tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37404879305473886452012-02-17T02:32:35.668+08:00YouInvest is written specially for beginner investors to discuss about investing in Malaysia. We run reviews on Malaysian stock market performance and discuss about personnal finance topics from time to time. Investment is essential to everyone no matter what form. Today's world is about how much one can make rather than how much one can save. So, let YouInvest be Your Key To Investment SuccessYouInvesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16964220256859014329noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740487930547388645.post-85909721050305415612008-09-02T14:32:00.014+08:002008-09-08T12:19:07.186+08:00

On the investment and business angle, the budget had been tasteless to say the least. The incentives for domestic investment this time around was uneventful; at least last year's focused on real-estate properties. We believe those who had changed hands in property transactions last year would be smiling when they read this and for the those that could not afford physical properties investment

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The Budget 2009 allocation for infrastructure development is nothing great to shout about. Amongst the biggest portion goes to human capital development followed by improvement spending in public transportation amenities. Snippets: The government had allocated RM47.7bn for human capital development (in terms of training and education) to create talented, trained and competitive workforce. Now,

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In general, the Budget 2009 is less likely to "touch" the mass and ease inflationary burden of average Malaysian in our opinion. Biggest beneficiary for this round are households living in hardcore poverty and very poor status. The government is now reaching out to those households earning less than RM720 in Peninsular Malaysia, RM830 in Sarawak and RM960 in Sabah a month. Hopefully these aids

YouInvesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16964220256859014329noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740487930547388645.post-22701841850254762172008-08-24T22:23:00.013+08:002008-08-30T14:54:49.698+08:00

Hurrah…. Malaysian petrol price was lowered from RM2.70 to RM2.55 starting 23rd August 2008. We think this is indeed positive for the stock market as it opens on Monday. Cheaper petrol prices would translate into cheaper transport costs to businesses and a breath of relief to any household budget (to a smaller extent). We believe this approach is more pro-business rather than pro-people. Prices

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As expected in last week's forecast, the KLCI drifted lower this week. The benchmark index shed -25.26pts (-2.3%) led by extended selling down of banking and plantations stocks. Bumiputra Commerce (CIMB Bank) loss -95sen (-11%) after the bank reported weaker than expected profits and subsequently guided this year's net profit target downwards due to poor sentiment in the economy. Sime Darby, the

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888 (08-August-2008), what an auspicious number and the world's most eventful date. However, Malaysia's overall stock market last week trended lower. The KLCI lost -28.37pts (-2.5%) touching 1,120.31 on Friday's close. The fall was basically led by softening crude palm oil (CPO) prices which ultimately affected performance of plantation stocks. Poor performance of plantations stocks did not just

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Contrary to general expectations of a short-lived relief rally, Malaysian stocks continued their upward climb this week. The KLCI was up +1.5% (+17.35pts) from 1,141.75 to 1,159.10. The prolonged rally was generally sustained after easing crude oil prices last week. Crude oil futures currently trade US$125.10/barrel, -14% lower than its peak US$145/barrel. We believe global oil prices could be

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After a spate of people and business "unfriendly" initiatives announced by the government in the first half of 2008, we think the Malaysian government is more likely to dish out some "goodies" in the up-coming Budget 2009 (next month - August08). Let's do a count down on these less "unfriendly" news: Petrol price hike from RM1.92 to RM2.70 (+41%) in June, led general consumers to dampen spending

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Well, this week we had not been too correct about predicting market direction, the KLCI moved up by +36.7pts closing 1,141.75 just now. This week we had also turn bullish on the market for the first time since we had started this blog. Although many people that we spoke to did not agree with our view but we are still sticking to our opinion for the mean time. Concurrent with our change of mode,

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Contrary to last friday's recommendation, we are beginning to turn bullish on the market again. However, this time it could short term and for trading and positioning purposes. Unit trust investors should take opportunity to slowly accumulate or build positions in anticipation of any potential rallies. Investing all at one go (lump-sum) should be avoided as doubts on political stability and

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As we had predicted in last Friday's market review, we expect Malaysia market to have a 70% chance of heading downwards this week and it did. KLCI this week lost -3.4% (39 pts) to 1,105.04 after heavy selling on plantation stocks. For the last 3 days, IOI Corp lost -95sen (-14.5%), KL Kepong lost -RM1.40 (-9.2%) Sime Darby lost -35sen (-4.3%), Asiatic -65sen (-9.3%) & IJM Plant lost -59sen. (-

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The YouInvest model portfolio had started since 15 days ago although this is the first time we are updating our readers. Given the poor performance in the stock market, we are still adopting a "wait and see" approach in our investment.Just a brief run down on what we had done so far:Parked RM90,000 (90% of our initial capital of RM100,000) in the 1Mth-YouInvest $-Mkt which gives us interest

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Finding market driving news to write these days had been a fairly difficult task especially when political topics tend to dominate most of the content in local daily newspaper. So bad that even the business section has dedicated 1 whole page on political bickering and how the investment community is getting tired of things. On the corporate front news flow on corporate events had been dry and

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We guess there is nothing much to write this week as we had sent out 2 special alerts [1] Dated: 30-June 2008 Special Alert: Political Risk Move Up Another Notch & [2] Dated: 3-July 2008 Special Alert: Blue Moon Shun Upon Bursa Malaysia Today. (If you would like to know more, you can always refer to these articles on the same week).As for the review this week, KLCI dropped -52pts, erasing -2.8%

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Dear investors & readers, this is our newly launched YouInvest Model Portfolio which shows you how's our performance in terms of giving investment advise and how effective it is comparing to Malaysian stock market performance. We will be switching strategies from time to time to gain the best possible return. To the YouInvest team, the portfolio serve as a test to our professionalism in

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Today was definitely a bomber ... Bursa was not able to trade the entire day claiming fault on technical glitches on the trading system. So all brokers can't key in any trade orders. We at YouInvest think today was most probably a day when the blue moon shun upon Bursa and no other day had been more conincidental than today's trading. Let us lay it out for you guys.1. 9.00am. Market open but

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Concerns about Malaysia’s political instability continue to move up after news broke out in the press last weekend that Anwar Ibrahim (the de facto leader of Pakatan Rakyat) has been accused of sodomy (again). In addition, Mr. Anwar also received death threats over the weekend which resulted him to seek refuge in the Turkish Embassy. YouInvest team believes that political risk in the country has

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Stocks in Malaysia continue to slip even after the poor performance from last week. The KLCI, benchmark index erased –16.13pts to 1,190.54 falling below the critical level of 1,200. TM International (which holds Celcom and telecoms operations in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India) was the biggest losser this week after it announced possible merger of Spice Telecom (its India unit) with Idea Cellular.

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This week the stock market still performed poorly with no improvement in sight. The KLCI, benchmark index continue to drop by -31.39pts to 1,206.67. Political uncertainties continue to put pressure provoking foreigners to sell our market. Biggest market moving news this week was delivered by SAPP's party president Datuk Yong Teck Lee who expressed a motion of no confidence against PM Datuk Seri

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