source of waste money

Never heard of Singapore debt close to 100%.  You need to back it up with facts. They have more than SGD200 billion in reserves, strong currency and robust economy.

We simply cannot compare with them, any downturn will hit us hard compare to Singapore.

Our debt is serious issue, because we rakyat going to pay for it, not petronas.

The debt is easily explained and there shouldn’t be any reason to panic yet…

The bulk of the Government debt are in the form of security bonds called Singapore Government Securities and the Central Provident Fund Board (CPF) is the main holder of these bonds. Hence we can say that Singapore Government do not really owe other countries or private entities any debt but they owe CPF quite a substantial amount of money. Why then, does the Government need to borrow so much money from CPF?

The answer is an ingenious plan by the Government to create a money flow cycle to fund public housing. CPF was created as a pension funds that belongs to the contributors (Singaporean & PRs) and not the Government. In order for the Government to use the fund in CPF, they have to ‘borrow’ from it. The houses were then sold to the people at a comfortable rate to repay the debt and interest owed to CPF board. The cycle continues to present day and as the Government spends more on public housing, it borrows more from CPF and that explains the high national debt owed domestically and not externally.

We can now see that the huge Government debt is no cause for alarm. However, what the Government should do better is communication. Without explaining the details of the debt, people – including the good economics professor from China’s “BeiDa” – would not know the intricate details of the funding model for our public housing project and would therefore be misguided by statistics & confused.

my CookieMonster giving 18c divvy!!!! full year 30c!!!! omg.. @__@
tomolo i go buy some biscuits!!!

nestle annualized earnings above RM2 liao..
klccp 4.5c divvy

hmm today's reports not bad....
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wahhh HDD maker JCY and Notion in the red again... scary...

Wow portfolio all green, rare for me!

Caught Carlsberg at good timing yesterday.

Today added new dividend player into portfolio, 7231.

Huiyo! United Plantation is profit up 26% while other planters decrease hugely. How come?? Is this Cherroy's favorite plantation stock? 

Dutch Lady is distributing RM1.30 dividend again.

So touching!!!

"Proposed Dividend
The Board of Directors declared on 26 February 2013 the payment of a single-tier standard interim dividend of 50.00 sen per ordinary share of RM1.00 each, amounting to RM 32.0 million and a single-tier special interim dividend of 80.00 sen per ordinary share of RM1.00 each, amounting to RM 51.2 million in respect of the financial year ending 31 December 2013.
The proposed dividends will be paid on 21 May 2013 to shareholders whose names appear in the Register of Members and Record of Depositors at the close of business on 30 April 2013."

dutch lady so generous 

if one get around 26 then yield around 10 % d 

look at the trading pattern today seems like some ppl got insider news
hope it goes back to 50 soon

Not to forget,

RM1.30 X 3 = RM3.90

This is the 3rd RM1.30 dividend since last year!!

The dividend given out by Dutch Lady in the last four quarters are:

4/26/2012 - 1.30 single-tier
12/10/2012 - 1.30 single-tier
4/26/2013 - 1.30 single-tier

Total = 3.90
@RM42.66 (yesterday's closing price), DY=9%

Warning: Do not expect this kind of DY to be sustainable!

Looks like everyone here thinks that holding for dividends the one and only way.

Dutch Lady could have been sold at end Oct/early Nov 2012 and fetch a price of 49++.
Seller will miss the Nov dividend and this new 1.30 dividend.
Total dividends missed = 2.60.
Price of Dutch Lady is now 42.66.

Getting dividends is good but then price appreciation and price depreciation factors should not be ignored.

Talk stocks talk until God come out. 

Yes not many will sell at 49 but there are some who would.

Look, I have been in the market long enough and I have seen many chased after stock dividend and yields and after many years of holding the stock, their returns have been dismal and this was because they dismiss that it is possible that one can lose money from investing in stocks that pay dividends. Of course, these are the exception or the rare cases and that there are many who had gained handsomely from the dividends received.

This is the latest list? I remember I read somewhere Ananda surpass Robert Kuok in wealth after Astro sales.

MBSB breaks all time high

Hate to see the unstability on our political issue. (Parliament rumour to dissolve by this 2-week, Sabah/Filiphine issue)

Decided to clear off most purchases made in 2013 and holding cash, waiting for opportunity.

Not in favour to put my hard earned money on those mercy.