I am surprised that there was no big article about China's GDP for their 4th quarter and for 2025. The Q4 gdp has slowed to a 3 year low, further raising questions on whether the government can truly spur local spending as a growth engine. For some time now, China has been struggling to spark their economy into a full roar, due to skepticism among the people. This seems to have stemmed from the botched decision to not open up the country when covid19 was waning, which pushed dissatisfaction and unhappiness into the open. The overall pessimism was further reflected when the chinese government chose to tinker with economic figures, first by announcing it late, then manipulating how certain statistics (like employment figures) would be shown. While the world experienced inflation (I am still
$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ no US data, but trunp has announced the imposition of 10% tariff on the "Greenland 8" which has already brought gold and silver to new highs. As it is European markets has reflected some jitters especially in their automobile companies (bmw, mercedes, porsche etc.) and to an extent the european luxury brands (lvmh, dior etc.). As usual, defence companies like Germany's rheinmetall has gone up, considering there could be conflict breaking out if the us president chooses to be irrational and the us house and senate choose to not rein him in. Worth noting too, is that usd has also slipped, as reflected by the usd index dropping to 99.19 points, which means that the us won't be getting out of this mess unscathed and could furthe
man, I guess the man in the white house? connection, with the chaos all over, connections will be more important than ever smile, grit your teeth and be positive, smile when you have wins to celebrate
It is interesting to note that this tariff threat does not seem as impactful as before. When the us president started his tariff sabre rattling in his second term, it spooked markets very quickly and almost no one was immune to taking a hit. Of course the usual safe haven assets like precious metals would continue their record setting ascent, that momentum has largely been going for a few years now, especially for gold. But normal stocks don't seem to panic and nosedive now, especially in foreign markets. I would like to think that the world has learned to cope with all the tariff nonsense and has built better bonds with one another, away from the usa. It might also come down to the fact that the markets are bored of mr. Trunp constantly using tariffs and that it becomes a case of cry
$Apple(AAPL)$ I am amazed by all the excuses people can make for apple and their decision to collaborate with google's gemini as their AI solution for Siri (which has been struggling to keep up). Talking how it cuts down costs and all, but it raises the issue that this aspect will not be fully done in-house. Siri looked like a competent assistant at Inception, but apple seemed to not keep working on it, a surprising approach, considering apple either goes all out or brutally amputates the limbs that do not flourish (look at the production of their own in house chips for their macbooks, it not only phases out intel as an external supplier, but boosts performance while using lesser power). Choosing to work with s
I read that the us president recently declared his holdings and it showed that he bought netflix after a neeting trying to get their deal through for the plan ed acquisition of warner bro. As we know of the man in the white house, it is par for course considering he has a serious lack of ethics, all while he constantly tries to influence and manipulate the situation. But it is hinting that he will be trying to make a profit out of this, and therefore the netflix deal will go through. If I was willing to gamble, I would make the call that netflix would successfully acquire warner bros, even though skydance seems adamant that they can stir the pot. The likelihood is that trump steps in and squeezes skydance, or throw them a scrap, in another realm (after all they caved to his demand bef
The biggest point has to be that property prices are not going up much especially in the end of 2025. The government likely wants to continue curbing the housing market, but it feels a little too late, especially in Singapore where cost of living is high, but income do not keep up. However, I'm curious how it went for commercial properties though, that would speak more about the investment aspect.
Sell off, slides? I would say it is barely a tickle, nothing that would really concern serious investors. There is nothing to panic about, the safe haven is still that, safe. But why would there be so much conviction in how gold (and the other metals like silver, platinium etc) keeps forging forward and upward? I would chalk it down to the world's instability. If the leader of the free world was anyone less chaotic and more level-headed, I would have doubted if gold would indeed keep its momentum. As it is, Trunp is constantly picking fights, both verbally and actually taking action in cases like Venezuela, enough to spook the markets, and spur safe haven assets onwards. He threatens, both friends and foes alike, so there is no way to chalk it up to him being a hawkish figure who goes