heading to green zone.....      unpredictable ...

Nekobank Cimbank sure die in Indon, those ppl are primitive.........

yah.. earnings is the king... but also need to take note that things will eventually come back to those corporations when there is less and less consumers able to buy their products/services.. 

also, from what i heard on bloomberg, they are blaming SME for not hiring enough ppl.... 
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on the other hand, i wonder what headline they'll put later...
now is "Stocks fall as job losses rise more than expected"  To "Stocks recovered despite mounting job losses" ? 

This is indeed true, at my area, factories and company are struggling to hire back people to meet the sudden rise in orders. They are having not enough people to produce.

You can't blame the brutal cut back early in the year, as there is almost no order or little order across and price of goods are tumbling fast, even my company's one of raw material, price tumbling near 50% over 3-4 months time, imagine those stock up a lot one, surely suffering.

You don't cut your expenses, you might not survive if there is no huge stimulus package to stimulate the economy. Company need to act quick whenever situation change. Company might earn less due to unable to meet the demand, but if company doesn't react in the first place to cut, if situation doesn't turn better, without the cut, company might not able to survive in the first place.

Yup, this is what happening now, increase productivity and squeeze out more from existing left workforce.
For shareholders POV, this is good thing.

Economy, stock market, company is not charity game, always must react quick for survival.

After all, it is not totally bad thing. Every event happening has its good face as well. Just like if not the 1997 Asian crisis and its lesson, Asian countries won't be that resilience to face the current global crisis.

But for broader and longer term sense, it is not that good, without more people being employed, you don't increase the demand as no job, no money to buy new toy. There is limit how much you can cost cutting and productivity increment, you always need increment in sales to bring the profit to a new higher level. Without more job being created, the sales prospect won't be that good.

Officially I am Citibank shareholder now holding 115 shares.

So I am the boss now..

Soon or later, consumers will recover, it is matter of time.

But stock market could go ahead too far by itself by expecting a steep V-shape recovery.

Personally view, recession will go away, but recovery process and return to normal health of growth take time. Just like you said, the patient has been kept alive, need time for nursing, we can't expect the patient to go for 100m race next month.

It could take 1-3 years time before everything passed.

I don't believe after 1st year of anniversary of financial crisis, we are talking like nothing happen and bull charging non-stop.

From March low to now of stock price surge or bull run, I still view it is a correction of panic selling and undershooting of the market, which after things calm down, stock market react to what its real fundamental should be, that's why we see some stocks that shouldn't beaten down surge 50% or more as previously panic and pesimisticsm is overly done or excessive, while for some stocks, they are not recovering as they are the one really hit by the crisis. So it is a selection or elimation process.

second liners fall the most today.

FBM30 counter aint affected much.

Buy CCB for div???     
Need to make sure got special div. 

Yeah! But my overall portfolio still red... 

someone shock shock go an key-in Rm 17 for KLK.. mana tau match.

lucky guy!

hmmm.. looks like today had a late afternoon rally.

geee
there's quite a lot of politicking around here because the election's just around the corner, i think sometime in May '10.

but right now forex seems to be way more interesting than equity markets.   

Wtf market up 10.20 pts?

Ask a noob question, the CI increase 4 points or 10 points today?

definitely

ha ha ha...
some news on KLK

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