For the past quarters, manufacturers have been enjoying a boom in investors’ demand as Singapore’s economy recovers. But ever since US President Trump started his trade war rhetoric against China, manufacturers have fallen out of favour. Trade War, Rising Labour Costs And Rising Raw Material Costs Among Headwinds For Manufacturers The concern was largely surrounding the impact of the trade war on global trade and global economic growth. As businesses turn more cautious on increasing risks of trade tensions, some of the manufacturers are facing pricing pressure from their customers. Some customers have even delayed orders to wait for a recovery in consumers’ sentiment. Apart from worries of the macro economic environment, there are also challenges within the manufacturing sector. Risi

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According to UOBKH, the investment climate is generally in a risk aversion mode due to external concerns over rising trade tensions, uncertainties over the US midterm elections as well as higher interest rates. To help investors cope with these uncertainties, UOBKH recommends investors to pick stocks using these three strategies. Investors Takeaway: Coping With Market Uncertainties Safe Picks For Risk-Averse Investors Given the near-term uncertainties, UOBKH continues to recommend a relatively defensive positioning. In particular, UOBKH thinks that investors should not be too hopeful on stocks that do not offer visible earnings or those without strong operating cashflows to support a decent dividend yield. Within UOBKH’s coverage, it notes that stocks that have outperformed so far offe

Continued from Technology Stock Rally ?Of the 6, Valuetronics is the strongest followed by Sunningdale Tech in term of bullishness.  The weakest UMS.  The rest I should say is a 50-50 case that they will turn bullish.That the last statement from the analysis done 1 week ago.  Let see how they turned out 1 week later.AEMIt didn't turn bullish but instead getting more bearish.  The rise finally stop not even touching bottom of the cloud.  The Tenkan line also failed to turn up and cut up the Kijun line.  The short-term GMMA did compress but failed to cut up the expanded downtrend long-term GMMA.  Not a single bullish sign was observed.Hi-PSimilar situation as AEM and in fact a little bit weaker than AEM as the short-term GMMA now look appears to be expandin

Past few days technology related stocks rebounded and outperformed the STI index, this has given people the impression that they are rally.  Now are they really rally or just a rebound from oversold ?  After looking at several of those stocks, I found mixed findings.  The TA tools I'm analyzing are Ichimoku and GMMA.  Main tool will be Ichimoku and GMMA is used to confirm the trend.  Elliott Wave is not used as not all stocks follow Elliott Wave.In Ichimoku, a bullish is defined by the following conditions :-1. Tenkan (Conversion) line cut above Kijun (Base) line2. Senkou A cloud is above the Senkou B cloud3. Both Tenkan and Kijun lines are above the Senkou (cloud)Failing to meet all the above 3 conditions have to be very careful and it may just hit resistance and

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