Is it another false dawn in the making or a case of the return of the prodigy? Earlier last year, Creative share price revived from a multi-year deep coma, surging from $1 to an explosive $9 within a week upon the release of its award-winning audio product – Super X-Fi. The resurgent Creative share price indicated a possible comeback for Singapore legendary entrepreneur, Sim Wong Hoo. Can Creative Technology conquer the world again? Creative Technology staged “mission impossible” comeback Recently, my wife bought me a Super X-Fi headphone and I was totally blown away by the technology. Using a sophisticated head and ear-mapping process, Super X-Fi did bring out the 3D audio effects when I used it to play online music from my Samsung mobile phone. The quality of music did feel

I thought it would be a good time for a personal update since we're into our third month of 2019.a) Work falling into placeAt this point in my career, a broad strategy is falling into place.This blog will remain fairly niche that will discuss the use of models in financial markets in 2019. If I get to do any quantitative backtesting, I may share some of my results and insights here. Occasionally, I will do an article that will provoke most readers - right now I am not done with Polytechnic students yet, but I would also talk about reforms to secondary school education. I don't need this blog to hit a large number of views, but I want to attract that few readers who appreciate the more abstract articles that I run every week.The successful talk in Seedly has gotten me to think about these a

On 18 February 2019, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat delivered the Singapore Budget 2019 in Parliament. In the largely expansionary budget for the year, the main highlights were the Bicentennial Bonus, details on the Merdeka Generation Package, expansion in the scope of public spending on healthcare via CHAS, and maintaining a high rate of spending on defence. Read Also: Singapore Budget 2019: Here Are 4 Of The Most Important Announcements That Affect All Of Us In this edition of our 4 Stocks This Week column, we can’t look any further than the stocks that will benefit the most from the Singapore Budget 2019. # 1 ST Engineering (SGX: S63) During the Singapore Budget 2019, one of the first things Minister Heng spoke about was the need for our country to stay vigilant to the threats around

Singapore’s FY2019 Budget Statement was delivered by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat on 18 February, 2019 at 3.30pm. This page will be automatically refreshed periodically, so stay tuned as we bring you the latest announcements as it happens, along with our commentary on what it means for Singapore and Singaporeans.   Singapore Budget 2019 Liveblog 3:15pm: Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat has arrived in Parliament and will be delivering this year’s Budget speech momentarily at 3.30pm. This will be his fourth Budget speech as Finance Minister. 3:30pm: Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat has started delivering his Budget 2019 speech. 3:33pm: Minister Heng talks about major economic trends: Increasing importance of Asia; Rapid technological advance; Decline in support for

It was a rough year for the Singapore stock market in 2018, with most stocks seeing red. Despite the negative sentiments, there are stocks that have managed to tide through the volatility and shown overall growth. We look at the price of stocks that are more than 20 Singapore cents (minimum trading price), based on market opening on 2 January 2018 and market close on 28 December 2018. Here are the top 10 best-performing stocks listed on the SGX in 2018. Read Also: Step-By-Step Guide To Investing Better Using StockFacts #10 PCI Limited (SGX: P19) Opening price per share on 2 Jan 2018 = 0.770 Closing price per share on 28 Dec 2018 = 1.060 Percentage change = 38% #9 Cityneon Holdings Limited (SGX: 5HJ) Opening price per share on 2 Jan 2018 = 0.940 Closing price per share on 28 Dec 2018 = 1.30

FTSE STI ended 2018 at 3068.76 compared with 3402.92 a year ago, representing a loss of  334.16 point or 9.82%.  It was never a good year for global stock market not just STI.  Most of the year STI was in correction mode with a high of 3641.65 in May and a low of 2955.68 in October.  The following summarized my Investment Portfolio performance for 2018 vs 201720182017Variant Non-Strategic Unrealized Gain/Loss              +34.89%         +68.72%      -49.23%Strategic Unrealized Gain/Loss              +22.20%         +21.29%      +4.27%Portfolio Unrealized Gain/Loss          &nbs

On 29th Nov 2018 Creative Technology made an announcement titled "75 Million Users To Enjoy Super X-Fi Headphone Holography As Creative Partners With iVideoSmart".  That is a piece of positive news as it signals Super X-Fi technology is being used commercially but definitely not as bombastic as "Creative Partner Smartphone Maker For Super X-Fi Solution".  This is mainly because not many people know iVideoSmart and what products/services/solutions its offers.  iVideoSmart might have seen something in Creative's Super X-Fi technology that could give an edge to business if not the partnership doesn't make any business sense.  Nevertheless, this is a little positive step forward for Creative on its Super X-Fi technology.On 3rd Dec 2018 another announcement from Creative Tec

There are many stocks in the Singapore Exchange, and of course out of these, there are many stocks which nobody would touch. For the longest time, Creative Technology Ltd is one such ‘Zombie’ stock. ‘Zombie’ because it is basically a … Continue reading →