Malaysian Elections 2008: Uncertainty is Certain

"Markets anywhere loathe uncertainty. Although the results of the Malaysian Elections 2008 are out, the political landscape is far from certain. The Malaysian Composite Index signals it may test the 1000-level within the short to intermediate term. Last Friday, the market...

Malaysia Elections 2008: The Aftermath of the Tsunami

"A political tsunami it may be, Malaysian voters decided to send a strong message to the ruling incumbents, the National Front headed by Abdullah Badawi. The National Front lost its forty years record of having a two-third majority in parliament as well as losing five key...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: General Motors Ticker Symbol GM

General Motors, the world’s largest automaker, is poised to stage a rebound after an inverted head-and-shoulders pattern appeared recently. Here’s why.An inverted head-and-shoulders pattern is bullish in the immediate term. Measuring the distance from the low of the...

Malaysian Elections 2008 Special: Can Stock Markets Predict the Winds of Change

The Malaysian stock market showed a classic head-and-shoulders formation. This means the market is poised to hit at least the 1160-level in the immediate term. This represents a drop of 13% against the last closing of 1357.The challengers, the People’s Front (Barisan...

Malaysia Elections 2008: Young Voters, Where Art Thou?

As of December 2006, some 15,2 million Malaysians had attained the age of 21 but only 10.3 million registered as voters. 70% of the 4.9 million Malaysians yet to register as voters are aged between 21 and 35 years. These statistics compiled by the Election Commission as...

Will Anwar Ibrahim be the next Prime Minister of Malaysia

The motion picture "Hero" where Jet Li played the lead role as an assassin who tried to kill Qin Shi Huang  just years before the eventual unification of China. This assassin had a change of heart at the last moment, subjugating his personal needs of revenge to the noble...

V.K. Lingam and Malaysia’s Judiciary Scandal: The Video, The Man, The Candi...

What is it like to be a "whistle-blower" behind the recent Royal Commission of Inquiry into a Malaysian judiciary scandal that appeared incredulous to the rest of the world? The allegations of a senior lawyer, V.K. Lingam, having a telephone conversation with the...

V.K. Lingam and Malaysia’s Judiciary Scandal: The Video, The Man, The Candi...

What is it like to be a “whistle-blower” behind the recent Royal Commission of  Inquiry into a Malaysian judiciary scandal that appeared incredulous to the rest of the world? The allegations of a senior lawyer, V.K. Lingam, having a telephone conversation with the...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Comcast Ticker Symbol CMCSA

During the last six months Comcast has lost almost a third of its market capitalization. With its recent fourth quarter results, Comcast is a buy. Here’s why.There are two resistances as shown by the trend-lines in the chart below. On 2008-02-14 and 2008-02-15, prices...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Microsoft Ticker Symbol MSFT

The world’s largest information technology company made an unsolicited offer of $44.6 billion for Yahoo just over a week ago. Since then Microsoft has lost over $37 billion on its market capitalization.More than 50% shares of Yahoo had changed hands...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Dell Ticker Symbol DELL

The world’s largest PC-maker usually confounds its critics, skeptics and competitors. This is why Dell is a buy.The trend-line shown in the chart below clearly signals the support at current levels. Each time prices tested this support, Dell rebounded about 50% within six...

The Futility of Online Polls for Financial Markets

Everyone should be familiar with this type of opinion polls prevalent in many financial websites. These ask the typical question – are you bullish, bearish or undecided. These polls are often wrong especially at crucial times.Read more.

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Motorola Ticker Symbol MOT

As a contrarian and rare-event observer, Motorola is a buy. Here’s why.Our own market psychology reading on 2008-01-24 was 19, the lowest on record. The closest was nearly 20 on 1987-10-26, more than twenty years ago.Read more.