For the past week, global markets including Singapore have suffered continued weakness arising from general expectations for Fed to reduce QE and a stronger Yen. These triggered investors to unwind their positions in equities and even the commodities market was not spared. That said, it does present a good opportunity to consider value entry. Particularly, the ST Financial Index has…
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Part 1 : Cyclical sectors as focus during market bottoming – Bank stocks | Fundamental Analysis
Ever since Dec 2011, Singapore Straits Times Index (STI) has managed to U-turn from the lows of 2600 to the current consolidation at 2900-3000. Cyclical sectors are typically the first ti be deeply corrected but also the few which will rally once the market has consolidated our of its bottom. In the 3 part series, lets take a quick overview…
Singapore Bank Stocks – Underperformed vs STI | Accumulate on further weakness | Technical Analysis
With the recent anxiety over Greece & Italy’s increased risk of not meeting their debt obligations with observed increased yield rates of their long term government bonds, there is renewed weakness in most banking stocks throughout the region. As seen in Singapore, Financial sector is seen to be underperforming against the overall STI as much as 4-8%. This is not…
Singapore Banks – DBS (D05.SI), OCBC (O39.SI), UOB (U11.SI) – Accumulate on further stock price dips | Technical Analysis | Singapore Stock Market
After the Singapore Elections 2011, now it is the time to re-focus on the growth potential of Singapore Economy. As domestic activities increase, banks will be the key group of stocks to benefit, DBS has the greatest PE of 20 while UOB has the lowest PE of 11.4.Net earning growth % is the strongest in UOB. Based on the fundamentals…