OMG! Russia is troop massing along North Korea border.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/794110/russia-north-korea-border-vladimir-putin-relocating-tanks-and-troops

It's strange that Russia is moving its troops to North Korea border as it has only about 17.6km long border with North Korea which is nothing compared to China.  This military movement shows that Russia will definitely get involved in the war if USA attacks North Korea.

China has already moved 150,000 troops to its North Korea border and has prepared its bombers for the war.

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-150000-troops-north-korea-xi-trump-2017-4?IR=T&r=US&IR=T

USA lied about sending its 3 aircraft carriers to North Korea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html?_r=0

As posted previously, there would be a tell-tale sign of USA military attack against NK.  However, we see no such sign and we're right because USA carriers are not in sight near NK.

What a joke!

http://sg-stock.blogspot.sg/2017/04/how-do-you-know-when-usa-will-attack.html

Singapore stock calls for 21 April 2017

Accounting scandals are emerging again!

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/nikkei-rises-to-112-week-highs-but-fujifilm-stumbles-on-probe-20170421-00074

After the Toshiba's accounting scandal, Fujifilm is the next to join the scandal club.  Many conglomerates are fudging their accounting books again.

https://www.ft.com/content/98ecd5fc-5312-3cef-b66c-b0df0be366cc

New russian missile, zircon, strikes fears in USA & Europe.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3179089/russia-hypersonic-zircon-missiles-speed-of-sound/

Russia has recently tested its hypersonic zircon missile and found that it could reach a speed of 8x of sound.   This missile cannot be intercepted as the best missiles interceptor can only shoot down missiles travelling at 2.5x.

Kudos to Russia for this development to curtail USA & NATO aggression.

This world is about USA first, Australia first but Singapore second.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/australia-first-foreign-visa-changes-spark-cheers-fears-074544414.html

Singapore's propaganda is always foreigners first but Singaporeans second.  USA and Australia governments will never call their own citizens xenophobes but Singapore will. Sigh!

Singapore stock calls for 20 April 2017

This is a tell-tale sign of what's to come for Singapore.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-junior-colleges-merging-first-time-eight-schools-affected-043852181.html

Singaporeans are getting fewer and fewer!  In time to come, PRs will be more than Singaporeans.

25 April 2017 is a special day for Asia. Why?

North Korea is expected to launch another missile test on 25 April 2017 and USA has declared that it will intercept the missile.

Let's hope we can get pass this date peacefully.

Singapore stock calls for 19 April 2017

Singapore stock calls for 18 April 2017

What's happening to USA bond yields?

The 10-year USA bond yield has fallen to 2.26% because of geopolitical reasons in Syria & NK.

A low bond yield is bad for the economy because it will denote that the economy is not growing and fixed-income investments will have very lousy rates of returns because the returns are eroded by inflations.

Gold is also affected by geopolitical reasons.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-hits-five-month-high-042918105.html

Can you imagine an inflation of 2% and 10-year bond yield at 2% too? This would mean that fixed-income return would be negative after costs.  When fixed-income investments are losing money, consumer spendings will be greatly affected and a vicious cycle will develop that will cause recession.

China 1st quarter GDP growth is 6.9%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/china-roars-back-to-lift-global-outlook-as-u-s-consumer-weakens?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo
It's good to see China growing at 6.9% in the first quarter of 2017 because China is helping to prop up the world economies.  China accounted for 1/3 of global growth per se in 2016 and China would contribute more this year as US would be in protectionistic mode.

China is likely to be the first country to complete a quantum computer.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0411/c90000-9201395.html

As predicted in our earlier post, China is likely to be the first country to produce a quantum PC because of its profound understanding in quantum physics after its successfully developed quantum satellite and radar.

http://sg-stock.blogspot.sg/2016/11/china-is-having-leapfrog-technology.html

China driverless truck will be on the road soon.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0415/c90000-9203422.html

Chin'a artificial intelligence has reached a level that is ahead of many countries now.  It is one of the best AI developers in the world.

This is how Germany welcomes China's investments.

http://en.people.cn/n3/2017/0417/c90000-9203858.html

Germany is the biggest economy in Europe and it is welcoming China's investments like never before.  This is something we'll never see in Singapore because we need to help USA to contain China.

Singapore stock calls for 17 April 2017

South Korea will enter economic downturn in 2017 - Part 5

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170412000787

Besides the Korean Conglomerates' fallouts from THAAD, Korean tourism will also suffer greatly and this will hit the citizens directly because services industry like hotels, coaches, eateries, etc employ more people.  Services sector usually contributes a large chunk of GDP growth than manufacturing in a developed country.

Part 4:
http://sg-stock.blogspot.sg/2017/03/south-korea-will-enter-economic.html

It maybe unwise to intercept NK's missiles.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japan-pm-issues-sarin-warning-083354792.html

NK may install sarin gas in its warheads that are targeted at Japan.  Therefore, it's unwise to intercept the missiles as Japan will suffer chemical poisoning like Syria.

Pissing match between USA & NK.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/us-may-launch-strike-north-235410571.html

Just ignore the pissing match between USA & NK.  However, we need to monitor the situation in Seoul.  If foreigners start fleeing, it means war is coming.