Backed by robust performance in FY12, Swissco took a step into the future by venturing upstream to diversify its business, leading its share price to move to a year high of $0.305 after a relative dormant 2012.

For this week’s Trading Idea, we are featuring the oil and gas sector which we have seen a significant number of coverage by analysts of various firms and high volume of trades.

According to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), Singapore’s economy grew 0.2 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013, reversing its initial flash estimate of a 0.6 percent contraction.

Bumi Armada’s shares surged to a high of RM4.14, yesterday after it delivered a stronger set of financial results for its first quarter ended 31March 2013.

Asian indices continued their upwards rally, led by Japan, China and US which surged 10.5 percent, 3.5 percent and 3.3 percent respectively. (See Table 1 for the indices’ performance over the past two weeks)

Rising U.S. stocks and U.S. Treasury yields is making the dollar extremely attractive to foreign investors who are worried about capital preservation as much as they are looking for capital appreciation.

The telecommunication sector has been performing strongly for a few months now. It was also the sector that help the Straits Times Index to achieve new highs for the past few months.

Technical analysis is the study of movements in the price of a financial product, such as a currency pair, in order to determine the most likely outcome in the value of the product.

Glancing back at 2012, we see that the year was affected by sporadic negative news emerging from the Eurozone along with fears that China – the world’s second largest economy was slowing down.

Doom and gloom may seem like the coined phrase people are using to sum up the current property market in China.

Possibly the first business trust in Asia focused on pay TV, APTT has announced its initial public offering to the public. Public registration for the IPO will end on 27 May, 12pm. Before you head to the ATM to register, why don’t you take a look at what Mr IPO has to say about this offering?

The adage “sell in May and go away” may not come true this year.

THE STOCK PRICE of timber processor, Samko has tripled to more than 20 cents since the tsunami and earthquake hit Japan in March

Malaysian SMEs have been at the forefront of local economic development, even before the country achieved independence in 1957. What is different now is the development of a serious and concerted Masterplan to ensure the success of the sector.