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Olam, a commodities giant, announced rights issue after calling a trading halt on Monday. It offers US$750 million in five-year bonds, and warrants that will raise up to US$500 million upon conversion. Temasek has offered to gobble up anything that is not taken up.

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines said on Monday it was in discussions with interested parties for the possible divestment of its 49 percent stake in British carrier Virgin Atlantic. SIA did not name the interested parties, but Reuters reported on Sunday that Delta Air Lines Inc has held recent talks to buy SIA's 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic, citing two people familiar with the matter.

(Reuters) - Indonesian private equity firm Northstar Group is expanding into take-private deals, agreeing to buy a majority stake in Singapore-listed Nera Telecommunications ( NERA.SI ) and offering to buy the entire company for around $146 million, in a sign of growing ambition among Asia's private equity firms. Norway's Eltek ASA said it has agreed to sell its 50.05 percent stake in Nera to Northstar, part-owned by TPG Capital TPG.UL, for S$88.8 million ($72.6 million) or S$0.49 a share. Northstar will extend the same offer for the remaining shares in a mandatory unconditional cash offer. Northstar's offer, through wholly owned subsidiary Asia Systems Ltd, is a 6.3 percent discount to Monday's closing price for telecoms group Nera, whose operations include satellite communications and payments solutions. Northstar, like many other emerging-market private equity funds, has previously focused largely on taking a minority stake in private companie...

Distributable income for Ascott Residence Trust grew one per cent to S$25.6 million, compared to last year's Q3. Distribution per unit (DPU) for the quarter was 2.24 cents.

The company reports a 49 per cent increase year-on-year in net profit to S$19.58 million for the three months ended Sept 30. Revenue rose to S$142.3 million in Q3, up from S$123.6 million for the corresponding three-month period last year. Earnings per share were 2.69 cents, up from 1.74 cents. Its directors have declared an interim dividend of one cent per share for the third quarter.

Ever wonder what stock to buy on a budget? Take a look at euNetworks. They are traded on SGX but have their operations in Europe. They are in the red but they are improving in terms of their sales. This could be a potential stock to hold on to if you have the power to hold. A potential take-over target but with the crisis in Europe now, we are not sure if this stock will take off anytime soon.

So is it true you can find gold deposits using satellite? Maybe in the future yes but not at the present time. Find groundwater instead of gold using satellite will be more feasible.

I am interested to know how to trade covered call options in Singapore. So far no brokerage companies are offering this to my knowledge. So what is covered call options? To explain simply: 1) A trader who hold long position in a stock 2) The trader sells call options on the same stock to generate some money or income Either way, when the stock goes up or goes down, the trader will still hold onto the premium that he receives for selling the option.

I like agricultural now, prices are making its way up and up and there is no sig of slowing. Corns, wheat, soybeans are in a bull run and I am interested to look into agricultural stocks. One of it is Monsanto (MON). As you can see in today's chart, Monsanto has been in a steady uptrend since late 2010. Last week, shares broke out to their highest level in more than three years. It's just the latest sign that the long-term "ag" boom deserves investors' attention. Monsanto NYSE

Corn price are going up due to a different weather patterns in the past few weeks or so. I heard that spreads for corn fell to an all time low!

AEON Company Berhad Let's go shopping at Justco! Buy the stock only above 10.00 or short below 8.50. It is better to stay on the sidelines at the moment instead of jumping into the stock.

Silverlake Axis Ltd had a transaction of 19,400,000 shares by Intelligentsia Holding Ltd - Director Hoong Lai Ling on 22 May 2012.

Director Zann Lim of Haw Par Corporation Limited (SGX) sold 27 shares on May 16 2012.

In Highlands Ranch, Colorado, there is this group dubbed the "Highlands Gold Society". Half of them experts in finance and other half are mining execs and geologists. What they do is that they give financing to mining companies to mine. They get back their payment in the form of "royalties" and this is throughout the operational life of the mines. You can be part of this exclusive apparently.  The Highlands Gold Society are required to register and report to the government as they are a public organization according to the Section 15-D of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  Well, the company is Franco-Nevada.   Franco-Nevada Information taken from Google Finance: "gold-focused royalty and stream company with additional interests in platinum group metals (PGM), oil and gas and other assets." It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange TSX and the New York Stock Exchange NYSE. How well is the company doing...

There is this guy Matt who is an average guy that leads a "double life". He rubs shoulders with people in an exclusive "circle". It is not about buying physical gold. It is not about buying gold stocks. It is not about buying gold coins. Let's take a look at the first society.

If you are subscribing with investment newsletters you might come across certain "advertisements" on secrets of the rich and wealthy. They promise to share with you the secret of their wealth accumulation as well as enter the entrusted circle. All you have to do is subscribe to their reports for a fee. I came across many of these and was quite curious on what they share in this reports. For a yearly subscription of anywhere between USD 5.99 to upwards of USD999.00, you are entitled to all these and extra reports that they offer. I guessed I am not going to spend that kind of money at this point of time just to find out. I want to make it more interesting by doing some of my own investigative work find out myself what the so-called secrets are without subscribing them. As these reports are very long and captivating to the audience, the writers will usually leave behind some clues about what these things really are. Although I might not uncover all of these, I will sha...

I have a lot been looking for a eurusd tick data. Historical data might be a little hard to find as the amount of data is huge. It is good to have it if you want to do some backtest especially if you are a scalper or trade on very short timeframes. I have been trying to find some free data although I know you can get paid ones from data providers. I am also concerned about the accuracy for the data.

Want to know one of the best trading forex strategy? Simple, but you got to research more on it: 1) Simple moving average of period 200 2) Follow the commitments of traders report from CFTC Here are the links: Trading Using Simple Moving Average Trading Using Commitments of Traders Report

Look out for the list here. Note that I do not offer download links, some of the books found online are free. Link 1: http://profitspower.blogspot.com/2011/10/list-of-trading-books-part-1.html Link 2: http://profitspower.blogspot.com/2011/10/list-of-trading-books-part-2.html

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