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Monday, February 6, 2017

Here we go again! USA is stirring trouble in Asia.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-lashes-mattis-remarks-east-china-sea-islands-024128881.html

USA is seeking to destabilise the world by messing up Middle East, Europe and Asia for its own benefits. This is the best way to get countries to buy USA weapons.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Singapore will enter economic downturn in 2017

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-enter-economic-downturn-2017-100600667.html

As predicted in our previous postings, this outcome is not surprising at all especially when Trump is the USA president.

Saturday, February 4, 2017

China tested its latest DF-5C missiles.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2067267/china-tested-new-missile-capable-carrying-multiple

China has more than 1 type of ICBMs to safeguard its own interests. Besides DF-41, China has DF-5C. Therefore, USA will think thrice before having any military confrontation with China.

EU is sick of USA!

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hollande-calls-eu-leaders-refuse-pressure-us-021203530.html

USA is alienating itself from the world and is becoming "unwelcome". Besides creating troubles in Asia and Middle East, it is beginning to stir troubles in EU.

Is USA bond market going to explode soon?

With the USA debt reaching $20T limit soon, USA will have to lift the debt limit and issue more bonds to pay or rollover its debt which will cause interest rates to go up as bond prices move inversely to its interest rates.

Currently, the FED is holding $4.45T of treasuries because of its past QE actions and will have to unwind all these down to $1T soon. The deluge of $3.45T of treasuries will definitely cause bond prices to fall and interest rates to spike up even when the FED unwinds them gradually. This is truly a double whammy for the bond market.

OMG! Is Singapore going to lose Pedra Branca to Malaysia soon?

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/3-uk-documents-cited-for-malaysia-s-application-to-revise-pedra/3492172.html

Since SG supports PCA ruling in South China Sea, I think SG will stand a better chance to fight this case in PCA as we can afford to pay PCA to award the sovereignty to us. We need to learn from the Philippines.

Baltic dry index - 752

Today, Friday, February 03 2017, the Baltic Dry Index decreased by 18 points, reaching 752 points.

Baltic Dry Index is compiled by the London-based Baltic Exchange and covers prices for transported cargo such as coal, grain and iron ore. The index is based on a daily survey of agents all over the world. Baltic Dry hit a temporary peak on May 20, 2008, when the index hit 11,793. The lowest level ever reached was on Wednesday the 10th of February 2016, when the index dropped to 290 points.

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Related stocks: Sembcorp Marine & Cosco.

US rig count - 729

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 17 this week to 729.

A year ago, 571 rigs were active.

Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 583 rigs sought oil and 145 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed as miscellaneous.

Oklahoma increased by six rigs, New Mexico and Texas were each up by four and Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado and Wyoming each increased by one.

Louisiana lost one rig.

California, Kansas, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah and West Virginia were all unchanged.

The U.S. rig count peaked at 4,530 in 1981. It bottomed out in May at 404.

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Related stocks: Keppel Corp, Sembcorp Marine & Cosco.

Friday, February 3, 2017

UFO in mediterranean sea.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/extraordinary-footage-shows-ufos-sucking-9683378

This is definitely not a normal waterspout or twister as it is stationary. Twister or waterspout will move in a trajectory. Furthermore, there is strange light moving around the waterspout.