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I realized that quite a lot of visitors who arrived at this site are looking for the daily SIBOR and SOR, thus I have added links to the daily SIBOR and SOR. The links to the daily SIBOR and SOR are located at the right column of this site under 'Useful Links'.Upon clicking the link to the daily SIBOR, you will arrive at the Asian Bonds Online website. Under the Market Watch, …
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I have compiled a list of the brokerage fees offered by the local brokerages and made a comparison of which brokerages is offering the cheapest brokerage fees based on the contract value.For the minimum brokerage fees, Citibank has the lowest brokerage fee at $22. Otherwise, Saxo Capital seems to be offering the lowest brokerage fee at 0.18% of the contract value for any …
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I would like to thank the anonymous person who pointed out to me that DBS will be issuing an ETF that will be tracking the Straits Times Index. The IPO of this ETF, which will be trading on SGX under the quote 'DBS STI ETF 100',will from the 12th of February to the noon of the 15th of February and subsequently, it will be available for trading on the SGX on the 25th of …
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FOOLED by new client's posh appearance Broker to pay $350,000 in stock market loss after client, who drove Jaguar and lived in condo, vanishes By Tay Shi'an November 23, 2008 / Source : The Electric New Paper THEY are sometimes referred to as brokers. For one remisier, however, the word has taken an awfully literal meaning. Reason: She may soon go broke having to make up for …
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Capitaland is doing a rights issue and will offering its shareholders one right share for every two shares that they are holding at an issue price of $1.30. It is at a discount of around 4 …
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Dream Home Loans By Gabriel Chan and Harsha JethnaniTaken from the Sunday Times on 2th of May 2010 If you thought low mortgage rates would stay unchanged this year, think again. Over the last month or so, some banks have upped the spreads they charge above Sibor - the rate at which banks lend to one another - making Sibor-pegged home loans more expensive. The three-month …
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The graph belows shows the historical 3 months SIBOR chart starting from Jan 1988 to the SIBOR now. The data that were used from to obtain this chart was taken from MAS's website here. The current SIBOR, at the time of publishing of this post, stands at 0.646% and this is one of the lowest SIBOR which we have seen so far. In fact, the SIBOR has been hovering at a very low …
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There are three factors which I consider as crucial to get started on the journey towards financial freedom. To get started, I would define financial freedom to be the ability to sustain your desired lifestyle with little or no further work. That means that without having to work, there will still be income being generated from other avenues that can meet or exceed your …
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Has the sudden change of market taken anyone by surprise. Last Wednesday, the STI broke the elusive 3000 level by closing at a level of 3019.74, fueled by the news of an excellent quarterly GDP growth by Singapore. When I logged into Facebook on the following day, I saw a few comments that goes like this. "NOL huat arh !" "XX% profit on Cosco, more to come !" "Time to do …
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The graduate employment survey for 2009, which is conducted by the Ministry of Education has been released and the official link is here. The course which has the highest starting salary in this survey is the Information Systems Management offered by SMU with a mean and median starting salary of $3,754 and $4,000 for those graduating cum laude and above. Otherwise, there are …
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