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[...] credit cards, looks like your faint hope of the Government withdrawing their decision to charge service tax is in wane! In the light of Government's push for "prudent spending", better act [...]

[...] . I am referring to the more pressing issue of Malaysia's Government's recent plan to introduce service tax for credit cards from 2010 onwards. To recap, each card holder will be charged RM50 and RM25 [...]

[...] , in which they will charge you interest (for the amount of borrowing) based on prescribed interest rates calculated on a daily basis. Effectively, this is a form of leveraging. Question is, is this [...]

[...] of lending by Chinese Government to curb speculative activities, and the imminent raise of interest rates by the U.S. in the near future, risk aversion will likely return to haunt the markets as USD- [...]

[...] least. Seems Malaysia represents only the handful countries in Asia that keeps pushing up interest rates... In a way no surprises to me, given BNM's normalization process as economy recovers. In [...]

[...] with lower cost of funds. However, many investors were caught badly burned as the global financial markets collapsed in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, followed by the massive loss [...]

[...] links its performance according to the broad market index performance, such as Dow Jones Industrial Index or Malaysia's FBMKLCI. Locally in Malaysia, there are many index-linked unit trust [...]

[...] that the U.S. stock market is on the verge of another big rally. The fact is, Dow Jones Industrial Index have just posted new high above 10,800 compared to previous high posted in [...]

[...] next post, I shall touch on precisely how you can invest in individual Bursa stocks using your EPF funds and the inherent costs that you should be aware of. Here's the link to EPF should you require [...]

[...] year for global stocks recovery. As I had written before, it was more hope than factual when global funds decided to take on an optimistic route. 2010 is expected to be a lot tougher, in the sense [...]