Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Tough Time for Singapore's Market

Singapore stock market will expect more turbulence and STI will continue its downward trend for the rest of the year.

Factors that affecting the weakness of the market:

- It is predicted that Singapore's full year economic growth at 3.2%.
- bad economic environment globally
- High jobless rate of US
- US saving the troubled mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae which own about US$5 trillion of loans (1/2 of all mortgages in the US)
- fast falling commodities sector
- falling oil prices

I would suggest that it is better to keep all your cash and stay away from the market.